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Absolutely. My biggest mistake with new tcomms was making it so easy to repair. I did at one point consider making the machine only able to operate in cold temperatures, but felt that may be too extreme. However, now the issue has been raised like this, I may consider it.

So, as it is currently whenever Tcomms or any other major thing goes down, RND is capable of just shitting out a new version almost immediately, we'll keep the focus of this on Tcomms for now as to keep things brief, for example, a terror or xeno sneaks onto the AI sat and destroys the Tcomms hub, at first glance this is a really bad thing people can't communicate anymore but OOOOPS, RND has just immediately built a new Tcomms hub with no repercussions for it going down and comms are back up with effectively no downtime. So my suggestion is this, make Tcomms have a "rebooting" period whenever comms are taken offline, be it manually shut down or destroyed. This would enable the destruction of the Tcomms hub to actually be impactful, additionally this shouldn't affect Malf AI too much, the forced downtime of comms being shut off would reflect the usual bluff of "ions". Overall a minor change that should still create a reasonable impact on how things go down this also eliminates the potential of people pre-building tcomms hubs to just shut down breaking comms even harder, if you were to ask me I'd say at base the downtime should be around 5 minutes but the period of downtime is up for debate.

Honestly the rotation system is a pretty inspired compromise. It helps the "last shift's vote is this shift's round" by providing a bit less ambiguity on when someone can expect certain maps to be played; it ensures player input is still factored in, while still giving Meta/Delta reliable opportunities to be played; and as far as I can tell it's already resulted in a surge of suggestions/bugs being reported for the new maps, which is exactly what we want for them to improve. Just this one simple change has seriously increased my confidence that Delta/Meta will become staples on Para. So kudos to the people who came up with it.

I like, ive seen new Tcoms get setup within a minute before, it was harder back in the day when it required an entire sat of its own to hold all the various terminals, but the fact its now just a board, some metal and a couple of bits mashed into one terminal makes its destruction a non issue so long as RND is operational

Station My beginning on the station I'm a Twenty-niner Old enough to see that shit was strange around here They announced no cont on comms Due to workplace hazards But all it did was let security bastardize whoever But mostly grey assistants, but they would call us tiders And stun us in the bellies with their fingers on them triggers They put boots on our heads Let Araneus bite our crotches And they would beat us up if we had gas masks on our faces And they would take our drugs and flashes as they picked our pockets I guess that's just a privilege for them policin' degenerates Cause thanks to NT practice The gulag made them profits And free labors the cornerstone of corporate economics! Cause synthetic slaves were abolished, unless you are brigged in You think I ain't got the brains to read the terms of my employment? Involuntary servitude and slavery it rejected! That's why they givin trespassers time in double digits! Cause the Captain is an actor, not a credit factor Just an employee of the station's real masters Just like the Magi, QMs and the headahs Just another talking prick tellin lies on telecommas If you don't believe the theory, then argue with this logic Why did Cap and QMs both support mining Adrax! Invading sovereign soil, going after minerals Taking planets like a hobby paid for by their own lobby! Same as in Ahdomai; and Plasma men's homeland And Vedenin say they comin back again They only love the rich, and how they loath the poor If I say any more, they might be at my door Shiieeet, who the fuck is that? Steppin near my hideout? Doing that surveillance, tryin to find my shit out I'm dropping off the comms, before they pump the bullets I leave yall with 5 words: I'm glad if station crashes