Construction Worker's return

[Zamujasa]

honestly i'd like to see a move towards the removal of mechanics as a "clone other devices" job and more of its own thing with the focus on components and the like, with the manufacturing of new devices being baked into a new system

if you've played other codebases, something of the machine frame + board system, which would allow for finer tweaking than the device analyzer / blueprints allow (esp given that they just randomly pick mats out of iron/glass/copper)


i personally miss the construction worker deeply but construction in general is just fucked. i think the problem with cw grief is more of a player culture thing than a problem with the tool itself. i have been on other codebases where the rcd is available as standard kit to engineering and easily printable / refillable with normal iron/glass materials and it doesn't get abused in the same ways at all despite being more powerful

i don't think that the rcd should be a ce only item or be only "for emergencies". it's the one and only way to make large changes in a timely manner. manual building is incredibly slow. borgs also get an rcd with infinite charges and are thus far superior to human builders already


but i'm biased. construction and building things is one of my favorite features of this game