Mech comp improvements

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Now that'd be REALLY nice. Mini MechComp! You could probably make a modified version of a Device Frame for this, allowing you to fit maybe 5 modules inside, given that you can print and mass produce these circuits. Issue is, what practical applications would these have anyways?? I dunno how I'd feel about these containing things like WiFi components either; they could just be an all access card to any locker, possibly, which seems difficult to balance around. I'd only want these in if there were some serious practical applications for such systems and I am too sick and tired to think of any right now.

I think that given the HUGE nerf on Mechanics recently the breadboard idea would be a nice balance.
The breadboard could do powerful things if the mechanic is smart, it should be expensive from the Autofab, maybe 8 crystal, 8 sturdy, 8 conductive.

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Fire hydrant should definitely be compatible with gun components. For extra cool stuff, a heat detector for self automated fire alarming system would be nice!

One thing I tried to get working but could not do any real progress was visual teleport components, so that after teleporting you could see what goes at the other side of the teleporter, to nerf crusher traps without making the strat completely obsolete.

With my idea of the Scanner Module, an atmospheric analyzer would be put into the Module, and then an associate component or signal check could catch the output.

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I like these ideas as a MechComp nerd. I honestly feel like it's geared less towards being particularly helpful and more just being annoying; would be fantastic to have something silly like a purchase-enabled fire extinguisher. I'm not too sure how the analyzer would work; would it just try and scan whatever's on top of it? How do you indicate where you want it to 'click' in order to scan??

This is a detail which would be left to the coders, but I'm imagining that the scanner would be loaded, then the component would have the following options:
Disconnect All
Set output threshold
Set input tile


The component would work when an "activate" signal is sent, which will send a reading of any compatible elements as an output. If an atmosphere scanner were loaded, the details on the temperature and gases on the tile, if a health analyzer is loaded and a human is on the input square, it will output the health details of the person. If it is a cargo scanner, device analzyer, material analyzer, or spectro scanner, it will send details of the objects in either/both hands of a person standing on the input tile. All the scanners have similar logic, and it will only give a reading of the input tile