/tg/Station 13

RandomMarine

I stopped playing at several points because traitor, 50% of our round rolls, was getting seriously fucking tedious. If you're constantly exposed to the same rounds they start getting boring and formulaic, this happens to every round type, and isn't somehow unique to conversion modes. You know what ...

RandomMarine

Can grilles, lattices, and windows be included or are non-turfs right out?

RandomMarine

I've spoken to several people who stopped playing because of conversion modes, and more specifically cult happening what felt like every other round. I took a month break myself because I was sick of those modes popping up seemingly every time I logged in. Jesus Christ this. 99% of rounds I either ...

RandomMarine

And even so, if you're banning for a missing article "A" or plurals "S" in a game full of slang you're probably a massive prick and are trying to get a metagrudge ban in. We've had admins stalking players to get banbaiting in before, how it just so happens to be JMad and how an ...

RandomMarine

Also, does anyone still have that UI block-by-block explaination? Block 1 - Hair color Block 2 - Beard color Block 3 - Skin tone Block 4 - Eye color Block 5 - Gender Block 6 - Beard style Block 7 - Hair style Color blocks are handled in RGB, for example, F00 is red, FF0 is yellow, 963 is brown. The...

RandomMarine

Just nerf tank bombs a little. Keep the devastation range the same, but reduce the medium/light ranges (Make 3/7/14 into 3/5/10) and repairing bomb damage will become more reasonable.

Also fill the drone dispenser more often. And stop red-alert shuttlecalling when the damage is already half-repaired.

RandomMarine

Imagine if randomized engines becomes a thing.

And there was an extra low chance that the engine is just a cluster of PACMAN generators.

RandomMarine

Until an assistant disarms you with your PDA out and swipes it.

RandomMarine

Most non-mining hostile mobs will ignore you if you fall asleep.

RandomMarine

Is there a formal ruling on drones communicating with non-drones that can speak/understand drone language, such as pAIs and the curator? I recall statements before that it's kosher for a drone to have a pAI buddy as long as they don't mess around with anybody, but this was long ago and I'm unsure if...

RandomMarine

Or hold off on rev-ifying people until enough heads latejoin. Then roll some headrevs and give them an uplink code that spawns a single flash.

RandomMarine

The primary goal of an admin should be to make sure things are fun.
Whether that's removing players that make things less fun for others, letting some shenanigans slide because it had a net benefit on fun, or spicing up an otherwise bland round with fun events.

RandomMarine

Chef is stupidly reliant on other jobs to even have basic function or usefulness. If the botanists aren't growing produce, you're stuck with nothing but meat for boring steaks and burgers. If the botanists grind their produce and hand out bottled nutriment, you're irrelevant. If virology makes a wei...

RandomMarine

I remember once when a malf AI that shunted into an APC gave itself away because of the arrival message

That was a laugh.

RandomMarine

Having a team of operatives all get killed by the stickman ruin before the station learned of their existence. Essentially causing classic, unannounced extended.

It was actually a good round with the crew running all sorts of fun gimmicks without assistants breaking every window in sight.

RandomMarine

What would those statistics look like if suicides weren't counted?

RandomMarine

I believe there's already no way to get more medals other than the ones that exist in the medal box roundstart, unless some dork has some dotted around in some random ruins. And it would be simple to code it so each medal can only be given out once. So there shouldn't be any clutter issues on the ve...

RandomMarine

Bombadil wrote:So you write the reason with a pen i assume

I was more thinking just a box that pops up when you hit the spaceman with the medal.

RandomMarine

I think it would be kind of cool and add at least a little meaning to the box of medals if when a medal is pinned to somebody, they get an input popup where they can fill in a reason why. Which is added to the medal's description. Then at the end of the round, all medals the (genuine) captain gave o...

RandomMarine

I want to have the freedom to do fun things like trying to sneak onto the station to steal metastation's nuclear beer keg.
But I don't want to see dwarfs raiding the station to go kill anyone, unless the station's done shit to them to (really) warrant it.

RandomMarine

Ambitious like what? Maxcapping the station six times within the first twenty minutes?

RandomMarine

I've always liked the idea of punishments if the goals went uncompleted. Because otherwise (like our current situation), most of the time the station gives no fucks about it because it's meaningless, and I'd like that to change so that the station is pushed to do things other than going through the ...

RandomMarine

The cherry on the top:
Map rotation is locked on budgetstation until a round's station goal is completed.

RandomMarine

Hey, I thought that whole clusterfuck was fun.

That's me in the middle, by the way. The one-legged dwarf sleeping on the bed in a pile of his own vomit.

RandomMarine

I already forged a shovel head out of synthflesh as a MD.
It heals 34.5 brute and 37.5 burn each hit, unlimited.

I survived rampaging silicons, a station-wide plasmafire, and a blob by just chilling out in space and whacking myself with it.

RandomMarine

We have multiple game modes where the crew's win condition boils down to that the shuttle arrives at central command before the antagonists complete their objectives. And with many players eschewing roleplay in favor of gameplay, it's no surprise that we have heads taking the option that gives them ...

RandomMarine

Well to be fair, with it being a broken (I was thinking 80% of the time it's perfect, but 20% of the time it randomly scrambles as if either party didn't have the language) of the language, them only having reading material IS a fair explanation, they're speaking the language with horrible pronunci...

RandomMarine

It doesn't make any sense why learning to roughly read a language would teach them how to speak and hear it.

But that can be fixed with giving the ashwalker den a broken VCR with some movies scattered around as fluff objects

RandomMarine

I had some pretty good times in the past trying to evade Narsie with a small group of other crewmates. Granted, that was years ago, things have changed. But on the direct topic, no, just because you think it's a pointless formality doesn't mean everyone else does. There's more to the game than attai...

RandomMarine

Ditching the silicon-esque laws and just have the spawn text inform players what they're allowed to do in a non-IC sense is a step in the right direction.

I still have a lot of issues with drones that go beyond rules and policy, but that's out of the scope of this thread.

RandomMarine

To the question at hand, nah, they shouldn't. Drones shouldn't be fucking around with NPCs just as they shouldn't mess with players. But, since a thread on drone-related policy exists, I've got to say some things. First off, interpretation of the drone lawset is all over the place. The wiki suggests...

RandomMarine

Deltastation supermatter 4 dummies http://i.imgur.com/viBgTrr.png FIRST OFF, WEAR A GODDAMN RADSUIT AND MESONS WHILE IN THE SUPERMATTER ENGINE ROOM 1) See those pumps in the red circles ? Crank them to max (4500 kPa) and turn them on. Three in total. 2) See those filters circled in blue ? Same deal...

RandomMarine

I originally suggested the whole set of power tools to be an expensive cargo order. But that got shot down in favor of the typical throw-it-in-science approach. Because, you know, it totally makes sense for power tools that are widely available in real life to be high-end R&D items. But, yeah, t...

RandomMarine

You are like a little baby.
Watch this.

RandomMarine

Reminder that both the cryo cells themselves and the freezer can be upgraded to make things quicker.

Although this is irrelevant for clone damage, since if R&D has the parts they should already have the clone pod itself upgraded.

RandomMarine

How does aloneness matter? Anybody with access to the room can walk up, grab it out of the SSU, slap it on themselves with a single tap of E, and walk out into space. Not everyone carries a stunprod 24/7 to deal with that. Not to mention having to manage power while out in the asteroid. I'd suggest ...

RandomMarine

Miners are kind of in an awkward spot due to this. Both because it's part of their job to be engaged in EVA far longer than any other, and goliath plates encourage miners to keep a hold of their own suits. Anybody grabbing your 4/4 upgraded mining suit out of the SSU while it's charging and saxxing ...

RandomMarine

I believe it's worth noting that any non-antag clown can take a little mutadone or grab a clean SE to remove their clumsiness. Powergaming? Likely. But lack of clumsiness should never be taken as evidence of antag status.

RandomMarine

>Everett Willey, Cargo tech. >Join minutes after round start. >QM fucks off and gets into drama with the detective. Essentially run cargo for a while. >Captain wants to set up supermatter. >Order excessive amounts of metal and engineering supplies. Get upgrades for the autolathe, print out RCDs and ...

RandomMarine

When not traitor? I can see it now. Shitcuriguy McMeta says, "Show me your PDA with clown market open or it's straight to perma for you."

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