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by AnonymousNow
Sun Jan 18, 2015 9:27 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Malf AI and moving the AI core
Replies: 18
Views: 3160

Re: Malf AI and moving the AI core

As a recent malf AI who was moved by a cyborg and subsequently BWOINKED (as I agreed with the plan and didn't realise that some people consider it an exploit), can't we just rebalance it somehow?
by AnonymousNow
Sun Jan 18, 2015 7:17 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Goon Chem Feedback
Replies: 224
Views: 52165

Re: Goon Chem Feedback

I'm seeing a lot of negative feedback in this thread - a combination of "I miss our old medicines", "Toxins are waaay too powerful" and "Everything is broken", and a lot of it. I think it's pretty clear where the community's heart is. Props to Dezzmont for being rationa...
by AnonymousNow
Sun Jan 18, 2015 6:49 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Mislabeled Filenames
Replies: 1181
Views: 404771

Re: Mislabeled Filenames

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by AnonymousNow
Sat Jan 17, 2015 9:39 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Firing Pins
Replies: 82
Views: 26244

Re: Firing Pins

Suggestion - guns made in R&D are pinless, lockboxless, easy to derive research from. Firing pins are a protolathable item, requiring mid-level combat research...

...and they come in a lockbox, with high security access required.
by AnonymousNow
Sat Jan 17, 2015 9:34 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Goon Chem Feedback
Replies: 224
Views: 52165

Re: Goon Chem Feedback

Can't we just get some of our stalwarts back, at least? Tricord, bicard, derma, dex? What's wrong with the idea of using Star Trek-themed chemicals?
by AnonymousNow
Sat Jan 17, 2015 7:16 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Goon Chem Feedback
Replies: 224
Views: 52165

Re: Goon Chem Feedback

I don't think there is a way for me to fully articulate how much I haaaaaaaate this change and the removal of our standard chemicals over the internet, so I'm not going to try. All I will say to that end is that it is, personally, my most despised change in the history of SS13, to the degree that I ...
by AnonymousNow
Fri Jan 16, 2015 11:40 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Engineering Discoveries!
Replies: 41
Views: 10682

Re: Engineering Discoveries!

It is, hypothetically. If you want to trip on mindbreaker and take a fuckton of radloss. The delivery method is important, though. I don't know how the shard is transported, or how it arrives, what effects it has, how it can be safely handled etc. Logic dictates that you teleport that bastard/send ...
by AnonymousNow
Fri Jan 16, 2015 3:13 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Engineering Discoveries!
Replies: 41
Views: 10682

Re: Engineering Discoveries!

I'm posting this here and not the Simple Questions thread, because it's not a simple question and pertains to an aspect of the game associated primarily with engineering.

Is it possible to use a supermatter shard as The Best Mining Charge?
by AnonymousNow
Fri Jan 16, 2015 8:53 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Minor Feedback
Replies: 693
Views: 236117

Re: Minor Feedback

I feel that rather a lot of features are getting nixed for the sake of change - several things I've grown fond of in my time here. The "It's bugged/unbalanced? Just remove it" mindset I've seen in some instances is, frankly, alarming.
by AnonymousNow
Wed Jan 14, 2015 12:31 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Stories of rage, tears and regret
Replies: 2833
Views: 862737

Re: Stories of rage, tears and regret

>Captain >Nothing much happening >Chaos starts in xenobio, wander in with a small group following just to be staff of change'd somehow and turned into a xenomorph >Head of Security Jazmin Malcovich, having been in sight in the corridor when this happened, immediately opened fire and, to my in-Englis...
by AnonymousNow
Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:23 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 549792

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Wizard receives 60s cooldown spell that makes a shell when he decides to buy soulstone belt. And I just explained that the shell was probably found in cult nest raided by security. That explains the wizard. But not the cult. You don't seem to be getting at what I'm getting at - how does the first c...
by AnonymousNow
Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:05 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 549792

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Violaceus wrote:Well they probably found a shell that cult left, made artficier and aetificier makes more soulstones and shells.
And how does a WIZARD get shells...?

EDIT: No, wait, this still leaves the problem of how they got the shell for the artificer.
by AnonymousNow
Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:53 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 549792

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Violaceus wrote:These security constructs were a thing because security robusted cultists and took soulstones that someone had in backpack.
But how did THEY get shells?
by AnonymousNow
Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:52 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Minor Suggestions
Replies: 3768
Views: 971201

Re: Minor Suggestions

Is this community really so shitty when it comes to handling meta info that we have to flat out deny this kind of stuff? Yes We could offer a new position - Training Players. People can put themselves forward as a go-to person for helping a new player in general, or with specific departments (which...
by AnonymousNow
Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:44 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 549792

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Erbbu wrote:You use the shard with a soul on a shell and choose which construct you want to make out of it. As far as I know you can't get construct shells outside of wizard/cult rounds without admin fuckery unless mining happens to find them.
What I was really asking was - how do you get the shell?
by AnonymousNow
Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:23 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 549792

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Despite the long time I've been playing, I've never had the opportunity to actually do this, so - how do you go about making constructs? I thought there was something limited to wizards and cultists, but apparently even security can find a shell somehow. What's the process? What do you do from the p...
by AnonymousNow
Sun Jan 11, 2015 7:07 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Minor Suggestions
Replies: 3768
Views: 971201

Re: Minor Suggestions

Funfact: I did code MedHud sunglasses years ago but they were rejected - granted the code for them wasn't very good. Dayum. Maybe it's just a case of reverse-engineering the secHUD glasses code? I'm not going to say "I could do that", because for all my luck I'll look at the code and my b...
by AnonymousNow
Sun Jan 11, 2015 12:20 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Minor Suggestions
Replies: 3768
Views: 971201

Re: Minor Suggestions

- You seem to have misread those first four objectives. Kill another traitor =/= Kill all other traitors/changelings/whatever; Be the only escaping traitor/changeling =/= escape on the shuttle alone; Kill Ian is part of usually part of getting corgimeat, but different; Stealing the captain's medals...
by AnonymousNow
Sun Jan 11, 2015 12:02 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Engineering Discoveries!
Replies: 41
Views: 10682

Re: Engineering Discoveries!

Make it into a slip-and-slide speedy transportation system, the kind cargo can set up if atmos isn't paying attention with their pipes.
by AnonymousNow
Sun Jan 11, 2015 12:02 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: [POLL] Should lizards be considered human for the AI&borgs?
Replies: 56
Views: 13421

Re: Should lizards be considered human for the AI and borgs?

I'm getting reaaaaaaaaaaally tired of reading "GAS THE LIZARDS, RACE WAR NOW".
by AnonymousNow
Sun Jan 11, 2015 8:41 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: [POLL] Should lizards be considered human for the AI&borgs?
Replies: 56
Views: 13421

Re: Should lizards be considered human for the AI and borgs?

I object to mindless validhunting, but I think that having lizardmen crewmembers not be covered by Asimov offers up some interesting interaction opportunities if well policed.
by AnonymousNow
Sun Jan 11, 2015 7:53 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Minor Suggestions
Replies: 3768
Views: 971201

Re: Minor Suggestions

So I was scraping through the archives when I came across some old ideas of mine and confirmed what I'd always believed - I used to be a genius. Many of these make more sense now that features are around to support them better. - A Raise Dead spell, which can be used on any remains. If the original ...
by AnonymousNow
Sun Jan 11, 2015 5:53 am
Forum: Roleplaying
Topic: What does your/others character voice sounds like?
Replies: 15
Views: 4987

Re: What does your/others character voice sounds like?

My own's my own (a middling, irritable English). Everything else is a generic American, because I've spent too much time on the internet.
by AnonymousNow
Sun Jan 11, 2015 5:25 am
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Events...
Replies: 129
Views: 34909

Re: Events...

What about a round where the crew is given an hour to prepare for incoming waves of enemies?

Or a Berlin Wall round?

There's still an event topic on General.
by AnonymousNow
Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:59 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Space Valhalla
Replies: 71
Views: 19803

Re: Space Valhalla

I think I've posted my support for this idea every single time it pops up, and that support does not end now. It'll solve a lot of problems, really. Ends the salt from yet another stupid death, in a game filled with stupid deaths. Relieves people of aggression, possibly even terminally aggressive pe...
by AnonymousNow
Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:58 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 549792

Re: Simple Questions Thread

I'm going to do my own testing later, but - can certain mobs see through walls?

I swear I got ganked by a goliath in an impossible position just now.
by AnonymousNow
Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:24 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Minor Suggestions
Replies: 3768
Views: 971201

Re: Minor Suggestions

Droneborgs. Let MMIs be put onto droneshells, for speaking drones with cyborg laws.

Also make droneshells preconfigurable for name and lawset-type (drone, Asimov or MMI).
by AnonymousNow
Sat Jan 10, 2015 4:10 pm
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Events...
Replies: 129
Views: 34909

Re: Event Ideas Suggestion

Thread necro, because the alternative is making a new thread. I want an event that really brings the crew together to the best of its abilities, and I've thought of one. At the beginning of the round, Centcom announces that this station is not a research station - it's a trap for unwitting problem e...
by AnonymousNow
Sat Jan 10, 2015 3:54 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: ITT: We make shitty suggestions and come up with poor ideas.
Replies: 3941
Views: 1079737

Re: ITT: We make shitty suggestions and come up with poor id

Gun Hog wrote:
Hellafied wrote:
Xhuis wrote:Give miners a magic ball of yarn that trails behind them to lead the way back home.
This actualy neeeds to be added.
You can do this with a heavily beaten corpse!
If you have a mining drill or better instrument of diggin', you can do this with sand.
by AnonymousNow
Sat Jan 10, 2015 3:51 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: [POLL] Add slowdown for dragging bodies
Replies: 199
Views: 43662

Re: [POLL] Add slowdown for dragging bodies

I'm willing to bet that I've played medic more than the vast majority of players on the server over the past four years - and I oppose this change. Rescue on the frontlines - be it battle or breach - is already hard enough. God knows, at least some people actually TRY to drag people to medbay nowada...
by AnonymousNow
Sat Jan 10, 2015 2:49 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Security Sprites: 2015 Edition
Replies: 116
Views: 27665

Re: Security Sprites: 2015 Edition

It wasn't intentionally a 'stealth change' there was like 50000 things in that PR changed. I didn't list it, but it was a mistake and I'm sorry. You can revert it if you want, but I'll still argue it's better as it is due to the way the gunlight overlay is. Yeah it isn't xbox huge maglite but it do...
by AnonymousNow
Sat Jan 10, 2015 2:43 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Cargo Clothing Fabricator
Replies: 26
Views: 10969

Re: Cargo Clothing Fabricator

I actually like the idea of them making RIGs - but it needs to only become an option after a lot of work, such as a good mining haul and the best parts available. Also, one of the captain's items is made out of assistant leather. Allow it, when emagged, to skin humans. EDIT: I thought I read every p...
by AnonymousNow
Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:58 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: OFFICIAL SERVER IS DOWN THREAD: MSO GOT HIGH!
Replies: 508
Views: 233530

Re: OFFICIAL SERVER IS DOWN THREAD: RETURN OF THE CRASH

For the last time, it's not the nuke.

Round just ended with the shuttle hitting home. Crash.

Rounds on Sybil now crash the server when they end.
by AnonymousNow
Sat Jan 10, 2015 4:40 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: OFFICIAL SERVER IS DOWN THREAD: MSO GOT HIGH!
Replies: 508
Views: 233530

Re: OFFICIAL SERVER IS DOWN THREAD: RETURN OF THE CRASH

Loonikus wrote:First server crash of the year. Noice.
I am literally the unluckiest person on the server.
by AnonymousNow
Sat Jan 10, 2015 4:38 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: OFFICIAL SERVER IS DOWN THREAD: MSO GOT HIGH!
Replies: 508
Views: 233530

Re: OFFICIAL SERVER IS DOWN THREAD: RETURN OF THE CRASH

>Server crashes, hard, four seconds away from malf victory

:|
by AnonymousNow
Sat Jan 10, 2015 1:22 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: New stuff/changes for cult
Replies: 13
Views: 3950

Re: New stuff/changes for cult

More cult options, huh? How about arcane spellcasting? Have certain spells be available if enough blood-research, or whatever, is done towards it. Maybe that'd require more steps and balancing, though. Alternate endgame goals for cultists would be great, too. What about a sort of super-construct oth...
by AnonymousNow
Sat Jan 10, 2015 1:09 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Security Sprites: 2015 Edition
Replies: 116
Views: 27665

Re: Security Sprites: 2015 Edition

the maglite sprite was originally submitted as its own pr and literally everyone hated it except pap, its submitter, and nienhaus, the spriter. it was eventually closed. the resprite getting in was a stealth change Classic paparika PR Is that true? Because this is grounds for some serious complaint.
by AnonymousNow
Fri Jan 09, 2015 7:07 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Favorite Job and why
Replies: 82
Views: 26788

Re: Favorite Job and why

Medical Doctor - people-focused, high-energy job. Rush to crises, heal people, be on the frontlines, make a positive change. Revive rooms full of people a few steps behind the murderhobo who downed them seconds before. Have an excuse to be pretty much anywhere. Keep the whole damn station alive. An...
by AnonymousNow
Fri Jan 09, 2015 11:53 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Cyborg Equipment Upgrade Modules
Replies: 10
Views: 1737

Re: Cyborg Equipment Upgrade Modules

I think it's important - hence why I posted it - but it needs to be balanced. Hence only one module of each type per cyborg, but that would be sufficient to add functionality to cyborgs. A traitor could emag a borg, and then add an equipment module to give it an extra weapon in its arsenal, to make ...
by AnonymousNow
Fri Jan 09, 2015 11:02 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Security Sprites: 2015 Edition
Replies: 116
Views: 27665

Re: Security Sprites: 2015 Edition

Ugh, changing department colours. I got sick of green medbay quickly; I'm so glad it went blue instead.

Then again, science could do with having a little more purple in their clothing. I like the roboticists' jumpsuits, but it might work better with purple instead of red.
by AnonymousNow
Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:52 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: AI voice overhaul.
Replies: 55
Views: 11042

Re: AI voice overhaul.

I have the amusing mental image of there being a whole bunch of choices for soundbanks, simply mechanised voices of a big ol' library of prechosen words recorded in various styles.

Imagine a Vincent Price AI.
by AnonymousNow
Thu Jan 08, 2015 12:50 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Security Sprites: 2015 Edition
Replies: 116
Views: 27665

Re: Security Sprites: 2015 Edition

Yeah, that's pretty much perfect.

I'd like alternate costumes for all the departments, in an ideal world. Imagine a security force that looks like the mind-controlled humans in The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
by AnonymousNow
Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:54 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Rig suit slots (mining edition)
Replies: 28
Views: 5978

Re: Rig suit slots (mining edition)

It makes in-world sense for space suits to have a place specifically to put oxygen tanks.
by AnonymousNow
Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:44 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Cyborg Equipment Upgrade Modules
Replies: 10
Views: 1737

Cyborg Equipment Upgrade Modules

Whilst playing minerborg the other day, I realised that... - I could only get the best piece of mining equipment if I was subverted by a traitor or I'd basically done all the mining already for an illegal tech module; - I had to choose between being able to see veins & pathways, and being able t...
by AnonymousNow
Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:35 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Security Sprites: 2015 Edition
Replies: 116
Views: 27665

Re: Security Sprites: 2015 Edition

Make 'em red. Steelpoint's stuff is better for me.
by AnonymousNow
Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:25 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: AI voice overhaul.
Replies: 55
Views: 11042

Re: AI voice overhaul.

Where do we source the words? Sam?
by AnonymousNow
Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:23 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Reduce the ease in making a phazon
Replies: 39
Views: 9033

Re: Reduce the ease in making a phazon

For the love of god, don't remove features instead of rebalancing them.

And Phazons still take a fuckton to build.
by AnonymousNow
Wed Jan 07, 2015 2:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Little things you learned that are game changing
Replies: 2455
Views: 688881

Re: Little things you learned that are game changing

There's also an abandoned surgical room on the station somewhere, if you can find it. I don't think it has tools, but it has a surgical table.
by AnonymousNow
Wed Jan 07, 2015 1:39 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Engineering Discoveries!
Replies: 41
Views: 10682

Re: Engineering Discoveries!

Singulo is set up and forget in that as long as no-one sabotages it, it will provide power and won't get loose (PA set to 0 power, but on). Supermatter needs atmosphere to provide power. Can cargo get power cells easily? If so, I guess you can just build a new SMES which probably will come partiall...
by AnonymousNow
Wed Jan 07, 2015 12:59 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Engineering Discoveries!
Replies: 41
Views: 10682

Re: Engineering Discoveries!

I ask these of you not because I am lazy, but because I am not very good with the power sources on the station - I can set up the singularity and the solar arrays, but otherwise it's a bit beyond me. - Is there a version of that mini Singulon engine that works? Like, the next size singularity up? If...