Test proposal thread
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Test proposal thread
Since we're doing all sort of zany tests now, this is the thread where you can propose a test. I'll start
No security
No stuns (may be limited to stun weapons removal, or including slips)
No bombs
Space/fire dealing double damage
No security
No stuns (may be limited to stun weapons removal, or including slips)
No bombs
Space/fire dealing double damage
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Re: Test proposal thread
Space being instant death would be better
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Re: Test proposal thread
How about making a test where security are all given energy guns at round start.
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Re: Test proposal thread
Giving assistants service radio.
Higher extended probability.
Higher extended probability.
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Re: Test proposal thread
don't turn this into shitty suggestion or minor ideas thread, this is strictly for test suggestions (i.e. removing features or tweaking values)
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Re: Test proposal thread
removing hg for eternity
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Re: Test proposal thread
We basically had no bombs for a few months when fastmos was first introduced iirc, it was bizarre going from the station getting maxcapped 6 times per shift and then suddenly no one ever bombed anything anymore. Thankfully not many people started bombing again, it's better this way
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Re: Test proposal thread
Yeah back then there was guides to making the biggest bombs in that atmos sytem, and once it changed people couldn't just step-by-step follow a guide so they didn't do it anymore.
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Re: Test proposal thread
How about a test where everyone is a lizard for a week to see what happens
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Re: Test proposal thread
this is my original character bob franks he's a lizard who thinks hes a human I hope you like him xD
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Re: Test proposal thread
I would like to test having shadowDimentio forum banned and permabanned from the server and seeing if the overall happiness of the server increases and the cancer decreases
It's only a test, not permanent.
It's only a test, not permanent.
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Re: Test proposal thread
Only if there is no established end timeNikNakFlak wrote:I would like to test having shadowDimentio forum banned and permabanned from the server and seeing if the overall happiness of the server increases and the cancer decreases
It's only a test, not permanent.
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Re: Test proposal thread
remove all security jobs except HoS, rename his job title to loot pinata, everyone on the station spawns with an energy gun for self defence and to persecute crimes that happen to them personally
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Re: Test proposal thread
We already have that it's called the 4th of JulyZellion wrote:remove all security jobs except HoS, rename his job title to loot pinata, everyone on the station spawns with an energy gun for self defence and to persecute crimes that happen to them personally
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Re: Test proposal thread
Actually this is an interesting "event" idea, but not a week long testZellion wrote:remove all security jobs except HoS, rename his job title to loot pinata, everyone on the station spawns with an energy gun for self defence and to persecute crimes that happen to them personally
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Re: Test proposal thread
I think the bare minimum effort for idea proposals should at least be an explanation of why you think it's a good idea (what the hell is all lizard crew supposed to achieve?). That or limit these tests to certain days of the week, or space them out or something.
People are going to very quickly get sick of it if some random part of the game is missing or nonfunctional for no reason every time they log in.
EDIT: To be clear though I am a big fan of testing in general and think people completely overreacted to the comms thing, I'm just worried this has the potential to go entirely off the rails
People are going to very quickly get sick of it if some random part of the game is missing or nonfunctional for no reason every time they log in.
EDIT: To be clear though I am a big fan of testing in general and think people completely overreacted to the comms thing, I'm just worried this has the potential to go entirely off the rails
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Re: Test proposal thread
A completely lizard crew (combined with the AI still being on Asimov) would be an interesting test because it would let us see how the psychology of race wars/other memeticism like that really comes to be. It'll also let us see if people grief others purely because they're lizards, or if they will stop due to being lizards themselves.
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Re: Test proposal thread
About the AI, some test involving lawsets like no asimov/asimov only would be interesting too
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Re: Test proposal thread
god lets just have a test proposal subforum at this point holy shit
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Re: Test proposal thread
Better achieved by randomising human/lizard race selection on join.Zilenan91 wrote:A completely lizard crew (combined with the AI still being on Asimov) would be an interesting test because it would let us see how the psychology of race wars/other memeticism like that really comes to be. It'll also let us see if people grief others purely because they're lizards, or if they will stop due to being lizards themselves.
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Re: Test proposal thread
To be honest I think you already have the long-term results in the situation of the game previous to lizards. Before lizards, around the time Trayvon Martin was shot I think, there was a distinct subset of players that would roleplay black characters as their own group and try to start racial conflict. Meanwhile, there was a distinct subset that would roleplay non-black racist characters. It was bizarre, offensive, and not all that fun. Lizards aren't the cause of space racism, they just make it actually fit in the setting.Zilenan91 wrote:A completely lizard crew (combined with the AI still being on Asimov) would be an interesting test because it would let us see how the psychology of race wars/other memeticism like that really comes to be. It'll also let us see if people grief others purely because they're lizards, or if they will stop due to being lizards themselves.
You probably wouldn't get blueskin/yellowskin divides in the time a test took place, though. This stuff takes time to develop.
Oh, before you jump on the word 'offensive', I wasn't saying it should be banned or anything like that. I can't see what we'd have lost by doing so (except for admins' time) but that wasn't my point.
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Re: Test proposal thread
I wasn't really thinking that deeply into it I just wanted to see what would happen if everyone was a lizard for a week dude
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Re: Test proposal thread
People who hate lizards would be greytide shitheads, or suicidd roundstart, or not play. People who don't really care would play as normal.Zilenan91 wrote:I wasn't really thinking that deeply into it I just wanted to see what would happen if everyone was a lizard for a week dude
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Re: Test proposal thread
If everyone is a lizard, nobody is. Random race as suggested would be better, a nice way for racists to realize how hard life is without human privilege
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Re: Test proposal thread
>not creating a monkey human clone of yourselfGrazyn wrote:If everyone is a lizard, nobody is. Random race as suggested would be better, a nice way for racists to realize how hard life is without human privilege
>not getting brain transplanted into the monkey human
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Re: Test proposal thread
What sort of tests are we talking here? Minor changes ala slight tweaks to already existing systems? Or are we talking adding entirely new things?
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Re: Test proposal thread
A complete overhaul test would be something akin to essentially redoing the game, an example being making the entire crew consist of Lizard People, rename them to "The Race" and change all Antagonists to represent one of three Human factions (United States, Soviet Union or Nazi Germany) and pretending your basically in Harry Turtledoves 'Worldwar' universe.
Amusing but the end result being you just made everyone a Lizard and changed sprites, and you get to roleplay as a Nazi.
More subtle and easier tests would be things like...
Amusing but the end result being you just made everyone a Lizard and changed sprites, and you get to roleplay as a Nazi.
More subtle and easier tests would be things like...
- Reducing Security to a single, very powerful, individual (ala Judge Dredd or Robocop), while giving Heads a Taser at round start. (Test how effective a single law enforcement officer is with the proper tools to compensate)
- Reduce Oxygen on the station to run out within ten minutes of round start. (Test how the crew reacts to running out of breathable air, and how to replace the air or get more air cannisters or even if the crew fights over the few Air cannisters)
- Remove all Heads of Staff (and their unique room contents) sans the Captain. (Test how each department will operate without a head in charge AND how Captains respond to being the only command figure on station).
- Station loses all Power within five seconds of round start. (Tests crew's reaction to no power AND the competence of Engineering to establish power from a no-power state)
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Re: Test proposal thread
Actually that sounds really really interesting.
- The test where there's one super jacked security officer with tons of guns sounds like it'd be hella fun to play and see how players both roleplay as the officer and towards him, do they fear him, love him, etc.
- Everyone would just die after a while, with the shuttle being called instantly, we wouldn't learn anything
- That's most rounds already anyways, no departments need a Head of Staff to function
- Since power would instantly run out the shuttle would be instantly called due to there being no active comms consoles and every round would be 30 minutes long, so we wouldn't learn anything.
- The test where there's one super jacked security officer with tons of guns sounds like it'd be hella fun to play and see how players both roleplay as the officer and towards him, do they fear him, love him, etc.
- Everyone would just die after a while, with the shuttle being called instantly, we wouldn't learn anything
- That's most rounds already anyways, no departments need a Head of Staff to function
- Since power would instantly run out the shuttle would be instantly called due to there being no active comms consoles and every round would be 30 minutes long, so we wouldn't learn anything.
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Re: Test proposal thread
Well naturally any tests would disable anything that could prematurely end the round.
Also there's a difference between forcing the crew into a situation from round start versus something that MAY occur later on. More so on Oxygen and Power.
Also there's a difference between forcing the crew into a situation from round start versus something that MAY occur later on. More so on Oxygen and Power.
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Re: Test proposal thread
The point is to test things on a large population, specifically sybil's population. If they're just on basil, what's the point?If we must do these, do them on Basil.
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Re: Test proposal thread
Xenio spawns with an actual xeno egg at roundstart?
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Re: Test proposal thread
Please, no more "Tests". Not one good thing has come of these things. Some of you would disagree of course, but so far, it is HG forcing his worst, most controversial ideas on everyone. All of you are going to be fine with it, until something you absolutely hate becomes permanent.
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Re: Test proposal thread
Rather have them in and done than argue about it for three months until someone makes a pull request that gets closed and literally nothing comes from it.Gun Hog wrote:Please, no more "Tests". Not one good thing has come of these things. Some of you would disagree of course, but so far, it is HG forcing his worst, most controversial ideas on everyone. All of you are going to be fine with it, until something you absolutely hate becomes permanent.
If anything we've proven 5 things that are always brought up to be extremely bad ideas in record time. Plus, we never have to entertain them again because we've done it and proven how dumb it is.
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Re: Test proposal thread
Pretty much.
These tests are the best way to see how bad or good a idea is.
These tests are the best way to see how bad or good a idea is.
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Re: Test proposal thread
I guess 2 days should be the minimum for a test, maybe 1 if there's massive outcry
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Re: Test proposal thread
Mandatory ERP for a week
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Re: Test proposal thread
1. learned that removing the AI itself probably wasn't the best course of action towards tweaking it instead of removing it outrightGun Hog wrote:Please, no more "Tests". Not one good thing has come of these things.
2. proved once and for all how shit the "no common comms" idea was
3. killed off secborgs
>not one good thing
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edit: oh oh and while im here
instead of proposing tests for le randum XD things you want in the game but are too pussyfooted to code (like xeno eggs roundstart, all lizards, other bullshit) we should limit tests to things that have already been proposed and discussed in detail (such as secborg/AI/common comms removal) so we can get final verdicts on said things. to be honest i'm not sure why we're doing the less human health test because i've never as much as seen that concept suggested outside of the actual test.
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Re: Test proposal thread
Eh tests proposed as jokes have more merit than hate grudges on game features.
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Re: Test proposal thread
How about testing giving sec lethals in place of tasers or other non lethal takedown tools
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Re: Test proposal thread
I feel like these tests are more turning into a 'Wacky Change of the Week'.
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