New R&D and traitor objectives

[Jazaen]

Since the R&D level remake you are supposedly able to deconstruct certain special items, like HoS gun and CE magboots, for fairly high tech levels (medicore in case of HoS gun, pretty good in case of magboots). Those items can be, at the same time, made into traitor objectives, destroying which to prevent greentext is disallowed. For example, if you want to reach electromagnets tech without waiting for a right anomaly, you have to deconstruct the CE magboots.
It it allowed rule-wise to deconstruct them for tech levels (destroying potential tator objective)? If it's not, is it allowed if you somehow know traitor is after them (detained when breaking into CE office)?

[Steelpoint]

It is a moronic change to allow RnD to even deconstruct high risk items.

[Okand37]

It seems more like this was a complete overlook opposed to something that really has a set policy for it. Personally, I'd say hold off from deconstructing them until it is atleast an hour into the shift, but there isn't an set thing on it last I checked.

[PKPenguin321]

It is a moronic change to allow RnD to even deconstruct high risk items.

yeah this

i dont know how this change snuck in

[Takeguru]

What's next, allowing them to deconstruct the nuke disk?

[MMMiracles]

What's next, allowing them to deconstruct the nuke disk?

Most traitor objectives like the CE's magboots and HoS' lasergun already had research levels for deconstruction before the change, its just now they're seen more viable for research progress. Its not he made them deconnable, he just made them viable for levels at a later level.

Most changes are still dumb, even though I can see why he'd done most of them (trying to encourage more departmental exchanges between science instead of having science hide in their cave to get their research high up).

[Takeguru]

The problem with that is now science will only rarely ever get into the high tech zone, because not only are they relying on mining to do their job, they now need 2 extra departments taking time to do their thing with little incentive

Botany gets hit the hardest, they get what, a somatoray if they're lucky?

[Jazaen]

This topic will soon be irrelevant, since tator objectives tech levels are getting removed(https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/18246). I'm not sure if you can decon them now, since they now have no tech levels, and I can't be bothered to look through the code.

Move along, citizen!