XHUIS' SUMMER THAW EVENT (ended)

Xhuis · Post by **Xhuis** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:23 am #93119

WELCOME, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, TO THE THAW

After a hard winter of frozen features and frigid controversy, the sun peeks out again at last! In celebration of the warm weather, I have decided to host an event known as Xhuis' Summer Thaw. Details and related information may be found below.

What is the Summer Thaw?
The Summer Thaw is a one-week event I will be hosting from June 4 to June 10. Every day, I will be coding and adding a single user-selected minor feature to this pull request. This may seem similar, and it's because Cheridan did an event when Spring started in a very similar vein, which inspired this one. I promise to have all features ready to go by the beginning of July.

How can I request a feature?
Simply post below requesting a small feature to be added. At the end of each day, I will enter the usernames of all people who requested a feature and run them through a randomizer. The name that comes up will have their feature promptly coded and added to this pull request. A person may only request a single feature - if you post two or post multiple times, I will just pick the one I feel like doing.

Are there any rules for features?
Yes. The feature must be minor and feasible to create within a day. People with experience in code know these limits. Basically, some minor tweaks, a new item or two, that kind of thing. I won't be able to make a whole new antagonist or gamemode. They also can't be game-breaking or unbalanced - you can't have an infinite ammo pulse rifle.

How many features can I submit?
One per day. Otherwise, there are an infinite amount you can do. If this gets out of hand I will scrap it.

The summer thaw has officially ended! Thanks to everyone who participated.
Pull Request: https://github.com/tgstation/-tg-station/pull/9789

Post by **lumipharon** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:42 am #93125

A holster/knife sheath/scabbard/etc usable as a suit/exosuit accessory like bay (I think?) has.

Gun Hog · Post by **Gun Hog** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:54 am #93128

"Control Magic" spell, for wizards.

Control Magic is a skill from Elona which allows the user to cast line and AoE spells without harming nearby allies. Applied to SS13, taking this spell would allow a wizard to cast offensive spells at no risk to other wizards or apprentices.

For example, the Lighting Bolt spell would neither target nor chain to another wizard. Fireballs would pass through another wizard and continue to the target (the explosion will still damage a wizard, if one is caught in the blast). Magic Missile would not target a friendly wizard. Spells cast from a wand should also have the same effect.

Scones · Post by **Scones** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 2:24 am #93160

TechnoAlchemist's cloaks

Falamazeer · Post by **Falamazeer** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 2:40 am #93165

A drone dispenser that can freely spit out drones from round start to round end, without reliance on roboticists who forget or just don't care.

invisty · Post by **invisty** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 2:46 am #93166

Add the cloaking device back to syndicate uplinks.

Celdur · Post by **Celdur** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 2:49 am #93170

A traitor device that "scrambles" cameras in a fairly large radius. (large enough so that the AI can't instantly tell where the center of that zone is.

Alternatively and somewhat related; make it so the ling AI invisibility ability actually makes them 100% invisible to the AI(and perhaps all silicons).

TechnoAlchemist · Fri Jun 05, 2015 2:54 am

Scones wrote:TechnoAlchemist's cloaks

<3

I'd appreciate if someone would add throwing knives that could hold reagents to the uplink.

Post by **PKPenguin321** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 2:59 am #93173

Mouse grinder in virology. You insert a dead mouse from maintenance, grind it, and it dispenses a virus culture bottle with a random symptom or two.

Man_Shroom · Post by **Man_Shroom** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 3:07 am #93178

Chokeholding a human and being able to put them into a bag of holding. Come on, It can totally fit a body in there

ALTERNATIVELY

Putting monkeys in backpacks.

Bombadil · Post by **Bombadil** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 4:30 am #93196

Man_Shroom wrote:Chokeholding a human and being able to put them into a bag of holding. Come on, It can totally fit a body in there

ALTERNATIVELY

Putting monkeys in backpacks.

Seconded i've wanted this for years. That or the ability to fold bluespace bodybags with bodies in them and put them in a boh

Post by **PKPenguin321** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 5:02 am #93205

Bombadil wrote:
Man_Shroom wrote:Chokeholding a human and being able to put them into a bag of holding. Come on, It can totally fit a body in there

ALTERNATIVELY

Putting monkeys in backpacks.
Seconded i've wanted this for years. That or the ability to fold bluespace bodybags with bodies in them and put them in a boh

Actually yeah, forget my idea, make this my entry too.

Tokiko2 · Post by **Tokiko2** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 6:12 am #93226

A new constructable: Spike walls. Bumping into them damages you and knocks you down for a disarm push duration unless you are wearing some kind of hardsuit or something like that.

Construction: Wall girder + metal rods, then apply welder. To deconstruct, attack the spikes until they fall off, then wrench and wirecut the remaining parts. Obviously, meleeing the spike wall has a chance to hurt you if you don't have a hardsuit.

Just an alternative to electrified grilles basically.

M0nsoon · Post by **M0nsoon** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 6:20 am #93228

A guitar case that comes with a robuster version of the guitar.

But that's not all! The guitar case is one of those cool ones from "Desperado" which is also doubles up as a gun!

Here's a video example

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Konork · Post by **Konork** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 6:36 am #93233

A small grenade-style device that, when activated and thrown onto an empty floor tile, will emit a shield similar to those of the Anti-Breach Shielding Projectors. It can be configured for either single-tile or 3-wide lines, both vertical and horizontal, and the device can be grabbed through the shields, which causes them to disappear.
This should be feasible, right? I mean, we already have grenades and things that can make shields, it shouldn't be too hard to mash them together, then add the config and make it so picking them up disables them automatically, right?

kosmos · Post by **kosmos** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:45 am #93276

Whenever the player is doing something (a.k.a. waiting for stuff to be built, breaking cuffs etc.), his sprite could do the float-animation but vertically.
As in a minor slow shake. It would be a great indicator to the user and everybody else that you're "busy" at the moment.

I just found a way to do it for the blender & food processor when they're processing, it looks awesome, but I have no idea how to make it apply to the user whenever there's a do_after.

hanshansenhansson · Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:59 am

Add the atmos-air-injectors to the RPD (The things that release the gas in the pipes to the air, like outside the turbine). Always a hassle to have to build an APC and Air Alarm to get that gas flowing.

Remie Richards · Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:01 pm

kosmos wrote:Whenever the player is doing something (a.k.a. waiting for stuff to be built, breaking cuffs etc.), his sprite could do the float-animation but vertically.
As in a minor slow shake. It would be a great indicator to the user and everybody else that you're "busy" at the moment.

I just found a way to do it for the blender & food processor when they're processing, it looks awesome, but I have no idea how to make it apply to the user whenever there's a do_after.

if you want it happening every do_after... you put it in do_after, rofl.
Also I assume you mean Horizontally, since the float animation is already Vertical (V is up/down and H is side/side)

Xhuis · Post by **Xhuis** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 2:56 pm #93314

Suggestions that are unfeasible or will only hurt the game have been excluded.
The winner for day one is...

The drone dispenser is coming shortly. On June 6, I will pick another set of names to run through.
ALL SUGGESTIONS BELOW THIS POST WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR DAY 2.

Falamazeer · Post by **Falamazeer** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 3:24 pm #93323

OoooOoOoh!

bandit · Post by **bandit** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 3:52 pm #93329

The ability to climb and ride borgs

kevinthezhang · Fri Jun 05, 2015 4:08 pm

Chameleon projectors can scan humans, and allow you to project yourself as them at the time of scanning.

Remie Richards · Fri Jun 05, 2015 4:11 pm

kevinthezhang wrote:Chameleon projectors can scan humans, and allow you to project yourself as them at the time of scanning.

Like the Abductor disguise system? because when AnturK made that I made him make the back end nice and generic, so it could EASILY do this.

TechnoAlchemist · Fri Jun 05, 2015 4:51 pm

Xhuis wrote:Suggestions that are unfeasible or will only hurt the game have been excluded.
The winner for day one is...

The drone dispenser is coming shortly. On June 6, I will pick another set of names to run through.

Poor scones got excluded

Scones · Post by **Scones** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 4:57 pm #93351

TechnoAlchemist wrote: Poor scones got excluded

cloaks are so detrimental that they are entirely unfeasible ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bluespace · Post by **Bluespace** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 6:09 pm #93361

A syndicate door charge.
When placed on a door, will explode when next opened.
To place on door: Screwdriver panel open, click door. "You applied the charge to the electronics of the door!"
Screwdriver door panel closed to arm.
The sprite of the door does not change, however, examining the door will lead to "The door panel looks bulkier than normal."
Should an unfortunate open the door from the side the charge was applied, they take critical damage if directly on the tile in front of the door, and almost crit damage directly to the side. Being one tile away from the door causes light damage, and no damage to the side and one tile away.
Blows off the door panel and causes damage to tiles in front of the door, but the door still works fine, the panel just can't be closed.
To disarm, you screwdriver the panel and cut the charge off.
Alternatively, opening the door from the other side causes 0 damage to you but still sets off the charge.

kevinthezhang · Fri Jun 05, 2015 6:25 pm

Remie Richards wrote:
kevinthezhang wrote:Chameleon projectors can scan humans, and allow you to project yourself as them at the time of scanning.
Like the Abductor disguise system? because when AnturK made that I made him make the back end nice and generic, so it could EASILY do this.

I honestly don't really know what abductors are nor what they are capable of; But its good that it is easy to implement.

Remie Richards · Fri Jun 05, 2015 6:44 pm

kevinthezhang wrote:
Remie Richards wrote:
kevinthezhang wrote:Chameleon projectors can scan humans, and allow you to project yourself as them at the time of scanning.
Like the Abductor disguise system? because when AnturK made that I made him make the back end nice and generic, so it could EASILY do this.
I honestly don't really know what abductors are nor what they are capable of; But its good that it is easy to implement.

Their disguises take a "Snapshot" of a person at a moment in time, and they can change their icon to that snapshot, including the clothing icons and things they were holding at that time.

kevinthezhang · Fri Jun 05, 2015 6:45 pm

Remie Richards wrote:
kevinthezhang wrote:
Remie Richards wrote:
kevinthezhang wrote:Chameleon projectors can scan humans, and allow you to project yourself as them at the time of scanning.
Like the Abductor disguise system? because when AnturK made that I made him make the back end nice and generic, so it could EASILY do this.
I honestly don't really know what abductors are nor what they are capable of; But its good that it is easy to implement.
Their disguises take a "Snapshot" of a person at a moment in time, and they can change their icon to that snapshot, including the clothing icons and things they were holding at that time.

Oh cool yeah that was exactly what I was talking about then.

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 6:53 pm #93372

The ability to modify dice into weight dice so they always land on good scores.

Xhuis · Post by **Xhuis** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 7:47 pm #93382

Falamazeer wrote:OoooOoOoh!

Where do you want the drone dispenser to go? It's ready to put down but I need a place for it.

Bombadil · Post by **Bombadil** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:00 pm #93385

I would love for a vote on bags of holding actually being able to fit human bodies things seriously

Celdur · Post by **Celdur** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:45 pm #93402

Xhuis wrote:
Falamazeer wrote:OoooOoOoh!
Where do you want the drone dispenser to go? It's ready to put down but I need a place for it.

Robotics or AI sat would make the most sense.
Though I wonder, does emaging it do anything?

darkpaladin109 · Sat Jun 06, 2015 12:40 am

Ooh, that drone shell machine certainly sounds nice. I agree with Celdur that it'd make the most sense to place it in Robotics or the AI satelite, though having them somewhere in Engineering could work as well, if need be.

bandit wrote:The ability to climb and ride borgs

Seconding this, since it sounds fun to me.

Falamazeer · Post by **Falamazeer** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 12:48 am #93462

Either robotics or AI sat would be fine, yes.

editI(Anything but derelict really that you could find easily, and consider available to the drones to move on to the rest of the station)

Post by **PKPenguin321** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 1:11 am #93471

Going to re-enter the idea of chokeholding people and being able to put them into a bag of holding.
That or the ability to fold bluespace bodybags with people in them.

TechnoAlchemist · Sat Jun 06, 2015 2:22 am

Dart pistol

Xhuis · Post by **Xhuis** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 2:51 am #93483

DAY 2 IS COMPLETE. THE DRONE SHELL DISPENSER HAS BEEN CODED AND ADDED TO THE PULL REQUEST.

TechnoAlchemist wrote:Dart pistol

Already exists in the traitor uplink and from cargo.

TechnoAlchemist · Sat Jun 06, 2015 2:53 am

Xhuis wrote:DAY 2 IS COMPLETE. THE DRONE SHELL DISPENSER HAS BEEN CODED AND ADDED TO THE PULL REQUEST.
TechnoAlchemist wrote:Dart pistol
Already exists in the traitor uplink and from cargo.

Wait what since when?

Edit: Riot darts are boring, I mean like chemical darts.

Post by **lumipharon** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 4:29 am #93497

you mean like, a syringe gun?

TechnoAlchemist · Sat Jun 06, 2015 5:43 am

lumipharon wrote:you mean like, a syringe gun?

Basically a rapid syringe gun except lower reagent threshold, smaller. Maybe a dart clip for the syndi pistol would make more sense.

Post by **lumipharon** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 6:19 am #93520

Speaking of which, there should totally be shotgun dart mags for the bulldog.
The mag itself would count as a beaker, so the contents get evenly distributed to each shotgun dart.

Ops don't exactly have access to chem to do their own thing, but having some pre-made mixes would be hella cool.

For example, shotgun darts with some mute toxin + some quick takedown chems for tacticool silent takedowns.
No more worrying about people calling over radio.

Or a phlogiston/napalm/ClF3 darts for near unstoppable fire hilarity?

Basically, that would open the door to a huge variety of hilarious ammo for ops.

hanshansenhansson · Sat Jun 06, 2015 9:24 am

Add the Clown Car from goon. Clown should be able to order it after getting enough slip-points on his PDA.

invisty · Post by **invisty** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 9:58 am #93558

Make emagging a drone flip the drone's 3rd law. It still can't interact with entities, but it is instructed to deconstruct the station.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 11:16 am #93563

Requesting that you whip Cheridan so lizard hairstyles are integrated into character customisation.

(Honk.)

Mandurrh · Post by **Mandurrh** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 1:00 pm #93579

Falamazeer wrote:A drone dispenser that can freely spit out drones from round start to round end, without reliance on roboticists who forget or just don't care.

Woah buddy. Don't blame roboticists. We can't print drone shells without research. And they aren't low research anymore either. It's a pain in the butt waiting on rnd and you can only ask if they can sync again yet so many times before they get annoyed.

I didn't read down further before I posted. Nevermind and scratch mine.

Xhuis · Post by **Xhuis** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 2:47 pm #93605

BLUESPACE IS THE WINNER
DOOR CHARGES ARE COMING SOON
ALL POSTS BELOW THIS ONE CONSIDERED FOR DAY 3

newfren · Post by **newfren** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 2:51 pm #93606

Change replica pods in botany to function like golem runes, remove them from the vendor, and hide them behind another layer of mutation from cabbages.

Don't actually know how much work this would be!

Bluespace · Post by **Bluespace** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 3:11 pm #93607

Xhuis wrote:

BLUESPACE IS THE WINNER
DOOR CHARGES ARE COMING SOON
ALL POSTS BELOW THIS ONE CONSIDERED FOR DAY 3

Tokiko2 · Post by **Tokiko2** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 3:36 pm #93609

A new constructable tesla coil thing that can be placed on powered wires and shoots lightning bolts at anyone nearby, similar to the wizard spell. More power in the wire means more damage and a higher chance to shoot lightning at multiple people.

If that one is too hard or unbalanced, then do the spikewall that I suggested before instead.