special circumstance: fire suppression

I had a few thoughts / insights about fires.

#1: Why doesn't the ship have fire suppressant technology? We have this today. Is there at least an augment that can help against fires? How about an O2 upgrade that has fire suppression tech? Maybe in the sequel. :^)

#2: When I first started playing, I quickly learned to get L2 doors to help against boarders. Now I'm pretty good at repeling boarding parties on my own, and I prefer gaining melee experience over venting boarders to space, so I've skipped L2 doors. And now, I'm realizing that those L2 doors were actually helping me a lot with fires, too. How? If I have multiple fires to put out, I usually focus on the ones that help with ship-to-ship combat. Meaning, I might leave a fire burning in my door control, esp. if I can't power my O2 unit due to needing that power for ship-to-ship combat. If an L1 door gets damaged, though, that has extermely serious consequences for fires -- you could easily die by fire w/o door controls. So I *think* L2 doors allow you to ignore fires in the door control room for longer before you have to vent or rush to put them out.

#3: With destroyed door controls, you can still walk around your ship. Maybe this means I'm allowed to open any door in any room where I have a crew member? If so, maybe I could still use an O2 venting strategy to put out fires even if my door controls are blown -- I'd "just" have to walk a crew member through the fires to open the exterior airlock doors and all intermediate doors. I've had a few very close calls with massive fires; I wonder if this tactic would have been safer / can allow me to survive worse fires.

#4: I haven't decided if I prefer warping out of a solar flare region immediately, even into danger, or if I prefer to try to get my damage under control before moving on. I hate the idea of backtracking, but most of the time, moving forward == risking serious danger, which isn't great when you have several fires burning on your ship.

#5: I keep forgetting that there's a drone that can help with fire suppression.

My next game's random tip:

"Upgrading your doors once will greatly reduce the chance fire will spread between rooms. Upgrading them again will cause doors to significantly slow boarder movement."

After an O2 depletion event, I typically like to close all doors then open all (interior) doors -- this helps the O2 refill the vented rooms more quickly.

One time, I forgot to close all doors first -- forgot that I had already opened all doors. Clicking "open all doors" twice == open ALL doors including airlocks. That was pretty dramatic! The entire ship was empty of O2 before I even knew what had happened! It was a mad scramble to close doors, open interior doors, and rush everyone to the medbay just in case my L1 O2 system couldn't handle the strain. :^)