Goonhub
06-13-2025, 03:16 PM
My main issue with emagged airlocks is the fact they outright can't be fixed, meaning if you want to restore them to their roundstart state as I feel the need to do, you need to:
Scan the airlock into the ruckenginur kit (Can be skipped if you have RCD custom, but only the CE has an RCD custom)
Copy the access requirements of the airlock using an access lite (Can also be skipped with RCD custom)
Completely disassemble the airlock (the most problematic step in this whole process, will elaborate on why shortly)
Print out the new airlock (this takes materials by the way) (RCD custom can skip this too, whodathunkit)
Build the new airlock in place of the old airlock
Load the access requirements of the old airlock onto the new airlock
This whole process takes an annoyingly long time, especially when you consider that emags have infinite uses and practically no cooldown.
Also, further elaborating on why disassembly of the old airlock is such an issue:
Access-locked airlocks (IE pretty much any airlock worth emagging) require you to have access to them to deconstruct them, UNLESS you're using an RCD, which only cyborgs and the Chief Engineer have by default.
If you don't have an RCD, you need to obtain access by either asking a head of staff for access or finding someone with the relevant access to lend you their ID for a minute. Both of these are time-consuming (problem because so many of the other steps are also time-consuming) and rely on another person being able and willing to help you (which they sometimes aren't).
I think emag airlock interactions could be improved upon by giving them similar effects to ion storms, opening the airlocks and then bolting/depowering them and removing AI control, which is a whole lot less of a burden for engineers to fix while still making sense thematically (ELECTROMAGNETIC card, ELECTROMAGNETIC storm, logically could both have similar effects on airlocks).
Scan the airlock into the ruckenginur kit (Can be skipped if you have RCD custom, but only the CE has an RCD custom)
Copy the access requirements of the airlock using an access lite (Can also be skipped with RCD custom)
Completely disassemble the airlock (the most problematic step in this whole process, will elaborate on why shortly)
Print out the new airlock (this takes materials by the way) (RCD custom can skip this too, whodathunkit)
Build the new airlock in place of the old airlock
Load the access requirements of the old airlock onto the new airlock
This whole process takes an annoyingly long time, especially when you consider that emags have infinite uses and practically no cooldown.
Also, further elaborating on why disassembly of the old airlock is such an issue:
Access-locked airlocks (IE pretty much any airlock worth emagging) require you to have access to them to deconstruct them, UNLESS you're using an RCD, which only cyborgs and the Chief Engineer have by default.
If you don't have an RCD, you need to obtain access by either asking a head of staff for access or finding someone with the relevant access to lend you their ID for a minute. Both of these are time-consuming (problem because so many of the other steps are also time-consuming) and rely on another person being able and willing to help you (which they sometimes aren't).
I think emag airlock interactions could be improved upon by giving them similar effects to ion storms, opening the airlocks and then bolting/depowering them and removing AI control, which is a whole lot less of a burden for engineers to fix while still making sense thematically (ELECTROMAGNETIC card, ELECTROMAGNETIC storm, logically could both have similar effects on airlocks).