/tg/Station 13

RandomMarine

BeeSting12 wrote:My favorite is arresting a guy and then he gets really salty and says "I'm talking to the gods right now, id release me if i were you."

This kind of thing from non-chaplains should be grounds for sticking them in the loony ward.

RandomMarine

It's a necessary gameplay compromise because simple mobs are generally not able to be stunned.

RandomMarine

Here, lemme write out a simple as fuck policy that will solve every problem ever:

1. Don't disrupt other beings or their activities. A being is a mob, yes that includes the cleanbots - don't touch them.
2. If someone tells you to fuck off - Fuck off. No, that doesn't mean come back 2 minutes ...

RandomMarine

framing the playerbases continued abuses of drones as the failing of the headadmins is the biggest trip of 2018
Drones did not follow laws, kept on fucking with people and got removed.

This is why we can't have nice things.
Many players ignore the rules regardless of their role. Is the proper ...

RandomMarine

All this over-analyzing of the history of drones distracts from the real reason why drones were removed after the role existed relatively painlessly for years.
Current headmins aren't willing to bother enforcing their rules. That's it. The only things that can be done about it is to either vote them ...

RandomMarine

Anybody trying to kill contained xenos while not a job that outranks the scientists handling containment, should be valid to be fed to the xenos.

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Theft is part of the game. Take precautions.

RandomMarine

Let it be handled in character.
The crew has the means to remotely disable a misbehaving cyborg and hand the brain over to the chef.

RandomMarine

Back to the original subject, sorry to say it, but having a separate mailman role would eliminate one of cargo tech's very few jobs. I think there is room to say that there needs to be more item movement across departments. What would one want to mail to another department to utilize this system ...

RandomMarine

More players. As simple as that. Right now we have a server which tops at 10 players, we have room to spare. More players mean more jobs filled, fresh interactions, more potential coders and admins. And more money for the patreon, better server equipment, all in all a whole load of benefits. And ...

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Grazyn wrote:allowing streamers would cause small amounts of unnoticeable low-key metacomming but will bring much more benefits in the long run, I'd say it's worth it

Please explain these so-called benefits of exposing SS13 to twitch viewers.

RandomMarine

Just don't ever interpret deliberate incompetence as not playing the game competitively.

People should always be free to act like Captain Murphy on occasion.

RandomMarine

The more I think on it the more I like the idea of detonating all drones and the dispenser a set time after emagging it.
I'd suggest adding a separate machine that's fluffed as a processing unit for the drones' AI.
If it goes down, the drones all get stuck in "hiding" state until it's repaired ...

RandomMarine

For a while I've had an idea of there being station budget tiers that would affect which objects spawn at map start, where the station's set on low/normal/high budget mode depending on how frequently goals were accomplished in earlier rounds.
Low budget would leave departments with only the bare ...

RandomMarine

Admins shouldn't be mashing buttons with intent to put a round to a screeching stop under any normal circumstance.
Pulling a rocks fall everyone dies when the players are having fun enough is shit GM practice.

If there's a few bored ghosts, toss in some ghost roles or tell them to server hop and ...

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There's already a sloth ruin.

RandomMarine

I suggested on the github to give wall electronic boards the freezer/heater treatment and make it possible to switch them between different types via screwdriver.

The bloat's still there, it just bumps up QoL but there's more potential maintainability issues with screwdriver switching compared to ...

RandomMarine

Patching up a bombing is piss easy with foam grenades or RCDs, but going back and forth between the site and engineering/cargo to fetch power cells/power control modules/airlock electronics/fire alarm electronics/air alarm electronics/firelock electronics/etc etc etc is a total slog.

Could maybe ...

RandomMarine

A blurred line for the rule is good in this case. Helps keep normal names the norm and pun/joke names minimal but not extinct.

RandomMarine

ComradeNecron wrote:oh yeah, they nerfed plastic flaps as well

So did we. The humorously and nonsensically sturdy barrier is now defeated by the common screwdriver.

RandomMarine

From an in-character perspective. The mining base is relatively expendable and if it's infested by xenos (or a similar station-ending threat) which one ignorant late-arriving miner can easily give a free ride to the actual station, I feel it's perfectly reasonable to destroy the whole thing and ...

RandomMarine

You need oxygen and co2 to make pluoxium.

RandomMarine

Should be common knowledge for characters in authority roles that the message monitor console can be used by anybody with the password to send phony PDA messages, and that Central has their own official channels to communicate with the station.

I'm all for interesting sources of conflict but the ...

RandomMarine

fluff it to be a reinactment of the Clown-Mime war of 87. Make it like vietnam, with the mimes being the Victor Charlies and the clowns being something like MAC-TAV

except the mimes are french specops and the clowns are MAC-HONK or something. Mimes use invisible guns and a mech that can completely ...

RandomMarine

Revenants could be interesting if most of them didn't just defile every external window until someone gets sick of all the lack of air and calls the shuttle.

RandomMarine

cedarbridge wrote:This. Swarmers are intended (like most threats) to be a cataclysmic event that the crew stops, slows down or loses the station to.

In practice as long as a single swarmer is not retarded they're nigh-unstoppable.

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/datum/round_event_control/slaughter
	name = "Spawn Slaughter Demon"
	typepath = /datum/round_event/ghost_role/slaughter
	weight = 1 //Very rare
	max_occurrences = 1
	earliest_start = 1 HOURS
	min_players = 20

It's there but it's rare.

RandomMarine

Did I miss any? Feel free to comment and tell me how wrong I am.

You forgot slaughter demons.
Which all they contribute is removing people from the round for happening to be near blood and not powergaming around with the best armor and weapons they can get. In which case the demon just passes ...

RandomMarine

There were already three antags that can be untouchable, invisible observers until they have the perfect opportunity to appear and act, then quickly disappear.
That shit is awful. We didn't need a fourth. Hopefully the mode stays out of rotation until the whole idea behind clockers warping in from ...

RandomMarine

suiciding preventing cloning is entirely around antags suiciding after getting caught.
Could you elaborate? Suiciding adding noclone existed long before autocloning was ever a thing, and any antag thrown into the permabrig with a pre-scan can still just punch themselves to death to get around it ...

RandomMarine

Suicide should be 1A unless you make every suicide take the same amount of time as it would to beat yourself to death. an instant "haha nope" button to get out of conversion (which some people have explicitly argued in said prs) is super shitty.

If you want to get out of conversion ICly then hit ...

RandomMarine

I don't see the point in restricting people from taking ghost roles based on how they ghosted.
Uncloneable suicides is a relic of old design that I don't see the point of keeping around, but granted if you suicide for no apparent reason you shouldn't have any right to complain if your body's taken ...

RandomMarine

Yeah, but ling has undergone far less changes then clock or blood cult, and it could be fun if it was a sneaky identity changing antag with powers to make it slippery, as opposed to an immortal teamworking antag with powers to make it a murder machine

That's what they were between the great ...

RandomMarine

Tangentially related. But back in the era of SoS where security generally wasn't allowed to murder prisoners on a whim, there was a round where security was mistreating perma prisoners and I proposed to an admin at the time to send a centcom agent disguised as a prisoner (With an implanted radio to ...

RandomMarine

Swagbringer wrote:You should be able to rip the clothes off your chest in a display of manly passion or to mourn the death of a fellow crewmember

Using the exercise equipment should give you a verb that rips off your clothes.

HULKAMANIA

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Going to hijack this thread as a general drone policy one.

It's very frequent that someone would ask me to help with things and I have to weigh the risk between whether doing so would be considered technically becoming involved with them and risk a droneban, or them trying to kill me for ignoring ...

RandomMarine

It would be easy to do but a bitch to maintain as different contributors keep touching the maps.

RandomMarine

An array of pacman generators would be more engaging and balanced than any of the other engines.

RandomMarine

Back in the day the singularity only moved one tile each tick, pulled objects one step toward it each tick, and consumed whatever happened to be occupying it each tick.
It was a far cry from current singularity, which is much more dangerous even without considering that it dismantled walls and ...

RandomMarine

Wouldnt increasing the price when it is purchased by others be a better idea? for example if Greytide McRoundstartbomb buys a syndicate bomb at 12 TC, the next person who wants to buy it would have to pay 15tc.

It would help counter some of the mass carnage that can be caused by multiple traitors ...

RandomMarine

Make people take eye damage if they're looking in the direction of the sun.

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Use genetics to steal their identity.

RandomMarine

Maybe it's for the best to code some function for ghosts to request these things. Like click the drone dispenser when it's empty to make it beep or something.

RandomMarine

Security's job is to keep the peace and protect company assets. They should be credited for all surviving crew and station integrity, not dunked antags.

RandomMarine

I vaguely recall age way back where the wiki suggested that it was okay to request someone to request a pAI over OOC without any specifics about the round itself.

RandomMarine

Add a way to make two airlocks cycle-linked. Like a multitool buffer or something.

RandomMarine

Creating a loose singularity is already a rule 1 violation. Nothing more really has to be said about it.

RandomMarine

Lava-based turbine generator. Perpetually dishes out 50kW with tier 3 parts, enough to keep a modest lavaland outpost juiced.
Wait until #35899 is fixed before wasting time making it without admin assistance though.

RandomMarine

Add a quick and easy way to turn sheets of reinforced glass back into glass and rods.

RandomMarine

We have an extensive repair system and a role based entirely around it, for example.

One round comes to mind where medbay was maxcapped, I was a drone at the time and quickly RCD'd up the holes and began patching up the walls and cabling while other drones and engineers began replacing the air ...

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