Cyborg Discussion (Cogwerks)

[Coolguye]

Secborg problem #5: "Beepsky makes secborg unnecessary"
Do floorbots make engineer borgs unnecessary? Do medical borgs feel envy at medibots? Are digbots better than mining borgs? Why pick janiborg when floorbots are so much more efficient? The firebot gets away with being totally useless, however.

The answer to all of this is no and "because".

I realize you said you were done with the secborg argument but I just have to call BS here. This is complete nonsense. Engineer borgs can't even lay floors, I think you are referring to the Construction borg. And floorbots actually do make Construction borgs unnecessary for repairing hull breaches. Construction borgs are helpful, of course, and will sometimes do the job faster, but two floorbots with a sufficient number of tiles will seal a hull breach with a quickness. After the area is floored, you only need basic internals to survive the area, and human engineers can rebuild damaged walls and replace destroyed windows faster than a Construction borg due to hands. Construction borgs are way better at building additions to the station, but that's it.

EVERYONE in the medical field feels envy at the medibots. The only conceivable situation where ANY player does a better job at healing than a medbot is in a depressurized room, and that's only because the medbot won't drag someone to an oxygen-rich zone. I will take a medbot over a human doctor or medical borg any day of the year.

Mining borgs might be better than Digbots, but they are not better than an ore extraction apparatus next to a dense asteroid. Hell, nobody is. We're just lucky that they're so awkward to use in space or there'd be no reason to do anything else.

Cleanbots are very often used in lieu of actual Janitorial staff, as well. The wiki even suggests their use over a Janitor a few times, and even suggests their use in the Janitor article for completing Janitor objectives.

Firebots are beautiful for fighting fires, I have no idea what you're on about with that. Cyborgs would be ideal, except for the fact that they can't refill their fire extinguisher without getting their module rewritten. A single firebot works too slowly, sure, but two firebots working in tandem will crush fires quite efficiently.

Beepsky is totally impartial, doesn't abuse people, and is completely efficient. The only thing he doesn't do is report locations of arrests. If he could use a PDA message to alert Officers where he detained someone he'd be the perfect security operative. There's no way a sec borg could do anything but be worse.

All you need to kill a borg is a flash and something to bash its head with

Flashes work amazing for suppressing a Cyborg but unless that thing you're bashing its head with is a c-saber you're going to be there all day.