MedSci discussion

[Lord_earthfire]

If chemists need more to do, then add new stuff for them to make/do. Don't nerf other departments in hopes of chemistry filling the role instead, because it likely won't work out the way you want it to.

I heavily disagree here. Most departments are simply too non-reliant onto another. We are getting there and have cut out some resilience of some department of the past, but medbay was unscathed mostly for "beginner friendlyness". And that had turned to... greytiders on classic being able to waltz into medbay and treat themselves, because all they need is always in the same place it spawns in and in ridicilous quantities. And on RP medbay staff don't need to move out of their department for 90 minutes, while multiple departments have mechanics to potentially aid them in treatment. And we were already talking about "infinite chem dispensers" aka mediborgs.

The other departments this applies to are "basic supplier" departments, like botany, rancher, genetics or mining. And botany at least interacts with cargo a lot to get their needed nutrients, so even the department that can raise entire stations of the ground is in practice more relying on other departments than medbay.

Then again, it's not about just nerfing a department. You have to give something in return. The problem with medbay is simply it being, in its current state, ridicilous overpowered between cloning, ridicilous purge chems and its 3 baseline chems very potent healing.