IDEA: new pathologist job

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As someone who was actually here when pathology was a thing, let me put in my two cents.

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PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT DO ANYTHING THAT INVOLVES PATHOLOGY GETTING UP AND RUNNING UNTIL ITS PROBLEMS ARE IRONED OUT I'M BEGGING YOU!

Pathology is difficult to use even when you're just trying to find cures for something a Pathologist nerd created to kill everyone with, and when it was a common thing even the QM console didn't really help you like this, instead taking the entire stations budget and going "Ya know what, ya don't need a cure.  Have fun with that."

If pathology can be made into a state where dealing with it isn't the worst part of the server then I'd be all for it, but right now I have to say good lord, no.

Have you actually even interacted at all with the reworked pathology? You say things like "when it was a common thing".
The CDC has been fixed for like close to a year now. It takes like 1 or 2 minutes for them to send you cures, and then it is basically an arbitrary amount for next to no money.

Making a cure in the lab costs nothing and takes about 2 or 3 minutes if one simply follows the guide.

Curing via suppression can be done anywhere and can be done by anyone with access to a health analyzer.

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My reasoning is people will be in one of two groups.

1. Nerds who know everything about pathology and use it constantly for when their antag round comes up and they're able to unleash a death virus on the station, meaning everyone will either hope that someone else will know what they're doing quick enough to cure the pathogen or force the shuttle to come in at the half hour mark.

2. People who pick Pathology cause the other medical slots they wanted were already taken.

And while it means less people can mess with it freely, the big problem is you only need one asshole for the station to be filled with plasma farting, Shakespeare quoting, internally combusting people, and fixing that before it's too late is borderline impossible if several people aren't able to contribute to stopping it.

And pathology has the extra special "Bonus" of being incredibly difficult to figure out if you're even doing anything, let alone something helpful.

Yes, I am sure that if we disable pathology for another 2 years, the next time everyone will suddenly magically know how it works so they can make cures this time. Maybe people should actually get to use it for more than 3 days before declaring that it's "too hard".


Also, if you really have such problems with pathology, I would love if more people shared their feedback in the dedicated pathology feedback thread instead of shitting on it in discord/ooc/other threads. Thanks!
https://forum.ss13.co/showthread.php?tid=15693