MO_oNyMan Posted March 7, 2018 Posted March 7, 2018 Yes, i don't like alt-titles that much but i can live with them as long as they are actually what they are called: alternative names for the same slot. Now not so recent medbay update reworked the alt-title system in there, making different alt-titles actual different jobs with different skillsets, duties and requirements. I think it's pretty cool to get some separation of work to medbay staff, but this presents a problem. The number of medic slots in medbay is finite. Yet there's no set maximum to the amount of times one and the same alt-title can be picked. And that allows for situation where the entire station medbay is staffed with 4 virologists or 4 surgeons or 4 nurses which obviously does not benefit the round in any way since some jobs can't do surgery and others can't clone. So the suggestion is to make jobs that are entirely different from one another to be represented by different job slots. [*] Nurses move to share 2 slots with med residents. Their responsibilities are similar enough to allow that. They both are supposed to help out medics in their treatment. However residents are there to learn and nurses to provide professional assistance. Requirements and duties of nurses stay the same [*] Reserve 2 slots specifically for surgeons. No surgeon is pretty bad as is having four of them with no MDs. [*] I'm not sure if there's 4 or 5 slots for medics in medbay. Depending on that the remaining 2 (3?) slots are left to medical doctors, the troopers of medbay. [*] The virologists would share 2 slots with chemists. Why that is a good thing is pretty well explained in this suggestion thread about merging chemistry and virology in a new job title https://forums.aurorastation.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=10266 [*] Emergency Physicians. I honestly would like to see them removed. Noone ever takes that alt-title ever and for a good reason. Their specific field of expertise (which is to be the guy who handles the patient in between a paramedic and a surgeon) is covered by all other medical slots who carry out their duties well enough. Unless they find their own niche their presence is redundant As stated it would fix the oversaturation of medbay with one alt-title that results in half of medbay sitting without work and most of the department's functional potential wasted. Yes, you can look at the crew manifest before you join. Some people don't do that. Some people don't care. In any case i don't see why having 4 virologists that take up MD slots even be a thing that can happen. Addendum: people say that in actuality emergency physicians are the ones who supposed to be taking care of critical patients and MDs are guys who just do clinic duty and routine checkups. I'm not sure how this can be adressed because one of those titles gets left out of job one way or another considering how a generic round goes on our station. And more often than not it's EPs that get pushed aside by MDs due to their inferior speciality range
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