Adding a new gas, and station fires rebalance

[razfen]

As I have expressed sometimes in OOC chat, there's a kind of problem with fires in this game, particularly that they either die on their own quickly or they're too powerful to contain through decent means (extinguishing them is possible, but rarely without significant station damage).

If there's an atmos antag, it pretty much guarantees a plasma flood in my eyes, which means there'll be no -properly equipped- crew to contain the fires. The regular fire extinguishers are decent enough for when it comes to small fires, but they're essentially useless against a full-blast plasma flood. As far as I know, the best measures against that is only an N2 can thrown into the fire, which is kinda ehhh.

Now as a fairly common atmos tech, for some reason I always always secretly hope for a malfunctioning AI that'll flood the station with plasma so that I can go and put out the flames, but by the time I'd get to it, half the station is already pretty much gone. (Technically, plasma floods might not supposed to be contained, but fire could at least have a meaning different than OGODCALLTHESHUTTLE).

So the overall idea: Making station fires more common, but less powerful. Currently I think the only thing capable of catching fire in the game is plasma itself though.

Also, a new gas: I think the best candidate could be hydrogen.
Hydrogen gas is highly flammable and burns with a blue flame. It could be used for many things, for instance as actual welding fuel (there are hydrogen welders today)
Also, it can be an interesting addition to the current fusion mechanics.

[Super Aggro Crag]

>put hydrogen
>some FUCK makes a fusion reaction
>hydrogen turn into helium
>make everyones text really tiny and italic because their voice is squeaky

ok do that

[PKPenguin321]

>wanting to put out fires manually
>not doing everything remotely via distro output and air alarm manipulation

[duncathan]

>not using nanofrost

[Cik]

what atmos needs is more speed

air should blow out of a room explosively

IMPLEMENT FASTERMOS 2016

[Actionb]

wants ZAS

Please no.

[Gun Hog]

/tg/ players are not robust enough to handle the sheer power and danger of ZAS. We can barely handle space wind.

[Zilenan91]

Doesn't ZAS lag really bad

[DemonFiren]

I think it's been optimised, and next to Baymed is one of the few things that I really liked about that server.

[duncathan]

ZAS will literally never be merged even if someone tried