I've made subs myself and I know that there are times that you want to prevent a player from breaking a complicated system you put together, or just want to overall prevent players from making any changes to the wires. But locking the wires is not wise.

A big part of Barotrauma is rewiring to implement new systems or improve existing ones. It is half an Engineer's job (a good one's). When playing, I always add some of my systems to the sub and rewire others to improve quality of life. There are also times where we are stuck in a pickle that can only be fixed by temporarily rewiring a system.

When you lock your wires, you are essentially crippling the players. Anyone reading this would think of this being good to prevent trolls from rewiring the sub, but as you all know, the majority of players play in private games, far from public server trolls, so it doesn't even matter, and even if we are to think about trolls, remember that the vanilla subs do not have their wires locked either. And actually, players CAN implement new systems to prevent trolls from overloading the reactor.


So please, don't lock your wires. No matter how good your wiring is, it doesn't mean it's the only way it should be. There are others who know of better systems that they would like to implement, or require custom systems to fit their playstile/situation.


For example, one feature I can add to a sub is Silent Mode, where the reactor and most systems are shut off, the sub runs on batteries and the engine is modified to not make enough noise to attract creatures. This allows a sub to swim in the abyss, mining everything without fear of fighting any abyssal creatures. If the wires are locked, then I can't do that and we'd be Charybdis food.


When you are locking your wires, you are preventing this and in turn, bringing down your own creation, because nothing can be made to customize/improve this sub and it will forever be the same as the first day we bought it. If something is bad, it will stay bad and If something needs to be improved/replaced but cannot, then the players will again be held back, leading to them just unsubscribing your sub and giving a thumbs down.


So please, don't lock your wires or disable their interaction. If players weren't meant to tinker with the wiring, then the whole wiring system wouldn't exist in the first place.[b/]