/tg/Station 13

1) No fast travel around a gigantic map (you do eventually get a thing that helps with this somewhat) 2) Incredibly repetitive dialog. Your pawns never shut the fuck up. According to the FAQ on Steam, they added stuff to the PC version specifically for these things; more and easier-to-use fast trav...

Anonus wrote:Cameras in general are broken on all maps, so yeah.

Ah, my bad. First couple of rounds I've played in a while, and hadn't checked on Box.

Noticed a few things while playing: ⋅  Containment cameras appear to be missing or not functional; the monitor just gives an empty list. ⋅  Power Storage is 3 tiles high, but has several static items blocking things, making it very hard to drag stuff around in there. Extending it...

Spent about an hour fiddling with the M+KB controls, only to find I'd inadvertently re-created X3:TC's classic flight control scheme. It works well enough in dogfights against NPCs, but the computer starts beeping when I try to strafe diagonally whilst rolling and accelerating at the same time, whic...

So, who is right? Can I ask AI to consider me the Captain, and bypass THE RULES? Depends on the AI. Silicon policy may be a hilariously over-defined Law & Order textbook, but it does leave some room for (in-round consistent) interpretation, including your scenario. Key words in the passage you ...

A swarmer said there was a shell in the Bridge, so I (and probably some other ghosts) double-clicked it. Server hanged for about 20 seconds (OOC: LAG?), then someone actually got inside. Later, another swamer reported a shell in Tool Storage, so I (and probably some other ghosts) double-clicked it. ...

During one particularly boring Shaft Miner round, I mapped the entire cube of that instance. It consisted of the following transitions: Rusty Christman's Memories: 1 W => 5 E 5 S => 1 N 1 E => 6 W 6 E => 6 W 6 N => 7 S 7 W => 7 E 7 E => 3 W 3 S => 1 N 1 N => 7 S 7 S => 1 N 1 S => 3 N 3 N => 4 S 4 E ...

> Sybil, around 70 players > Join as AI > Do regular AI stuff for a while > Get two secborgs and an engieborg on top of a medborg > Gangs happen, some fights with security > Security starts harming prisoners for a bit > Standard law-related drama happens > Situation is resolved, Captain wants to ent...

Saegrimr wrote:Am I a bad person for varediting the xenobio APC to fuck up slowly if I see a nice fat xeno containment pen?

The shield is net-powered, so not really. Unless you want to make the place spooky, I guess.

Wasn't there also a config option for mute silicons? That was fun when it was tested for a few days (during the original Badger, if I remember correctly), with cyborgs only able to communicate through buzzing and beeping and such. Not sure what the restrictions on AIs were.

I was hoping someone more competent would later on make some kind of a internals-running-icon for every tank... Have you considered leaving the current on-screen indicator, until the feature is complete? The status tab is not a viable substitute; if it was, there wouldn't have been need for an on-s...

Yes, each tank gets an action button. If they are the same type of tank, there will be no knowing which one is which unless you remember the order you took them out, the first one being is the leftmost. The current system does it so that you have no direct control over using a particular tank if yo...

Does this add a button for each available tank? Couldn't really get this from the PR.

If yes, is there some distinction between, for instance, two emergency tanks in your pockets?

> Security Officer > Some guy got thrown in the Gulag with a thousand points > Wasn't around for it, but Warden asks for a hand to check up on him > We arrive at the Gulag > Prisoner doesn't know how to operate the redemption machine > We explain it > Prisoner isn't even cuffed but makes no move > G...

I'd probably just get stuck on the door phase though, I don't think its possible to have a door that will ONLY open/close on signal pulses, and getting it to close AND bolt without some obscenely clunky setup would be impossible. This is surprisingly easy, actually. Cutting the ID wire on an airloc...

To add on all that, you can totally place conveyor belts on the same square as the Protolathe:



Insert metal sheet, spam the 10x Pico Manipulator button, collect results, infinite materials!

You can replace those '.*?' with just '.*', remove that [Mm] and just check the case insensitive checkbox, and get rid of the ^ anchor since I'm pretty sure Notepad++'s flavor doesn't match . with [\r\n] anyway. But now I'm just nitpicking. I don't think I'll be using the logs much, unless it's for ...

Was willing to take a significant chunk of time to experiment with removing my cat-status in the middle of the round, and dealing with the hilarious aftermath resulting from the Captain walking in at the last second. Cool guy.

I really... really... should not have told you how to properly use mutagen... I WAS THE ONE THAT GOT LYNCHED FOR IT, YOU GOT TO GET ON THE DAMN SHUTTLE. That shuttle ride wasn't too pleasant; first I got stabbed with some nettles to red, then punched to crit, then shotgunned the rest of the way, al...

After covering the hallway in around 600 deathnettles, Centcomm decides the best solution is to send in an ERT team to purge the halls with fire.

You're welcome!

Unlike Telescience, though, Mastermind is perfectly doable without this sort of stuff. I just suck at it.

That's because the codes never have duplicate digits, but the interface still allows you to enter them.

And since the match-counter can't handle double digits, it mucks up.

One spawns in the Mining Output maintenance room by default as well.

I suck at Mastermind, so I took the liberty of making a little helper program for it. Solution guaranteed within 7 tries!

>Late-join as Lawyer >Overhear stuff about rampant changelings, nothing interesting >Reroute disposals so it goes to the Captain's office >Play Orion Trail for a while, get antag token >Pray to the gods for something interesting whilst spinning around the token >No response, ah well >Make an all-acc...

It's great for a rogue AI if you have an engieborg, since you can fry the spacesuits inside to make it that much harder for pesky humans to get to your satellite.

Fun game, takes me back. I like how there's no extremely restrictive weapon profiency stuff, so I can give everyone a secondary pistol/arquebus and turn them into an impromptu firing squad when a pierce-vulnerable enemy shows up. I also like how the engagement system works, so I can't just kite ever...

Malkevin wrote:If I remember rightly uranium walls and the singulo are irradiate based on LoS.

It's the range of LoS, but they do irradiate through everything, including rwalls. Uranium walls hidden behind regular walls can be a real killer.

Violaceus wrote:It's easier to use external resources.

This is very much true. I only ported it as a sort of proof-of-concept that it doesn't neccessarily have to be external, because there is an internal (shitty, annoying, limited) scripting language instead.

Last I checked talking about the precise unlock mechanics is verboten. That'd be silly. By irregular sounds do you mean the sounds in bold text? Or the ones that arent common? That was a direct wiki quote. A more precise order that (usually) works is this: ⋅ Have a stethoscope in either h...

Is there some place where this (and potentially, other) addendums to the Drone laws are mentioned and officially recognized, like the Sillicon Policy page for AI/Cyborgs? The wiki page on Drones is outdated and has the wrong lawset. The current lawset, as can be seen here , does not mention the stat...

Yep, but it was fun while it lasted.

Thanks to the fancy new NTSL trig functions, I've finally ported the entire tool to NTSL. It works exactly the same as the regular tool, only with text-based commands instead of buttons. It also may have to spread bruteforcing over several runs of the script, thanks to the limits on NTSL. But hey, n...

Cargo Techs, QM, Engineers, Atmos Techs, CE, Assistants, and the Janitor of all people have access. Plus the Captain, obviously. All things considered, it's not a lot.

Can you even do surgery on yourself? Never been able to do it when I've tried. Construct a bed and have surgical stuff (ghetto or otherwise) next to it. Take the tools you need for the next two steps in hand, buckle yourself to the bed (the tools stick to your hand), and perform the steps. Chances ...

There's some kind of python tool that can generate map images, but I never got it to work. I personally just take 16 screenshots with maximum view range (it's far from 128 tiles, closer to 30; the interface lies) at pre-calculated spots so they fit together perfectly. You can reduce that to 9 and sk...

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Not-Dorsidarf wrote:No, the shuttle consoles, peoplearestrange.

Pretty sure the AI also has an actual icon for it on the new AI hud. I don't play AI much however, so I may be wrong.

Nah, that's correct. And it had a verb before that. It's never needed a communications console to call the shuttle.

I don't think being able to examine a rune and tell its not going to work before you've tested it is intended behaviour. At least in my opinion. It's been a pretty integral part of cult strategy before the rework, going back at least as far as april 2013 . New wiki page has it as not-recommended, t...

mikecari wrote:<awful cardboard fort>

You call that an autism fort?



Engineering of any form is clearly the best job.

Essentially Silicon - Non-Human's should interact as Humans interact with one another, we already punish humans for killing other humans without cause, the same should be said for non-humans and silicons. This is already official policy; you can't just be a big sillicon dick to lizards for no reaso...

With the spacecube, transitions are randomized at the start of the round. While it's never really a cube, there's usually plenty of infinite loops around. Sometimes you can even get turned around on transition. During one particularly boring three-hour round I mapped out the entire spacecube and fou...

sentientcloud wrote:This may not be "simple", but... Where's the clown planet and how can I get there?

There used to be a coordinate card to the west of the White Shuttle on z-level 3, which you could use on a teleporter to go there. It's since been removed.

All the wires have to be cut, yes. Timer status doesn't matter for the actual removal, but it might certainly matter for your survival.

put C4 in a assistant Unfortunately, this isn't feasible anymore; the explosion would barely even damage him. Something I've been meaning to try sometime is kidnapping someone and putting them in a room with one airlock, which would have its ID wire cut and a signaller attached to the open wire. Th...

It is policy, I believe, that purged silicons are free to ignore all rules (besides raep but I have never seen that happen) and all the wrong they do is the responsibility of the person who purged their laws. Actually, that hasn't been policy for a pretty good while. Purged silicons must not attemp...

Code suggests you drag&drop the rollerbed sprite onto yours, just like folding up a bodybag.

I got hit with a welding tank explosion while fully kitted out as engineer, and it deleted my PDA, rigsuit helmet, full toolbelt, full backpack, both pockets, mask, suit storage oxygen tank, gloves, jumpsuit, and mesons. Bit excessive.

In that explosive-vines round most people ended up shoeless. It also exploded a multitool inside my toolbelt but left everything else intact. Kinda odd.

Without that sort of weirdness it might be better.

Just wondering, how robust it is to put the cigar loaded with beepsky smash/ mutetoxin/ polyacid in mouth of your target. I tried this once, for fun, with some zombie powder. Subject falls down instantly, not even a chance to do anything. I imagine other reagents are equally speedy. Depending on ho...