Goonhub
01-06-2014, 04:34 PM
As I understand it, the recyclers are part of a materials/ore/mineral/general manufacture overhaul that's being put in place slowly to test things out as they go. This is all fine and dandy, but there's been some complaints about the current iteration of them, and I'd like to offer a possible solution.
Idea: Instead of a ton of recyclers, have ONE BIG ONE at the end of disposals. Currently, disposals doesn't really do much beyond crushing stuff and then flinging out to space. That's such a waste of potential, all that material flying off into the void. I propose that once an object is run through the crusher, it's turned into a chunk of whatever matter it was made of. So jumpsuits turn into chunks of cloth, most tools become chunks of metal, windows and glasses become glass, bodies become biomass, etc. etc. Then those chunks are loaded via belt/driver into a recycler, which store the matter in one giant pool that all the various types of manufacturers draw from.
Pros: Got some garbage you wanna recycle? Chuck it in disposals! This idea uses almost entirely existing infrastructure, excluding the actual recycler, so there's less messing with the map and less new crap people have to learn. With a system like this, the disposals system would have a legitimate reason to be used frequently, which would make escaping through it more exciting, and the somewhat silent murders by it more noticeable.
Instead of running to a recycler housed in each department, which eats up a lot of space, there's just a central one, which can be tampered with for various shenanigans. Chuck everything in a department into the disposal chute, flush it, then hold the stuff ransom one tile from the crusher! Throw a couple of willing volunteers through the system to get much needed biomass for the cloning vats! Turn all that random scrap and gibs from medbay blowing up into vital station-rebuilding materials
Cons: Uh... I guess there's not really any infrastructure proposed for how to get material from the recycler to the manufacturers, but really that's more of a
my immersion thing. I don't think it really needs it, either, but feel free to make suggestions.
Idea: Instead of a ton of recyclers, have ONE BIG ONE at the end of disposals. Currently, disposals doesn't really do much beyond crushing stuff and then flinging out to space. That's such a waste of potential, all that material flying off into the void. I propose that once an object is run through the crusher, it's turned into a chunk of whatever matter it was made of. So jumpsuits turn into chunks of cloth, most tools become chunks of metal, windows and glasses become glass, bodies become biomass, etc. etc. Then those chunks are loaded via belt/driver into a recycler, which store the matter in one giant pool that all the various types of manufacturers draw from.
Pros: Got some garbage you wanna recycle? Chuck it in disposals! This idea uses almost entirely existing infrastructure, excluding the actual recycler, so there's less messing with the map and less new crap people have to learn. With a system like this, the disposals system would have a legitimate reason to be used frequently, which would make escaping through it more exciting, and the somewhat silent murders by it more noticeable.
Instead of running to a recycler housed in each department, which eats up a lot of space, there's just a central one, which can be tampered with for various shenanigans. Chuck everything in a department into the disposal chute, flush it, then hold the stuff ransom one tile from the crusher! Throw a couple of willing volunteers through the system to get much needed biomass for the cloning vats! Turn all that random scrap and gibs from medbay blowing up into vital station-rebuilding materials
Cons: Uh... I guess there's not really any infrastructure proposed for how to get material from the recycler to the manufacturers, but really that's more of a
my immersion thing. I don't think it really needs it, either, but feel free to make suggestions.