/tg/Station 13

Ok I was just going to make a topic about https://github.com/d3athrow/vgstation13/pull/4463 because it's great and I didn't want to forget about it later, but it occurred to me that we didn't have a thread like this and it could be useful.

Post and discuss things from other codebases that would be good to port to /tg/station code.

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baymed
https://github.com/d3athrow/vgstation13/pull/3649 once it finishes. Super fucking hyped for it.

Xhuis wrote: https://github.com/d3athrow/vgstation13/pull/3649 once it finishes. Super fucking hyped for it.

Lol I'm on the dev team for that :3

Baymed...ical's Runtime mechanics.

More specifically, the CMO's cat, Runtime. On Bay, you can pick her up (by click-dragging to you) and wear her as a hat, or put her on tables where she'll turn from an item into a mob in a few seconds (think drones).

/vg/ has a lazarus belt for miners as a point reward, full of pokeball-style things that can contain lazarus-injected creatures. Say you lazarus a basilisk. You take a LazaBall® out of your LazaBelt® and use it on the basilisk, and it's sucked inside, ready to be deployed when the ball is next used or thrown.

Trying to use lazarus as it currently exists on /tg/ is insufferable, this would be a nice quality of life thing.

Are you saying miners will be able to have POKEBATTLES later in a round?

Oh my god, why don't we have this?

Someone port bay shower curtains!! I think it would be fantastic if they worked kind of like lockers in the sense that they hide whats in that tile if they are closed! I would love to stumble upon a shower and pull the curtain back to reveal tons of dead bodies! I think they would be cool to add to our showers, because what shower doesn't have curtains?

Colored light from /vg/ and/or bay.

RESEARCH OUTPOST. (bs12)
XENOARCHAEOLOGY (bs12)
ANOMALOUS MATERIALS STUDIES (bs12)
FUCKING VOX RAIDERS (bs12)
Conspiracy gamemode (goon)
Xenobotany (bs12)
Advanced hardsuits "AMI" (bs12)
Predator antag (goon)
Cortical Borer antag (bs12)
Vampire gamemode (paradise)
All of bs12's lovely weapons
change the name of "plasma" to "phoron" (bs12)
Blueshield job (paradise)

I think that goonstation has some good traitor items. Not all of them but there are certainly some good items.

Most of what you said, tentative yes, but-

Microscopics wrote:All of bs12's lovely weapons
change the name of "plasma" to "phoron" (bs12)

-can go piss right off. Bay's weapons are hilariously unbalanced because MUH RP YOU CAN'T PULL A TRIGGER ACCORDING TO YOUR SKILLSET and fuck renaming plasma for emulsions' sake.

kosmos wrote:Colored light from /vg/ and/or bay.

Coloured light is hideous, it just doesn't work when square.
Light and dark work good enough in square, colours: no.

Remie Richards wrote:

kosmos wrote:Colored light from /vg/ and/or bay.

Coloured light is hideous, it just doesn't work when square.
Light and dark work good enough in square, colours: no.

Based Remie.

Colored lighting is the worst suggestion people keep asking for.

Nonono just the weapons themselves, not the autistic firing mode

No, I do not want a laser sniper rifle, no, I do not want insta-crit crossbows.

You can have crossbows without being instacrit. Port doesn't mean 1:1 port. Though at this point we seriously don't need more guns.

Scones wrote:F A X M A C H I N E S

I think NRC chatrooms getting added to PDAs kinda proved that as far as communication options go, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink it. Those and request consoles are criminally underused, I would say newcasters too but I've noticed them getting used a bit more lately. Would probably be best as a new feature added to request consoles instead of its own machine.

change the name of "plasma" to "phoron" (bs12)

I would like to rename plasma, but I wouldn't want to just take bay's name for it.

You guys should post github links for when the things you're suggesting, so people can check them out and reference them easily

Why not just go for something extreme for a alternative plasma. So instead SS13 is just barely orbiting a black hole, and the only way to harvest plasma/whatever is with expensive, and small, drones that carefully go out and scoop up plasma.

Would also possibly explain why everyone on SS13 is insane.

Craftable crossbow.
Shooting glass shards from fire extinguisher.

qwert wrote:Craftable crossbow.
Shooting glass shards from fire extinguisher.

Rifle stock, plasteel, a fire extinguisher and five cable coils

A fire extinguisher and plasteel makes a crossbow frame.
A crossbow frame and a rifle stock makes an unfinished crossbow.
An unfinished crossbow and five cable coils makes a finished crossbow. Load it with tiny or small items to throw them at people, also increasing their embed chance (so glass shards actually embed into people). Further reinforcing with more plasteel can allow it to fire normal-sized items.

TheNightingale wrote:

qwert wrote:Craftable crossbow.
Shooting glass shards from fire extinguisher.

Rifle stock, plasteel, a fire extinguisher and five cable coils

A fire extinguisher and plasteel makes a crossbow frame.
A crossbow frame and a rifle stock makes an unfinished crossbow.
An unfinished crossbow and five cable coils makes a finished crossbow. Load it with tiny or small items to throw them at people, also increasing their embed chance (so glass shards actually embed into people). Further reinforcing with more plasteel can allow it to fire normal-sized items.

i'm fairly sure that's called a pneumatic cannon

If crossbow, then Bay-style Half-Life 2 ripoff.

Cheridan wrote:

Scones wrote:F A X M A C H I N E S

I think NRC chatrooms getting added to PDAs kinda proved that as far as communication options go, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink it. Those and request consoles are criminally underused, I would say newcasters too but I've noticed them getting used a bit more lately. Would probably be best as a new feature added to request consoles instead of its own machine.

Fax machines aren't supposed to be for communication between players. They're supposed to function as a way to contact CentCom without power or something, so still pointless.

Being able to fax forms to the HoP or other heads for authorization of transfers, etc. would be pretty nice, though.

EndgamerAzari wrote:Being able to fax forms to the HoP or other heads for authorization of transfers, etc. would be pretty nice, though.

Requests console! All heads have one!

Mechanics from vg would be radical, but since our rounds only last as long as peoples source of valids upgrading the station and making useful machines is kind of a moot point.

EndgamerAzari wrote:Being able to fax forms to the HoP or other heads for authorization of transfers, etc. would be pretty nice, though.

Add the ability to fax pictures so you can send the captain/centcomm pictures of butts.

MMMiracles wrote:

EndgamerAzari wrote:Being able to fax forms to the HoP or other heads for authorization of transfers, etc. would be pretty nice, though.

Add the ability to fax pictures so you can send the captain/centcomm pictures of butts.

Drone butts*

*xeno butts.

ass copy still the best thing i ever coded

I guess so, but we still need a lizard butt picture.

make a picture and i'll implement it.

This might be neat: https://github.com/AtlasStation/AtlasStation/pull/45

Hippie's walls? Yes, they do look better than ours. They have some amazing projectile sprites and sounds. The detective fluid thing is neat, too.

Those walls are fucking hideous GunHog.

I hate em

That is neat.

If you want to explode my eyes from that hideously bright pink.

They look like conveyor belts

We don't have a hideous pink overlay when wearing science glasses (or green with mesons/NVGs), so only the luminol itself would--
Who are we kidding, this is amazing, port post-haste.

Maybe tie the science goggle luminol functionality to sunglasses and HUDsunglasses (plus variants; e.g. the HoS's eyepatch and GARs)? And can you scan a luminol reaction for DNA? Syndicate soap should also not leave anything for the luminol to work on (it'd increase its usage, at least).

it reaaaaally just looks like someone came everywhere

also those walls are fucking gross

Seriously can someone port the artifacts from /vg/? Also the Research Outpost. But remove that fucking shitty and tedious measuring system to get artifacts out of the rock jesus christ its so fucking tedious

TBH I like the walls. Anything that stops the station from looking like a 32*32 tileset is a big + in my eyes.

Also resprite floor tiles/plating/girders plz. Maybe I should do that, but I suck at tilesets

Well since we're all ranting about walls now, if we were going to switch them I'd rather them be a proper 3/4th view instead of a top down. Like pic related (extending them up further like in the pic is optional and probably not preferable, we'd need camera rotation which has some bugs with it still)

Those Atlas walls are nicer than what we have now imo but yeah there's something off.

The Atlas walls really REALLY aren't better than what we have now.
They're too eye-catching, there's too much going on for what is literally just a slab of metal designed to be scenery for the action, not the action itself.

On the topic of 3 quarter view, we have a lot of perspective weirdness and it'd all really need to be cleaned up.

lumipharon wrote:Are you saying miners will be able to have POKEBATTLES later in a round?

Oh my god, why don't we have this?

Wouldn't that require something silly like EMPing a laz injector first. Unless you could somehow add that to the ball's functionality. That could be neat.

This was just posted in the minor suggestions thread

PJB3005 wrote:this please: https://github.com/d3athrow/vgstation13/pull/2821

I can't be bothered to port it myself, but I'll put it here incase anybody wants to do it.

Oh, it got reverted due to a small delay when you change hotkeys (t-thanks BYOND), if nobody cares about it here.

Bay's Crew monitor map. I wanna be able to sit in front of the crew monitor console as the cap and deploy the sec officers like an rts game.

It would be amusing if only so I can use it to order people to individual rooms akin to the commander mode from Battlefield 2.

I think it's a kickin' rad idea.

Increased usability and a better ui are always good additions. Of course if we don't want that information displayed, that's another thing, but if we're going to give crew moniter computers access to locations, it would be nice to give a little map to make those locations clearer.