02-04-2023, 12:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-04-2023, 01:41 AM by Lord_earthfire. Edited 2 times in total.)
(02-03-2023, 12:02 PM)TDHooligan Wrote: 2: This is why doctors got pharmacy. It's just that a lot of players still think that both players 'win' when a doctor *has* to nag a chemist til they stop their fun task solely to make some boring-ass charcoal so the doctor can do his goddamn job and go back to having fun.
Not like you can't ask now, either. Odds are if they said 'No' today they'd have said 'No' back when you -needed- them to do it, and you'd hate their guts.
Thjey not only "win" when they have to nag the chemist, they "win" when they run out of recources as well. That's what is missing: the variation that is created in struggling to supply your damn department. Medbay is self-sufficient and this robs so much potential for the department. Because let's face it: If my department is running low on recources, i need to improvise. And this creates story and engaging gameplay.
This is one of the causes of the symptom of people waltzing into your department, getting healed, and just waltz out without no interaction. It's running too smoothly.
If you can just do your job, that's boring. Except for the occasionall bombing of your department. The most memorable shift are the ones where everyones hunting a power sink, multiple bombings unite people to fix the damn hallways or you go on a oddisey to get a very specific secret chem for a insuspicious gimmick.
(02-03-2023, 12:02 PM)TDHooligan Wrote: as for botany, they provide white weed when they feel like it and doctors will graciously accept it, and that's fine.
No, they simply don't care. Going in RP into medbay and seeing it decked out with perfluordecalin and pentetic acid is just dishearting when so much of botany, chemistry and other department is focussed on generating healing chems. I can count the amount of requests i got from medbay in RP on one hand.
Overall:
Pharmacy is removing interaction with other departments, which isolates these departments, invalidates a huge chunk of avaible healing chems from other departments and, and this is the worst, robs medbay from the struggle of supply chain management.