Favoured Stations/Control Stations

[AnonymousNow]

It's a well-established rumour (or more than a rumour, amongst the brighter members of Nanotrasen staff) that the "plasma research stations" that it dots the inky black with are only vaguely research-orientated.

They're more like prisons. Or asylums. Places to keep those people who really shouldn't be unleashed onto the general public. The stupid, the criminal, the downright insane. There's some scattering of reasonable people onboard, because an asylum needs wardens for its inmates. The vast majority of these stations serve only as pens for nutters, herded together and written off by people who deserve to live more. Many are observed as they're attacked or otherwise left alone, as examples of what the lowest dregs of humanity will do when left to its own devices with a percieved modicum of power. After all, who really needs their research to be done again and again?

However, there are exceptions. Every experiment needs its control. A rare proportion of stations - one in roughly 100 - are either filled with actual, competent workers, or otherwise set up as controls for these station experiments. And in doing so, they are afforded more than other, comparable stations...

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Control Stations is a roundstart random event with a frequency of one in a hundred. A Control Station will, at roundstart, be informed of its status as a Control Station, and immediately recieve the following benefits...

- All research levels are immediately set to maximum across the science network
- All machines on the station are immediately upgraded with the best parts via long-range bluespace RPED relay
- The station's powernet is rendered inert, instead being fully powered remotely (this is an existing button)
- Several crates full of material is teleported into cargo bay
- Cargo Bay recieves a great number of points
- Science recieves a box of reclaimed Syndicate equipment for experimentation
- Additional food is beamed into the kitchen
- A complete collection of slime cores, with multiples, appears in xenobiology
- Security gains a suite of combat mechs (Gygax, Durand)
- Medbay gains a suite of ambulance mechs (Oddyseus)
- Engineering gains a suite of technical mechs (Ripley, Ripley Firefighter)
- Cargo Bay gains a suite of mining mechs (Ripley)
- Science gains a suite of experimental mechs (Phazon, Seraph)
- Clown gains a Honk mech
- Mime gains a Reticence mech
- The chapel office recieves a variety of eldritch artifacts for paranormal research
- A variety of department-specific bleeding-edge equipment is teleported into each heads' office
- And so on.

This provides a rare and unique opportunity to witness rounds progress differently, and it also guarantees that some rounds will see end-game content being used, unlike in our current climate of short rounds wherein endgame content never sees the light of day.

[DemonFiren]

So mining can fully focus on OP loot, science can fully focus on OP loot, Sec gets OP loot shoved up their asses at roundstart, engineering is useless and the chef is semi-useless.

[Armhulen]

So mining can fully focus on OP loot, science can fully focus on OP loot, Sec gets OP loot shoved up their asses at roundstart, engineering is useless and the chef is semi-useless.

yes. have fun, traitors!

[John_Oxford]

tap the glass get the blast now no longer applies

tap the glass get fucked by 10 serpahs

[calzilla1]

Do tators get like 40 tc or what

[DemonFiren]

Do tators get like 40 tc or what

50, so they can buy two romerol bottles
nuke ops also get war gear by default

[AnonymousNow]

So mining can fully focus on OP loot, science can fully focus on OP loot, Sec gets OP loot shoved up their asses at roundstart, engineering is useless and the chef is semi-useless.

Sort of, though engineering now has enough material to quickly make entire new wings of the station.

This is essentially a rare and random up-the-ante in every way gamemode modifier. Departments are encouraged to distribute their resources amongst the station, though a chef can still very much be a food nazi if they want to be. Let's not forget that stationside antagonists (most to all of them) will have access to most of this equipment as well; non-stationside antagonists, such as Nuke Ops, should get more resources to compensate, so you really can have mech-on-mech battles.

[calzilla1]

So /vg/ station?

[AnonymousNow]

So /vg/ station?

I wouldn't know if /vg/station has anything like this.

[BeeSting12]

What's the point though? Like give the whole crew OP gear at roundstart, woop de doo, what progression is to be had? And on that note, how is this remotely balanced for traitors/nuke ops/conversion antagonists.

[AnonymousNow]

What's the point though? Like give the whole crew OP gear at roundstart, woop de doo, what progression is to be had? And on that note, how is this remotely balanced for traitors/nuke ops/conversion antagonists.

The point is that, by starting the station on a different, stronger resource basis, it changes their priorities to "get resources, fuck bitches" to "what can we do with all these resources? Rage cage? MECH FIGHTS? RAGE CAGE MECH FIGHTS? Anything is possible!"

It feels to me as though it's already balanced for internal antagonists, since they'll also have access to these resources in the same way a traitor/cultist/changeling etc. does of a normal round with the normal station resources; external antagonists would need a buff to compensate, which if this procs would ideally also handle such buffs as well.

"We want you to nuke this Nanotrasen station, but it's one of those bullshit special snowflake stations that Nanotrasen lavishes like a firstborn child, so here's another... oooh... 30 telecrystals each? That sound good, Bob? Sounds good to Bob."

[D&B]

It's just gonna make the station metagame or powergame the shit out of those.

The point of stuff being locked behind progression/research/time is that the getting there is also its own reward.

This just sounds like Hugbox station, since the only arguably balanced mode on it would be extended (Which would just be shitter safari.)

[Gun Hog]

I would like to see how it turns out as an admin event, at least. You could make it a button!

[John_Oxford]

could make it a actual station

[kevinz000]

>control station
>Competent workers
>They're taking combat and work mechs and having a hallway deathmatch
>Lol so competent and not insane at all >station is now filled with missile holes.
Yeeaaah no.

[John_Oxford]

i think you should just do it anyways, if you can code it go for it, there's no reason it should be denied since it would only be 1 of every 50 rounds.

if a maintainer closes it then im correct in regards to how they exercise to much control over the game and need to be stopped

[John_Oxford]

i think you should just do it anyways, if you can code it go for it, there's no reason it should be denied since it would only be 1 of every 50 rounds.

if a maintainer closes it then im correct in regards to how they exercise to much control over the game and need to be stopped

[kevinz000]

Better be ruled over by tyrannical maintainers who never play than have John Oxford dictate things with walls of text.

[John_Oxford]

atleast i can justify my actions instead of just saying "wew your not a maintainer you wouldnt understand"

[John_Oxford]

atleast i can justify my actions instead of just saying "wew your not a maintainer you wouldnt understand"

[kevinz000]

you're*

[John_Oxford]

u*

[John_Oxford]

u*

[AnonymousNow]

You could make it a button!

Good idea. With the frequency that our buttons get pressed, it'd get the occasional walkout during, say, admin events.

>control station
>Competent workers
>They're taking combat and work mechs and having a hallway deathmatch
>Lol so competent and not insane at all >station is now filled with missile holes.
Yeeaaah no.

Well, the FAVOURED stations would have competent workers. The CONTROL stations would have the same mix of brain-slapping morons and neurotically-driven geniuses as their regular stations.

Spoiler:

God help me, I'm agreeing with John Oxford.

[oranges]

so your idea is to make a round where there is literally nothing to do but pvp with each other?????

[Tokiko2]

so your idea is to make a round where there is literally nothing to do but pvp with each other?????

Summon guns/summon magic wizard mode is quite literally the second most popular mode according to recent polls. I don't see why you couldn't atleast give this a try if someone makes a PR for it.

[Anonmare]

so your idea is to make a round where there is literally nothing to do but pvp with each other?????

Summon guns/summon magic wizard mode is quite literally the second most popular mode according to recent polls. I don't see why you couldn't atleast give this a try if someone makes a PR for it.

We're in a D E E P F R E E Z E

[John_Oxford]

so your idea is to make a round where there is literally nothing to do but pvp with each other?????

you could rp, you know the thing that you try so hard to shill