Telescience port

[Man_Shroom]

So we tried Telescience in the past and it was infamously shitty, you could steal anything from anywhere easily despite the math on it being ridiculously hard by using external calculators and coordinate maps and other wacky shit

So it got removed

And the EXPERIMENTOR got put in its place and most people just forgot about it

BUT, on other servers, they've managed to make it work

I propose we port the /vg/ version of Telesci to try and make it work over here

LINK: http://ss13.pomf.se/wiki/index.php/Telescience

Explanation for what is on the wiki page

Spoiler:

Operation: You would input coordinates for the teleport target, and there would be a drift of anywhere between + and -10 to adjust for. So if you put in 0,0, it could be anywhere from -10,-10 to 10,10.

Upgrading: Adding bluespace crystals would increase the range of the device up and up, emagging it OR SOME OTHER THING TO YET BE DECIDED would allow it to bypass the Bluespace Blockers that are specified in the next section

Limits: Bluespace Blockers would be in every secure area including AI core, AI uploads, Armory, MAYBE the Bridge, and MAYBE parts of engineering. Additionally, if you put in coords that did not exist or did not make sense, a shitload of monsters/radiation/BULLSHIT would appear on the pad so it is not without risk. Also, every 10 or so teleports the drift would change and you would have to figure it out again. this would be signified by the telepad fizzing and/or emitting sparks.

Other z-levels: Certain z-levels would be blocked obviously like Centcomm and gateway but other areas would be readily open, perhaps there would even be special telescience only z-levels (dunno if this is possible)

Thoughts?

[lumipharon]

Still seems highly abusable.

Also telesci is still readily buildable if you really have the urge to be a telememe.

[Luke Cox]

Just replace it with something not shit.

[iamgoofball]

vg telesci is just original telesci but with blockers

and you can override those blockers by stuffing a telecrystal into the pad

[Man_Shroom]

Obviously it wouldn't be a direct port there would be a few small changes including

-Upgrading

-Requiring an Emag or ????? to bypass blockers

-Third thing

[TheNightingale]

Emagging it to bypass blockers means Science access and an emag is (even more) free guns. You should have to emag the blocker itself - so you'd have to get into the Armory/AI core either way.

[Alex Crimson]

Honestly, Telescience should just remain as something you need to research and build to use. It would be a neat feature for Science, having an empty room that requires R&D to choose what to research and build in it. Just add a few more "jobs".

[DrPillzRedux]

Make t-com blocker devices in sec, bridge, AI, and all head of staff rooms that must be destroyed via explosives to get past.