/tg/Station 13

Basically, yeah, the core idea is an alternative to the proto/autolathe which is able to mass-produce whatever items that the proto/autolathe can, given a little bit more effort - maybe saving time or materials.

The other ideas follow on from this core idea.

Core Idea
When you destroy something with the destructive analyser, it adds a new record to another database: the “design database” - different from the protolathe list.
From the design database, you can print a set of manufacturing equipment for a design, the cost increasing as the production run ...

I enjoy this idea. It's like how flypeople are weak against pest killer and flyswatters - rarely used super-effective weapons.

Allow chemistry to change the skin of patches/pills they make - for easier differentiation.

Allow chemistry machines to create pill bottles, label them, and fill them with the desired pills. I know that there is already a pill-to-pillbottle setup in the chem machine, but allowing it to produce pill ...

Change chemical overdose/addiction thresholds to greater than threshold rather than greater than or equal to threshold.

This makes chemistry just a bit sexier, and makes sleepers a little easier to use.

Big (Suggested) Changes:
Porting most software functions to modular computing - making most of them portable.
Keeping the current single-function consoles as “legacy” consoles. Able to deconstruct and reconstruct into modular computers.
s/*:m/*/*:m] OR: requiring a circuit board to be installed ...