/tg/Station 13

>slow, cleaving melee attacks >attacks that get stronger/recharge faster the more foes they hit >attacks that deal more damage the lower the enemy's health is >the closest thing this game has to the joy that was GW1 Dervish is now a Necromancer >a Necromancer with a bar full of shouts http://i.imgur...

I for one am looking forward to the Necro spec, which will probably just be a fresh addition in a long, unending chain of disappointments. That, and all the grimderps relishing the opportunity to run around with Twilight. On the plus side, it can't be as horribly boring as the Guardian spec looks, r...

Does "HoP gave me access!" count as a legit reason for invading someone's workplace?

That was pretty bad. I remember a few months ago the admins (An0n3 and Vekter come to mind?) were talking about how they were cracking down on pointless greytide-esque ligger racism. So you make an event out of it, make every lizard valid, and then turn half the crew into lizards or humans or back a...

Chaplain should be able to destroy cult paraphernalia with his null rod - soul stones, shells, tomes, combat gear, runes, etc. This 'charges' his null rod for an amount varying by the item's 'value' (runes having low value, with cult blades/robes and construct shells at the upper end). After reachin...

The $25 (!!!!) DLC for 4 hunters (and 3 skins nobody cares about) is pants-on-head retarded, though. I bought this game because a friend wanted someone to play with. It's fairly enjoyable. But no other game has given me so many misgivings about purchasing it. Everything tells me this will go the way...

I think Bounty/Grave/Highwayman, Leper, and maybe Hellion all have camp skills that give +ACC to mitigate the Leper's weakness. Occultists can also bring the -DODGE mark spell to help him. Keeping his skills upgraded also helps, but as you start hopping into Medium/Hard quests, the to-hit upgrade bo...

Security should get a gun that shoots bolas to legcuff people at range, making mob control easier after the inevitable flashbang drops

Or just bolas

y/y?

I'm fine with the current level of stuns. The hybrid taser/disabler change turned out better than expected, but I'm not sure about extending it further. I gotta ask - why is fights being skewed towards antags a bad thing, at least in the case of traitors? I assume we're not touching ling/cult/etc he...

You can run gimmicks at times and get people to play along. Probably the occasional emote. But nothing more involved than that. It's hard to feel the immersions when you have DEY DIN DO NUFFIN black caricatures every round, people spouting about dank maymays, and some legendarily awful midis playing...

Looks like it might be fun. I fucking love the Guild Wars franchise and have more amazing memories than I can count, but they really did drop the ball with a lot of post-release GW2 in general. The Living Story, as a model, has been terrible until a little under a year ago, and its content only slig...

It's possible to be racist towards lizards without edging into Rule 1 territory, though I guess admins will interact with rule breakers more often than not. I enjoy those smaller interactions (e.g. "What's with all the lizards in Sec? Is it because they're all thugs?"), and AI-Lizard relat...

I'd rather option C, but could agree with B if the sleepers come with a fairly large amount of built-in chems, especially given the tendency for doctors to spam them. That, and maybe a limit on how much you can drug a single person, so fuckheads don't just empty it for giggles. Sleepers definitely n...

Assume good faith, so long as you do so in well-lit public areas. Be absolutely merciless towards anyone that violates that good faith. Be liberal with warnings, especially for minor nuisances. If you catch them going at it again despite the warning, toss them in the brig. You warned them, right? Be...

Playing a Janitor that's trying to do their job might as well be synonymous with ban-baiting with the way things currently are. Dirt shows up far too quickly.

Also it looks like the pubes of the elderly on certain tiles, but oh well.

Please give the AI access to the pretty Crew Manifest that you can view from the lobby. It's so nice and organized compared to the plaintext one they have to work with.

In one round where I was a lizard Warden, there was a secborg in the Brig doing his damnedest to make us free a prisoner. I can't remember why - human harm, maybe it had special laws, whatever, but it was very insistent on the matter. Having played both sides of the conflict fairly frequently, I wen...

I have mixed feelings on this, but from what I understand this is basically the 'Dante Smith/Rob Ust/etc amendment for excess Antag shittery'? Here's an example of something I've done in the past, to help me understand better. I'm an AI that's been subverted/one-humaned by a traitor. I help them acc...

Has Sibyl ever been anything but Box? I haven't seen it in my time. I've seen server positions swapped, plenty of new maps tested on Badger, population spikes in either direction due to lag or crashes, but that's it. It's all half-baked. If you want a conclusive answer as to whether it's the map or ...

I remember this subject came up before: Until you have a definition given by laws, you work off your common-use definition, or the dictionary definition, or what have you. It's the same thing as when someone uploads "Harm is the place where the shuttle goes after leaving the station. Then the l...

I think borgs, AIs, and ASIMOV are fine the way they are, personally. Not many seem to agree, though, given the amount of 'just remove the AI entirely' floating around. Simply removing the crew's universal door-opener will lead to a lot of break-ins and IC/OOC headaches and I don't think it's worth ...

Move the Medbay APC so the AI can see (and manipulate) it. It's currently crammed in a corner of maint next to medical storage and the patient rooms, completely out of sight. When the AI hears speech via holopad, have the names of those speaking be click-able for tracking as if they'd spoken over ra...

I'm mostly a single player guy, myself. I like the stories 4X games can create with good narrative. I have a lot of fond memories playing Fall from Heaven on Civ 4, for example - fighting the Sheiam to stop them from bringing about the end of the world. Failing anyways because my Elohim allies summo...

It's a 6/10, 7/10 at best, even if you reign in your hopes of it being a spiritual successor to SMAC. Unless you're absolutely starved for shit to do, I'd wait until it goes on sale. At brief, things BE does well: - The Affinity system is both fun and fairly meaningful - Tech web is more fun and fle...

There's several threads about this, but I think this is the one focusing on mechanical changes? I feel like the policy is more or less fine, but some mechanical changes I'd like to see are: - Simplify the arrest/SecHUD system. The recent change had the right idea, but since most wardens seem to neve...

I tend to despise ling rounds but I agree, this change is unnecessary and ought to be reverted. In my experience, cooperative changelings are exceptionally rare, especially to the point of taking over a station. If they pull it off they honestly deserve it - there's plenty of time to notice people g...

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