#Re-Work Edison Power Plant (job roles, equipment, and other functionality suggestions)

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graceful solstice
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edison should probably be removed altogether since its a frontier holdover

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doesnt make much sense in this setting

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also job bloat bad most of the co roles could be removed since nobody plays them

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just pick spacer

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out of safezone jobs

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but this is a shipfork

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frontier has that already if you want station but not station rp

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the main thing is jobs roles are not needed for special pois, any faction or group of players should be able to capture and use them without being reliant on something like a plant tech being there

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this is already an issue with other jobs blocking functionality behind them, i.e director of care and paying medical crew, these lead roles are rarely filled

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nobody uses edison short of selling gas because theres no other game mechanics where it can be used

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the underlying issue is lack of functionality and not lack of roles

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the worker roles arent needed if the poi is capturable by factions and important enough for there to be a constant presence there

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tsf has an underutilized engineer role that could fill this gap, asr could have a similar counterpart

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or not at all

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or hire spacers to do it

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more rp that way

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hiring forces a minimum of interaction instead of someone picking round start station role and dicking around in an isolated part of space for the whole round

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hire someone who flies a windreign under horizon energy tag same thing

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yes thats a functionality problem

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theres no reason for edison to be there right now

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ur suggesting job roles instead of functionality

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well thats the title of this thread

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thats better but bloat co-like job roles are a bad idea

knotty finch
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maybe Edison could have a special tech tree that allows them to manufacture more efficient generators or something? Probably end up basically being their own minor faction i suppose then, but their main goal could just be generating as much power a shift as possible to sell

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Selling 'energy' is a fairly common scifi trope, as long as you have enough energy you can do lots of shit, like one of the only reasons we dont convert sea water into fresh water on a mass scale is because its not cost effective for us to do so yet -though it could be if people werent fuckin scared of nuclear power-

jade plinth
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Edison could be given a machine like the Sevastapol tech disk printer

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not sure what it should produce though

floral thicket
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Edison should be a material producing
Factory
And should be where rare materials are produced and made like plastinium TC and more rare materials to be added in the future

And of course should be incredibly fortified maybe even more so than the flagship because this is a incredibly valuable asset to whatever company owns it

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And honestly I think people should be running the place
Dedicated roles maybe

floral thicket
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Telecrystals do exactly what their name implies
Teleport shit

It is hardly a relic of the past.

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And in my head Cannon the vending machine utilizes
Telecrystals
To pull from abandoned warehouses

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But I'm going to be real telecrystals
Absolutely need more use
In printing items
Not exactly sure what but we need it

knotty finch
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telecrystals seem like just 'Programmed' bluespace crystals

floral thicket
# knotty finch telecrystals seem like just 'Programmed' bluespace crystals

No actually
Surprisingly I know a bit of lore about this

Blue space crystals handle hammer space (definition allowing more space to be created)
Telecrystals allow objects people and other things to be instantly transported across space

One manipulates it
One traverses it

Although one of these crystals are incredibly unstable

Cough cough telecrystals

knotty finch
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never mined a telecrystal before

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modifying a hammerspace crystal sounds like something that'd make them unstable...if they ever were before

floral thicket
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Yeah it is modifying a blue space Crystal into a teleCrystal

floral thicket
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Tele crystals
Are like Blue space crystals but on crack

And better at teleporting

What I assume blue space crystals do is create space in front of you then delete it

Telecrystals
Just straight up teleport you there

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And I am heading into headcanon
But I think uplinks and vends have special devices in them that imprint coordinates onto a telecrystal
To transport items people essentially whatever you want
But isn't as renewable as blue space crystals which can be used multiple times
For faster than light speed
Storage
And what not

onyx ether
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Remove edison.

Make a gas deposit depot for atmos ships to sell shit.

Doesnt need to be a big ass station.

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in a shiptest there really is no purpose for a station that hoards a giant energy making machine. You cant sell the energy like in goob.

graceful solstice
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better yet make gases useful for manufacturing shit factions would want

floral thicket
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I mean the ASR need sythalloy for their best armor
Is that not reason enough?

onyx ether
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if factions dont feel like doing it on an atmos ship then they can utilize the POI that has the stuff in place and just needs someone to flick a switch

knotty finch
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that could be their job, make it so that they generate Telecrystals, for civilian interests, and up the drop rate & cost of the contra stuff

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then you have something you can just give to civilians as a reward as a faction head that doesn't involve you giving essentially contraband out

onyx ether
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still considered illegal, tsf would be upset

knotty finch
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maybe a new proprietary telecrystals?

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i vote green

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like money

onyx ether
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are you suggesting making the illegal substance legal

knotty finch
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i mean money that can only be used in like a proprietary vendor

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a legal contravend of sorts

onyx ether
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just

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make it eat

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telecrystals

knotty finch
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yeah but then if you hand out actual telecrystals to folk they could use it in the legit contravends, i dunno if that would be considered 'balanced'

onyx ether
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if you dont want it eating TC then sprite a new currency and a machine that converts TC into it

knotty finch
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i mean it's basically the same as like coles cash or some shit

onyx ether
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hilarious we need different currencies

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cuz the base currency

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is shit

knotty finch
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inflation mate

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also nobody ever like sticks cash into vendos

onyx ether
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it would incentivize keeping hard cash

knotty finch
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that would be a good reason, i've used cash in a vendo merely as a novelty like twice

golden gale
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should pay tsf tbh

keen fossil
knotty finch
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We could make the singularity and Tesla engines again for one. Those require supervision especially since we don't have weldbots and stuff like that

keen fossil
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Sorry I meant to reply to user's "they could just flick a couple switches" statement

onyx ether