Meteor Event needs nerfed

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Meteor Event needs nerfed

Post by Yakumo_Chen » #350888

Meteors are an instant shuttle call almost guaranteed and can spawn way too early. Having them before 20 minutes is just a guaranteed the round is a farce from that point. Like bombs but worse, nobody wants to go all around the station fixing a bunch of walls and breaches, it's tedious and annoying.
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Re: Meteor Event needs nerfed

Post by iamgoofball » #350939

lmao git gud
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Re: Meteor Event needs nerfed

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Re: Meteor Event needs nerfed

Post by cedarbridge » #350943

>engineers don't like fixing things
>lets reduce the number of things that need fixing

nah
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Post by Anonmare » #350946

Make a meteor shield
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Post by BeeSting12 » #350948

learn to fix stuff

you may have a point in that noone wants to fix them but those people just need to git gud.
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Re: Meteor Event needs nerfed

Post by Hathkar » #350952

As someone who plays engineer regularly and actually likes fixing things, I rarely ever get a chance to even start patching up meteor damage, since the shuttle is called immediately after the announcement goes out. The same can be said when anything gets bombed on the station really, people just LOVE to call that shuttle for even minor damage.

That being said, meteor shielding exists, and should honestly be purchasable from Cargo even when it's not the station goal.
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Re: Meteor Event needs nerfed

Post by naltronix » #350960

meteors have different levels of pain
catastrophic is worth a shuttle call, 2 catastrophics can rape a station
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Re: Meteor Event needs nerfed

Post by LifeReign » #350974

I've seen a single meteor cut it's way through ~30 tiles of the station diagonally before blowing up in the bridge, catastrophic tunguska meteors are no joke. Meteors also have a habit of damaging the cooling loop of the SM or making bad situations on the station worse. There is a bit of a loop where station damage gets the shuttle called -> engineers give up on repairing the station because the round will end soon anyways -> people don't think engineers will fix station damage, so they become more likely to call the shuttle. However, this loop is more of a policy thing than a coding thing.
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Re: Meteor Event needs nerfed

Post by Qbopper » #350986

i ded: the thread
naltronix wrote:meteors have different levels of pain
catastrophic is worth a shuttle call, 2 catastrophics can rape a station
>meteor wave labelled "catastrophic" has catastrophic effect on the station

working as intended
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Post by CPTANT » #351014

It has never been easier to fix the station than it is now.
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Post by Okand37 » #351024

Sounds you need a good ole' meteor round to refresh your memories on what the true definition of unrepairable is!

But I am in agreeance of above, it is really quite easy to fix the station and some engineers relish the chance of actually repairing damage!
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Re: Meteor Event needs nerfed

Post by oranges » #351028

so it seems like the issue is we actually need to disable the shuttle during the meteor wave and for a period after?
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Post by MrStonedOne » #351033

>Meteors are an instant shuttle call almost guaranteed and can spawn way too early. Having them before 20 minutes is just a guaranteed the round is a farce from that point. Like bombs but worse, nobody wants to go all around the station fixing a bunch of walls and breaches, it's tedious and annoying.


> Having them before 20 minutes

uhh. I'm sure its locked to not start that earl- oh, wait, no, somebody removed the limitation preventing meteor from being triggered before a certain time in the round.

edit2: it uses the default of 20 minutes.

Any time it's happened before 20 minutes is either the false alarm thingy or admin memes or wizard memes.
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Re: Meteor Event needs nerfed

Post by Hathkar » #351051

LifeReign wrote:There is a bit of a loop where station damage gets the shuttle called -> engineers give up on repairing the station because the round will end soon anyways -> people don't think engineers will fix station damage, so they become more likely to call the shuttle. However, this loop is more of a policy thing than a coding thing.
This, almost every single time. I can't remember the last time I actually got finished repairing something and the shuttle wasn't called in the middle of the repairs, or when I was 30 seconds away from finishing them. Why bother repairing if the shuttle is going to be called even if I repair the damage?
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Post by cedarbridge » #351082

thot_slayer wrote:so it seems like the issue is we actually need to disable the shuttle during the meteor wave and for a period after?
We could just remove the shuttle.
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Re: Meteor Event needs nerfed

Post by Yakumo_Chen » #351121

MrStonedOne wrote:>Meteors are an instant shuttle call almost guaranteed and can spawn way too early. Having them before 20 minutes is just a guaranteed the round is a farce from that point. Like bombs but worse, nobody wants to go all around the station fixing a bunch of walls and breaches, it's tedious and annoying.


> Having them before 20 minutes

uhh. I'm sure its locked to not start that earl- oh, wait, no, somebody removed the limitation preventing meteor from being triggered before a certain time in the round.

edit2: it uses the default of 20 minutes.

Any time it's happened before 20 minutes is either the false alarm thingy or admin memes or wizard memes.
The round I was in it happened in 18 minutes, round time. Not sure if this 20 number includes time during the lobby setup.
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Re: Meteor Event needs nerfed

Post by MrStonedOne » #351163

it might include lobby setup, i can fix that by making it use the proper time function that accounts for that.

https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/32150 This however should limit how often the more destructive ones trigger during early round, as well as put some pop requirements on them triggering.
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Post by MollyKristoph » #351179

Hathkar wrote:
LifeReign wrote:There is a bit of a loop where station damage gets the shuttle called -> engineers give up on repairing the station because the round will end soon anyways -> people don't think engineers will fix station damage, so they become more likely to call the shuttle. However, this loop is more of a policy thing than a coding thing.
This, almost every single time. I can't remember the last time I actually got finished repairing something and the shuttle wasn't called in the middle of the repairs, or when I was 30 seconds away from finishing them. Why bother repairing if the shuttle is going to be called even if I repair the damage?
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Re: Meteor Event needs nerfed

Post by naltronix » #351202

we should make it bannable to call for no reason
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Post by CPTANT » #351242

naltronix wrote:we should make it bannable to call for no reason
>THE STATION IS TORN UP BY METEORS

>Lol no valid reason, ban he
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Re: Meteor Event needs nerfed

Post by cedarbridge » #352536

CPTANT wrote:
naltronix wrote:we should make it bannable to call for no reason
>THE STATION IS TORN UP BY METEORS

>Lol no valid reason, ban he
There's a difference between "the station is damaged" and "the station is uninhabitable"
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Re: Meteor Event needs nerfed

Post by Rustledjimm » #352556

Yakumo_Chen wrote:Like bombs but worse, nobody wants to go all around the station fixing a bunch of walls and breaches, it's tedious and annoying.

Shit I'm nobody.

Have you ever thought that people who play engineer might actually like playing at being an engineer at any point? I can fully understand it's tedious for those who sadly have no space suit or long internals but to say it's tedious for everyone and nobody actually wants to fix the station is downright incorrect.
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Re: Meteor Event needs nerfed

Post by Yakumo_Chen » #353047

This thread accomplished its intended purpose with MSO's PRs so I'm perfectly happy.
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