Goonhub
02-01-2021, 03:30 AM
Throwing my comment onto the pile. Folks are saying the CE is the weakest link here and I ain't buying it. CE is robust as fuck and you can't change my mind on this. Sure, the Captain gets a gun, the HoS gets a gun, the HoP gets whatever his grubby hands can get too. The MDir can look at you wrong and send you into nap time, and the auto-injectors from the nanomed can be downright cruel. The Research Director has Telescience, and in the end that means he has literally whatever he wants via mathematics. He can also walk into Chemistry and hit a handful of buttons, and have a splash-able skin piercing chemical that will send you running to medbay, if he allows it.
The Chief Engineer gets the RCD with spare ammo, and the mighty Aurora belt. The belts the big win for him and if a Chief Engineer can get their hands on a power hammer via mining, which he has easy access too, then the Chief Engineer has the king of "Piss off, peasant" equipment. I think the belt has a passive block chance while not active, and a 80% miss chance while activated? While also being fireproof and such? You rarely actually see folks activate their belt, but I always find it odd how a chief engineer can go down in a fist fight when they have that belt. The RCD can also be used to either dig into a defensive position, or set up a defensive position, which is personally best used during Nuke Ops.
Thematically, I don't see how you could give more department heads equipment, without also giving them all Contraband/Firearms licenses.
So
Cap - E-Gun / Sword. Lethal and Stun
HoS - E-Gun, Taser. Lethal and Stun
HoP - Flash for Stuns
MDir - Tranq and Flash. Sleep and stun.
RDir - Flash, Chems, everything and anything. Absolute monster status. Can turn you into literal frog if desired, or blink you out of existance.
CE - Flash for stuns. Defensive specialist. Fear the Power Hammer, worse with an art-battery.
Personal opinion. I don't like the term SecHoP, and it might embolden more SecHoPs. But I really think the Head of Personnel needs a taser or a stun cane or something. Or his own E-Gun even. The HoP is the most vulnerable of all the heads of staff, and they have the most noble of duties of sitting in literally one place all day. At least give themselves a method of defense when the tide breaks over the desk at customs.
Stundenterhue says no gun, so my only thought is punji sticks and military entrenchment at customs. Dare cross my desk, it will be the last desk you climb over.
The Chief Engineer gets the RCD with spare ammo, and the mighty Aurora belt. The belts the big win for him and if a Chief Engineer can get their hands on a power hammer via mining, which he has easy access too, then the Chief Engineer has the king of "Piss off, peasant" equipment. I think the belt has a passive block chance while not active, and a 80% miss chance while activated? While also being fireproof and such? You rarely actually see folks activate their belt, but I always find it odd how a chief engineer can go down in a fist fight when they have that belt. The RCD can also be used to either dig into a defensive position, or set up a defensive position, which is personally best used during Nuke Ops.
Thematically, I don't see how you could give more department heads equipment, without also giving them all Contraband/Firearms licenses.
So
Cap - E-Gun / Sword. Lethal and Stun
HoS - E-Gun, Taser. Lethal and Stun
HoP - Flash for Stuns
MDir - Tranq and Flash. Sleep and stun.
RDir - Flash, Chems, everything and anything. Absolute monster status. Can turn you into literal frog if desired, or blink you out of existance.
CE - Flash for stuns. Defensive specialist. Fear the Power Hammer, worse with an art-battery.
Personal opinion. I don't like the term SecHoP, and it might embolden more SecHoPs. But I really think the Head of Personnel needs a taser or a stun cane or something. Or his own E-Gun even. The HoP is the most vulnerable of all the heads of staff, and they have the most noble of duties of sitting in literally one place all day. At least give themselves a method of defense when the tide breaks over the desk at customs.
Stundenterhue says no gun, so my only thought is punji sticks and military entrenchment at customs. Dare cross my desk, it will be the last desk you climb over.