Goonhub
11-07-2024, 08:11 PM
The reason I'm dissatisfied with things as-is is because they all have severe gameplay flaws. Well, why not ask the botanists to do something for you, you may ask? That's because (I play on classic, by the way) the botany department is either staffed by two people that both speedrun rainbow weed and proceed to fuck off for the rest of the round, or it's just not staffed at all. Ever since the lowpop drought that classic has been having these past few months, I've seen like 10 rounds straight of just no botanists whatsoever. This doubly sucks if I'm chef or chaplain or something, and don't have maint or tool storage access.
The reason I push full repair and replacement so much is that it's happened to me. A LOT. I can't even count on both fingers how many times I've tried to use the botany equipment in the soviet derelict, only for some random-ass saw drone to waltz in and permanently delete all the equipment in there, or for all the surgery tables/seed fabricators to be blown up in some TTV attack, thermite molotov, nukie invasion, or what-have-you. Irreplaceable for the rest of the round. And that botany starter crate? It doesn't do jack shit! You don't get gardening tools (save for the scanner), or a seed fabricator, or anything like that. It's super barebones and can barely do anything. Or what about artsci? I've had entire artsci rounds ruined because some transmutation bomb took out the equipment because someone didn't eject it on time. These happen over and over and over and over and over and over and over and OVER, and it'd be nice to have some mitigation measure so that it's not permanent.
The reason I push full repair and replacement so much is that it's happened to me. A LOT. I can't even count on both fingers how many times I've tried to use the botany equipment in the soviet derelict, only for some random-ass saw drone to waltz in and permanently delete all the equipment in there, or for all the surgery tables/seed fabricators to be blown up in some TTV attack, thermite molotov, nukie invasion, or what-have-you. Irreplaceable for the rest of the round. And that botany starter crate? It doesn't do jack shit! You don't get gardening tools (save for the scanner), or a seed fabricator, or anything like that. It's super barebones and can barely do anything. Or what about artsci? I've had entire artsci rounds ruined because some transmutation bomb took out the equipment because someone didn't eject it on time. These happen over and over and over and over and over and over and over and OVER, and it'd be nice to have some mitigation measure so that it's not permanent.