Goonhub
12-24-2013, 06:17 PM
Selling data taken from medical scans is a good idea. You could add it to a pathology report for a bonus, just dump a scan of a sick person from a health analyzer or a PDA into the computer. After all, what's a medical paper without a few case studies?
The stock market idea sounds cool. Companies could be associated with the various ways the station could make money, so as people do their jobs it could affect the market. Like, you send data on a mutation to NT, NT sells it to a medical company, the medical company instantly makes a profit, and if you've invested in that company, you can make a profit too. This would also give people a reason to pay attention to which departments are being particularly active, so different groups would be at least slightly more aware of each other some of the time.
As for the Chef/Barman, what about takeout orders? Give the kitchen a terminal where NPCs outside the station send in random orders. The Chef makes whatever they want, then deliversit via a teleporter pad, and gets paid just like selling an item to a merchant, with a tip for using high-quality ingredients.
The stock market idea sounds cool. Companies could be associated with the various ways the station could make money, so as people do their jobs it could affect the market. Like, you send data on a mutation to NT, NT sells it to a medical company, the medical company instantly makes a profit, and if you've invested in that company, you can make a profit too. This would also give people a reason to pay attention to which departments are being particularly active, so different groups would be at least slightly more aware of each other some of the time.
As for the Chef/Barman, what about takeout orders? Give the kitchen a terminal where NPCs outside the station send in random orders. The Chef makes whatever they want, then deliversit via a teleporter pad, and gets paid just like selling an item to a merchant, with a tip for using high-quality ingredients.