Great Synthetic Adjustment

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So, currently we have 2* synthetic slots.
1 is our synthetic that can deploy if it wants, has every skill and is omni-useful
2 is either a survivor synth or a ship operations synth depending on if there was a survivor synth

The ship ops and normal synth are mechanically identical other than one being disallowed from deployment outside of nuke

I have a proposal.

Give us 3 synthetic slots, 1 synth, 1 survivor synth, 1 ship ops synth

But remove surgery skills from survivor and synth, only ship ops can do it in order to assist skeleton crewed medical. Leave only enough for medic work groundside.

This prevents powercreep of another synthetic, and allows for doctors to be able to play the job they readied up for if there’s a deploying synth not stealing every last patient.

(Plus deploying synths are 500% more valuable to the uscm using their engineering skills and good cades anyway, go make medical secure for a surgeon on LV or something :slight_smile: )

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Grim is trying to claim it was their idea first and is trying to silence me. They have sent me this image to SILENCE my FACTS

Further proof that I’m right, even management had my idea (even if I had it first)

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You forgot the 3rd and best synthetic out there in any round, the reliable Working Joe :muscle:.

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“‘Mk1’.”
[5 second pause]
“ASRS data entry tag, Armat Battlefield Systems M41A Mark 1 Pulse Rifle.”
[5 second pause]
“Location, Firearms & Explosives Vendor.”
[5 second pause]
“Category, ‘Restricted Weaponry’.”
[5 second pause]
“Row 3.”
[5 second pause]
“Item successfully requisitioned.”

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Just the way papa wants it.

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Can we have a bartender colony synth that serves drinks to the marines during the OP. That was one of my best interactions with a Synth. Carla the Pink Flamingo Bar Tender Synth.

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Best synth is rex (doggo)

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I had to do a double take after my dumbass misread this in a really bad way

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You know. At first I treated this thread as a joke. but after a certain round.
I fully approve of reworking how surgery is handled with synth, and I will be pushing for changes.

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Could be a interesting idea, it pushes the groundside Synth away from being a surgery-bot. Encourages them to also help in transporting casualties and medevac’ing.

Although, trying to justify why one Synthetic can do surgery, and another can’t, might be a hard task. You might have better luck simply changing how surgery works groundside???

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Nah it’s a very serious thread @WestRover and I think it’ll be a great change for the better of the WL and RP.

@Steelpoint The reason really doesn’t matter from a lore perspective given this a gameplay first sort of thing, we can bullshit literally any reason. Just say that synthetics deploying are loaded with a more limited dataset to prevent potential harm in the field from infections.

The reality is that synthetics doing surgery groundside actively detracts from upwards of 4 doctor players and is unhealthy for synths because they then get EXPECTED to do nothing but surgery, and unhealthy for doctors who can’t do the job they readied for

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Yes we can and do.