The Roboticist's Dilemma

[Kotlol]

I would love mechsuits too, but...considering how classic works. I fear every robotcist will rush a mechsuit and validhunt OR go antag to do mechsuit rampages on classic. That said...a lot of past suggestions has things like "Robot arms like Doc Ok." would be fun ideas too.

I'm not familiar with mechsuits on other servers, but honestly there's already a pretty good way to ensure they aren't rushed at roundstart. Same for industrial suits and mechboots, materials that can only be obtained from mining! And if mining is dead or slacking off, you can ask one of your silicon buddies to go out and mine for upgrades for them and mechsuits for you. Win-win I'd say.

That's exactly what bottlenecks the robotcist anyway....

Any fun items are locked behind mining stuff. While mining can "self sustain" their upgrades. The robotcist can't.
So if we put mech suits behind mining. It will just have the same problem as cyborg upgrades.
"Can't do anything till mining gives me stuff"

So we will make a new way of interacting and lock it behind the same problem for robotcist to do anything else.

I do want robotcists to interact with other departments more and have people try to find em.
Wich "again" I want to give them Robuddy access. And maybe add a place where the robotcist can make em do other things.
And the fun part is... it's not gonna change much in robuddy metaing, cause science ain't doing it.