Many of the RO's current watches/gadgets have major issues and/or do not sit well with our current gameplay loop. The job requires sweeping changes with its items, on a scale of the Extraction Officer rework I did way back. Here are my thoughts...
These watches are fine with little-no change
- Bronze watch - this feature is likely to be replaced in the future with the abnormality arrival rework. It could technically remain the same if it's reworked to use that new system. Can be left unchanged for now.
- Wood Watch - This watch extends meltdowns, it's also probably fine.
- Silver watch - This is the information watch, and while it's probably fine as is, one of my major complaints about the records officer is that they do not have tools that aid them in placing abnormality information in cells. It should do that.
These watches need to be replaced as soon as possible.
- Copper watch - This watch revives people, which used to be a pretty neat ability before any old clerk could revive people. Now, this lacks the QoL features that the hatchery has, making using it at all a form of griefing almost. Possible lazy solution is to just have it use the hatchery to revive people.
- Golden watch - This causes a timestop field, which often has disastrous effects on our fragile code. Whoever made this watch did absolutely no testing for bugs, or didn't care, or both. For the sake of saving endless hours of debugging for the sake one of one item not designed for this game, this thing has to go.
Many of the RO's current watches/gadgets have major issues and/or do not sit well with our current gameplay loop. The job requires sweeping changes with its items, on a scale of the Extraction Officer rework I did way back. Here are my thoughts...
These watches are fine with little-no change
These watches need to be replaced as soon as possible.