Make SMES units more fun

[Eagletanker]

. 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.

Alright two things
1. If your running a high power burn and you Hotwire, you are going to kill people. The problem also lies in power being drained from everywhere, so bypassing the SMES isn’t really the best idea. Hotwiring solars and then just letting the SMES units do their job is just as fast.

2. I wonder why engineers don’t really stick around/care much when it’s a shuttle call even if they are doing something. Maybe if idk, you let them do their jobs (of which many a engineer is new), power would come back online instead of having to waste time manually switching out APCs with fresh batteries and then having to wait for new cells to recharge.

I lied third thing. Powersinks give a moment of complete and utter darkness for a antag to do the things they need to to set up. It seems the problem here comes from the players, not the item in that they don’t trust engineering or the antags to do their jobs and instead call the shuttle, which at that point, why bother leaving the engine and hoping it doesn’t explode to go and help a station who’s going to say fuck you and call the shuttle, usually without a way to call back cause medbay and engineering need to get on line and the bridge is limited to the CE, so no recalling that way. Powersinks are fine, this just represents a larger issue with the Classic Playerbase and its general massive apathy towards anyone.