Bottom post of the previous page:
Here with the whole you know "economy really doesn't matter", which I do agree with.I already said something along the lines of having an access-based system on printers, protolathes and such:
Just add a fucking access type thing that's hackable. Just like with vendors. Except there's a wire for electrocution AND one that disconnects it from the ore silo alongside the one that makes it accessible by everyone. This means that while
your insuls may make it more likely you can do it successfully, failing makes you pretty much fucked. You've disconnected it from the ore silo and the entire department is going to be fucking mad at you. You're going to die, 100%. (Unless the department just doesn't exist.) Why involve the economy in such matters? Involving the economy here just fucks over everyone. If you somehow get an alien tool for it, good job, you're the ultimate tider.
Alongside this change we could change how the ore silo links to things. Having to run across every. single. goddamn. department. just because some guy broke a single machine is fucking ridiculous. You should be able to scan for machines from like, an ore silo console that can be built next to the silo and be capable of linking the ore silo to all unlinked things on the same z-level at once. Then have a similar system to telecomms where you can get a resource transfer relay on another z-level to connect to it. How are the transfer relays connected to an ore silo? Whenever an ore silo is created, it gets an unique 4-digit code that can be changed. The roundstart ore silo code should be stored in the RD's office to avoid having to link an entire serverful of relays. (No-one is going to make 9999 ore silos, make me regret saying this please I want to see it.) Adding this code to a resource transfer relay automatically connects it to the ore silo the code belongs to. This allows the console to search for machines on that level for machines as well, eliminating any issues with places like the mining base.
Overall if all of this was added instead of Arconomy (lathe tax), people would likely be happier, tiding would be a little harder and the ore silo system becomes more than a multitool and a goddamn single machine in a room. Alongside the fact that we no longer have to pay for something that needs resources already.
Also, the other parts of the PR I agree with still. Just not the fucking lathe tax.