Goonhub
05-02-2021, 07:22 PM
since the app is worthless now, this will only encourage people to break into the RD's office every shift.
the idea that you need a physical object to summon porta sci might not be too bad if you want to make it so that the AI cant just send people porta sci if they are dying, but I would then highly recommend there actually being enough spare remotes lying around for others to use. I've never understood why the porta sci remote starts as only the RD's, every medic get access to porta medbay and nano med so why cant scientists have access to porta sci?
if they goal is to stop people from doing telesci alone then I have to ask why?
as stated in other posts, there are places that you can only return from by using porta sci and besides, what fun is it to require someone to just sitting at the computer waiting for someone to return to the pad so they can hit receive.
it also heavily ruins the fact that most of telesci is suppose to be secret. if you cant do telesci by yourself but you want to explore something like solarium then you could easily end up showing someone new a bunch of secrets.
If the problem is what people can get from rushing azones then just nerf those items. I know very well how lethal some of the weapons you can get are but you also have to remember how tanky and deadly some of the monsters are. If you were to nerf or remove the weapons telesci has access to you would also need to nerf some of the monsters or else you would get azones with no real way to fight back.
in conclusion, if you wanted to make it so that porta sci isnt a cure all for rescues that would be fine, and maybe even a good change, but the ability to return to the station without needing to beg someone to hit receive is a needed feature.
the idea that you need a physical object to summon porta sci might not be too bad if you want to make it so that the AI cant just send people porta sci if they are dying, but I would then highly recommend there actually being enough spare remotes lying around for others to use. I've never understood why the porta sci remote starts as only the RD's, every medic get access to porta medbay and nano med so why cant scientists have access to porta sci?
if they goal is to stop people from doing telesci alone then I have to ask why?
as stated in other posts, there are places that you can only return from by using porta sci and besides, what fun is it to require someone to just sitting at the computer waiting for someone to return to the pad so they can hit receive.
it also heavily ruins the fact that most of telesci is suppose to be secret. if you cant do telesci by yourself but you want to explore something like solarium then you could easily end up showing someone new a bunch of secrets.
If the problem is what people can get from rushing azones then just nerf those items. I know very well how lethal some of the weapons you can get are but you also have to remember how tanky and deadly some of the monsters are. If you were to nerf or remove the weapons telesci has access to you would also need to nerf some of the monsters or else you would get azones with no real way to fight back.
in conclusion, if you wanted to make it so that porta sci isnt a cure all for rescues that would be fine, and maybe even a good change, but the ability to return to the station without needing to beg someone to hit receive is a needed feature.