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IamgoofballandGitHub 32d4a77d8d Engineers can now use Air Alarms 3: A New Headcoder (#85881)
## About The Pull Request

Air alarms are now usable by Station Engineers as well as Atmospherics
Technicians.

## Why It's Good For The Game

It has been two years since this PR was last proposed and we now have a
new headcoder, thus meaning it is time for another consideration of this
change.

My pitch is as follows:

Atmospherics Technicians do not fix breaches.
There is zero design incentive for them to do so. 
They will continue playing with their danger donut and HFR and
hypertorus and such.
Do you know who actually has to fix breaches? Station Engineers.
Who are forced to use ghetto tools like the space heaters and premixed
air cans to do so.
And can only fix 2 or 3 breaches before running out of premixed air
cans.

As such, I've allowed Station Engineers to use Air Alarms to actually do
their damn job and fix breaches.
This will drastically reduce the amount of times the shuttle gets called
over breaches that went unfixed because the Engineers patching the
breach couldn't actually make the air not freezing because an atmos tech
refused to leave atmos to swipe their card on the air alarm.

It is not a problem of atmos techs finding it annoying to fix air
because of gameplay design.

It is a problem of atmos techs simply not being interested in the
gameplay of fixing the station's air as a whole. The maintainers have
shown no drive or willpower to actually fix this aspect, and the most
they are willing to do is simply throw more toys and fun tools at atmos
techs and think that giving the atmos techs more toys will motivate them
to go fix the air, while completely disregarding the fact that there is
zero interest from the modern day atmos tech in actually fixing the air
on the station.

They consider it a job for the engineers/the AI, not atmos's job.

## Changelog
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balance: Air alarms are now usable by Station Engineers as well as
Atmospherics Technicians.
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