/tg/Station 13

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At least if they kill you they have to cut your arm off to get your gun

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The idea is that they don't lose all spells when swapping i guess

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I will need to nerf or remove aggressive replication nanites, they do damage AND add nanites which is a no brainer for a death nanite set, and it's what made nanites still be dangerous that round even if they had no supply to draw from.

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A good starting point to detach techwebs from science would be to add some mid-endgame experimental items to each department's protolathe. For example, there's a still unused shield projector that could definitely be an engineering tool; some new guns can make it into sec, medbay some advanced medic...

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Yeah more objective variety is fine actually, i was just worried it would play out the same as a normal kill objective, negating the variety

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> Let's try not using the crutch this time
> Oh wait i got the objective that is much harder without it, i'm getting the crutch

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Should definitely move the RnD console to the bridge, people keep thinking rnd is still a full job while complaining about boredom

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Cultists/other modifiers affect the power levels, not the cooldown, so it's high for everyone. It got this way because someone had to ruin it and use it to murderbone with stun words.

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But this way it becomes not only a 'kill person' objective, but a 'kill person with armblade' objective, which takes away a lot of killing tactics in favor of the classic hack n slash murderbone method. Having to do surgery means having to secure tools and the corpse for an extended amount of time, ...

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When coding VoG i worried about balance, if colossus is apparently really hard and rarely killed it might be worth a buff

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The current limb damage rework is an attempt to have a more modular health system, might be a good start

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I'm ready

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What i really dislike is that the 'official' counterplay to this is to have objects in your hand. Who would see a xeno and spontaneously think of filling their backpack with trash to use as buffer?

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Trying out rare antags is a good thing, in my opinion. Getting down the mechanics in a safe environment will likely lead to more interesting strategies for these antags, since players will no longer have to gamble their rare antag round on first-time trying a gimmicky spell combo or nuke op loadout....

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It's meant to be a removal from the round... that's the point. If you don't like it, ghost or suicide or talk with other prisoners. Doing something else is also an option.... you're not glued to the screen. If it's supposed to suck, why have it at all? Just delete the mob altogether if that's your ...

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On the other hand, just because a change was bundled in a PR with a bad change it does not mean it was itself bad. Plus you can try to half-remove things as you described as a middle way, which works in some cases (e.g. cherry bombs not being growable from cherries but available in xenobio if you're...

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https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/37423

Any opinions/ideas?

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The most common i've seen is name_of_thing for both procs and vars.

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Minor snag: 5-10 minutes is a hood timeframe if you have a permanent condition, but stuff like BZ probably shouldn't make you hallucinate for that long. As i said, the issue is timing the effects to not only be immersive, but also effective on a semi-short period of time. That said, i'll put the sug...

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Singulo/bubblegum (as werll as other stun hallucinations) are supposed to elicit a reaction like "Oh shit why is that there what the fuck run", rather than deception. They do ruin all hallucinations after that. Maybe i should keep thse as "grand finale" hallucinations and only tr...

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FYI i'm coding massive changes to diseases so that might help

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Speaking as the coder for hallucinations, i'm all for them being subtle. If a hallucination becomes predictable or boring it means i screwed up the odds. Thing is, i gotta find a balance that A: is effective; if hallucinations are too scarce odds are they will generally be ignored. B: is not recogni...

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I think their idea would be to play it as a roguelike - go forward until it's unsutainable while researching abnormalities as much as possible. When you start spiraling into mass death, restart with all the abnormality info and bonus research you did; which will allow you to pick and choose the idea...

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I feel like midround antagonists should not have a 50% chance of destroying the station. They're there as a diversion to spice the round up, and so the balance should be in favour of the crew overall. The point being that a crew alone could beat them most of the time, but interference from the main ...

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Hallucinations are fun. I remember one time being in the middle of a raging fire as the station was falling around all about me and a mediborg came up to me to try and heal me. Seconds after he injected me my health status started plummetting down so I just unloaded a full combat shotgun into it. T...

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Yeah slapping hallucinations together with a big red "HEY YOU'RE HALLUCINATING" message ruins the effect. I like them on BZ gas, or in other ways it's subtly applied.

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Speaking as the one who reworked hallucinations into their current state: A - You're right, don't apply hallucinations where not needed especially now that brain damage actually matters, or when you can apply softer status effects. B - I really want people to be fooled by my finely crafted hallucina...

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It's definitely a management game, but i think the artstyle is fine, and every SCP is unique, often with custom animations or status effects (see the comment above about mind control from two different SCPs giving two different facial expressions). It's more polished than i'd expect a flash game to ...

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The english is still kind of awkward, but it's usually understandable, although it does lead to some ambiguity in certain descriptions.

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Goof is right, tactical suicide exists and yes, it involves a hidden autocloner (which is the issue being debated) Example, you're being cornered by sec, suicide, BAM immediately start regenerating in your secret hideout versus try to fight it out, they get a lucky stun, they either kill you or you...

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Pretty fun, although i'm always worried about fucking up and losing my progress because of something i don't know yet.

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Well yeah, the whole point is to make tactical suicide possible. However, the fact that it's instant may be unbalanced.

Making the body carry the DNR status is dumb, by the way, when there are ways to bodyswitch. A DNR ghost verb is far cleaner.

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Best way would be a requires_power var/flag that could be map edited.

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I'd rather not rename an existing reagent just because. What you could do, though, is add clockwork oranges to botany which would contain pax.

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Adding a check on visible_message is serious snowflake code, though.

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Anonmare wrote:When people kill you even though you're not a threat or trying to stop them

This one, so much

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Pax already forbids those cases, all it would take is making those checks give sickness as well. Minor issue would be that there is no spam prevention so you could get sick really fast; additionally, getting sick from violence you see is complicated codewise.

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Man i loved those

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I named it after the latin word for peace, i completely forgot it was a firefly thing as well

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This has more or less the same purpose as Pax, although in a more complicated way.

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The freeze sprung up five minutes before i opened a refactor/feature pr, Kor ended up okaying it even without me asking. I do kinda disagree on using early timezones as the freeze start point, but instant pitchforks only make people less inclined to help you.

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Addendum: chemical reactions output reagents based on input, so 1u of plasma will do 1u mutation toxin and so on. Inverse is also true for maxi syringes, injecting 10u will yield 10 before using up the core. Addendum 2: Plasteel, made by metal slimes, grinds into 20 iron and 20 plasma per sheet for ...

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Idea for the backstory: A syndicate supply stronghold has finally been located by NT corporate spies. It's one of the hubs that distribute TC equipment to covert traitors. NT, obviously, wants it gone NOW, without bureaucracy getting in the way, and is sending their secret corporate mercenaries to g...

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I'm pretty sure the reason for its removal is that it's now buildable, and as a niche item and not a job necessity it doesn't need to be given for free at roundstart anymore.

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Consistently reaching the end and trying to achieve hypersleek combo decks are not the same goal. For the latter a thin deck IS better (as long as you have the right cards). For the former a large deck can be consistent enough, while being far less risky to assemble, and far less vulnerable to mecha...

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Thete's something to be said for big decks. Not taking every card you're offered, but taking many will still give you a decent/good deck, with less risk than deck-thinning and hoping for a perfect combo, and are much less affected by statuses and curses. For some reason i seem to win mostly when bui...

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Look at how streamlined every other department is with respect to their jobs, security pales in comparison. Is there anything more streamlined that "all there at roundstart"? If anything, sec needs something to do on long rounds, when conflict is rare and they can only twiddle their thumb...

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I got kinda burnt out but i still have the code i started with, i might start it again now that i've made some framework upgrades to surgery and physiology

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Cancer rat, but this time the rat IS the cancer

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To add to that, i love doing surgery! Now that there are more options, it's very satisfying to skip cloning by doing reconstruction + revival on a corpse.

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