Three small Janitor item upgrades

[Nanako]

A janitor struggles to compete with a janiborg, their ability to clean floors is astoundingly fast.

I'd like to close the gap a little, though they'll still be faster at things

Three new Items:

1. Hand Vacuum:

This would be default equipment in the janitor closet, and should have a space on the janicart for storing it. It should also be added to the loadout of janitor borgs

A wide necked vacuum used for picking up trash off the floor. When used on a tile (by clicking the floor, not just specifically on an item's sprite) it would pick up ALL trash items on that tile instantly, possibly with a loud vacuuming sound. Cigarette butts, drink cans, snack packets, spent matches, etc.

It would also pick up bullet casings, spent shotgun shells, mouse/nymph corpses, broken drones, and other things that tend to clutter the floor.

When used on a disposal inlet, trash bag, or a janicart with a trashbag, it would empty its contents into it

2. The Automop:

An upgraded mop that is created at R&D, by fabricating some kind of special component with a low/moderate tech requirement, and then attaching it to a normal mop. The Automop would have a spinning head that would clean floors much faster, reducing the mopping time from the usual 5 seconds, to a much shorter time of somewhere between 0.5-2 seconds

3. The Bluespace Cleaner:

Probably created by attaching a bluespace beaker and a power cell, to a normal space cleaner bottle, so again it requires R&D support. The Bluespace Cleaner would hold a lot more liquid, at least twice as much as usual. It'd also come with an enhanced mode, when using the high pressure nozzle (10u per spray) it would clean a Plus shaped area (+) of five tiles centred where you click, instead of jut a single tile

Edited April 14, 2016 by Guest

[Guest Complete Garbage]

I'd really like some new janitor stuff, I actually might start playing it again. And perhaps the bluespace cleaner could have more settings, like a large plus, a 3x3, etc, that take up ~2u per coverable tile.

[Nanako]

, a 3x3, etc, that take up ~2u per coverable tile.

this was actually my first draft of the idea, but i reconsidered it because it seemed a bit much. with a 3x3 space cleaner, you'd never use the mop at all, it'd be a bit too easy

[afitz]

Rarely do I see science in practice issuing upgraded equipment to other departments and I think janitorial would be a nice fix from that trend. I support nearly all the ideas except for the bluespace cleaner. While very useful it seems way too advanced for a janitor to hold..

[Arrow768]

I like all the ideas.

Including the bluespace breaker.

We are a sci station, so why shouldnt the jani get to use some of the good stuff ?