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01-17-2021, 12:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-17-2021, 12:46 PM by UrsulaMejor. Edited 1 time in total.)
having a job dedicated to pathology or a smaller subset of medical research limits the traitor pool from all doctors and janitors to just the pathologist and some heads. I think that's a good thing, imo. Makes it easier to track down who released Shakespearitus and reduces the number of peeps who can barge in and grief with it.
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(01-17-2021, 12:42 PM)pali6 Wrote: I mentioned it before but I think turning geneticists into a more general medical researcher role that has access to both genetics and pathology would be a better idea. Or other similar solutions would work too.
problem with this is that 4 Researchers is a lot different from 2 geneticists + 2 pathologists. Can easily lead to a situation of too many
cooks nerds spoiling the
broth pathogen, which seems to be the problem a pathologist role is meant to solve. Could also lead to a bit of a clusterfuck in genetics too, depending.
The alternative would be to keep 2 geneticists and just rename them, but that would lead to departmental neglect (either nobody working one of the departments, or both departments having a single lonely spaceman with no assistant. sometimes bad for rp, questionably detrimental to the station).
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