Pill Bottles are ID Locked

[ScreamingIdiot]

A simple slowdown on administering medicine if you're untrained should be standard, like when you use advanced trauma kits or health analyzers. If a medic isn't available odds are the regular PFCs are in a tight spot, so having that extra delay should be a sufficient deterrent against powergamers who try to pickpocket hyperzine or whatever.

[Heraclitus]

You're severely underestimating power gamers.

[Naeght]

This is your medic, there are many like him but this is yours.
Protect him

[scsnv]

The current system with ID locks works fine. Sometimes medics aren't available, and sometimes you die as a result of that. Which is why you should keep your medics safe and work as a team, to maximize effectiveness.

Dying because you couldn't access a pill bottle (in the unlikely hypothetical scenario) sucks, but thankfully it's just for that round, and then you're back in the game. But it does help reduce powergaming a lot more than it hurts player experience. And I'd argue it actually benefits player experience, because you actually have to work together, coordinate, and communicate with your squad-mates.

If you want to access pills that badly, just get a mini medic kit.

[ThesoldierLLJK]

If you really want drugs that badly, you can always ask medical bay pre-deployment for liquid versions in a flask.
Medics shouldn't be set aside by jack of all trade marines.

[Madventurer]

There are enough medics and mini-medics for this to not be a problem when marines are not completely incompetent.

[RobBrown4PM]

The system has worked quite well for some time now.