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Failure is fine when the person who fails faces the consequences That isn't the case with medical If an engineer fails to set up the SM, everyone faces the consequences If a Cap fails to secure the disk, everyone faces the consequences If Sec fails to contain an antag, everyone faces the consequenc...

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BrianBackslide wrote:Third Hand: Gives you an extra right hand. Can be combined with the Hulk mutation to get Four Hands mutation. (exclusive against Third Hand mutation)

How difficult would this be to code?

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NecromancerAnne wrote:Well most of the time only one set of test wires are found. So usually a way in is not a way out without insuls.

I suppose, but a large amount of departments and rooms have disposal bins. And if you disposal yourself you won't get trapped.

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It can Vekter, but you're looking as the game as it aught to be played instead of how it is
Wires are regularly called on the radio, or by PDA at the start of a round, removing risk or the requirement for insulated gloves to hack

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I don't think burden of knowledge adds depth at all. There's a difference between depth and complexity. It's not the burden of knowledge that adds depth, but the concept of failure states that actually matter. For those to have any impact, you have to remove the computers that basically don't allow...

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Space Panda wrote:new power:
x-ray

it makes you shoot x-ray with your eyes, slowly irradiating everything you see
and you can only see people as skeletons

Actually, the wizard version of hulk can shoot lasers from its eyes,maybe eye lasers with a 30 second cooldown between shots could be the new power

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Sheodir wrote:Why the fuck did Helios post a huge analysis of Fate Servants I'm confused

I have no idea how to describe that strength-dexterity-etc graphs.
I don't know what it is called so I used an example to convey the idea.

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There are going to be nails that are sticking out, things that are blatantly above the current power curve, but something more like this should be how balance is thought about. Meta hunters aren't going to use a "Spear but worse" weapon. https://i.stack.imgur.com/sf9JC.jpg Understand that ...

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It seems like nobody as far as I know has taken the time to redo genetics, again. But they have no problem nerfing the results of the job, so that nobody ends up putting in the time to play it. I am not going to tell Oranges how to do his job, but this piecemeal thinking when it comes to code can re...

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Cobby wrote:why would i add an equivalently powerful item if the power of xray was deemed too strong hence removal???

To increase the playing of genetics.
If you look at statbus, people playing genetics has fallen off a cliff since the removal of x-ray, and the nerf of hulk.

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Now that X-ray vision was removed from genetics, there is room for a new power to take its place of equivalent power-level, but without the problems of X-ray.
What should that new power be?

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if you give them any antagonistic objectives the crew will kill them repeatedly I think you're right. It's hard to accomplish it well. Here's how I would flavor it. Change the comms report to referencing some Mad Men had escaped, and make their goals revolve around minor inconveniences through inva...

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I clearly pushed the envelope too far. I recant my statement about secborgs. I was wrong. I guess I didn't notice how bad it was, because I was usually the roboticist, not the one being killed by secborgs.

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No. Borgs shouldn't be combat enabled in any respect, and the fact they are combat capable is frankly ridiculous. They're an assistance robot, not a robocop with a day job. The only way they should be combat capable if the fuckers are emagged, and mostly just from the perspective of making them bet...

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Right, so. The issue wasn't that hulk could break a reinforced wall. The issue was that hulk could keep breaking reinforced walls forever. Unless they spaced a department, it wasn't really actionable as far as adminning is concerned, but if you tried to use violence to stop a hulk tearing down your...

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I will cling to the past, because even though my suggestions won't get implemented, the old ways worked and some aught to be advocating for them.
Not all change is good. Not all bad changes got reverted. Not even close.

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skoglol wrote:
Helios wrote:Hulk has been fine for balance since 2007
lol he said it with a straigth face

Yes. Otherwise it would have been nerfed 5 years ago instead of 2 weeks ago

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This hulk nerf is bad. Hulk has been fine for balance since 2007, but suddenly now it's a problem that hulks can punch through reinforced walls. There was no reason for this nerf. Hulk requires the finding and combination of two specific powers, it's not an easy thing to do, and I can regularly not ...

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I propose replacing the Ion function on HoS's gun, with the old taser projectile. HoS's gun is already an objective, and he's facing more and more antagonists, perhaps he could use an upgrade. Anyways, I propose testing the switch for a month, and adding it as a poll option, and see whether or not t...

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except for the very rare exception where some super-ultra-mega-turbo-autist would memorize every single possible projectile path and pattern (Mekhi Anderson) and could snipe you around blind corners. Harm batonning was stunhit -> turn off baton -> hit x3 -> turn on baton -> repeat and would take li...

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there is not any way to balance it with materials, the materials economy is fubar ever since t4 parts and lavaland. That's why I added anomaly processing. Oh for sure, I agree. What do you think about other economies? Like, right now there is an incentive for doctors to do surgery for cargo bountie...

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It was removed because it was a traitor objective ages ago. Once it cycled out, it was put back in as round-start and eventually moved to only spawn in the Engineering vendors because they're pretty ridiculously strong early on. They basically make access to anywhere that isn't r-walled a suggestio...

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This is something I missed. When and why was it removed?

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No thanks as a partial Medical main I like actually having a job to do and learn How often do you think they would be built? Before department lathes, how often did you see Engineers actually take the effort to build an autolathe in engineering? Not very often, back when I played in 2014-2016. I su...

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I agree, it was more fun But, I think you're missing my point PKPenguin, things like turning on and off your stun baton between hits while killing someone, standing near corners or walls to avoid taser shots, all these things are "skill". They're not intuitive. They're things you've picked...

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oranges wrote:unlike bungie we actually suck at our jobs though

Yeah, but you actually care.
You quit because it's frustrating.
Then unquit, because you realized nobody else cares.

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Here's my notes.

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I appreciate the gesture.
I don't know how you've had the energy to consistently shitpost for so long. You're an inspiration SAC.

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What I find fascinating is the existence of 1 tile chokepoints in pretty much every department. http://puu.sh/G2V25.jpg So to illustrate my point, I'll use Metastations Cargo as an example. So my first suggestion would be a water cooler, which with a single click gives you a cup full of water. When ...

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I was watching an old Crowbcat video, that was comparing the design philosophy of Bungie. https://youtu.be/6qfx9eoB-88?t=123 One of the takeaways from me, was how much effort Bungie put into making weapons fun to fire upon other people, and be fired upon. Back in the old days, the combat was split v...

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http://www.booking.com/Share-g4Ry4P This hotel seemed to be surprisingly cheap. https://puu.sh/G2E7v.jpg More and more I see that people make no money in Japan, but have a very low cost of living. https://puu.sh/G2zNu.jpg With tax, you can get a bottle of Strawberry coke for 50 cents American at a d...

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-snip- You may not have had fun but at least the medical system was working as intended. Coders in 2020 You can leave at any moment to beestation or boomerstation or even hippiestation Players in 2020 Fuck solving problems or having fun. What matters is the status quo, until Oranges decides to chan...

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There's a news crew at major airports, and they're just there to interview foreigners, as to why they are in Japan https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/youhananishini_eg/search/201702271.html >A man who loves Japanese swords more than a Japanese does! >A japanese sword specialist with blue eyes If you come to...

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PKPenguin321 wrote:Do plants get cancer? Because that's how you get plant cancer

Yeah. Luckily, a lot of plants like wheat have a lifespan of about 4 months, so cancer isn't really a long term concern.

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trollbreeder wrote:unstable mutagen dispenser go bzzzzt

If you put it that way, it sounds like a great government program.

Bytube wrote:yum nothing like radioactive agriculture amirite fellas

They plant the seeds, and those seeds in turn become new plants, which have no radiation threat.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening
Did you guys ever hear of this? Apparently the United States irradiated many seeds, with the chance that some would have beneficial mutations
This practice later fell out of fashion.

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there is no reason to split mining into 2 jobs, this will cause the actual new miner job to have nothing to do except do the most boring stuff in the game and the explorer to just treat rocks as barricades to shoot through to get to every target on the map Unless we give them new jobs, like setting...

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hellfire lasers being faster makes me think all lasers should be faster they suck pretty bad and being able to outrun lasers is dumb. or at least disablers. I disagree. The slowness of lasers, and even explosions allow them to be dodged. From a game design, you want weapons that are fun to shoot, a...

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Does anyone have any experience with learning conversational japanese?
If I was expecting to be there in October, I would believe that learning some conversational japanese, like how to order from restaurants or, ask for directions to the hospital may be useful

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split the game to "interesting" and "cookie clicker" ? i m all in for removing all the "cookie clicker" out of the game and keep the interesting part in so making megafauna spit ores when they die and removing click ore adventure is a better solution The problem is tha...

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How are you not gonna balance everything in monster hunters around combat? The shaft miner currently has better gear then the captain. This was okay, at a time when you would reliably get one piece of gear in a shift. This ceases to work when it is the same few people, getting multiple pieces of ge...

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bobbahbrown wrote:yhz to hnd and back for me is in the area of $225 cad

That sounds unreasonably low.
Are you working in the airline industry and getting a discount?

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Nabski wrote:Our islands catch phrase is Helios in animal crossing.

Enjoy your trip you weeb.

I am actually curious how much it would cost for other people to fly over.
How much would it cost to fly from your local city to Tokyo, From Oct 1-31st?

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Japan looks to be starting to re-open tourism, so I took another look at flight prices. They are damn cheap. 776$ CAD is 572.25 USD And there's pretty inexpensive Airbnb places, if you look through the monthly rates section. That accomodation for 4 is about 600 USD, or 150$ a month per person. That...

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Japan looks to be starting to re-open tourism, so I took another look at flight prices. https://puu.sh/FWVe2.png They are damn cheap. 776$ CAD is 572.25 USD https://puu.sh/FWUJp.jpg And there's pretty inexpensive Airbnb places, if you look through the monthly rates section. That accomodation for 4 i...

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If anyone remembers how old genetics worked, the length of radiation bursts were meant to deal with this. Having to wait whenever you changed a gene is what prevented all of the powers from being discovered within 15 minutes. The redesign of genetics addressed that by making it more of an active thi...

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What would be purpose of shuttle autocall? Lowpop cringe murderbone mitigation or long rounds and someone observeganging (either from dying to some bullshit or hitting Observe button) going "Oh no, this gonna drag for hours because there's 3 players whiteshipping"? I think "vote - Re...

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Getting automatic shuttle call because couple of assistants died and logged off sounds lame. 80% of the crew dying is not a "couple assistants" If this is actually a concern, take off their uniforms before you throw them in the morgue. It's a good habit anyways for dealing with suicides, ...

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There should be an automatic shuttle call, if 80% of the crew on the crew monitor are dead.
The main reason for this is low-pop rounds, where no admins are on to push buttons. If this was only enabled when no admins are online, that would also be fine.

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As long as there's green splats that appear as the poison damages you

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