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inb4 people die because of scalding ramen chemical reactions when adding water

Honestly, the only realistic knives are penknives for Cargo for opening boxes, or the knives in the kitchen. Imagine you're eating at McDonalds and the janitor's just casually carrying a knife for self defence. Other than being powergamey, it's just stupid.

The entire research department relies on mining. And the reliance on Research could be solved by just giving them science access. The only equipment they're qualified to distribute are mechs, borgs, bionics, the like WHY? Doesn't that literally defeat the entire purpose of Scientist as an actual job? So you're moving the problem of Scientists being bored of the minigame to Roboticists who are equally uninterested to do said minigame, because they picked roboticist SPECIFICALLY to avoid it and build mechs instead. ...this just shoves them out of their job scope. They're supposed to mostly focus on mechs, bionics, synths, the like. They aren't supposed to be researching. Scientists get a tightening on focus...on what, exactly? This just encourages to make weapons and bombs to their heart's content, since all responsibility to make important things are now shoved to the Roboticist. This basically tips the balance ALL to the roboticist's side, further exaggerating the problem you're trying to solve. Speaking of which, the mapping changes are questionable at best. Replacing about 1/5 of the entire department with a break room (containing an oven, for some reason) AND smoking room (which has no place to be there), shoving Science's actual equipment to the wayside.

So I went to take a look at the new terminal sprites. They look out of place. The screens are this weird teal color which matches NOTHING in our game right now, and the original holographic style is gone. I honestly preferred the old intercoms. They didn't pop out as much, and they felt like they belonged in the walls. Same with the APCs. They now have way too much visual clutter and don't look like they actually fit on the wall - it's like they got glued on. They've also got exposed wires, and this weird white outline, which makes no sense to me.

The tiles have way too little contrast between colors, creating this "blur" effect, making it look smudged. It is the most obvious in the while tile sprites, but I can attest to the darker sprites having the same problem, however it's less noticeable in the darker colors. Also, again with the scrubbers and vents - they only seem to look good in certain areas, and terrible in others. They need to be tested in different environments first. Just because they look good in one region doesn't mean they look good in another by extension. And here - the paint doesn't fit in the tiles properly.

I think it's fine Medals are criminally unused anyway

welcome bro

I say we remove the events. Keep the code n' stuff in game, let the department be remapped into an abandoned-ish section Like, sure, you can still do virology, but on a shoestring budget. But it won't be an actual thing that people are gonna do.

...It's a problem. That's why I brought it up. If it "doesn't matter" I wouldn't even have brought it up in the first place. Also, less visual space. I hope you like your blue floor squares even bigger.