Goonhub
01-25-2016, 05:07 PM
I've always thought that 'let the dead play again' was generally code for 'the round's gone on long enough, but some people get really mad if you say it like that'.
In any case there's usually more to it than 'there's a lot of dead people.' If there's that many dead early in the round, then chances are the station is in very bad shape and it's easier to call the shuttle than patch the station up. If it's late in the round, chances are the living people are getting a little bored of the round and want a fresh start.
The station is great and all, but most jobs can't really sustain themselves for extremely long rounds. Engineering is notorious for having nothing to do most of the time. The chef runs out of food, the QM isn't around, and no one is eating anyway. The doctors have no one to heal, the AI is either braindead or desperately wishing he was. I'll take disappointing the one scientist trying to one-man the solarium and the geneticists becoming superhuman demigods over keeping a slowly dying round on life support.
In any case there's usually more to it than 'there's a lot of dead people.' If there's that many dead early in the round, then chances are the station is in very bad shape and it's easier to call the shuttle than patch the station up. If it's late in the round, chances are the living people are getting a little bored of the round and want a fresh start.
The station is great and all, but most jobs can't really sustain themselves for extremely long rounds. Engineering is notorious for having nothing to do most of the time. The chef runs out of food, the QM isn't around, and no one is eating anyway. The doctors have no one to heal, the AI is either braindead or desperately wishing he was. I'll take disappointing the one scientist trying to one-man the solarium and the geneticists becoming superhuman demigods over keeping a slowly dying round on life support.