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by newfren
Sat Nov 14, 2015 7:09 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Screenshots General
Replies: 2758
Views: 909793

Re: Screenshots General

So in a Hand of God round I got captured and instead of converting me they accidentally sac'd me.

I did this for the rest of the round.
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by newfren
Fri Nov 13, 2015 7:40 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Would removing changeling be any real loss?
Replies: 59
Views: 13415

Re: Would removing changeling be any real loss?

I had an atmos tech purposefully maximize the vents so that my life sucked a little more crawling around in them once.
by newfren
Fri Nov 13, 2015 7:38 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Spray bottles and slips.
Replies: 48
Views: 9148

Re: Spray bottles and slips.

The simpler solution would be to just make spray bottles spray fewer reagents and/or hold fewer. Holding fewer just nerfs botany though. Which isn't doing great. And why would you even nerf this. None of the spray bottles in botany are relevant in the amount of liquids they hold. Using plant killer...
by newfren
Fri Nov 13, 2015 12:38 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Hand of God
Replies: 52
Views: 9480

Re: Hand of God

Still think he should have SOME sort of importance past slow deconversion. It's probably better for everyone that a joke roleplay job with no real duties isnt suddenly a pivotal role in a game mode. It's already really dumb in cult when you realize no chaplain ever signed up or he incinerated himse...
by newfren
Wed Nov 11, 2015 6:51 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Hulk
Replies: 99
Views: 21505

Re: Hulk

I'm getting tired of the manlet hulks running around being little murdering bastards. Unless you have a gun they're hard as fuck to hit because they're hulks and their sprite is fucking tiny. Can getting that combo just autogib them already? how can anyone be tired of superstrong manlets they're th...
by newfren
Mon Nov 09, 2015 4:41 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 535222

Re: Simple Questions Thread

I might be a bit out of the loop but I'm pretty sure nitroglycerine requires some pretty heavy chemistry work that is outside the realm of botanists and squarely in the "don't let anyone catch you making this" territory of chemistry. requires corn oil, sulphuric acid, potassium, and heat ...
by newfren
Mon Nov 09, 2015 3:09 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 535222

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Not if you're any good at botany, seriously. You'd still need to shit out a tonne of bananas to get a bluespace beaker's worth of potassium, and you need only slightly more corn oil for the nitroglycerin, which only requires large beakers - something good botanists will be getting tonnes of at round...
by newfren
Mon Nov 09, 2015 2:58 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 535222

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Potas/Water explosions are so shit compared to the nitroglycerin botanists can already get though.

Mostly this would be for assistant's use at the public garden.
by newfren
Sun Nov 08, 2015 5:14 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Hulk
Replies: 99
Views: 21505

Re: Hulk

Kor has a pull up to remove hulk and replace it with laser eyes and itemless ventcrawling (finally geneticists can meme around in the vents while shouting racial slurs instead of just chimpering).
by newfren
Sat Nov 07, 2015 2:54 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Minor Suggestions
Replies: 3766
Views: 944762

Re: Minor Suggestions

You can smelt with an ore redemption machine even if you don't have access - just pop the minerals in the top, then once you think they're all smelted you deconstruct the machine - all the smelted ores will pop out.
by newfren
Sat Nov 07, 2015 12:21 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: The big map rotation poll
Replies: 44
Views: 10663

Re: The big map rotation poll

I think it was originally coded so it's more likely to roll the same map multiple times in a row (i.e. there was some additionally weighting on a map for being the one currently played) so that the playerbase has more opportunity to get used to it.
by newfren
Fri Nov 06, 2015 11:06 pm
Forum: Former Admins
Topic: [No Longer an Admin] Saegrimr
Replies: 213
Views: 60126

Re: Saegrimr

I don't think I've ever disagreed with anything Saegrimr 's ever done except for spelling his account name like that. The people he bans seem to get upset when he acts glib towards them instead of prostrating himself before them and throwing himself on their good graces, which is points in his favou...
by newfren
Fri Nov 06, 2015 2:39 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Stories of Awesome (Or something close to it.)
Replies: 2028
Views: 648902

Re: Stories of Awesome (Or something close to it.)

did you just quote your own post from 4 posts up and change nothing
by newfren
Fri Nov 06, 2015 2:37 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Map Rotation
Replies: 45
Views: 9425

Re: Map Rotation

I like lowpop birdboat because the map gives you a lot of things to shit around with while the traitors emag into the vault, grab the CE's blueprints, then hold their dick in an escape pod.

For anything above ~30 players it's fairly broken and I'd really only want to play on box, meta, or dream.
by newfren
Thu Nov 05, 2015 7:52 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Mice Eating Wires
Replies: 66
Views: 14018

Re: Mice Eating Wires

idk why you're so excited about letting loose a tonne of mice over specific wires like gathering all the mouse in the station is somehow easier than getting insulated gloves and a set of wirecutters (please noone figure out that the ones on the abandoned teleporter are really easy to get if you get ...
by newfren
Thu Nov 05, 2015 3:21 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: nerfs dihydrogen monoxide
Replies: 78
Views: 14790

Re: nerfs dihydrogen monoxide

We need some sort of no-drop stun where the victim doesn't drop their stuff. I'm pretty sure theres a "paralyze" which is what either the beepsky smash or neurotoxin bar drink does. I forget which. Beepsky Smash only makes you drop things, it doesn't do anything else, whereas bar neurotox...
by newfren
Wed Nov 04, 2015 10:07 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: To Stun Or Not To Stun: The Final Solution Edition
Replies: 55
Views: 10893

Re: To Stun Or Not To Stun: The Final Solution Edition

Saegrimr wrote:Remove damage.
by newfren
Wed Nov 04, 2015 8:11 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 535222

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Neither of those things are true and they haven't been true for a little while. Space is randomised now.
by newfren
Sun Nov 01, 2015 8:05 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 535222

Re: Simple Questions Thread

It's intended for chefs who want to take up my valuable bar space serving fucking food.
by newfren
Wed Oct 28, 2015 11:15 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Minor Suggestions
Replies: 3766
Views: 944762

Re: Minor Suggestions

A "grabber" mode for vending machines, similar to the way the ore refiner picks up ore - when activated, it picks up any items of its type, that are not held, in adjacent tiles. It's a toggle, and it won't work on its own tile, so vending stuff won't be a problem. Think of it like this - ...
by newfren
Wed Oct 28, 2015 6:43 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Holoparasites
Replies: 136
Views: 28836

Re: Holoparasites

I utterly love these things, but maybe they should have a weakness to emp (just for stunning, not to cause damage)? I mean, they ARE machines, right? A) It wouldn't really help with the balance concerns people have. Anyone with armory access already easily kills parasites, and anyone without armory...
by newfren
Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:35 am
Forum: Coding
Topic: Quick Question (pertains to chainsaws)
Replies: 6
Views: 2235

Re: Quick Question (pertains to chainsaws)

https://client01.chat.mibbit.com/?url=i ... 2Fcoderbus

Follow that link, type "newfrenismyhero" where it asks for a name then hit go and wait for a little bit while it loads shit for you.
by newfren
Mon Oct 26, 2015 10:04 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 535222

Re: Simple Questions Thread

TheNightingale wrote:You can also print a cell from an exosuit fabricator instead - they have 100% reliability, regardless of the Protolathe cells.
This seems like a bug but because it circumvents a shitty mechanic I'm cool with it.
by newfren
Mon Oct 26, 2015 9:26 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Would giving Xenobio a gold slime roundstart fix it?
Replies: 53
Views: 11353

Re: Would giving Xenobio a gold slime roundstart fix it?

That sounds absolutely terrible for anyone who actually tries at botany. It sort of sounds like you're merging botany and xenobio for no real reason? As to the thread at hand - giving a gold slime to xenobio wouldn't fix any of the issues that xenobio has with slime management/tedious waiting around...
by newfren
Mon Oct 26, 2015 11:16 am
Forum: Resolved Requests
Topic: Security Borg ignoring direct law 2 orders
Replies: 9
Views: 2310

Security Borg ignoring direct law 2 orders

Your byond account: Newfren Your character name: Bill Nefren Their character name: Security Cyborg-821 Their byond account(optional, but useful if you can provide it): Nope22 Server and time: 2015-10-26, around server time 11:00 Logs and/or screenshots: - Description of what happened: I was breaking...
by newfren
Sun Oct 25, 2015 10:50 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Would giving Xenobio a gold slime roundstart fix it?
Replies: 53
Views: 11353

Re: Would giving Xenobio a gold slime roundstart fix it?

Make it so the slime scanner can pick up a single slime and drop it back down wherever you want. Check for sentience so you can't abduct player slimes/drop two sentient death machine buddies down wherever you want, and then it's not as good as a grey slime extract/gold slime extract for dropping haz...
by newfren
Sun Oct 25, 2015 7:47 am
Forum: Spriting and Mapping
Topic: DiscStation Thread: Out of Rotation for Maintence
Replies: 162
Views: 53509

Re: DiscStation Thread: Slowly fixing everything

In north maint there's a bunch of doors that lead directly into space, as well as correctly painted airlock doors that lead into space without an extra airlock and without the traditional access restrictions. Everything feels empty, especially the massive corridors. The double R-Windows surrounding ...
by newfren
Sat Oct 24, 2015 12:31 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 535222

Re: Simple Questions Thread

It's mentioned on every chem that you can stabilise how you can then trigger the chem to work again. If a chemical doesn't say it can be stabilised then it cannot, and will happen on mixing (i.e., nitroglycerin). Oh actually just checked phlogiston and that doesn't say if there's a way to activate i...
by newfren
Sat Oct 24, 2015 12:27 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Nerf patches
Replies: 50
Views: 9967

Re: Nerf patches

It's most prominent with the jab from a sleepypen telling you that someone's injected you with morphine goof.
by newfren
Sat Oct 24, 2015 12:26 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Morph too good for a side antag
Replies: 30
Views: 6586

Re: Morph too good for a side antag

By round ender I typically mean something that ends the round.

I dunno about everyone else.

I've just been using the actual meaning of the words.
by newfren
Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:24 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 535222

Re: Simple Questions Thread

how the fuck are you supposed to use stabilizing agent after the agent and the now-stable reagents are in the same pool, it's basically impossible to separate them short of the chemmaster (as far as I can tell) Well yeah, you seperate it using the chem master. Important to note though, the stabiliz...
by newfren
Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:15 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Nerf patches
Replies: 50
Views: 9967

Re: Nerf patches

PKPenguin321 wrote:
Wyzack wrote:Here is hoping the whole "dropping pills into drinks" thing will actally become a viable murderstrategy once reagent obfuscation is in
it still wont be viable as long as the BIG RED MESSAGE THAT TELLS EVERYBODY WHAT YOU DID is still in
JOE HYPNOL SLIPS SOMETHING INTO THE GLASS!!!!!!!
by newfren
Fri Oct 23, 2015 9:19 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Minor Suggestions
Replies: 3766
Views: 944762

Re: Minor Suggestions

Aren't shards like force 4 or something hilariously terrible.

Ok just looked it up, they're literally force 5.
by newfren
Fri Oct 23, 2015 6:30 am
Forum: Spriting and Mapping
Topic: Sprite Requests
Replies: 679
Views: 270157

Re: Sprite Requests

tuypo1 wrote:I think theres already a syndi engineering suit on the derelict
It's a soft suit, not a hardsuit, and it borrows a lot more from the syndicate spacesuit than it does from engineering's hardsuits, which I think is what they wanted.
by newfren
Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:44 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Labor camp updates
Replies: 34
Views: 5590

Re: Labor camp updates

Using the gulag as long term imprisonment in a round then 100% forbids it from being used for temporary imprisonment, as anyone with an ID that's been fulfilled can then let everyone else out of the gulag. I mean I realize it's underused for that sort of thing in most rounds anyway but adding a purp...
by newfren
Thu Oct 22, 2015 7:46 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Labor camp updates
Replies: 34
Views: 5590

Re: Labor camp updates

You can store your oxygen tank in your pockets Xhuis. Also it is totally possible for prisoners to get themselves back to the station from the gulag - they can call the gulag shuttle to the gulag themselves, which has a stacking machine inside. If you put your processed metals below this the machine...
by newfren
Thu Oct 22, 2015 7:31 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Minor Suggestions
Replies: 3766
Views: 944762

Re: Minor Suggestions

if you emag the bartender's drink dispenser thing, it should be able to dispense ethanol and radium Radium is already really easy to get as a bartender because the singulo requires them - it's also a fairly popular drink when you go full autism mode on the bar and shit out tonnes of different drink...
by newfren
Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:04 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Labor camp updates
Replies: 34
Views: 5590

Re: Labor camp updates

Have you checked to make sure that pickaxes have the same digspeed on open ground that shovels do? Also check to see if they give the same amount of sand - each use of a shovel on dirt gets you 5 sand quite quickly, which is a good way to fulfill your point quota in the gulag, especially compared to...
by newfren
Tue Oct 20, 2015 7:47 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: ITT: We make shitty suggestions and come up with poor ideas.
Replies: 3938
Views: 1049648

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

Xhuis wrote:
jaxy15 wrote:Clowns play the sad trombone sound upon death.
stop making valid and good suggestions in the shitty suggestions thread
by newfren
Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:31 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Lethality feedback thread
Replies: 27
Views: 5114

Re: Lethality feedback thread

Either way its a more limited resource than common tools, not to mention Security could technically classify ownership of a cannon as a crime if the holder can't prove (or sec can prove) that the pipe was not wrenched off of somewhere in maint. Also it's possession of a lethal weapon which is proba...
by newfren
Mon Oct 19, 2015 9:00 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 535222

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Oh yeah, one of those lets you plant weeds - I think it might also actually be the plasma vessel though.
by newfren
Mon Oct 19, 2015 4:56 am
Forum: Spriting and Mapping
Topic: Birdboatstation (No longer maintained)
Replies: 97
Views: 28886

Re: Birdboatstation (Done!)

Please at least remove the chem set up in maint above xenobio, there's basically no risk/reward involved in spamming powerful poison grenades/fire chems/lube as an antag.
by newfren
Mon Oct 19, 2015 3:07 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Screenshots General
Replies: 2758
Views: 909793

Re: bandit saga

bandit wrote:I don't get it
It's evidence that he steals multiple job critical machines over multiple rounds without being an antag! :honk:
by newfren
Mon Oct 19, 2015 3:06 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 535222

Re: Simple Questions Thread

While we're on the topic, what all can you extract and what does each organ do? Let's see if I can remember them all... Hive Node from aiming at the head (not eyes or mouth) - lets you alien whisper, makes you immune to face hugging(maybe? either this or the plasma vessel does this), lets you hear ...
by newfren
Sun Oct 18, 2015 11:39 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 535222

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Luke Cox wrote:
PKPenguin321 wrote:if you put them into a human then you can get xeno powers like acid spit and other things
Is this also done through organ manipulation surgery? The wiki really needs to be updated with this stuff
It's all organ manipulation, yes.
by newfren
Sun Oct 18, 2015 4:10 am
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Some ideas to make medbay more traitorous
Replies: 11
Views: 2699

Re: Some ideas to make medbay more traitorous

Holy shit yes. The beakers should not list their ingredients on cryo to make sabotage viable. 100% agree. How about the ability to soak patches or bruise/burnpacks in a beaker full of anything to transfer the reagents in the beaker to them, split evenly if it's a stack of packs; in addition to thei...
by newfren
Sun Oct 18, 2015 4:09 am
Forum: Spriting and Mapping
Topic: Dreamstation [DREAMS DON'T DIE]
Replies: 115
Views: 41468

Re: Dreamstation [LITERALLY THE MOST READY]

Botany also lacks a grinder and a condimaster.
by newfren
Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:26 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Simple Questions Thread
Replies: 2095
Views: 535222

Re: Simple Questions Thread

The best one to implant is the hive node - lets you use the hive mind chat the xenos use and makes you immune to facehugging, as well as letting you whisper if you install a plasma vessel. Incidentally I believe it's the plasma vessel that also lets you heal on weeds.
by newfren
Fri Oct 16, 2015 9:12 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Pet Likes Thread - Little things that make you smile
Replies: 102
Views: 29660

Re: Pet Likes Thread - Little things that make you smile

When people murderbone in funny ways. Cargo techs that let me print off all the large beakers I want. Chemists that let me take all their power filling them with mutagen. Security officers that don't care if I grow Deathnettles/Novaflowers People who actually make interesting requests of me, in what...
by newfren
Fri Oct 16, 2015 2:20 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Cannon weapon thingy with flouro acid loaded
Replies: 101
Views: 22261

Re: Cannon weapon thingy with flouro acid loaded

It's 300u of corn oil + 100u s acid for the Glycerol. 100u of glycerol, s acid and f acid for 200u of nitro. But you cannot put more than 2 large beakers in a grenade casing, nor can you have stable nitroglycerin - it explodes immeadiately upon mixing. The best mix for a grenade would be 65 each of...