Goonhub
07-26-2025, 04:30 PM
Figured as someone that spends way too much time playing medical I'd chime in with my thoughts after some rounds of playing with the new changes!
To start with I do love the whole idea of the system. It opens up a lot of fun, silly and even evil things to do with cloning and the disks. The feel and sounds of it are also extremely satisfying to use and once it's all set up it works mostly fine! Below though are a few issues/concerns I have and some suggestions that hopefully can ease some of the friction these changes have caused.
First issue.. the setup! This is my biggest gripe with the new system. If a large influx of people come for their morning scans, which happens fairly often on medium to high pop, it can be a bit painful of an experience. With only the initial provided disks it can quickly become a back and forth game of printing disks and scavenging materials for more. Considering a lot of doctors print out a thing or two from the fabricator at the start of shifts, it's going to end up out of materials all the faster. Some quality of life adjustments could definitely help with this.
Second issue.. the racks! They're definitely restrictive in number of disks per space (I assume by design) and because they take up a full tile the cloning area becomes even more crowded with additional racks. This is even more annoying on stations where the cloning room is already small (almost all of them) and as someone who's aesthetically oriented it just gives off a really cluttered feeling. The blinking red light when actually opening the racks to check a disk is also a bit faint, but that's a very minor complaint for my poor eyes.
I'm also unsure if crew with 'no minds' having their disk flashing while in the rack is intended, but this layers on another bit of management that doesn't feel needed if it is.
I definitely think some changes to things would ease a lot of these issues without dulling the intent of the new system! Some potential suggestions below.
- Allowing you to print out an entire box of disks from the fabricator, for ease of carrying and not having to print them one at a time.
- Possibly a source of disks that's nearby the cloner other than the starting box. Something like the HoP's ID wall dispenser?
- Making the racks double wide or being able to stack two on the same tile for space saving.
- Being able to swap out the disk in the computer by clicking another disk onto the computer, like with chem dispensers and beakers.
About all I can think of right now, but will post again if anything else pops into my head!
To start with I do love the whole idea of the system. It opens up a lot of fun, silly and even evil things to do with cloning and the disks. The feel and sounds of it are also extremely satisfying to use and once it's all set up it works mostly fine! Below though are a few issues/concerns I have and some suggestions that hopefully can ease some of the friction these changes have caused.
First issue.. the setup! This is my biggest gripe with the new system. If a large influx of people come for their morning scans, which happens fairly often on medium to high pop, it can be a bit painful of an experience. With only the initial provided disks it can quickly become a back and forth game of printing disks and scavenging materials for more. Considering a lot of doctors print out a thing or two from the fabricator at the start of shifts, it's going to end up out of materials all the faster. Some quality of life adjustments could definitely help with this.
Second issue.. the racks! They're definitely restrictive in number of disks per space (I assume by design) and because they take up a full tile the cloning area becomes even more crowded with additional racks. This is even more annoying on stations where the cloning room is already small (almost all of them) and as someone who's aesthetically oriented it just gives off a really cluttered feeling. The blinking red light when actually opening the racks to check a disk is also a bit faint, but that's a very minor complaint for my poor eyes.
I'm also unsure if crew with 'no minds' having their disk flashing while in the rack is intended, but this layers on another bit of management that doesn't feel needed if it is.
I definitely think some changes to things would ease a lot of these issues without dulling the intent of the new system! Some potential suggestions below.
- Allowing you to print out an entire box of disks from the fabricator, for ease of carrying and not having to print them one at a time.
- Possibly a source of disks that's nearby the cloner other than the starting box. Something like the HoP's ID wall dispenser?
- Making the racks double wide or being able to stack two on the same tile for space saving.
- Being able to swap out the disk in the computer by clicking another disk onto the computer, like with chem dispensers and beakers.
About all I can think of right now, but will post again if anything else pops into my head!