Goonhub
01-08-2013, 02:07 PM
Given the fact that engineers now have no more access to spacesuits or building materials than the common assistant; I think it's safe to say that after they've set up the Singularity and solars, they have absolutely nothing to do after the first 10 minutes of the round. I think that instead of the current Power Monitoring Computer that they currently have, they should have a computer that allows them to remotely control the APCs of the different rooms on the station. i.e. you select which room's APC you want to access it and then you can prioritize whether or not it gets equipment power, or lighting, or environment from the computer rather than having to walk all the way down to a room to access it manually. Maybe doing this coupled with reducing the amount of power the singularity generates, would make the engineers much more important to the rest of the station.
I suggest that, which is something to help engineers, or simply give every job access to the APC in their job's room. That would be very helpful for jobs like security, robotics, and genetics since they often loose power and can't clone people or fabricate things, but they still waste power on those worthless lights. Because presently it is almost impossible to call an engineer down to you to change the power and it is sometimes hard to get the AI to fix it for you because when you start losing power the AI usually has it's hands full elsewhere.
I suggest that, which is something to help engineers, or simply give every job access to the APC in their job's room. That would be very helpful for jobs like security, robotics, and genetics since they often loose power and can't clone people or fabricate things, but they still waste power on those worthless lights. Because presently it is almost impossible to call an engineer down to you to change the power and it is sometimes hard to get the AI to fix it for you because when you start losing power the AI usually has it's hands full elsewhere.