Hotwired Doors Shouldn’t be Able to Insta-Gib

[Kotlol]

It does not actually take all that much effort to get a lethal amount of power output. Not accounting for gloves, as little as 2.5 MW gives a chance for gibbing, while 10 MW does enough burn to kill outright. Even a basic setup can reach those outputs on most engines.
The other caveat is that you can cant build a death machine in mechcomp in 30 seconds, and that you cant derringer someone from the other side of the station.

To be honest, i think these numbers can be certainly increased. Like 50 MW for guaranteed gibbing with  gibs beginning to have a chance to begin at 25 MW. Still,  numbers of ~7+ MW should put you into deep crit, even if you don't gib.

This would require to have actuall engineers be maintaining the engine and using it to sabotage and would prevent rouge AI's to simply use a simple charburn and close engineers of the engine and still use the hotwire.

Like i said, a hotwire is NOT the difficult part of it. The difficult part is actually electrifying enough doors (which is only possible with some specific ones, mostly maintance doors) with a hotwire to have a sensible impact. And often this is only possible in time with a rouged AI.

Shocked doors from a hotwire won't kill someone on the other side of the station or within 30 seconds without borg/ai/other antag involvement.

Well if the nerf is: "Requires super high voltage that requires effort to pull off." or "Artifact generator" then yes. I am fine with leaving it invisible. Though I do wish maybe for some sort of indication like sound or visualsation that's VERY MINOR.

More like sometimes a spark or shock comes from doors or wires... as if someone is hacking a door that is electrified. But very unusual...
Though this might give the reverse effect of someone thinking: "Hey someone is hacking this door! Let's open it and see wh-- BAM"

So I think if we use the electrified door hack animation and sounds would be a good idea.. but at the same time...simply increasing the max MW wouldn't be the worst.

Also you can always electrifiy doors from a distance if you are a DWAINE nerd too. But if you can DWAINE and Engineer.. you deserve that kill.