Goonhub
03-30-2025, 11:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-30-2025, 11:08 PM by Lefinch. Edited 1 time in total.)
I think the key thing here is that requisitions are QM lead: The QM knows what requisitions there are, what ones they want to try and do, and then engage outwards with departments to try and fill it for their/cargo's/other departments. This idea is the other way around potentially: You know what side jobs there are, what ones you want to do, and then engage with cargo/others to fulfil it for your personal benefit/a gift for others.
Like Solenoid points out, this could be a useful way to drive up engagement with cargo or other departments too. If it used the exact same system as requisitions then sure, I could see that taking away jobs from cargo, but if it's built looking for different tasks to be done then I don't see that being as much of an issue.
EDIT: On the flipside to play advocate: one aspect of being an assistant is that you're there to assist in theory. Nearly all the civilian jobs still have some kind of work to do too. I don't personally see that being too much of a conflict with this system as honestly a lot of assistants don't in fact go assist (and some do!) and it's not caused the collapse of society, and I think the benefit of having a system that drives engagement up with departments outweighs that.
I *also* think it's a nice sneaky excuse as an antag to talk with someone. A nice layer of potential obfuscation for why Jimmy Longstockings suddenly is knocking on a door asking to speak with you out of the blue.
Like Solenoid points out, this could be a useful way to drive up engagement with cargo or other departments too. If it used the exact same system as requisitions then sure, I could see that taking away jobs from cargo, but if it's built looking for different tasks to be done then I don't see that being as much of an issue.
EDIT: On the flipside to play advocate: one aspect of being an assistant is that you're there to assist in theory. Nearly all the civilian jobs still have some kind of work to do too. I don't personally see that being too much of a conflict with this system as honestly a lot of assistants don't in fact go assist (and some do!) and it's not caused the collapse of society, and I think the benefit of having a system that drives engagement up with departments outweighs that.
I *also* think it's a nice sneaky excuse as an antag to talk with someone. A nice layer of potential obfuscation for why Jimmy Longstockings suddenly is knocking on a door asking to speak with you out of the blue.