/tg/Station 13

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 4:00 pm**

I know it seems early, but April Fools Day is creeping up and coding features, even meme ones, takes time.

Last year we went pretty hard on the April Fools Day content and it ended up being too disruptive due to one or two overwhelming joke mechanics. People got mad, I didn't blame them. That said I still feel like there's value in doing something for April Fools.

This poll is personal curiosity, it's not anything "official" or "binding" I'm just curious to where people's heads are at on this.

For the record I'd personally call what happened in 2016 as "very disruptive". What happened in the previous years that I remember (flipping the map, forcing random identities on everyone) I'd call "mildly disruptive" at best.

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 4:23 pm**

I liked the idea of adding flavor text for people, maybe even having some kind of basic script that cycles through a series of red flag words to generate awful cringy mary-sue flavortext that people would start with, even if they grammatically do not make much sense

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 4:28 pm**

make me admin

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 5:01 pm**

Bluespace wrote:make me admin

https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/ ... g.txt#L292

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 5:03 pm**

re-ad fusion. That shit was dope.

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 5:06 pm**

Wyzack wrote:I liked the idea of adding flavor text for people, maybe even having some kind of basic script that cycles through a series of red flag words to generate awful cringy mary-sue flavortext that people would start with, even if they grammatically do not make much sense

Why not let the players make their own flavor text

So when you examine someone your chat log is bombarded with 50 copies of woody got wood

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 5:09 pm**

My idea was sort of both, let people change it but have it auto-set to ridiculous garbage for those who forget/dont know about it yet

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 5:53 pm**

It's april fools! Its haha the game is a fuck fest full of dank maymays and bullshit! Not haha its the same game but every one gets a silly hat!

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 6:11 pm**

Bring back the PR that replaced IDs with sniper rifles.

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 7:03 pm**

Re-skin PK borgs as security cyborgs. Give PK borgs fake stunbatons that make *Buzz* sounds when used on people and gag handcuffs.

OPs spawn with clown masks and clown shoes in their bag.

Abductors say "Ayy lmao" instead of "..." when communicating telepathically.

Clown bikehorns are golden variants

Assistants can spawn with departmental access and armbands as part of a NT initiative to get them in the work place (don't worry it's just a prank).

Security Officers, and anyone else, have their swear words replaced with non-swear versions when wearing security masks (Shit into sugar, hell into heck etc.).

The CMO spawns with a chastity belt

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 7:14 pm**

Last year's April fools was just legitimately not fun to play during, just like it was the year before that. Please for the love of God can we take it easy this year and do things more subtlely and not just slam dunk the game in a trash can for a full day for something you giggle at for five minutes?

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 7:17 pm**

Hoe about be merge nothing and make it "admins go wild" day

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 7:21 pm**

Shaps wrote:Last year's April fools was just legitimately not fun to play during, just like it was the year before that. Please for the love of God can we take it easy this year and do things more subtlely and not just slam dunk the game in a trash can for a full day for something you giggle at for five minutes?

It really was mostly Automated Game Master that pushed 2016 from "playable meme zone" to "every round lasts 20 minutes because this feature literally shitposts admin button presses". The rounds where I or someone else were around to disable it were a LOT better.

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 8:27 pm**

The ERP one was pretty entertaining, mainly because it introduced tactical crotch grabbing where you could grab someone's crotch to stun them even if they'd just stunned you. It was like a sexual version of parasting

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 8:40 pm**

I already told you we're not doing an april fools branch this year.

2016 ruined that privlege, it's over, done.

only things you can fit into the event framework will make it

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 8:46 pm**

oranges wrote:I already told you we're not doing an april fools branch this year.

2016 ruined that privlege, it's over, done.

only things you can fit into the event framework will make it

If you weren't the only one insisting on that maybe I'd take it more seriously.

In any case there are other ways of doing this. I mean hell, if push comes to shove we could even just test merge all the memes at the proper time without committing anything properly ever.

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 8:53 pm**

As is tradition for me, I'll be adding some minor features to go with the holiday. Like usual, I'll try to stay mostly non intrusive, but there's bound to be some over the top stuff. Gag secborgs are definitely happening.

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 8:59 pm**

add kender as a playable race

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 9:03 pm**

Replace departmental pets with megafauna

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 9:14 pm**

Incoming wrote:
oranges wrote:I already told you we're not doing an april fools branch this year.

2016 ruined that privlege, it's over, done.

only things you can fit into the event framework will make it
If you weren't the only one insisting on that maybe I'd take it more seriously.

In any case there are other ways of doing this. I mean hell, if push comes to shove we could even just test merge all the memes at the proper time without committing anything properly ever.

When I'm the maintainer that does the majority of the merging maybe you should.

Posted: **Thu Mar 02, 2017 9:23 pm**

Please hear me out instead of just tl;dring and posting a one-sentence response that just proves you only care about your own opinion.

Before we get in a flame war, I'd like to point to out that, with the event framework, only minor things can make it in. We can add new files for exclusively April Fool's, but that would cause bloat. I will always support an April Fool's branch because it lets more fun, crazy things get in than if we had to use the framework.

Instead of vehemently shutting down any attempt at otherwise and threatening people who don't agree, oranges, I think that the best solution here is just to closely moderate the content that comes up for April Fool's. The Game Master was very obviously disruptive. Glancing at the code at all could have told you that. Because people didn't, though, it got merged, and ruined the entire event. If you let your favorite cat loose in a pen of sleeping mice, chances are that it's going to kill one. Instead of breaking the cat's neck because it didn't follow our (unstated) expectations, better to teach it just not to attack the mice - in this case, just to moderate what gets merged.

Posted: **Fri Mar 03, 2017 2:40 am**

D&B wrote:Replace departmental pets with megafauna

alternatively, make any mob sentient by clicking it

Posted: **Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:21 am**

Steal Goon's farts and butts for April Fools. Make it so if you fart too much in quick succession your ass flies off and if you try to fart again after your ass flies off you spray gibs behind you and die.
Be interesting to see how many people fart themselves to death in the HoP's line.
Also farting while holding a lit lighter lets you light your farts on fire igniting anyone one tile directly behind you.
Robotics should also be able to make butt bots

Posted: **Fri Mar 03, 2017 12:06 pm**

Admins can do silliness fine without special code for it tbqh, unless it's something really special that requires a code solution.

Posted: **Fri Mar 03, 2017 2:56 pm**

But 'tis the codememe day!
Pretty much all should be fine, unless Gamemaster returns from it's deep grave to haunt us again.

Posted: **Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:46 pm**

BRING BACK UNLIMITED NO ADMIN APPROVAL STATION NAMING

Posted: **Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:03 pm**

IcePacks wrote:add kender as a playable race

TOO FUCKING FAR

Posted: **Sat Mar 04, 2017 12:13 am**

Qbopper wrote:
IcePacks wrote:add kender as a playable race
TOO FUCKING FAR

If you think about it, it really isn't! Spacemen are similar to kender in a lot of ways.

Loud and obnoxious
Have no concept of personal property
Will go out of their way to do things they think are funny

Unlike kender, however, they also spout 500-year-old memes, are autistic, and are liable to fits of violent bloodlust at any time.

Posted: **Sat Mar 04, 2017 1:37 am**

Xhuis wrote:
Qbopper wrote:
IcePacks wrote:add kender as a playable race
TOO FUCKING FAR
If you think about it, it really isn't! Spacemen are similar to kender in a lot of ways.

Loud and obnoxious

Have no concept of personal property

Will go out of their way to do things they think are funny
Unlike kender, however, they also spout 500-year-old memes, are autistic, and are liable to fits of violent bloodlust at any time.

Kender also won't murder you over something they stole.

Posted: **Sat Mar 04, 2017 3:14 am**

but you'll murder a kender if they steal something. it's completely normal! nothing to be ashamed of!

Posted: **Sat Mar 04, 2017 7:27 pm**

Xhuis wrote:
Qbopper wrote:
IcePacks wrote:add kender as a playable race
TOO FUCKING FAR
If you think about it, it really isn't! Spacemen are similar to kender in a lot of ways.

Loud and obnoxious

Have no concept of personal property

Will go out of their way to do things they think are funny
Unlike kender, however, they also spout 500-year-old memes, are autistic, and are liable to fits of violent bloodlust at any time.

you have a point, but let's be real, anyone who knows what a kender is is going to see one and immediately ask if they're valid

Posted: **Sat Mar 04, 2017 7:30 pm**

It's because they are valid

Fuck Kender

Posted: **Sat Mar 04, 2017 7:42 pm**

i know! while we're adding kender, let's put the identity system in!

Posted: **Sat Mar 04, 2017 8:10 pm**

IcePacks wrote:i know! while we're adding kender, let's put the identity system in!

the true april fools event

Posted: **Sun Mar 05, 2017 12:55 am**

I may or may not give people 6 hands

Posted: **Mon Mar 06, 2017 11:47 pm**

Incoming wrote:
Shaps wrote:Last year's April fools was just legitimately not fun to play during, just like it was the year before that. Please for the love of God can we take it easy this year and do things more subtlely and not just slam dunk the game in a trash can for a full day for something you giggle at for five minutes?
It really was mostly Automated Game Master that pushed 2016 from "playable meme zone" to "every round lasts 20 minutes because this feature literally shitposts admin button presses". The rounds where I or someone else were around to disable it were a LOT better.

Are you saying there should be no experimental game master 2.0 in 2017?

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:53 pm**

Scott wrote:
Incoming wrote:
Shaps wrote:Last year's April fools was just legitimately not fun to play during, just like it was the year before that. Please for the love of God can we take it easy this year and do things more subtlely and not just slam dunk the game in a trash can for a full day for something you giggle at for five minutes?
It really was mostly Automated Game Master that pushed 2016 from "playable meme zone" to "every round lasts 20 minutes because this feature literally shitposts admin button presses". The rounds where I or someone else were around to disable it were a LOT better.
Are you saying there should be no experimental game master 2.0 in 2017?

Please no

Posted: **Tue Mar 07, 2017 11:09 pm**

Xhuis wrote:
Scott wrote:
Incoming wrote:
Shaps wrote:Last year's April fools was just legitimately not fun to play during, just like it was the year before that. Please for the love of God can we take it easy this year and do things more subtlely and not just slam dunk the game in a trash can for a full day for something you giggle at for five minutes?
please yes

It really was mostly Automated Game Master that pushed 2016 from "playable meme zone" to "every round lasts 20 minutes because this feature literally shitposts admin button presses". The rounds where I or someone else were around to disable it were a LOT better.
Are you saying there should be no experimental game master 2.0 in 2017?
Please yes

Posted: **Wed Mar 08, 2017 12:21 am**

Ok I'll bite, what is the autoGM?

Posted: **Wed Mar 08, 2017 12:35 am**

calzilla1 wrote:Ok I'll bite, what is the autoGM?

robot that would spam admin buttons and shitpost in centcomm announcements
so like regular admins but we cant deadmin it

Posted: **Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:29 am**

PKPenguin321 wrote:
calzilla1 wrote:Ok I'll bite, what is the autoGM?
robot that would spam admin buttons and shitpost in centcomm announcements
so like regular admins but we cant deadmin it

Sounds like a normal shift with kevinz fun

Posted: **Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:33 am**

The difference was that it wasn't memey or funny, it completely destroyed rounds. It summoned mechs three times in ten minutes at one point.

Posted: **Wed Mar 08, 2017 6:11 pm**

Xhuis wrote:The difference was that it wasn't memey or funny, it completely destroyed rounds. It summoned mechs three times in ten minutes at one point.

Holy shit that sounds hallarious for like a day

Posted: **Thu Mar 09, 2017 10:25 am**

calzilla1 wrote:
Xhuis wrote:The difference was that it wasn't memey or funny, it completely destroyed rounds. It summoned mechs three times in ten minutes at one point.
Holy shit that sounds hallarious for like a day

It gets boring after like 2 rounds of it.

Posted: **Thu Mar 09, 2017 11:10 am**

New Ghost Role - The Banana Peel

Start with Potency 1 or 100, with an amount of health. You can move around and slip people.

That is literally the only thing you can do.

Oh, and you have to click on the peel itself if you want to do damage to it, otherwise the laser will go over the banana peel.

Posted: **Thu Mar 09, 2017 11:24 am**

I actually kinda liked the Automated Game Master

Posted: **Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:42 pm**

Here's a fun, ez idea

Just make it so ghosts can possess any mob short of megafauna, if this idea is alone the game might actually be playable normally

Posted: **Thu Mar 09, 2017 5:46 pm**

Xhuis wrote:The difference was that it wasn't memey or funny, it completely destroyed rounds. It summoned mechs three times in ten minutes at one point.

I don't remember it being able to repeat events like that. It was also programmed to spawn singularities, I'd imagine that's far more destructive.

Posted: **Tue Mar 21, 2017 1:45 pm**

As the day draws closer, I'd like to resurrect this to remind you that two or three maintainers remain completely adamant in putting a tight hold on any April Fool's features that are added. My questions as to how it will work in the end (testmerges? immediate reverts?) and complaints have been ignored or been met with either unjustifiable opinions or personal insults.

Posted: **Tue Mar 21, 2017 2:01 pm**

Oranges and... who are the other two?

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