Make SMES units more fun

[palpetinus]

Powersinks are kinda round ending because no one wants to wait in darkness for 20 minutes in order for them to do what they want to do. Most jobs rely on power in some way or another, powersinks kinda just stop jobs from doing there jobs.

Exactly, it's not "engineers not fixing things", usually it comes down to having to FIND the damn sink first (~5 minutes if it's placed well), then removing it, communicating to the crew that it has been removed and then manually powering every single APC on the station back on or wait 10~15 minutes for them to get enough power.

Usually, in my personal experience, the engineering SMES are already set up with max input and slightly below max output. Only hotwiring could make it go faster. Just try to get engineering to help with that, engineering usually has one or two employees that just go "haha PTL go zap" all round and don't pay attention to the station at all.

Powersinks aren't a roundender because it's hard to set everything back up in theory, they're a roundender because in practicality, 90% of the station can only sit around with their thumbs up their arse until MAYBE engineering does their job for once. Better to just call the shuttle, spare everyone the headache and move on to the next round.

Sorry to hijack the thread for powersink talk, but it relates to power in general, replace "powersink" stuff with "overloaded, exploded SMES" instead or something lol