Remember when (OP thing existed in ss13)

[Shadowflame909]

Remember roundstart meteor pens

Remember the space SCP vending machine that could dispense any chemical you wanted in-game. Admin healing, blob chems, mutation toxin you'd name it.

Remember auto-scan cloning? I miss it. You'd die and then you'd come back right after like a literal respawn

[Mothblocks]

I used auto-scan cloning with friends so we could hang out more and I don't regret anything

[Bawhoppennn]

IDK why people focus so much on game mechanics that change every couple years

The thing I always miss is culture, which is secular to game mechanics

[Nabski]

I miss when the slot machine that was the experimentor could spit out so many random items.

It was my first dive into game code to figure out what the actual fuck that thing was doing and how it was useful, because the wiki didn't say nuffin.

The answer was, it doesn't really do much, but you could get a second bag of holding or tank transfer tube pretty easy with it if you had a first one.

[XII3912]

I miss the old mining katana, it did 40 damage could block attacks except it was stuck to your arm and it inflicted a brain trauma that sent a mob which would slowly approach you and try to crit you

[NecromancerAnne]

I miss the old mining katana, it did 40 damage could block attacks except it was stuck to your arm and it inflicted a brain trauma that sent a mob which would slowly approach you and try to crit you

that was around for literally only 2 years. For much longer, it used to just be stuck to your arm and that's it. It was really good except for all the times you need two arms, then it sucked. Which is actually far more often than you'd think. So it just kind of sucked.

I'm gonna throw in the ring xenoling. Holy shit was that wack. Becoming a whole new antag while antag (like tot) is pretty stupid overpowered. It wasn't even depowered, it was just straight up ling for crew.

[Farquaar]

IDK why people focus so much on game mechanics that change every couple years

The thing I always miss is culture, which is secular to game mechanics

Yeah, I agree on this point.

It seems strange the number of policy threads we've had calling for longstanding game mechanics to be disabled/restricted/changed on Manuel because they're apparently bad for RP, despite the fact that people were able to roleplay using those mechanics for years before a dedicated RP server came along.

It's almost as if lively RP flows from a server culture that encourages it, rather than from a padded cell where things can't hurt you and you can't hurt anyone else.

[NoxVS]

IDK why people focus so much on game mechanics that change every couple years

The thing I always miss is culture, which is secular to game mechanics

The real overpowered mechanics I miss are the people I had a lot of fun playing with that have since quit.

[Tearling]

IDK why people focus so much on game mechanics that change every couple years

The thing I always miss is culture, which is secular to game mechanics

Because it's easy to point at a bad PR and say that it made the game worst. Gas experi-sci is the one I point at.

It's not easy to point at the community and say some indescribable set of rules has changed and that the culture is now different. You can still do it, I still do it, but it's a lot more subjective and murky, and it's very easy for someone to disagree with you because they've had a different experience in the community.