Exosuit Durability

[MARTFONGER]

I know you can turn it off and I do. However, I wish these systems (repairing suits and delivering them where needed) worked better. In a practical several thousand cycle runs there is no real way to deal with this unless you want to constantly be clicking on suits and stations to manage problems.

I don't like to turn off default settings but in this case there's just no enjoyable long playthrough dealing with exosuit durability. It was never a part of the game for years and years, I would add.

What is the intention of this mechanic? To randomly delete your dupes when you might forget a suit? To force you to have a complete dock setup and extra suits available as well as a repair station and reed fiber before you can explore ANYTHING hazardous? To force you to stock every ship with 20 suits per mission? To force you to click through piles of suits to find the one damaged one?

I suggest one or several of many possible solutions;
An extra "suit dock" that attaches to suit checkpoints along with regular docks and gets stocked with reed fiber to repair suits that are docked in it.

A "sweepy like" that when it picks up damaged suits repairs them and puts them into a dock if it passes one that is empty.

When the player builds a stand alone dock with no checkpoint, dupes will automatically use this to recharge their suits if necessary.

Dupes will never let a suit wear out completely, if it is going to wear out they will return to the dock they got it from and get a new suit.

*In the current mechanic, at a minimum, the option to ban non-new suits from checkpoint docks, at the checkpoint, which are dropped instead, so that automation can place new suits and old ones can be repaired and recycled back. Still requires insane levels of suit handling to sustain suits on a given planet. Which just becomes the very first thing you have to do when you get somewhere.

The final option, would be to ENTIRELY REMOVE THIS BAD MECHANIC FROM THE GAME because it was never needed to begin with and apparently whoever put this into the game doesn't understand how annoying it really is to try to win with this enabled... because they probably don't play it.