Goonhub
05-02-2024, 07:39 AM
I know you mentioned this in your post, but it's also my biggest gripe with medsci right now too, mediborgs.
As a non-silicon player, I find my job is often made useless when I sign up as a medical-doctor if there's mediborgs around. This isn't anything against those players, but I do wish that their toolsets were toned down significantly. I feel like I've signed up for a job with little to no value so long as a medical cyborg is in the crew, because they can teleport super easily so long as there's a miner, have all the healing chems on board, and can do 99% of the important medical stuff a human can.
Want to run over and pick up a patient? You're good, the mediborg with treads and a speed upgrade has already grabbed them and stabilized them back at medbay. Don't have all the medical chemicals on you and need to go run over to the nearest nano-med that's five tiles away? No worries, the mediborg has already stabilized them with their full hypo of some chemical you never expected to need.
Again, this is not a player problem, and I personally harbor 0 spite towards any mediborg players, it's just a problem with the kit being too overtuned and more powerful than what most humans doing that same job can do. If you want to be a doctor, there's little reason to not be a mediborg, in my opinion, since you can do everything the human doctor can do with minimal drawbacks and even more potential to perform via cyborg upgrades. Maybe removing or nerfing the auto-generating hypospray would be a first good step, since it does feel pretty broken to have effectively unlimited amounts of all major med chems at your disposal.
This is just my opinion though, and if others disagree I'm fine with hearing those perspectives too, maybe I'm missing something that makes medical cyborgs as they are now balanced in some way that I'm just not seeing.
As a non-silicon player, I find my job is often made useless when I sign up as a medical-doctor if there's mediborgs around. This isn't anything against those players, but I do wish that their toolsets were toned down significantly. I feel like I've signed up for a job with little to no value so long as a medical cyborg is in the crew, because they can teleport super easily so long as there's a miner, have all the healing chems on board, and can do 99% of the important medical stuff a human can.
Want to run over and pick up a patient? You're good, the mediborg with treads and a speed upgrade has already grabbed them and stabilized them back at medbay. Don't have all the medical chemicals on you and need to go run over to the nearest nano-med that's five tiles away? No worries, the mediborg has already stabilized them with their full hypo of some chemical you never expected to need.
Again, this is not a player problem, and I personally harbor 0 spite towards any mediborg players, it's just a problem with the kit being too overtuned and more powerful than what most humans doing that same job can do. If you want to be a doctor, there's little reason to not be a mediborg, in my opinion, since you can do everything the human doctor can do with minimal drawbacks and even more potential to perform via cyborg upgrades. Maybe removing or nerfing the auto-generating hypospray would be a first good step, since it does feel pretty broken to have effectively unlimited amounts of all major med chems at your disposal.
This is just my opinion though, and if others disagree I'm fine with hearing those perspectives too, maybe I'm missing something that makes medical cyborgs as they are now balanced in some way that I'm just not seeing.