Shipside Medbay might be the most dull role. You do chemistry, then hope the FD and Synth don’t do all the fun things planetside for you and the GP is conscious.
Yes, you can find your own roleplay shipside but that isn’t fun and CM’s medical system is kinda interesting and not getting to see it as a shipside Doctor is bad.
Solution: Remove Medbay
Corpsmen get a small supply of IA and nothing else.
Now, there is no larva removal or chemistry shipside.
Marines have to secure the colony Medbay, and Chemistry. From there, Surgeons can perform larva removals + bone fixing as well as making MB, KD and whatever else.
This also gives a backline target for Marines to protect (ASS) and backliners to attack.
“But what about hijack” “What if you lose the Medbay”
Surgeons can perform rudimentary bone fixing + larva removal at LZ / shipside at the expense of permanent delibetating organ damage until they can be healed on a surgery bed.
This solves boring shipside Medbay by deploying everyone, + gives Marines additional objectives to secure.
Even if it served zero function - it’s thematic and makes sense to be on the ship, provided roleplay opportunities and such. Removing it is removing the soul of the Almayer.
Instead of just “removing” things, we should strive to “improve” them.
My suggestion is to make playing a Doctor/Nurse, Chemist or any Med-bay role more “engaging”, that could be done through various systems being visually and technically more engaging, like mini-games within themselves, but yeah would require a lot of code/sprite work to actually be engaging and “fun”.
I remember seeing the “Mine-Sweeper” minigame PR, might not be the best comparison, but it proves you can add those kinds of things.
Meh, sounds like someone that just wants unga full the way and not having to ride back Almayer when fucked up. If you don’t want to return to Almayer either: hope that you didn’t get fucked up hard enough to return, or just yolo suicide on front.
This is a terrible idea. A lot of people find ship side fun and in fact not dull. I do not think people should be forced to deploy to have RP or engage with the game.