... There's a full medkit in Cargo, the Bridge, a variety in Medbay storage, probably half a dozen O2 Deprivation kits in emergency lockers around the station, the little bit of supplies in the Rec Room, and the Chaplain's bible. Also, the Cargo bay can order INFINITE medkits.
Seriously, I guess I'm not getting through here. The fucking space suits are a nigh-forbidden item, in fucking space. Am I insane for thinking that is utter idiocy...? Like, seriously, I cannot comprehend how anyone could put any form of logic to that, expense or not. o.O
THERE IS A REASON EVA IS ONE OF 3 LOCATIONS WITH AN AI MOTION SENSOR. IT HOLDS SOME OF THE MOST VALUABLE EQUIPMENT ON THE STATION.
- Jetpacks
- RCD
- Magboots
- SPACE SUITS. WHICH ARE RARE. THAT'S WHY ONLY FOUR WERE ISSUED FOR A CREW OF 82. USED ONLY IN EXTREME EMERGENCIES.
- Important tools and materials. Including plasteel. Which is quite expensive for NT to make
If anything, EVA is ludicrously underdefended. Considering you break two windows and you're in. I've done it even as a clown.
... Game logic, this is... Vaguely acceptable as a justification. Vaguely.
But. We. Are. Talking. About.
SPACE. The environment that you know, boils your blood in seconds, irradiates you, simultaneously scorches you to ash and freezes you to rock solid ice, and oh, also can just instantly rupture your lungs so that instead of a nice set of air-CO2 transference apparatus, you suddenly have a nice set of gory stains trying to crawl out your throat while you drown in your own blood that happens to be BOILING INSIDE YOUR BODY NOW.
No one, ever, in the history of the most insane, stupid, poorly thought out justifications in all of history, would ever go, "Well, we can't give the crew more space suits because space suits are expensive. More expensive than the likely BILLIONS of dollars it takes to get a person trained, prepared, and actually INTO space to work on a space station. Not to mention the hideous amounts of lawsuits that would follow the INSTANT someone got spaced without a space suit or even a pressure suit and died gorily, thus giving our numerous enemies, including the Syndicate, a HUGE way to waste our money and resources. Nope, totally way more expensive to just put a space suit in everyone's locker. In space. Yep."
I'm not arguing that there aren't objectives in EVA. Which is in fact the case. But bolting down EVA because there is expensive stuff in there DOES NOT FOLLOW ASIMOV LAWS. Asimov does not say, "Oh hey, protect the shiny shit, and then maybe later, you can worry about not letting the bartender vomit his lungs up all over the place as he freeze-dries, but definitely don't let him get the space suit. Shit's expensive yo." If an AI was properly following the laws, they would BOLT EVA OPEN, so everyone could have access to a space suit. The problem we are discussing is not, 'There's stuff in EVA that people can steal though!' the problem is that, 'The
AI is keeping people from
protective equipment during a freaking
emergency situation.' Regardless of whether the station is breached or not yet, the AI should realize that the infinite vastness of space could be potentially more dangerous than one crewman having a set of magboots.
Anyways, I don't really understand your opposing position whatsoever. The argument is about the AI bolting down a place with safety equipment inside it. Just, right there, the AI is violating Law One. So, I don't know now? I'll just forget it all, and continue ordering the AI to unbolt everything he opened in every round I play in as Captain, because obviously I'm deeply wrong about this on some fundamental level that I can't even begin to grasp.