Goonhub
02-17-2021, 08:41 PM
I'm not going to go too in depth on all these ideas, but the mechanics/cw -> engineers I do want to talk about.
Right now the role between solely a mechanic and an engineer are vastly different at their core, even despite packetnerdery and major mechcomp usage. Engineers are meant to keep the station powered and operational, mostly through running the engine and/or solars and keeping SMESes set, while also keeping the place in one piece and full of air, but outside of breach repairs they shouldn't be doing much past that, which is where mechanics come in to set up the wiring and network the power grid to different departments as well as get computer systems and such running and working. Then you throw mechcomp and packets into what Mechanics can do and it's a pretty clear difference between the two IMO.
Now CW though isn't much different from what engineers do, but rather than strictly repairs they do more renovation and additional station construction, but without any real responsibility. So in my mind it only makes more sense to maybe merge CW into engineering and maybe put some power based version of the RCDD or whatever is used to change floor and wall designs in with the standard engineer kit, but requiring engineers to build stuff by hand. This would give Engineering Storage some proper usage beyond being broken into by random crew and expand what the engineer role can and would be expected to do without removing a fundamentally different or responsible/important role.
As for mining and cargo I would love for them to have far more depth than they do now, especially per say in the way of working together to maybe be able to hand manufacture industrial and uniquely strong items and products to either be sold or used in collecting better materials and valuables.
Right now the role between solely a mechanic and an engineer are vastly different at their core, even despite packetnerdery and major mechcomp usage. Engineers are meant to keep the station powered and operational, mostly through running the engine and/or solars and keeping SMESes set, while also keeping the place in one piece and full of air, but outside of breach repairs they shouldn't be doing much past that, which is where mechanics come in to set up the wiring and network the power grid to different departments as well as get computer systems and such running and working. Then you throw mechcomp and packets into what Mechanics can do and it's a pretty clear difference between the two IMO.
Now CW though isn't much different from what engineers do, but rather than strictly repairs they do more renovation and additional station construction, but without any real responsibility. So in my mind it only makes more sense to maybe merge CW into engineering and maybe put some power based version of the RCDD or whatever is used to change floor and wall designs in with the standard engineer kit, but requiring engineers to build stuff by hand. This would give Engineering Storage some proper usage beyond being broken into by random crew and expand what the engineer role can and would be expected to do without removing a fundamentally different or responsible/important role.
As for mining and cargo I would love for them to have far more depth than they do now, especially per say in the way of working together to maybe be able to hand manufacture industrial and uniquely strong items and products to either be sold or used in collecting better materials and valuables.