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by Cheimon
Wed Apr 27, 2016 12:12 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Greater Bag of Holding
Replies: 24
Views: 6385

Re: Greater Bag of Holding

Saegrimr wrote:The D&D bags of holding were airless, and probably some other properties that made them inhospitable to life.
You suffocate after about 10 minutes in one, at least in 3.5/Pathfinder.
by Cheimon
Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:32 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Sec Krav Maga Poll
Replies: 131
Views: 28507

Re: Sec Krav Maga Poll

We Kung Fury now. best day of my life Make Kung Fury a special power. To get it you have to be stung by a ling and shocked by a tesla orb at the same time. It allows you to punch people they go crashing through every wall behind them into space. Grabs let you rip people's brains or lungs out depend...
by Cheimon
Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:21 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Sec was so shit...
Replies: 39
Views: 10512

Re: Sec was so shit...

It's always hilarious to implant the heads during gang and they're like "REEE WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU IDIOT IT'S GONNA BE WASTED" "It's gang." "Oh" Also, if it's a rev and they're wearing a "clever" disguise like a grey jumpsuit. You'll probably get shot if yo...
by Cheimon
Mon Apr 25, 2016 12:34 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Sec Krav Maga Poll
Replies: 131
Views: 28507

Re: Sec Krav Maga Poll

Years of training in a martial art but you simply cannot fight with that method without your special red gloves..... What's the functional difference between this and a stun baton? I can see this being better due to it not being based on a battery charge AND its not as noticeable as a long thick sh...
by Cheimon
Sun Apr 24, 2016 11:31 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Can we actually lynch talking mimes, or is it just a meme?
Replies: 25
Views: 4717

Re: Can we actually lynch talking mimes, or is it just a mem

While we can't unfortunately I strongly suggest this be allowed. Also clowns who request clean SE's from genetics should be open to being made monkeys and meat spiked. What if your clown gimmick exclusively relies on not being clumsy? A "ninja" who throws smoke grenades everywhere, for ex...
by Cheimon
Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:28 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Sec Krav Maga Poll
Replies: 131
Views: 28507

Re: Sec Krav Maga Poll

> neck chop "Choke on it, Dredd!" "Choke on that." This sounds awesome, but also probably a little bit too good for security officers. Also, if I've somehow failed with my taser and my flashbang, there's a good chance I'm already fucked. It is a baton alternative (especially how ...
by Cheimon
Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:17 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: What should the soul merchants be named, demon or devil?
Replies: 31
Views: 7558

Re: What should the soul merchants be named, demon or devil?

Now this is bikeshedding!
by Cheimon
Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:16 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Make the quartermaster a head
Replies: 22
Views: 4170

Re: Make the quartermaster a head

Steelpoint wrote:a paper pusher who gets dragged into whatever conflict is embroiling the station
In other words, if you start requiring paperwork as a QM people will smash your windows, march into cargo, and beat you to death.
by Cheimon
Tue Apr 19, 2016 12:02 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Bring back Ban Request
Replies: 186
Views: 49597

Re: Bring back Ban Request: Revival 2

Stop trying to make ban request happen. It's not going to happen. The arguments haven't changed, the headmins voted in still don't like it, and you can take it up in however many months it'll be before the triumvirate falls apart.
by Cheimon
Tue Apr 19, 2016 12:00 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Chemistry grenades are almost never used
Replies: 49
Views: 14608

Re: Chemistry grenades are almost never used

cocothegogo wrote:i've not seen a grenade used since goof chem was added
How often do you play, exactly?
by Cheimon
Mon Apr 18, 2016 6:52 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Minor Suggestions
Replies: 3766
Views: 938524

Re: Minor Suggestions

Wrong thread, you meme. Let lizards use sharpening blocks to increase their claw damage and butcher cadavers barehanded. No, this does not belong in the other thread. Only if it means that any physical contact with a MiB deals brute damage, even hugs. End lizard erp 2k16 Nah, they can ERP so long a...
by Cheimon
Mon Apr 18, 2016 2:00 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Catpeople in Sybil
Replies: 28
Views: 6213

Re: Catpeople in Sybil

yackemflam wrote: there is no upside to it.
Well said! So let's not have them on Sybil.
by Cheimon
Mon Apr 18, 2016 1:59 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Return implanted antags at a reduced chance
Replies: 22
Views: 3555

Re: Return implanted antags at a reduced chance

yackemflam wrote:This was from another thread

The thread has a suggestion of making it so that if you have a implanted sec role on low or higher, you get a high chance of being antags.
I'd rather not have all the roundstart suiciding assistants become roundstart suiciding sec officers.
by Cheimon
Mon Apr 18, 2016 1:56 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: On-Planet Map
Replies: 47
Views: 11322

Re: On-Planet Map

A planet (or moon) doesn't have to have a human-friendly atmosphere. It could be poisonous to breathe, have too high a pressure, too low a pressure, be subject to extremes of temperature, all that sort of stuff.
by Cheimon
Mon Apr 18, 2016 1:54 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: What should the soul merchants be named, demon or devil?
Replies: 31
Views: 7558

Re: What should the soul merchants be named, demon or devil?

Just call it a trader demon if you're that worried about people confusing slaughter demon and soul merchant. you know how people cant differentiate narsie cultist and hog cultist over comms I guess that's true. To be honest both names are fairly generic. Devil and demon are synonymous anyway, there...
by Cheimon
Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:33 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: What should the soul merchants be named, demon or devil?
Replies: 31
Views: 7558

Re: What should the soul merchants be named, demon or devil?

Just call it a trader demon if you're that worried about people confusing slaughter demon and soul merchant.
by Cheimon
Sun Apr 17, 2016 6:49 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Holoparasite Reviews **UPDATED :)***
Replies: 65
Views: 16182

Re: Holoparasite Reviews **UPDATED :)***

BananaSenor wrote:Be abductor, abduct a guy, get murdered on your shuttle by a holo instantly. Not ayy.
Good thing you've got a powerful gun that will kill the guy in a few shots, and a scientist who can help you beat him as well. At that point it's just self defence.
by Cheimon
Sun Apr 17, 2016 6:43 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Weapon Organization
Replies: 6
Views: 1436

Re: Weapon Organization

I can't see much harm in it, but to be honest I assume all the one handed weapons are of a similar size anyway. If you want to make sprite size reflect the size the item should be in real life, you can, but it wouldn't be consistent with the way sprites are done for everything else in the game. All ...
by Cheimon
Sun Apr 17, 2016 6:39 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Bring back Ban Request
Replies: 186
Views: 49597

Re: Bring back Ban Request: Revival

yeah there's no point in having the forum since the admins didn't do it anyway, the only reason it existed was for people to post evidence of other people being shitheads so they could be ostracized in the community I'm not saying I want it brought back, but it was nice to be able to argue on a for...
by Cheimon
Fri Apr 15, 2016 4:40 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Detectives as antags
Replies: 171
Views: 38809

Re: Detectives as antags

And? Your acting like we've never had bad changes to SS13 in the games entire history, and that when a change is added its 100% justified and infallible. A change being added to the game does not automatically validate its exsitance, and if the shoe was on the other foot you would be saying the sam...
by Cheimon
Fri Apr 15, 2016 4:37 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Minor Feedback
Replies: 693
Views: 228954

Re: Minor Feedback

Zilenan91 wrote:Just bolt and depower your damn doors, nobody will give a single shit if you do that.
Engineering cyborgs (so, a good 70% of them now security borg doesn't exist) all have an RCD that can destroy airlocks in seconds. It is literally impossible to borg-proof your core.
by Cheimon
Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:21 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Detectives as antags
Replies: 171
Views: 38809

Re: Detectives as antags

Also I put forward for anyone to present a real life scenario where a private security force deputized civilians, civilians with no ""experience"" in security procedures to shore up a lack of security personal? Its more illogical and inane for a security force to recruit people ...
by Cheimon
Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:19 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Detectives as antags
Replies: 171
Views: 38809

Re: Detectives as antags

50 people on the server. 1 sec guard. 1 traitor detective. That just happened fam. Then deputize people. What, you're afraid of deputizing people because the game says they can be antags? Then you're part of the problem. If they didn't join up to play security, and suddenly want to, they're mostly ...
by Cheimon
Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:14 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Minor Feedback
Replies: 693
Views: 228954

Re: Minor Feedback

Turrets ought to target unsynchronised cyborgs. AIs currently have little to no way to defend against these once they're created (even the flash in the core can't be chainstunned with). By the time a malfunctioning AI has the points to destroy RnD's infrastructure, robotics has almost always made a...
by Cheimon
Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:12 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Ponds / Aquaculture aquariums (sea hydroponics)
Replies: 9
Views: 2042

Re: Ponds / Aquaculture aquariums (sea hydroponics)

There's nothing wrong with fish and fishing as a concept, but you need to find someone willing to code it if you ever want to get it off the ground. The easiest person to convince is yourself (and after all, if you're not willing to make it, why should other people be?). On the whole, it could add a...
by Cheimon
Wed Apr 13, 2016 6:29 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: The Basil improvement process.
Replies: 47
Views: 11587

Re: The Basil improvement process.

Make pod people a starter choice like plasmamen / flypeople C A N T I N A S T A T I O N S L I P P E R Y S L O P E what do you mean ? Cantina Station = Most people are aliens, like the cantina scenes in Star Wars. Slippery Slope = If we do this thing (6 roundstart aliens), it makes similar things (8...
by Cheimon
Tue Apr 12, 2016 8:22 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What's your favorite ops setup?
Replies: 26
Views: 6400

Re: What's your favorite ops setup?

All flamethrowers All elite suits (for fireproofing) All the other junk (stetchkins for the 3 people with fireproof clothing, emags, c4, minibombs, some sort of esword for when they inevitably resist, a medibeam gun if you get the points, whatever, pretty much anything works so long as you're all fi...
by Cheimon
Tue Apr 12, 2016 3:05 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Detectives as antags
Replies: 171
Views: 38809

Re: Detectives as antags

Wait, I thought greytiding is allowed just don't murder/incapacitate people if caught. Once every few rounds or so I just be a total dick , breaking into rooms, stealing shit, punch the clown, etc. If I get caught by sec I just take the punishment, usually perma. Then I ghost and watch what happeni...
by Cheimon
Mon Apr 11, 2016 6:09 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Minor Feedback
Replies: 693
Views: 228954

Re: Minor Feedback

Turrets ought to target unsynchronised cyborgs. AIs currently have little to no way to defend against these once they're created (even the flash in the core can't be chainstunned with). By the time a malfunctioning AI has the points to destroy RnD's infrastructure, robotics has almost always made a ...
by Cheimon
Mon Apr 11, 2016 5:32 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Should conversion antags be req. to attempt their objective?
Replies: 44
Views: 9351

Re: Should conversion antags be req. to attempt their object

Enforcing rules can cause drama, absolutely. But it's not exactly "nearly impossible". "Don't be a dick" is a very vague rule, and people disagree on it all the time. Discussions over it can get heated, but it's still a rule worth having. It gives a clearer idea of the spirit of ...
by Cheimon
Sun Apr 10, 2016 11:10 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Detectives as antags
Replies: 171
Views: 38809

Re: Detectives as antags

The phrase "loose cannon" is bandied about quite a lot. I'm not trying to start a discussion about realism, but an antagonist detective doesn't actually fit the core examples of the genre that well. Dirty Harry, probably THE example of a loose cannon cop, is called that because he's danger...
by Cheimon
Sun Apr 10, 2016 4:25 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: What if we changed Asimov Law 1?
Replies: 37
Views: 7007

Re: What if we changed Asimov Law 1?

Have fun getting people to play 20 questions with as AI. All you'll get is impatient people and a bored AI that wants to say things normally and can't.
by Cheimon
Sat Apr 09, 2016 1:37 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Heads give permission to drug makes you not valid?
Replies: 20
Views: 4261

Re: Heads give permission to drug makes you not valid?

Scott wrote:On the other hand, your idea of a joke is randomly attacking other people.
IT'S A PRANK!
by Cheimon
Sat Apr 09, 2016 1:31 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: What if we changed Asimov Law 1?
Replies: 37
Views: 7007

Re: What if we changed Asimov Law 1?

This was written just before Luke Cox submitted, but I'll post it anyway. Change "through inaction, allow" to "through your actions, cause". "You may not injure a human being or, through your actions, cause a human being to come to harm." AI isn't obliged to stop all ha...
by Cheimon
Sat Apr 09, 2016 1:24 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Holoparasite Reviews **UPDATED :)***
Replies: 65
Views: 16182

Re: Holoparasite Reviews **UPDATED :)***

Holoparasites are fun. It's just plain nice to have a buddy you can go traitoring with. The headset key could be like that, but it's not, whereas this is a reliable way to do something with another person.
by Cheimon
Fri Apr 08, 2016 12:48 pm
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: ERP is once again disallowed
Replies: 109
Views: 29510

Re: ERP is once again disallowed

The Ultimate Chimera wrote:
Bluespace wrote:talking getting a laugh ERP'ing
here's my famous ERP log on another server.
http://pastebin.com/XNk0vQSi
Good god this was hilarious! Haha!
by Cheimon
Fri Apr 08, 2016 12:36 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Are AI laws applied retroactively?
Replies: 55
Views: 16505

Re: Are AI laws applied retroactively?

If you really wanna bake your noodle, turn it into a trolley problem. A traitor is roaming the halls with a revolver. If you do nothing, he will harm a whole bunch of humans. On the other hand, you could bolt him and call security, who will almost certainly valid the absolute shit out of him, but p...
by Cheimon
Thu Apr 07, 2016 8:46 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Should conversion antags be req. to attempt their objective?
Replies: 44
Views: 9351

Re: Should conversion antags be req. to attempt their object

I'm of the opinion that gang bosses are not obligated to do anything, since they are essentially, independent antagonists. They're independent, but it's never more fun for a gang boss to do nothing than it is for them to do something. At the very least, someone with a major role like that who doesn...
by Cheimon
Thu Apr 07, 2016 3:26 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Detectives as antags
Replies: 171
Views: 38809

Re: Detectives as antags

I haven't enjoyed seeing it so far, but the arguments for and against it haven't changed. If it was good enough to merge then, it looks like it's here to stay.
by Cheimon
Thu Apr 07, 2016 2:42 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: TONGUES
Replies: 24
Views: 4812

Re: TONGUES

cheimon if you don't like the idea you can just say "i don't like this idea" you don't need to stay up night and day shitposting because something as simple as transferring a speech impediment across alien races shatters your immulshions Like I already said, I don't mind the idea. I was j...
by Cheimon
Thu Apr 07, 2016 1:50 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: TONGUES
Replies: 24
Views: 4812

Re: TONGUES

Eh, a split tongue isn't what causes the hiss. Body modders get split tongues and once they get used to it there isn't a noticeable speech difference. The reason reptiles hiss is because it's a way of communicating. WEE WOO WEE WOO NON REALISTIC FUN IN 2D SPACEMANS DETECTED WEE WOO WE WOO CALLING A...
by Cheimon
Thu Apr 07, 2016 1:37 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Lavaland
Replies: 484
Views: 123520

Re: Lavaland

denying really good sprites because they don't match with the rest of the sprites because they're all ugly is a dubious philosophy That's true, but it's not a straightforward "this is better" situation: there's a distinctive style difference as well that makes it jar with the rest of the ...
by Cheimon
Thu Apr 07, 2016 1:34 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Silicon Policy on Fight Clubs.
Replies: 35
Views: 9801

Re: Silicon Policy on Fight Clubs.

The problem I see with this is that letting someone else harm you is not self harm. Now I don't particularly think borgs and AI's should interfer with fight clubs because that's some nofunallowed shit, but that's what asimov really implies. Running out an airlock is not the same thing as willingly ...
by Cheimon
Wed Apr 06, 2016 7:40 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Gang needs an update
Replies: 54
Views: 12766

Re: Gang needs an update

It was a mistake to close the limited implants pr. The only reason rev is bearable with the implant roulette is because of how fast and how many people the revheads can convert. There aren't opposing teams who can take your converts so you don't fuck yourself if you flash someone, and that means th...
by Cheimon
Wed Apr 06, 2016 4:32 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Silicon Policy on Fight Clubs.
Replies: 35
Views: 9801

Re: Silicon Policy on Fight Clubs.

Self-harm is not human harm. That's the easiest and most straightforward way to lay out the rules and it creates an outcome that makes everyone happy. I'm honestly contemplating coding that in for asimov, either explicitly into the law or as a note when you become a borg. We decided a long time ago...
by Cheimon
Wed Apr 06, 2016 4:08 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: TONGUES
Replies: 24
Views: 4812

Re: TONGUES

Eh, a split tongue isn't what causes the hiss. Body modders get split tongues and once they get used to it there isn't a noticeable speech difference. The reason reptiles hiss is because it's a way of communicating. WEE WOO WEE WOO NON REALISTIC FUN IN 2D SPACEMANS DETECTED WEE WOO WE WOO CALLING A...
by Cheimon
Tue Apr 05, 2016 4:54 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: TONGUES
Replies: 24
Views: 4812

Re: TONGUES

Eh, a split tongue isn't what causes the hiss. Body modders get split tongues and once they get used to it there isn't a noticeable speech difference. The reason reptiles hiss is because it's a way of communicating.
by Cheimon
Sun Apr 03, 2016 1:09 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: New movement
Replies: 38
Views: 8701

Re: Porting bay/vg/goon/para movement

I have no idea if I'll like this or not until I try it on a non-laggy server.
by Cheimon
Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:47 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Saltball's Grab Nerf
Replies: 83
Views: 14060

Re: Saltball's Grab Nerf

Grabbing provides a much more clear interface for what's going on. It shows that you connected, it tells you who you connected to, and it makes it really easy to upgrade it (just press a button). Pulling is much less clear: either my ctrl key doesn't always work (unlikely) or byond doesn't always re...
by Cheimon
Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:38 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Doing something to the point it disrupts others repeatedly
Replies: 52
Views: 12158

Re: Doing something to the point it disrupts others repeated

Seriously, if somebody is being a dick, beat the shit out of them. I have never gotten bwoinked for it once. IC resolution is the way to go. The only problem with that is, if you fail to robust them, they don't receive any punishment at all. Someone's actions don't go from "unacceptable" ...