Goonhub
01-24-2014, 08:38 PM
If telesci has to be tethered to the mainframe for completely unknowable reasons, so should the mechanics. Maybe then they'll give a damn when the computer core loses power. 
As it is, all mechanics really have to do is mug the captain for his egun so you can make twenty copies, go make graviton shard cannons, and just generally be better equipped staff assistants with worse attitudes. Giving them something else to do that is reasonably complicated(and maybe something extra complicated. Because the people who play mechanics are generally the more experienced and terrible players) to do would go some way to help alleviate that problem.
As it is, all mechanics really have to do is mug the captain for his egun so you can make twenty copies, go make graviton shard cannons, and just generally be better equipped staff assistants with worse attitudes. Giving them something else to do that is reasonably complicated(and maybe something extra complicated. Because the people who play mechanics are generally the more experienced and terrible players) to do would go some way to help alleviate that problem.