Let's make the station more maintenance intensive!

[Dr_Bee]

While I agree that this would be great, the reason that the solars start auto-hotwired now is precisely because people whined about station maintenance needs getting in the way of their science or whatever. As it turns out, if power goes out in chem, the scientists there won't go start the engine, or go hotwire/setup the solars, or replace the power cell in their APC, or yell at the AI to fiddle with the power, or even pack a crowbar after the big Engine Not Started announcement gets sent out. They'll just call the shuttle and whine away the remaining thirteen minutes while hoping some poor sap gets stuck with engineering duty next round.

the flip side of this is unless someone goes bomb crazy there usually is very little to do as an engineer after the engine is set up besides attempt to get the engine to run at dangerously high levels. there is nothing for engineering to do if the antags are being sneaky.