Goonhub
10-11-2021, 11:52 AM
One of the issues Ive heard about chemistry for interdepartmental cooperation is simply that others job can do it as well as them, such as a doctor being able to make more styptic with the same ease as scientist. While I do believe that thanks to many scientists joining just to test hellchems and the like (much more of a design issue with scientist then a problem issue), this is a needed band aid, scientists should have something extra to give them an advantage of chemistry. Here comes the chemicomplier, currently its a highly complicated obtuse thing with only niche practical applications for specific hellmixes. Several changes could make chemicomplier more accessible and more useful.
1. Replace chemfuck. Chemfuck is very obtuse, and by far most easily used via an outside program. This is not good design! Since several people have spent lots of time making these scripts, Id strongly suggest chemfuck still should be compatible, however all the guides and stuff should move to this new language. For a good example of what this new language could look like, Id suggest looking at several chemfuck translators, such as chemfard: https://forum.ss13.co/showthread.php?tid=11863, and uhh this unnamed one: https://112358sam.github.io/ChemiAssembler/. This would make chemicomplier much easier to write for and much less of a pain.
2. Chemicomplier being able to directly synthesis basic chems at the cost of apc power and time. For basic chems that are available at a chem dispenser, this should require a reasonable amount of power in the grid to not kill the apc (like 400 kw or so), and take around 1 second for 2 units of chems. Perhaps different speed modes, each one increasing power drainage? Chemicomplier should also be able to synthesis chems like welding fuel but these would basically be an apc killer due to there complex nature (or well more aptly, balance reasons). This would make chemicomplier much more robust at making and mass producing chems.
1. Replace chemfuck. Chemfuck is very obtuse, and by far most easily used via an outside program. This is not good design! Since several people have spent lots of time making these scripts, Id strongly suggest chemfuck still should be compatible, however all the guides and stuff should move to this new language. For a good example of what this new language could look like, Id suggest looking at several chemfuck translators, such as chemfard: https://forum.ss13.co/showthread.php?tid=11863, and uhh this unnamed one: https://112358sam.github.io/ChemiAssembler/. This would make chemicomplier much easier to write for and much less of a pain.
2. Chemicomplier being able to directly synthesis basic chems at the cost of apc power and time. For basic chems that are available at a chem dispenser, this should require a reasonable amount of power in the grid to not kill the apc (like 400 kw or so), and take around 1 second for 2 units of chems. Perhaps different speed modes, each one increasing power drainage? Chemicomplier should also be able to synthesis chems like welding fuel but these would basically be an apc killer due to there complex nature (or well more aptly, balance reasons). This would make chemicomplier much more robust at making and mass producing chems.