Goonhub
09-28-2025, 09:16 PM
I would like to preface this by saying I did not intend for this thread to be an attack on any single person. It is based off of my thoughts and observations on both the current trend of its use and how it was treated by doctors in the past. Very recently, I have seen more than one doctor make SR "just in case". While I understand where they are coming from, I do not think that is a healthy play pattern, as it makes sabotaging the cloner significantly less impactful and, in my opinion, does not treat the chemical with an appropriate amount of gravity.
The interdepartmental cooperation needed to make the reagent is rudimentary at best, amounting to asking people to give you the chemical precursors that spawn in their department. Additionally, most of these steps can be bypassed: the MD has all the access they need to make it themselves.
As for your point on thematics: yes, I have read the description. It is still mixing three moderately uncommon chemicals together. Omnizine could be literal unicorn tears, but getting your hands on a bottle is still as easy as buying it off cargo. They put that stuff in Donk Pockets.
I don't want SR to be gone, I just don't want it to be treated as something medbay just does, like perflourodecalin. Something like, as an example, making the recipe have slightly less rare ingredients but need to be mixed in a dying mob would strongly reinforce its identity as the product of mad science while also making the act of creating it more involved.
The interdepartmental cooperation needed to make the reagent is rudimentary at best, amounting to asking people to give you the chemical precursors that spawn in their department. Additionally, most of these steps can be bypassed: the MD has all the access they need to make it themselves.
As for your point on thematics: yes, I have read the description. It is still mixing three moderately uncommon chemicals together. Omnizine could be literal unicorn tears, but getting your hands on a bottle is still as easy as buying it off cargo. They put that stuff in Donk Pockets.
I don't want SR to be gone, I just don't want it to be treated as something medbay just does, like perflourodecalin. Something like, as an example, making the recipe have slightly less rare ingredients but need to be mixed in a dying mob would strongly reinforce its identity as the product of mad science while also making the act of creating it more involved.