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by Pybro
Thu Aug 25, 2016 2:11 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Sadly gangs aren't getting removed. Next best thing is...
Replies: 17
Views: 3843

Re: Sadly gangs aren't getting removed. Next best thing is..

1) Make it so gangsters can see EVERYONE who is a gangster, not just their gang. That way we get gang on gang violence. If you're autistic we can just say you recognize the tune they're snapping or whatever. 2) All gangsters can convert a non-gangster whose been knocked down. Give gangsters an innat...
by Pybro
Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:14 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: wrote a design document for a detective overhaul
Replies: 44
Views: 12554

Re: wrote a design document for a detective overhaul

Fleshing out forensics more sounds nice, but I'd worry about balancing "actually being able to figure out who did something" with "people still being able to get away with murder". As for the uniforms, why not just give the Defective two CSI uniforms in his locker or something bu...
by Pybro
Mon Aug 22, 2016 7:50 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Hallucinations are way way over the top.
Replies: 11
Views: 3057

Re: Hallucinations are way way over the top.

If a """"""""""""""feature"""""""""""""""" can cause so much lag that it will force the server to kick you then yeah, he has every right to get pissy ...
by Pybro
Mon Aug 22, 2016 3:35 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Interesting Things Thread
Replies: 11
Views: 3057

Re: Interesting Things Thread

Someone find that schizophrenic Pepsi marketing thing
by Pybro
Thu Aug 18, 2016 6:57 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Nanotrasen Network (NTNET, AKA modular computers)
Replies: 18
Views: 6567

Re: Nanotrasen Network (NTNET, AKA modular computers)

A text editor and printer on the standard OS. So I can send covert messages from the hacked cargo computer to the engine's power monitor. Or just ASCII art of dicks to the HoP's computer. A way to send pictures, both to PDAs and other computers. A way to trace what ID is using a computer. Possibly a...
by Pybro
Tue Aug 16, 2016 4:22 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Make ID Access checkable in hand/other ID ideas
Replies: 18
Views: 3570

Re: Make ID Access checkable in hand/other ID ideas

It could cross-reference with the medical database somehow, so doctors could examine people to see their last wishes ala how sec can (and never does) leave notes on perps.
by Pybro
Sat Aug 06, 2016 12:51 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Tele-Gulag
Replies: 67
Views: 17001

Re: Tele-Gulag

Does it still strip implants?

Making you naked isn't a problem, making several traitor items useless is. The entire point of the uplink implant is to get yourself jailed so you can murder someone after all.
by Pybro
Tue Aug 02, 2016 1:41 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: 2k16 /pol/
Replies: 1531
Views: 331907

Re: 2k16 /pol/

Whose willing to come colonize Antarctica with me so we can live out our post-national ideas and slowly devolve into a colder, fatter, and lonelier Lord of the Flies?
by Pybro
Sun Sep 27, 2015 1:44 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Nar nar summon sound
Replies: 12
Views: 3102

Re: Nar nar summon sound

Daemon/AnonymousNow, maybe lower (or disperse) that deep bass at the beginning a bit? It sounds too much like just a blob of deep noise followed by some screaming. I like it, but it feels like you're listening to a solid block.
by Pybro
Thu Sep 17, 2015 1:11 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Life-size Dolls
Replies: 10
Views: 2997

Re: Life-size Dolls

FYI the admin spawned dolls thing he was talking about was me spawning myself in, shrinking myself by half, changing my say_verb to "echoes from its voicebox", naming myself "Official So-and-so Plush Doll" and then just sitting still while people dragged me around, occasionally ...
by Pybro
Mon Sep 07, 2015 1:33 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Can we change how coderbus operates?
Replies: 111
Views: 27021

Re: Can we change how coderbus operates?

I don't mean to be THAT guy, but, how exactly do you suggest we fix coderbus? What actual steps or additions must be done? The way I see it is the big problem/complaint lies in a lack of communication between Coders and Players. But many (if not most) players don't have a forum account or simply don...
by Pybro
Sun Aug 30, 2015 7:31 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Cult word alternatives
Replies: 9
Views: 2543

Re: Cult word alternatives

I'd say you should worry about what niche the cult fills before you go off on just generally improving everything. Not that that's bad at all, but quality of life changes are different from a rework. The traitor is the standard "stealthy bad guys". Revs are a seething mass. The AI is the s...
by Pybro
Wed Aug 26, 2015 2:12 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Shadowlings
Replies: 99
Views: 26218

Re: Shadowlings

Is there a way to get past the chitin so I can cut their organs out? Acid and defib-monkey-human don't work.
by Pybro
Sat Aug 22, 2015 4:26 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Gameplay Is Laggy To Hell
Replies: 87
Views: 27447

Re: Gameplay Is Laggy To Hell

The Disco effect Admins sometimes spawn in the bar gives me FPS lag out the ass. So do large amounts of those lit floors blinking in unison.
by Pybro
Mon Aug 10, 2015 8:18 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Subject
Replies: 129
Views: 25124

Re: Subject

Vague and tangential story ended with a poorly constructed reason to even make this post
by Pybro
Mon Aug 10, 2015 4:22 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Ling Rework
Replies: 21
Views: 5114

Re: Ling Rework

I used the armblade sting plus EMP to rek my target today. If that's your doing then A+++. Instead of giving the ling flesh clothes why not let it store items in itself? Give it a chest wardrobe, chest ID/PDA holder/ and chest backpack. Chest wardrobe and ID/pda holder are infinite in capacity but o...
by Pybro
Mon Aug 10, 2015 1:25 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Let's talk American politics
Replies: 106
Views: 47952

Re: Let's talk American politics

first past the post is shit Certainly. But the United States was created on the Republican ideal of a hierarchy of representatives with one representative from each area (Each city ward gets a city councilor, each state senatorial district gets a state senator, each state house of representatives d...
by Pybro
Sat Aug 08, 2015 11:53 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Play2win, why shouldn't I?
Replies: 132
Views: 31610

Re: Play2win, why shouldn't I?

Because you don't have to kill him just because he has itm
by Pybro
Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:34 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Guardian Spirits
Replies: 94
Views: 29108

Re: Guardian Spirits

Fire needs some fixing. Maybe lower the amount of fire it sets you on? Or make the ignite on hit?

Also, how does the teleport Guardia work? Do the bolts just teleport randomly ala blink/hand tele/RD's armor?
by Pybro
Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:28 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Play2win, why shouldn't I?
Replies: 132
Views: 31610

Re: Play2win, why shouldn't I?

Because sometimes winning isn't fun.
by Pybro
Tue Aug 04, 2015 12:58 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the robustest one of all?
Replies: 78
Views: 19833

Re: Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the robustest one of a

Burer.

Dante was pretty good if just for the fact that he could yakety sax like a pro.
by Pybro
Sun Aug 02, 2015 3:48 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Rebalancing Constructs
Replies: 51
Views: 12297

Re: Rebalancing Constructs

Correct, but you can sac your manifested ghosts which nets you a shard.
by Pybro
Sat Aug 01, 2015 10:13 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: ei nath nerfs and drama and stuff
Replies: 51
Views: 11089

Re: ei nath nerfs and drama and stuff

The issue with any nerf to Ei Nath is that you take remove the greatest fear of Wizard: Being removed from the round with absolutely no way of stopping it. Movement is necessary for obvious reasons, but suppose you're the captain and that highly mobile wizard poofs into your office. Why do you juke ...
by Pybro
Thu Jul 30, 2015 6:46 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Little things you learned that are game changing
Replies: 2455
Views: 720552

Re: Little things you learned that are game changing

Screemonster wrote: If beaker contents mix upon spilling their contents on the same tile, that could make for some serious hilarity.
Reactions do not happen on the ground, only in containers.
by Pybro
Mon Jan 26, 2015 12:42 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Soul Shards
Replies: 34
Views: 8468

Re: Soul Shards

Here's why >Scientist >Cult, yay. >Team up with cult pals, sac RD >Leave to go get a medibot >Suddenly a shade points at me >Stunned, cuffed, and lasered to death wordlessly on the spot >Immediately soul sharded before I can ghost. >made into a shade, I can see who cultists are even though my master...
by Pybro
Mon Jan 26, 2015 2:17 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Screenshots General
Replies: 2759
Views: 967061

Re: Screenshots General

Image
by Pybro
Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:46 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Moot is giving up 4chan
Replies: 20
Views: 7673

Moot is giving up 4chan

Exactly what the title says.

https://www.4chan.org/news

I don't know if he's selling it, or just letting it go the way of Something Awful, but it can't be good.
by Pybro
Tue Jan 20, 2015 2:46 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Imaginary 1000 player station
Replies: 78
Views: 35656

Re: Imaginary 1000 player station

So the Cooks are a hiveminde superorganism, cooking silently in unison and guarded by 20 goats.

What about Atmos? An enormous jungle of pipes, filled with gas masked savages wielding fire axes and swinging from pipe vines?
by Pybro
Wed Jan 14, 2015 10:33 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Minor Suggestions
Replies: 3775
Views: 1031456

Re: Minor Suggestions

And who's going to get those faxes? IC issues are IC issues, stop trying to drag the admins into them. It gives you a fax back after a few minutes. The contents of the fax are randomized replies with absolutely no relation to the round ("Yes", "No", "That is classified, cea...
by Pybro
Sun Jan 11, 2015 3:06 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Non-cult constructs
Replies: 10
Views: 2603

Re: Non-cult constructs

Why not just give wizard different sprites for his constructs? He still gets Arty, Jugg, and Wraith, but they're ~magical~ pink instead of obsidian.
by Pybro
Fri Jan 09, 2015 3:52 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: New stuff/changes for cult
Replies: 13
Views: 4104

Re: New stuff/changes for cult

Changeling grab-absorption takes a time of 150 per step (There are 3) to complete and drawing a rune as it currently is takes 50. Putting handcuffs on someone takes 30 seconds.

So like 100 seconds for a single man conversion, 50 for a 2 man conversion, and instant for 3?
by Pybro
Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:43 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: New stuff/changes for cult
Replies: 13
Views: 4104

Re: New stuff/changes for cult

Yes. The idea being that it would be a "living" item like MMI's and Soulstones. It would occasionally twitch and scream and stuff, could only communicate via the Commune ability (Which non-cultists would just hear as it wailing endlessly). The issue with it was whether or not it should be ...
by Pybro
Thu Jan 08, 2015 6:37 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: New stuff/changes for cult
Replies: 13
Views: 4104

New stuff/changes for cult

So, I decided to take a crack at coding stuff for cult. Only, I quickly ran out of ideas. So far what I've got working is: -The tome now works like the crayon. That is, you translate the words and input them into the tomes dictionary. When the required words for a rune are translated and input, you ...
by Pybro
Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:29 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: AI voice overhaul.
Replies: 55
Views: 11478

Re: AI voice overhaul.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9654207/AYB_Welcome.wav Played around a bit, how would this sound for an AI personality? Sounds like the AI is a 70 year old ex smoker with a hole in its throat. I like the voice from the"Wow, this is just like one of my Japanese animes!" (Specifically,...
by Pybro
Wed Jan 07, 2015 3:26 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Highlighting important text
Replies: 5
Views: 2699

Re: Highlighting important text

Miauw wrote:its doable but
>having literally every player do expensive string checking operations for lots of phrases every time they hear something
Would limiting to just the AI and codeword antags ease the process? Or would it then just check if every player is an antag/AI when they hear something?
by Pybro
Wed Jan 07, 2015 3:24 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Little things you learned that are game changing
Replies: 2455
Views: 720552

Re: Little things you learned that are game changing

Roller beds are best. If sec puts a tracking implant in you, you can self surgery to remove it and give yourself a face lift. Roller beds offer the advantage that you can move room to room to keep sec from getting suspicious. (Start surgery with drapes in medbay, scalpel chest in bar, retractors in ...
by Pybro
Tue Jan 06, 2015 5:47 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: My first experiences as a HoS. AKA why being HoS sucks.
Replies: 45
Views: 12610

Re: My first experiences as a HoS. AKA why being HoS sucks.

Personally I've found some success in splitting my Officers into two squads and making them patrol together. One of the biggest challenges I face as the HoS comes to communication from my Officers. I simply cannot understand why a lot of Sec Officers either miss or ignore a order call in order, and...
by Pybro
Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:48 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: My first experiences as a HoS. AKA why being HoS sucks.
Replies: 45
Views: 12610

Re: My first experiences as a HoS. AKA why being HoS sucks.

Probably the most bizarre HoS round I've ever had happened a few days ago. I latejoin, and the station is a mess. Right off the bat I catch a traitor and toss him in perma. The Mime is hanging around the brig being a LE LET EVERYONE OUT OF THE CELLS XD prick, the janitor is slipping people, and the ...
by Pybro
Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:36 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 573187

Re: Simple Questions Thread

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.
by Pybro
Mon Jan 05, 2015 2:53 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 573187

Re: Simple Questions Thread

How do you make a " Attention: " announcement as the AI? Doesn't seem to be through the request console as I thought it might have been. Communication console. AI/Borgs automatically log into it and can call shuttle (but not recall) and make announcements via it Hence why you can always t...
by Pybro
Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:31 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Killing staff of change/wand of polymorph creatures
Replies: 33
Views: 11990

Re: Killing staff of change/wand of polymorph creatures

Do staff of changes aliums count as friendly?

Assuming there isn't a queen pooping aliums or they aren't going around murdering people, then obviously all bets are off.
by Pybro
Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:37 pm
Forum: Spriting and Mapping
Topic: Emoji guide!
Replies: 6
Views: 3707

Re: Emoji guide!

ooc :honkman: :revolver:
by Pybro
Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:36 pm
Forum: Spriting and Mapping
Topic: Sprite Requests
Replies: 679
Views: 287448

Re: Sprite Requests

Hi. I'd like to request a blood red egg on a chain (similar to the behelit from Berserk but in no way shape or form an actual one because lolcopyright). If possible, I would like the on person sprite to swing, like the Chain of Command does.
by Pybro
Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:31 pm
Forum: Spriting and Mapping
Topic: HYDROPONICS UPGRADE 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO
Replies: 36
Views: 12692

Re: HYDROPONICS UPGRADE 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

The Parsnip could be a single use wirecutter. Get it? Parsnip? It could be insulated, given that it is single use.
by Pybro
Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:15 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Sharing dispute resolutions with claimants
Replies: 39
Views: 9729

Re: Sharing dispute resolutions with claimants

Someone said earlier that the issue is people being able to deduce antag status and the like by even innocuous responses. IE, >I get dunked by some dude in maint unprovoked. >adminhelp, WTF SOME SHITLER SCRUB JUTS MURDERIZIEEDED ME WTF BANNU HIM >Admin checks, says he's looking into it. What exactly...
by Pybro
Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:06 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Killing staff of change/wand of polymorph creatures
Replies: 33
Views: 11990

Re: Killing staff of change/wand of polymorph creatures

Wouldn't killing shitlers who got polymorphed and grief as a cow/xeno/syndiborg be the the exact same as people who use black slime on themselves as an excuse for LE GRIFF XD?

That is, dunk and forget about them?
by Pybro
Fri Jan 02, 2015 7:47 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: [POLL] Favorite revolver skin
Replies: 31
Views: 7674

Re: [POLL] Favorite revolver skin

Original skin, "15 brute damage" or "cry about it".
by Pybro
Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:04 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 573187

Re: Simple Questions Thread

ExplosiveCrate wrote:I'm probably remembering things wrong but it's a flat 20 damage per limb.

Which can be fixed with a bit of welding.
So if you fully augment yourself you take 120 damage...?
by Pybro
Thu Jan 01, 2015 5:25 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Little things you do in-game while bored
Replies: 69
Views: 21154

Re: Little things you do in-game while bored

Xhuis wrote:Break into the morgue, go onto a morgue tray, and spamclick it until one of the doctors comes in and tells me to stop.
You can refill welding tanks, hit yourself while holding down pg down with the duck, or speed open your backpack for a similar effect.
by Pybro
Wed Dec 31, 2014 4:38 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: How to git gud at malf?
Replies: 21
Views: 6558

Re: How to git gud at malf?

DemonFiren wrote:Move ALL OF THE BEACONS. Bolt all of the doors except teleporter. Watch hilarity?
Move all beacons to the toxins burn chamber. Set the teleporter up, then bolt open the door. Impersonate someone dead saying you've hacked the teleporter open and it leads to the AI sat.