[DISCUSSION] Medical Pharmacy vs. Chemistry

[Agent reburG]

I mean, that is a different discussion, but i agree with you that it's not particularry well enforced, especially for science.

What held me back mostly is the pushback i get from comments and discord on other topics, especially for medbay.

You remember the fuss we had about the dialysis machine buff/purgative berf i PR'ed like a year ago? The machine was an idea to give medbay something more involved to do. What held it back was the power of calomel and pentetic acid.

That's a problem with medbay in It's entirety. They have not enough to do because they heal people too fast with their baseline tools.

Giving them sidejobs, like pharmacy, creates the "scientist"-problem: too many things able to do that noone can tell what their actual job is. And noone can hold them accountable if they don't do one thing, such as chemistry.

Yes  it gives them less to do. That's not a bad thing. We just need to keep working on what their goal should be. And doing chems isn't that goal.

And lastly, "mild interaction" is not the reason. The reason is "giving chemistry a goal". A goal they should achieve each and every round

Okay, enough yapping and wailing on my behalf, how about this as a quick fix. 

Give Medbay a console, to request chems not every chemical in existence, but a set list of advanced medical chems like Synth flesh, Omni but also Yobizine and Lexorin etc. 

When requested X, science gets a chemical requisition order from CC of Y different chems and Z amount of said chems, all chems being semi difficult to synthesize maybe varying pending on what was requested. 
Important being, SCI doesn't have to synthesize X itself, but a randomly assorted order. 
Once they sent it, successfully, CC returns two locked crates, one with the requested chem for Medbay, and a reward for SCI (Rare chems, glassware like the handheld dispenser etc, varying again pending what was requested). 

Now, said console definitely needs a cooldown, but also puts SCI in position only they can accomplish. 
Now, with the gambling gamer gear, SCI might actually begs Medbay now for requests.