Fire and Glory Posted September 25, 2016 Posted September 25, 2016 If access to firelocks is put under general engineering access I will be sad. Today, Nuke ops blew up science which leaked into departures which two people were inside, I got my space suit and bed and pronto'd over there, departures has a double-firelock system separating it from the hallway, which are packed tighter then most, the result is a blinking firelock having to be crowbarred regardless of whether it opening would vent the hallway or not, having to be crowbarred, which is tricky when you're dragging a bed in tow, because you need to maneuver it around so that the closing locks don't force you to stop pulling the bed, since crowbarring all the locks'd vent the hall. The end-result of this was me having to mess around with the firelocks for far longer then I should've to get one person out (And I gave up on pulling them out, I just grabbed them and threw them out into the hall while I was standing on a lock because you throw people based on the tile you're standing on) and the other simply died. Now I'm wondering, why don't Paramedics have access to blinking firelocks? Generally they need to get through the things even faster than an engineer would because their job involves retrieving incapacitated personnel in a time-critical manner, something that prying and fiddling with firelocks doesn't really agree with. Paramedics and EMT's have had EVA access for far longer than Medical Doctors and other medical personnel have had, as such, I propose giving Paramedic-and-alt-title access to open blinking firelocks without delay.
Guest Marlon Phoenix Posted September 26, 2016 Posted September 26, 2016 I can support this. It makes sense for their role and provides further justification to this role. They are meant to get to a place ASAP, and being able to open firelocks with the same speed as an engineer adds them to the list of "first responders". Who else, outside atmospheric technicians and engineering, have firelock access?
SierraKomodo Posted September 26, 2016 Posted September 26, 2016 Afaik it's only engineering, atmos, and command that have firelock access.
Carver Posted September 26, 2016 Posted September 26, 2016 This is a very sensible suggestion. Nothing else to really be said on it, it's a solid idea.
Serveris Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 This actually seems like a pretty solid idea, yeah. Can we make this happen? Feel like it'd be pretty simple code-wise. Paramedics have a pretty good reason for having this access as well. It'd definitely make responding in an Odysseus easier too. (Otherwise you have to climb out of the mech, force a lock with a crowbar, climb back inside, move the mech one tile, get out and close the lock again, then open the other firelock, if it's one of the layered ones, like the main hallways.)
Nikov Posted October 3, 2016 Posted October 3, 2016 Wait, what do you mean 'firelock access'. I just click them and they open... Oooooooh. Yes, definitely a Paramedic access level. I was wondering why I never see them in hull breaches.
Alberyk Posted December 24, 2016 Posted December 24, 2016 https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/1291
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