Cyborg Chemistry: Who should have it?

[Nanako]

Medical has two cyborg modules - Crisis and Surgeon

Crisis borg ostensibly fills the role of paramedic, while surgeon is pretty obvious. Currently Crisis also has the chemistry gripper, allowing them to act as a chemist.

Paramedic duty for a cyborg is extremely flexible. They also often end up firefighting, fighting slimes, fending off spiders and hanging around high-action areas. Plus with unlimited access, they can go around and make checkups on everyone in every department, fetch SSDs, investigate mysteries, etc.They get to play hero a lot, and generally have a lot more that they can do than an organic paramedic.

also diving into space for all sorts of reasons. crisis is one of the borg modules that nobody looks at twice when they do that, and EVa rescue is often their job

By contrast, i'd say thar surgeon module is overspecialised. IT does surgery very well, but its almost entirely useless when nobody has broken parts. As a result, many people pick surgeon borg, realise they have nothing to do, and go SSD. IT has a high attrition rate and this isn't good. It results in there rarely being a surgeon borg around when you need one. Or at least, one that's awake

I believe that surgeon module should have the ability to do chemistry instead of crisis. Surgeon belongs inside medbay and this would give them something to do. The crisis borg belongs outside medbay, running around playing hero and dragging people out of fires

What do you all think though? Which should have chemistry abilities. Does it suit both better than either single one? There has been resisstance in the dev team to giving it to both, but sufficient public opinion could change that

[Jboy2000000]

Don't we have a chemistry borg, made specifically for chemistry? I thought we did, or am I going insane-r

[SierraKomodo]

Don't we have a chemistry borg, made specifically for chemistry? I thought we did, or am I going insane-r

 

There's a 'chemistry' variant sprite for the crisis borg.

[Dreamix]

Ultimately, people are stupid and don't know what they want.

- surgeon - The only reasonable choice.

- crisis - People who main crisis borgs and want to see as much action as possible, while being as useful as possible. Essentially, people who want everything good for whatever they're playing. It's like asking security if they want guns (of course they do, because they're biased).

- both - Same as above, except that people also want it as convenient as possible.

[Zundy]

What security are getting guns?!