/tg/Station 13

paradox97 wrote: Ideally I would like a way for the detective to watch camera footage (as in, watch recorded footage rather than live), but I'm going to wager a guess this wouldn't be easy (or possible?) to implement. Maybe it would be possible for the detective to install bugs in suspicious areas and listen in?

ShadowDimentio wrote:Trivia: Hair that falls out naturally (isn't pulled out, if it's pulled out it might have the hair pore thing on the end) can't be used for DNA identification*

*I saw this on TV once dunno if it's true

Cobby wrote:> rework
> just straight up buffs


GAHHHHHHHHH

paradox97 wrote:This is pretty correct. Unless the follicle is attached DNA is limited. I mean... does it have to be 100% accurate? Perhaps the detective only being able to ID hair color would help some, but I suspect this would be pretty underwhelming.

ShadowDimentio wrote:

paradox97 wrote:This is pretty correct. Unless the follicle is attached DNA is limited. I mean... does it have to be 100% accurate? Perhaps the detective only being able to ID hair color would help some, but I suspect this would be pretty underwhelming.

It's worth even less as a clue than clothes fibers, barring cases where it's like a neon pink hair (or maybe not even barring that depending on the crew )

cedarbridge wrote:As an alternative, just give us a set of corony/autopsy tools and procedures. If somebody dies we should be able to find out how and approximately when they died. Definitely something that would improve life for the detective as well as give medical something new to do.

cedarbridge wrote:As an alternative, just give us a set of corony/autopsy tools and procedures. If somebody dies we should be able to find out how and approximately when they died. Definitely something that would improve life for the detective as well as give medical something new to do.

Lumbermancer wrote: Here are few of my ideas:

Make forensic clues more ubiquitous but also limited, prints and fibers and dna should be common, but not obvious.

Fibers should tell you only colour and/or textile if colour is obfuscated by wear, or paint or blood or whatever. i.e white fiber could mean medical jumpsuit, but also a roboticists lab coat. Fiber could be two coloured, so white-blue fiber would point you more specifically towards medical jumpsuit (but not always, since there's a white suit with blue elements in the vending machines). Textile would allow to tell you engineer's jumpsuit from radiation suit.

Fingerprints would be common as well, but you would rarely get full ones. Most common would be partial prints (I believe this was a thing a long time ago), which would force you to comb through the database in search of a match. But you wouldn't be able to just paste the partial string into the box to find results like you can now, the search would only work with full prints. Instead you will have to mix and match all the clues you've gathered, for example a yellow fiber would narrow your search down to cargo, engineering and atmos.

Sometimes you would still get multiple hits, you could then try and use new clue to figure things out = hair. If found at the crime scene, you can use it to warn your officers to look out for that murderous aryan blond greyshirt.

If bad guys have some water or a damp rag or other cleaning implement, they can attempt to clean the crime scene - shortening partial prints, removing fiber colours, or simply getting rid of all the clues altogether.

Anyway, this system would still allow you to pinpoint a baddie precisely (but with more effort) while also improving your in-the-field sleuthing (the aforementioned aryan greyshirt).

Either way I'm just thinking out loud. This would probably be hard to code.

cedarbridge wrote:As an alternative, just give us a set of corony/autopsy tools and procedures. If somebody dies we should be able to find out how and approximately when they died. Definitely something that would improve life for the detective as well as give medical something new to do.