07-03-2014, 10:13 AM
I really don't like the idea of giving every single electronic item on the station a finite power reserve. Are doctors loaded to the gills with medicine going to have to carry around spare power cells for their hypospray, health analyzer, PDA, and Port-A-Medbay remote? Are engineers going on station repair jobs going to have to change the batteries on their flashlights and magnetic boots? It seems like an awful lot of trouble as a side effect of an idea that looks like it's intended solely to buff stunners and energy guns by making them more powerful and allowing people to reload them on the fly. It just seems like a massive pain in the ass for people who aren't sec or traitors, thought up solely to buff sec and traitors. It'd also make stuff a lot more complicated for the jobs that already work with power cells, partially because it'd require the station to be filled with all different sizes of power cells instead of just one, and partially because people will loot the highest-capacity power cells from whichever departments actually use them in order to save themselves the trouble of dealing with chargers and battery replacements.