What's with those recyclers, anyway?

[neogeo0823]

Keep the departmental recyclers. They can still do what they do, but every manufacturer in a department is linked to that recycler, and they all work automatically. So instead of sticking in 50 metal sheets, clicking "10 mauxite" 5 times, waiting.... pulling out 50 mauxite bars, and then loading those into the nearest GM, you simply toss the metal into the recycler, wander off to fart on someone, then come back and start ordering things out of one of the manufacturers.

Then, add in one GIANT recycler in Disposals. Link it to the crusher, so that everything crushed automatically gets dumped into the recycler. Add in a mail slot to disposals, so the janitor can mail off mauxite bars or cut molitz to any departments that request additional materials.

Uh, yes, this is exactly the idea I proposed, except you added keeping the recyclers at individual deaprtments in, and added a thing for the janitor to do. Instead of using the departmental recycler, toss your crap into the disposals chute, wait a bit, and suddenly there's basic materials ready to be made into stuff. Though, I'm not sure I like the janitor being made the one responsible for it. Make it easy to break into and subvert, sure, but I'd figure the janitor's got enough on his plate without becoming QM Lite and distributing stuff around the station.

How about it stores all the material in disposals, and people can either go to disposals and get what they want or just "request" what they want from wherever they are? Something like either giving those mail chutes a screen that shows what's all stored in disposals or a whole new console all together? Every department would have access to the storage but there should be limits imposed. Something like only allowing a certain max amount for each request with a "cool down" of when they can request items again. Maybe even a public transfer history that everybody can see, so that you could form a riot against robotics for stealing all the materials for making butt bots.

I really like this idea, it would allow other departments to throw away all their unused crap to help others. Be that for the station you've always wanted to be.

I really like this idea. Hook the recycler into the mail system, or crate hell. Have it automatically send shipments of materials that can be loaded straight into the manufacturers/are auto-loaded in upon arrival at the department. It should definitely be easy to see what's in there and who ordered what though, so that street justice can be enacted against hoarders.

Finally, add in something that organic material can be recycled into. How about Mysterious Slurry? Nobody knows what's contained within, but it can be used to make sloppy joes, or just chunked straight into the Loafer for prison chow.

This is also a good idea. More uses for biomass would be awesome. Just make it a broad spectrum sort of thing, where every organic and edible item counts. This way, botany can make a metric fuck ton of "mystery meat" and "soylent green" for the kitchen just by tossing away their failed attempts at splicing stuff. And of course people murdered via disposals would count in this category as well.