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allura wrote:no

imblyings wrote:make it make strange objects for the experimentor if you inject plasma

TheNightingale wrote:Creates a random live slime when injected with plasma?

MMMiracles wrote:

imblyings wrote:make it make strange objects for the experimentor if you inject plasma

That'd just make it even more useless, considering at least cameras get used and arent liable to kill you.

Not-Dorsidarf wrote:>Letting science boost illegal tech on their own

That said, I like the OP's idea, sort of like xeno-genetics. Possibilities:

- Basic stats for mobs to mutate. A less precise system than genetics, because simple mobs have a less complex structure than humans and lizards (this is my explanation to handwave away all the coding that will be needed to rehaul mobs this way), more like mutating plants. Can affect things like:
-- Speed. Self-explanatory. Obviously would have to capped, probably somewhere around alium hunter. Will also need some kind of numerical representation.
-- Color. Self-explanatory.
-- Size, also self-explanatory. For animals that drop meat, they'll drop more meat. Have fun with your genetically engineered giant breasted chickens, chef!
-- Strength. How robust they are, how hard they hit. Obviously this also needs a cap.
-- Max health, self-explanatory, probably needs a cap.
-- Docileness, how likely they are to be friendly and how much provocation they'll need to go hostile. s
-- Similar things that are easy to achieve without respriting.
You actually have to mutate the animals to do this. Without a genetics system (please no genetics system) there are two ways to accomplish this:
-- Easier, more dangerous way: Low doses of Unstable mutagen, 5u from a syringe, much like botany plants, with the potential to overdose and kill the mob.
-- Harder, not dangerous way: Stable mutagen. There's even an intuitive place for it: green slime extract + blood, would give you a bottle's worth. To encourage departmental cooperation it'd be cool if this worked for botanists too, like unstable mutagen with zero chance of bad effects (no killing the plant, no decreasing yield/potency or increasing production). It wouldn't be OP because it is inherently limited.
-- Much harder, guaranteed way: Stat enhancers (think blatantly stolen from Pokemon, like Carbos and shit) that you can feed mobs to increase their speed, strength, whatever. Capped at a certain point to prevent excessive min-maxing. Would have to be a fairly high-level get from xenobio. Like maybe each is a reaction from the sepia slime, holy fuck it might actually be useful.

Remie Richards wrote:Interesting idea, I hope the code is modular enough, (maybe not AS generic as a timestop(radius,includeprojectiles,includeuser), etc. but that'd be awesome) as our current time themed antag has very little going for him thats actually related to time (his gun deletes people from time, but it may aswell just delete them)

/obj/effect/timestop
	anchored = 1
	desc = "ZA WARUDO"
	icon = 'icons/effects/160x160.dmi'
	icon_state = "time"
	layer = FLY_LAYER
	pixel_x = -64
	pixel_y = -64
	unacidable = 1
	var/mob/living/immune = null // the one who creates the timestop is immune
	var/freezerange = 2
	var/duration = 10000000

	New()
		..()
		timestop()

/obj/effect/timestop/proc/timestop()
	while(loc)
		if(duration>0)
			for(var/mob/living/M in orange (freezerange, src.loc))
				if(M == immune)
					continue
			//	M.disabilities += MUTE
				M.stunned = 10
				M.anchored = 1
			for(var/obj/item/projectile/P in orange (freezerange, src.loc))
				P.paused = 1
			duration --
		else
			for(var/mob/living/M in orange (freezerange+2, src.loc))
	//			M.disabilities -= MUTE
				M.stunned = 0
				M.anchored = 0
			for(var/obj/item/projectile/P in orange(freezerange+2, src.loc))
				P.paused = 0
			qdel(src)
			return
		sleep(1)

ThanatosRa wrote:I had a thought... If someone is beign thrown into the timestop, is there any way to code it so they continue their momentum when it ends?

Tsaricide wrote:Use the old narsie for the timestop.

Celdur wrote:Would it stop people from taking damage from bleeding/choking etc.?

Kor wrote:

Celdur wrote:Would it stop people from taking damage from bleeding/choking etc.?

No because I don't want to fuck up mob code with snowflake checks