Tlaltecuhtli wrote:cacogen wrote:People aren't used to it
so they arent for any dangerous mechanic or weapon in the first case but after they know that the blue circles = death they ll dodge it next time
only problem the shuttle has it freezing the server when its bought and when it lands and the fact that it eats toxins storage on every map
Suffice to say:
A) People don't realise a huge shuttle is coming until it's begun to dock
B) The huge section of station it covers makes it a lot harder than the asteroid shuttle to get out of the way of
C) Turfs underneath being overlaid and invisible wall issues are bugs and cause problems with boarding
As I said, I think the solution is just making it take longer to dock so people have more of an opportunity to get out of the way. I don't think the likelihood of it being bought should be reduced any further by gating it behind things.
For the record, I wasn't one of the dummies it gibbed. But it did seem fucked up to me the huge amount of people the shuttle docking removed from the round.
The invisible walls got in the way of people boarding, too. It disappointed me because I wanted to explore the thing (at least until I remembered it was from PubbyStation or whatever) and it was only possible after it had left. Then I only got three minutes before end of round grief and there were firelocks down and I didn't have a crowbar.
Pandarsenic wrote:Lots of shuttles are basically grief shuttles (Asteroid, Rollerdome, Build Your Own...) to be fair
I don't think it's the same thing (although we do have some garbage shuttles). For one, you have the option to not get killed by the shuttle by taking a pod instead. This one crushes half of science and medbay on MetaStation when it docks.