Rant about “features” or game mechanics that annoy you or that you deem more a of a hindrance than being useful.
I am curious if we have similar things that annoy us everytime we interact with them.
For me that would be airlocks leading to space automatically bolting themselves when you unbolt them via command. Like for fucks sake, why do I have to do it several times for it to stay unbolted.
Disposals not flushing fast enough.
Door remotes defaulting to toggle bolts instead of opening doors.
Light tube hand burning.
Slow firelocks.
Rolling to put out fires does jack shit.
The existence of Krav Maga.
The pop up error when you click on cleanbot settings too fast, saying you dont have the permission to click this.
You having to press overload on apcs a thousand times to empty it, giving you arthritis. And if you click too fast the “a gm has been notified” message pops up and you can’t do it again.
Wardens who don’t realize that space law lets you throw the annoying assistant into perma if its the third time they got arrested for assaulting non-humans or something.
Atmosbots being free airmix miners.
The fact that I can’t access the ban page right now.
The fact that AI upload on Metastation has six flashes but Box only has one.
Clearing out pipes already filled with something like cold plasma when you’re trying to work on something else.
All the in-game guide books and anything that opens a web link breaking because the links are surrounded by quotes for some reason (if you know how to fix this please tell me).
Not being able to do surgery on someone because some dungus did not finish their old surgery at some point in time. Also that you can not health scan during surgery.
Keeping atmos operational was never a rocket science to begin with but now an atmos technician is just a role for autism projects with no tension or responsibility.
Instead of working on this closed loop system of gases you have infinite amount of them, nobody ever checks tank pressures any more, you don’t worry about usage of gases and you just put volume pumps or straight pipes everywhere, you don’t worry about temperature of tanks which could increase after fires when hot oxygen and nitrogen was filtered back into their respective tanks.
Literally had a situation the other day when tanks started heating up, I started to work on cooling system to bring them down to 20 degrees C while the other atmosian just came in, turned off filters and set waste to be ejected to space. Why wouldn’t they do it, we have source of infinite amount of gases so there’s no point in filtering and collecting them
Also being able to RCD the floor to vent air to space, especially being able to remove floor in SM chamber. Its basically a magic solution to save delaminating SM, I would place it in the same category as building wall on the crystal, which we luckily got rid off. People just remove floor in SM chamber every time it starts delaming, its often so unnecessary and sadly more and more often I see people not being able to figure what’s wrong with SM if that one thing doesn’t instantly fix it.
We had a very good engineering staff for a long time and quality seems to be dropping, sadly changes that are introduced (not only to engineering) are often leading to even more dumbing down and making things almost impossible to screw up