Goonhub
12-18-2013, 01:32 AM
Would it be possible to make the optical Meson Scanner and Thermal scanner combinable, for the ultimate seeing-through-walls syndicate hunting tool? However, you could make it a challenge to accomplish, perhaps impossible to do without the mechanic's help or tools.
I was thinking that you would have to completely disassemble both items to get their components, then reassemble with a combination of parts from the Mechanic's vendor, an erebite or higher battery and a time consuming reassembling process so that you couldn't effectively mass produce them for the whole station unless you were really determined and had some co-operation from the miners/roboticists. You could also make it so that if you screw up the reassembling process, such as clicking too many times with a tool, you destroy a vital component and need a new set of Optics, or you add too many wires to the battery and it violently explodes, tearing off a limb and destroying everything. You could also make the Doc Glasses combinable with sunglasses through some simpler method so they aren't as easily flash stunned, but can still see member's health.
Also, a guy I was playing mechanic with had an idea for the vendor. It would be pretty awesome if the mechanic could somehow upgrade the vendor to allow frames to be inserted and automatically install the required components instead of doing it manually. I argued that it would make things a bit too easy, especially with mass production of terribly deadly items such as laser guns, so to offset the ease of it, perhaps there would be a time-delay for the vendor adding the components, much like a manufacture unit. And/or it have a harmful item detector, so it wouldn't auto add components to the frame If it detects it to be a weapon of some sort, until its emagged to bypass the safeties. The vendor would also be unable to dispense individual items once its auto adding them to a frame. It would make the mechanic's life a little less boring having to spend a substantial amount of time clicking on a sometimes laggy vending interface when mass producing things.
I was thinking that you would have to completely disassemble both items to get their components, then reassemble with a combination of parts from the Mechanic's vendor, an erebite or higher battery and a time consuming reassembling process so that you couldn't effectively mass produce them for the whole station unless you were really determined and had some co-operation from the miners/roboticists. You could also make it so that if you screw up the reassembling process, such as clicking too many times with a tool, you destroy a vital component and need a new set of Optics, or you add too many wires to the battery and it violently explodes, tearing off a limb and destroying everything. You could also make the Doc Glasses combinable with sunglasses through some simpler method so they aren't as easily flash stunned, but can still see member's health.
Also, a guy I was playing mechanic with had an idea for the vendor. It would be pretty awesome if the mechanic could somehow upgrade the vendor to allow frames to be inserted and automatically install the required components instead of doing it manually. I argued that it would make things a bit too easy, especially with mass production of terribly deadly items such as laser guns, so to offset the ease of it, perhaps there would be a time-delay for the vendor adding the components, much like a manufacture unit. And/or it have a harmful item detector, so it wouldn't auto add components to the frame If it detects it to be a weapon of some sort, until its emagged to bypass the safeties. The vendor would also be unable to dispense individual items once its auto adding them to a frame. It would make the mechanic's life a little less boring having to spend a substantial amount of time clicking on a sometimes laggy vending interface when mass producing things.