02-08-2015, 07:34 PM
Right now it's really easy to screw over the entire station with a few mechcomp components and packet fuckery. A secluded room and a data terminal, and you can make a machine that automatically recalls the shuttle, or bolts closed every door on the station, and if networked APCs are added, could potentially shut down every department on the station as well. It's pretty much uncounterable save by hunting down and physically dismantling the machine, and several times I've seen admin intervention called in for the automated shuttle-recaller. I'm not sure how feasible it is, but one thought I had was to require all mechcomp packet data routed through the mainframe, so if a mechcomp machine is messing up the entire station, the mainframe could be turned off as a last resort.