Goonhub
6 hours ago
This topic is going everywhere so let me say this what I think is a basic demand for things.
Every department "should" have a bare minimum to function by itself.
It's not as fun but the station runs.
Interdepartment interactions however, improve the output of those places.
Botany with The Kitchen as a perfect example.
Where I think it goes wrong is when the other departments are NEEDED to have a shift going. Let's go with the old infamous "cargo was always needed or else no one gets paid."
This means if there is no cargo doing anything or the QM is new and learning... cause they aren't doing anything.. everyone suffers from it.
As it stands now.. the only department who if no one is there and the whole station will suffer.. is engineering. No one does the engine and most of the station can barely function. Personally I want a fix for this that each department can recharge their own APCs by some sort of arbritrary way that's not good at all. (like hamster wheels for each department all the time as a silly example)
But overall if chemistry goes loose from science, it just narrows science's scope more. It was clear the robotcist and genecist were originally science at one point.
Yet also medbay since they could help medbay, now they are part of medbay but also seperate and let's be real...
HOW MUCH DOES GENETICS AND ROBOTICS INTERACT WITH EITHER SCIENCE OR MEDBAY?!
Heck Robotics is bored half the time and we got a whole thread on "Genetics not caring what's going on"
So how do you think chemistry goes about it? Well I seen a lot of chemist ignore requests.. but another scientist swoops in and fixes things.
Now if chemistry becomes it's own thing.. where do you place it? Keep it in science as their own? Put it in medbay? But... chemistry blows up a ton too...
What about the bar basically having the same chemistry set too?
You starting to see the bigger problems and questions? This is a cascading effect of fixes that "are not needed" as other things take way more priority.
For now let's leave medbay alone, I am fine with the pharmacist being available 24/7, but let's stop with this reinviting the wheel thing if it just adopts the old problems as well.
Every department "should" have a bare minimum to function by itself.
It's not as fun but the station runs.
Interdepartment interactions however, improve the output of those places.
Botany with The Kitchen as a perfect example.
Where I think it goes wrong is when the other departments are NEEDED to have a shift going. Let's go with the old infamous "cargo was always needed or else no one gets paid."
This means if there is no cargo doing anything or the QM is new and learning... cause they aren't doing anything.. everyone suffers from it.
As it stands now.. the only department who if no one is there and the whole station will suffer.. is engineering. No one does the engine and most of the station can barely function. Personally I want a fix for this that each department can recharge their own APCs by some sort of arbritrary way that's not good at all. (like hamster wheels for each department all the time as a silly example)
But overall if chemistry goes loose from science, it just narrows science's scope more. It was clear the robotcist and genecist were originally science at one point.
Yet also medbay since they could help medbay, now they are part of medbay but also seperate and let's be real...
HOW MUCH DOES GENETICS AND ROBOTICS INTERACT WITH EITHER SCIENCE OR MEDBAY?!
Heck Robotics is bored half the time and we got a whole thread on "Genetics not caring what's going on"
So how do you think chemistry goes about it? Well I seen a lot of chemist ignore requests.. but another scientist swoops in and fixes things.
Now if chemistry becomes it's own thing.. where do you place it? Keep it in science as their own? Put it in medbay? But... chemistry blows up a ton too...
What about the bar basically having the same chemistry set too?
You starting to see the bigger problems and questions? This is a cascading effect of fixes that "are not needed" as other things take way more priority.
For now let's leave medbay alone, I am fine with the pharmacist being available 24/7, but let's stop with this reinviting the wheel thing if it just adopts the old problems as well.