Goonhub
12-09-2014, 09:30 AM
The scenario is a common one: You die. Maybe you got toolboxed, maybe you got poisoned, maybe you got shot in the face by an angry barman. So you ghost and sit around waiting for someone to take you to genetics. Eventually, someone finds your corpse, jaunts over to medbay, and drops it off by the genetics lab. So you wait. And wait. And continue waiting. Maybe you float around security while it's getting blown up, I dunno. But after a while, you go over to genetics to see if those fuckers are still alive...
And they've been sitting at the genetics consoles and completely ignoring all of the corpses for the entire round.
See, here's the problem. Genetics research carries with it the same mentality as a Scientist: Intensive, inclusive experimentation in order to achieve great results and/or explosions. The problem is that this playstyle does not lend itself very well to station responsibility. The sole job of the Scientists is to do science, and they have no real, direct responsibility to the station otherwise; their role in the station is for either them or their direct superiors to decide.
But to saddle geneticists with the secondary responsibility of cloning people is to do what most scientists would grump incessantly at you about: Asking them to abandon their current research to babysit a slow-working piece of machinery. It's like asking a scientist to set up the engine, it's a chore that breaks them away from their present work that they probably won't bother doing no matter how much you nag them about it.
Furthermore, genetics research is...research. What the hell is it doing in medbay? The purpose of a medical bay is to heal, borg, or clone the injured and/or deceased. Giving people eye lasers, superfarts, or epilepsy has nothing to do with any of those things, and the fact that their workplace is shoehorned into medbay creates a tension that is completely unnecessary and more than a bit annoying. Why give something as huge as the revival of the deceased to a bunch of people who just want to become the hulk?
My suggestion to fix this is simple: Move genetics research into the research wing, or at the very least distance it from medbay enough to prevent any undesired meshing of workspaces, and make cloning a responsibility of the general medical staff. This would solve a lot of problems when it comes to people never getting cloned, and would reduce the likelihood or corpses getting completely ignored because the nerds who are supposed to clone them are staring at a computer.
And they've been sitting at the genetics consoles and completely ignoring all of the corpses for the entire round.
See, here's the problem. Genetics research carries with it the same mentality as a Scientist: Intensive, inclusive experimentation in order to achieve great results and/or explosions. The problem is that this playstyle does not lend itself very well to station responsibility. The sole job of the Scientists is to do science, and they have no real, direct responsibility to the station otherwise; their role in the station is for either them or their direct superiors to decide.
But to saddle geneticists with the secondary responsibility of cloning people is to do what most scientists would grump incessantly at you about: Asking them to abandon their current research to babysit a slow-working piece of machinery. It's like asking a scientist to set up the engine, it's a chore that breaks them away from their present work that they probably won't bother doing no matter how much you nag them about it.
Furthermore, genetics research is...research. What the hell is it doing in medbay? The purpose of a medical bay is to heal, borg, or clone the injured and/or deceased. Giving people eye lasers, superfarts, or epilepsy has nothing to do with any of those things, and the fact that their workplace is shoehorned into medbay creates a tension that is completely unnecessary and more than a bit annoying. Why give something as huge as the revival of the deceased to a bunch of people who just want to become the hulk?
My suggestion to fix this is simple: Move genetics research into the research wing, or at the very least distance it from medbay enough to prevent any undesired meshing of workspaces, and make cloning a responsibility of the general medical staff. This would solve a lot of problems when it comes to people never getting cloned, and would reduce the likelihood or corpses getting completely ignored because the nerds who are supposed to clone them are staring at a computer.