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PR has been denied several times over. Just keeping this here for the inevitable felinid lover maintainer (which allows me as a human geneticist to gain more powers!)
Felinid Claws: Does brute wound damage. Or does it more easily if fists can already do that
Downside: Like real life cats, when your claws get too long. You can't balance good! Felinids will trip over themselves while running.
Power: Buffs wound claw damage
Synchroniser: makes you only trip over yourself while running half the time...
screw the curator that griefing valid hunter he does not deserve to outshine the captain!
I say to keep its usage as a neat occasional thing. It should do much more damage on revs and have a higher deconvert proc. Remind them of the chain of command!
It's like how the chaplains bible has a lot of uses but no one cares...
We have DND references, jojo references, DBZ references, touhou references, MGS references but why isnt wizard self referential?
Here are some fun and interesting ideas.
B'RA'RPEE : A brown bolt not unlike the color of beer, that if it hits you. It transports you to a hilton hotel esque place. A tiny bar. To get out you have to make an emote, or it'll automatically release you back where you previously where after 1 minute. 1 point, Robeless. because its just a non-harmful trap, that is easy to escape...
1. They can pass out super powers like candy very easily with the push of a button
2. Hulk annoys us grr you break walls and shout about it over comms and your also stun resistant and you also have strong fists!!
Combine the two and now Genetics has been locked out of getting anything cool and fun and is stale.
Here's how for the first time ever, a removal can create more content and more things for the geneticist to do while nerfing the amount of OP stuff people will...
So when crag brought up hygiene due to the bar rp PR. I thought about what Finalpotato said about features that make you and your character to want the same thing...
Thus, here's my idea: Taking a shower will now stall a viruses stage speed progression for 3 minutes.
When you get sick or someone coughs on you, you'd feel gross! Little did you know your already infected, but you can definitely reduce the viral payload that ultimately enters your system. Thus, by fully stripping down and rubbing yourself...
I think it makes the game feel more dangerous and fun.
Right now if you’re somewhat robust you can walk around anywhere feeling relatively safe thanks to shoves alone. Seeing as a lot of folks also go through the minimal effort of getting some form of slip/bola, there’s usually a decent chance they can make it out of fights at least alive (if not victorious). I’m not even that robust, but I think I stand a decent chance against most with these things, regardless of what weapons they might have.
Seemed positively recieved over discord (enclosed), the Station Rig as a tribute to Deep Rock Galactic would be a sub-orbital mining base operated by dwarves. They technically work for Centcomm, but mine minerals to earn the mining points wages for their own self sufficiency.
Their job when not becoming copiously drunk is to use a drop-pod with a two way teleportation rift inside it to scale down to Lavaland and relieve it of its mineral plunder, though they are perfectly fine to stay in orbit, they are...
wizards can cast burn, paralyse, stasis, and freeze but they cant cast blight?
what the heck game balance!!!
they should get a frost bolt too and not have it just be the traps. That'd be a fun inverse fireball..bolt of freezing. But I guess lockers already fill that nitch.
The shuttle should automatically call after a certain time limit unless someone temporarily delays it at the comms console. Picrel is untenable, what is someone going when they arrive to a station with no power, no one to interact with, and all jobs either impossible to complete or already finished?
for walking through that slow lengthly maze..you get a reward of just an orange and a message that goes I forgor :skull:
I think it'd be epic if instead..there was a pill on that desk. A green pill. If you choose to ingest it, you gain an action button called Slow-Time You enter a bullet-time state that gives you bullet dodging abilites akin to a nightmare.
The catch is that your walk speed is super slowed, and you gain sloth movement trails. The pill didnt actually slow down time at all, you just react...
With the sin of gluttony.. be careful as your eyes are bigger than your stomach!
So as we all either know or don't know. The reason morphs have dissapeared from the game is because they were only obtainable from gluttonys ruin, or admin intervention. Well the gluttonys blessing got removed because coders were tired of miners self-antagging (no matter how weak they might be) and eating the ore silo. Now they're removed and we have another useless lavaland ruin...Unless you have a need for a portal that...
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Make the chef better by making advanced foods more useful and helpful without taking away the value of vended foods and late-shift donuts
What do
Diversify nutriment/protein/vitamin more; have them serve different purposes instead of just being nutriment with slightly different healing properties and parallel metabolism.
Protein leaves the system at a slow metabolic rate and provide a mild lasting mood boost (larger for lizards?) and a decrease in hunger accumulation as long as it's in you....
Scale Threat cost of antag rolls inversely with living, connected security personnel (and possibly living, connected antagonists still in the round) to prevent antagonist flooding
Scale cost of Extra Loud traitor items intended to cause or facilitate mass-murder (romerol, maybe elite modsuits, dual e-sword, etc.) with crew on manifest.
Make all (or most) traitor items available always, but make the ones that are currently rep-locked start unrealistically expensive and get cheaper as your rep increases...
We all don't like stuns. But antags need a way to win over against the average crew member. Here's my solution.
Cultist: Blood Lasso.
They now throw 4 tile long lassos of blood that leave blood trails and allow them to drag their targets to their narsian goal. If your caught in one, you will forcibly follow the cultist but can otherwise scream shout and attack. You don't have the ability to mess with clothes or pull things out of your bag/pocket Just imagine a bit longer version of current sec officer...
1. Armory now gets Machine Disablers. They require to be dual-wield, takes up a backpack slot and gives duffel bag slowdown. In exchange for this, you can shoot a rapid fire volley of disabler shots like a turret. 300 Shots in total before it has to be put in a recharger. Runs out of energy instantly via EMP. It's very obvious if a sec officer has one.
2. All round start officers get krav maga. Warden's is now innate and stronger. They're the sensei
3. Thats enough buffs we have a lot of underused stuff...
Recent discussions on stun baton balance has made it abundantly clear that many people ( including mothblocks AND jaredfogle ) think that stealth antag is fun, and rely on the stun baton as an incredibly robust ambush weapon.
I think it would be cool to brainstorm some examples of nonlethal weapons that might fit a similar niech as the stun baton for traitors to buy.
A non-original but simple example would be a highpowered handheld stungun that worked exactly like a baton, but small sized. It could also...
Aquatic Morphification: You can turn into a slippery puddle. Allowing you to slip someone, or dodge a laser ala Chameleon Projector. Useful!!!! Has a 1 minute revert CD. So don't expect to be able to capitalize on that stun. Also you will be unable to turn back if someone collects you in a beaker, until your splashed on the floor once more. You die if your dried out/tile your on dissapears.
Flesh-Mender: You can now spray your flesh out of your hands to heal other people. You take clone damage from this,...
I'm thinking about putting this together as a crate that Medical can order if people think it's a good idea.
Because CENTCOM is RACIST, this would be a general kit with the bare minimums for solving health problems specific to those races. It could come in one or two medkit-sized boxes, a medical satchel, or a medical duffel bag, depending on how many of each thing the kit has.
Current prospective kit is...
Epinephrine medipen(s) for preserving any expired bodies while you figure out what the hell...
i will be punished for crimes against god and nature.
A supermatter shard coated in a baste of hypernoblium, tometo sauce, cheeze, flore and sasage, encased in delicious calzone to perfect its form, functionally the same but edible theoreticaly (1k units of teslium). There is potentially nothing funnier than asking admins to procure the spiciest hot-pocket on lowpop.
Edit - Stop changing the engine every two seconds, this is a reactionary thread, double and triple points if you think its a good and...
We all like long fights. Best fights are when they're evenly matched and anyone can win. Stun-batons are controversial and whoever you ask might have something different to say about them.
BUT this idea is not about them.
Change to Stun-Prods: 1. They fit in your backpack now.
2. Instead of fully stunning you, if you get a hit on someone it disables a limb for 20 - 30 seconds. Antag now is either limping or can only attack with one hand. Crippling, but not entirely unable to defend themselves!...
Items should have a separate force variable specifically for damage against buildings and structures. By default, it is equal to normal damage.
It could both be defined as a modifier (demolish_force = force * 1.5) for most cases as well as specific numbers (demolition_force = 45) for more specific dedicated scenarios.
Not only does it make sense that some items should be better at destroying stuff than others, but it would also allow for the specific implementation of high damage items without having to...
So I have been thinking.
You are working on some cool virus. Its really cool (just for you, everybody else don't give a shit about your symptoms, nerd). Then you look at its resistance stat. Or not. It was alcohol and you went to take a shot after a good day's work. You are now immune to your self-resp_with_some_extra_shit_disease_final_neutered.
Next time you want to switch viruses, because you made a cool healing, but somebody left the airlock open and they now need self-resp because NT haven't left an...
We should have framework that measures how far a projectile traveled before hitting it's target.
Example implementations:
Bullets and lasers that have damage falloff or rampup based on how far or close you are.
Thrown hatchets will hit handle side one an odd number of tiles traveled, or blade side on an even number. Would hit point blank, 2 tiles away, 4 tiles away, ect.
Not in their old sense, but neutered wizard-staves now exist in crew hands. What if they just used the neutered versions, like medi-beam healing instead of revival bolts. And change with the chance of polymorphing themselves/can only polymorph others one time.
They just need more bolts in general, 3/4 are offensive and one of them just creates doors.
So since xenobio is gonna get gutted. Heres my idea to save the best thing about it. Sentience Potions!
We all know about forbidden fruits in folklore that give you accursed knowledge. What better way to save a game mechanic then by giving it to botany. It can be a reagent in the golden fruit. Or its own mutation. You feed it to an animal and grant it accursed knowledge of good and evil! Which has the byproduct of sentience. Which it will either thank you for, or violently murder you for its new found...
Come on, there's literally a hottest new meme is a yellow fish that sings about public urination called a Fugu going around in a bowl, you know you want to do it, for the unused mob organs if nothing else. You know its good.
Honestly fish catering, slime catering, couldn't it all be the same? Cod liver oil good for you, cats love it, do a little bit of whisk-blend action on that salmon to get the chems out, wham bam scaramouche :honkman: , capiche?
Martial arts are cool, and there is a lot of cool aspects of them that haven't been put into the game yet. I figured i'd share some cool concepts i came up with.
Scarlet Fury Style: Run fast and cut deep. Passively speeds you up when combat mode is enabled. The intended fighting style is hit and run , and its combos are based mostly around wounding through armor. I've considered replacing the normal punch with an armor ignoring rend seeing as it'd have to contend with stunbatons in melee, and would lack...
So Nightmare keeps maint shadow jaunt spookyness. But instead of getting an armblade and trying to destroy lights. He instead becomes an IT/ Freddy Kruger rip off. They gain power based on how low the moodlets of those around them are. Like passive point generation, they also gain points if peoples moodlets drop near them. More active point generation.
Using these low moodlets, they can turn and mimick scary things in an attempt to freak people out. Like xeno sound effects, blob announcements, all the...
According to Lore, the NT Space Station is supposed to be a Research station. I think that NT should reward the station crew with money based on Research performance. The money would be given to the RD (Research Director), and the RD would allocate money to scientists, and the scientists would spend the money towards whatever they need to complete their project.
Rather than just doing bounties, perhaps people (particularly assistants) could also assist scientists instead. The science department would have...
Best bartender drinks are the ones that do the funny. Whether it'd be the good, (quadriple sec, Doctor's Delight) The bad (Beepsky Smash, Neurotoxin) Or the hillarious (Nar-Sour)
So I think more drinks should have different effects. Give people reason to come to the bar on more rounds.
Acid Spit - Allows you to spit the xenomorph neurotoxin projectile. But it does no damage and is purely for the funny
Driest Martini - You are now temporarily immune from being stained by blood. Take that bubblegum!...
I had a few ideas for upgrades to Robots
:medbot: Firstly, would be the ability to open the maintenance hatch, and add the Cyborg self repair module to a Medbot, giving it the function of repairing bots.
:clean: After researching Sanitation technology, adding a firmware update to cleanbots would be neat.
:bluetank: A temperature regulator function for firebots would be neat. The idea that they can go into a room that is overheated or under-heated, park over the gap into space and heat their coil or...
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So, I recall admin tools allow you to set custom objectives, writing in whatever you want, and toggle their green/red status, and I had some thoughts about how Manuel has some problems with encouraging traitor creativity.
I also got to thinking about how some HRP servers had/have no objectives. You're just a traitor, and you trait around with whatever you think seems fun. But /tg/ can't quite handle that. So I thought, what if we meet those halfway...
as someone that really enjoys playing as the AI, borg and pAI me and a few players who have balance and tip discussions on playing these 3 positions have all agreed the pAI has potential to be a true job role that can serve as the capability of giving new dynamics to antags, command, general crew and newbies to any of the following since it opens up more of an ability to introduce a better co-op synergy to using a pAI.
having pAI become a true job role would also open up a new selection to silicon which...
This anomaly converts station tiles into lavaland ashen floor at a high chance, with a low chance of lava. So you'll probably see like 1 - 2 lava tiles during the entire minute its there.
If it blows without being contained. It spawns a tendril on station in its place. Dangerous. (Engi get the RCD)
If you turn it into armor. When you get hit, instead of taking the hit, an unfriendly lavaland fauna spawns from your chest. Hopefully it hurts or scares off your...
Sec could serve to get a few more gadgets to make their jobs easier too. I'm thinking stuff like
1. Embedding Tracker: This tracker uses a combination of our embed system and suit sensors system. It does little to no damage, but it forces the targets suit sensors to the highest setting while it's on them. They have to stop moving and resist it off.
2. Sec-Hailer upgrade: This upgrade puts a radio in their sec-hailer, alerting their fellow security officers whenever they're using it. Doesn't really give...
Because people complain about the objectives & uplink can now dispense things tied to contracts upon a button press.
Traitor gets gadget and is rewarded for using it in effective ways
Unless the gadget is consumed in the process, you also get to keep it
Most items can still be bought independently (exception could be His Grace, giving extra rewards for doing well with it as well as lack of death?) , starting 20TC, final objectives & fame system not to be removed
With the amount of reasonable ideas...
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People still haven't created an idea that motivates someone enough to actually put the effort into making station power a nonbinary situation.
The problem
Power generation is boring. There are basically four states:
No power :( -- sucks, has to be fixed, this is fine as is
Power from solars only -- This usually means the engine exploded. Stable, no risk, everything is powered, boring as hell.
Power from the engine -- Everything is powered unless someone hits a power sink, probably.
Extra...
Blood-Rites is the coolest thing ever. But it has a lot of build up. Gotta collect blood like a janitor, be protected for several minutes to unleash cool spells and ultimately sacrifice nar'sie before you use it a whole lot.
It's a 10/10 in Wow factor, but a 7/10 in usefulness. Thus, I think it'd be cool if there was another way to see it. Sort of like the chamelon gun (rip you server rebooting son of a gun)
Maybe that nar'sie lavaland rune can be repurposed and give miners the ability to absorb blood...
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