Clock Cult ideas

[Hammeredmantis]

I am digging through the github now to find all the files and really learn about how the game mode worked, but from what I have understood so far, it basically turned into a tower defense mode which I think is kinda dumb for SS13 to be honest. I want to re-work it so it would basically be more different blood cult, the main difference being that the AI would start the round as a helper to the cult and could have borgs help make clock-work mobs out of players with a special setup instead of having the cultists themselves create them, basically a small number of crew + AI teamwork to summon Ratvar. Also potentially have a blood cult vs clock cult shift should there be enough players at that point in time to see who can summon their god first. What do you all think? I really like the look of the clockie sprites and think this could be awesome given enough time, patience, and effort.

[D&B]

That's what they said the last two times.

You're better off starting from the ground up or smashing your head against the wall real hard.

[Hammeredmantis]

woof, ground up sounds hella hard, but fuck it, work on it here and there, might have it done by the end of the year. Could be fun. Would I get in trouble if I stole some code from blood cult as a shortcut though?

[Selea]

Why not rewotk it into Clock cult?
No conversion.cultists win after 40 min of ticking special clocks, which they need to construct.
Cultist powers are all clock related. Time stop,STOP_PROCESSING(target), sepia floor grenades,other shit.
More soulcrushingly horrible puns you'll be able to stick there--better this thing will be. Horrible puns must make clock cult tick , you know.
Better, if they will be bad enought to cause cosmic horror sence(OMG!Something is joking like this on same planet!), than laugh. Hysterical laugh even better.

[D&B]

woof, ground up sounds hella hard, but fuck it, work on it here and there, might have it done by the end of the year. Could be fun. Would I get in trouble if I stole some code from blood cult as a shortcut though?

I don't think anyone would care since the concept was stolen from /vg/ coders

[Selea]

What you surelt shouldn't do--"slightly different blood cult". Make something completely different!

[Hammeredmantis]

Why not rewotk it into Clock cult?
No conversion.cultists win after 40 min of ticking special clocks, which they need to construct.
Cultist powers are all clock related. Time stop,STOP_PROCESSING(target), sepia floor grenades,other shit.
More soulcrushingly horrible puns you'll be able to stick there--better this thing will be. Horrible puns must make clock cult tick , you know.
Better, if they will be bad enought to cause cosmic horror sence(OMG!Something is joking like this on same planet!), than laugh. Hysterical laugh even better.

I really like this, though I think 40 minutes is a bit much for any antag to survive. Maybe more like 20 assuming they can keep it quiet. Actually the idea of a non-killing antag role could be really cool and something to think about.

[oranges]

stop
making
copies
of
existing
gamemodes
please
jesus
christ
it's
not
even
fun
anymore
I
know
it's
hard
to
write
new
code
but
if
you
are
not
at
that
level
yet
stick
with
side
antags

[Selea]

I also advice you to add sacred animals:chicken and bear.
Why? Because you can make unBEARably motherclucking much filthy puns with them.

[ChefOdDish]

If you're planning on reworking clock cult, rather than a crew conversion mode why not make it a station conversion? The clock cult has to convert a certain percentage of the station into clockwork station in order to pull the entire station and everyone in it into Ratvar's dimension.

[Selea]

Good idea. But need to think, how to save as much CC content as possible. Cog city for example.

[pogoco25]

Steampunk Splatoon, now with Elder Gods