Simple Questions Thread

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 8:15 pm #165565

Bottom post of the previous page:

Bans applied should appear in the post round summary.

I don't know why we came up with the concept that rule breakers deserve privacy. Fuck 'em, name and shame them and let them be an example to the other shitlers that might get the same bright ideas to think twice.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 8:54 pm #165576

So we know who to murder next time at round start? The amount of times I've been murdered by shitheels who then turn out to be non antags is absurd. It's a public service to name and shame them so we can pressure them into either fucking off, or simply not being shitheads, red text going 'don't do that shit' is less annoying than the station taking out of the day to kill you at round start because you act like a cunt.
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Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 10:36 pm #165640

Yeah this isn't the SomethingAwful forums, we shouldn't glorify bans.

kazeespada · Post by **kazeespada** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 4:01 am #165761

Raphaella wrote:How in god's good name do you make hooch? I tried mixing sugar, ethanol and welder fuel in various ways and it just keeps making napalm.

Add universal enzyme, and then mix it. Due to code reasons and black magic, it makes hooch before it makes napalm.

killerx09 · Post by **killerx09** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:55 am #165800

If you have two sleepy pens filled with the ingredients of nitroglycerine, and inject them into a person, will it gib him?

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 8:45 am #165803

AFAIK it should. The ingredients for chems do mix inside the body. You might be hurt as well.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 1:21 pm #165823

Fun fact, if you can dose people up with black powder; setting them on fire will ignite the powder inside of them if you can raise their temperature to ignition point. Such as setting them on fire.
Or, you can eat a whole bunch and turn yourself into a walking suicide bomb. You can even potentially reach maxcap if you eat enough.

killerx09 · Post by **killerx09** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:06 pm #165857

What happens if there's no maxcap? Like, you traded all your TCs to remove maxcap.

killerx09 · Post by **killerx09** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:07 pm #165858

What happens if there's no maxcap? Like, you traded all your TCs to remove maxcap.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:20 pm #165859

Then your explosive yield will not be arbitrarily limited by the bomb cap. In the past this was generally a bad idea for admins to do ever, as it caused massive amounts of lag and could potentially lead to a crash. However apparently lag is ded (although this is certainly not true on basil) and so maybe it is not so bad anymore

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:27 pm #165867

That's what the guy meant, I think. What if you remove bombcap, how much boom do the, like, 5000 units of blackpowder make that you can put in your bloodstream?

...

Actually, let me check this real quick.

Jazaen · Post by **Jazaen** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:41 pm #165873

Wyzack wrote:Then your explosive yield will not be arbitrarily limited by the bomb cap. In the past this was generally a bad idea for admins to do ever, as it caused massive amounts of lag and could potentially lead to a crash. However apparently lag is ded (although this is certainly not true on basil) and so maybe it is not so bad anymore

I THINK bomblag is dead on bagil too, as explosions go in shockwaves, instead of long freeze and then result.

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 11:36 pm #165929

Pro tip, don't eat black powder pills, put them all as teeth implants and put in one CLF3 implant so you can instantly maxcap yourself anywhere.

TheNightingale · Fri Apr 01, 2016 12:32 am

"Which of these implants is which? Was this one the 29u omnizine?"
-BOOM-

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 3:11 am #165972

Before the tesla, they were used to measure the radioactivity of the singulo. You can also emag them which does something fun.

Spoiler:

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 3:31 am #165977

Not a kill anymore, it got nerfed. Barely enough for a stun now.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 5:15 am #165984

This is why we cannot have nice things.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:39 pm #166093

DemonFiren wrote:That's what the guy meant, I think. What if you remove bombcap, how much boom do the, like, 5000 units of blackpowder make that you can put in your bloodstream?

...

Actually, let me check this real quick.

1000 units of black powder were as much as I could cram into myself.
Doused myself in Cuban rum and lit myself up, hit (13, 27, 55) and a metric shitton of lag - quite possibly because of the >6000u of blackpowder I had stored nearby that went up in a (92, 185, 371) bang.

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:49 pm #166095

What did you store 6000 black powder in

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:55 pm #166096

Varedited beaker.

killerx09 · Post by **killerx09** » Sun Apr 03, 2016 6:23 am #166402

What stopped you from cramming more powder in?

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sun Apr 03, 2016 7:58 am #166406

Body reagent cap.
I thought it was at 2000, but apparently not.

TrustyGun · Post by **TrustyGun** » Tue Apr 05, 2016 8:22 pm #166914

How do solars mechanically work? To be more exact, can sunlight reach solar panels though solid, though non opaque objects (Like windows and grills)? Do solars need to be in space? Is there a range limit to solars?

Smeller · Post by **Smeller** » Tue Apr 05, 2016 9:42 pm #166943

TrustyGun wrote:How do solars mechanically work? To be more exact, can sunlight reach solar panels though solid, though non opaque objects (Like windows and grills)? Do solars need to be in space? Is there a range limit to solars?

I believe they're working if they've got space tiles and power produced depends on how many space tiles it got in it's line of sight, so they do work through windows, and they don't have to be in space. I've built solars just above the bridge once

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Tue Apr 05, 2016 10:01 pm #166946

CosmicScientist wrote:Are doing things like this:
Screemonster wrote:Giving books the same names as traitor items and putting them in your bag as you pass a security officer (or anyone really) is hilarious.
... and custom emotes such as CosmicScientist extends a proboscis. Bad? I mean, if I wholly accept doing it can and will make me valid, is it OOC in IC, bwoinkable depending on the admin or alright to do? What if I'm a traitor double-bluffing to earn trust?

These are things I've wanted to do for a while as a laff.

I've doubled up, kept a foam armblade in my pocket, and then put it on as I've pressed the custom emote to emulate the changeling arm. Seeing people freak out and run away wordlessly is comedy gold.

Screemonster · Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:44 pm

CosmicScientist wrote:Are doing things like this:
Screemonster wrote:Giving books the same names as traitor items and putting them in your bag as you pass a security officer (or anyone really) is hilarious.
... and custom emotes such as CosmicScientist extends a proboscis. Bad? I mean, if I wholly accept doing it can and will make me valid, is it OOC in IC, bwoinkable depending on the admin or alright to do? What if I'm a traitor double-bluffing to earn trust?

These are things I've wanted to do for a while as a laff.

tbh if it does count as an ocky-icky exploit it could probably be stopped by making those auto-emotes for putting stuff in a bag or whatever display the icon for the object in question (the way PDA-beeps and examine-text and so on do it)
it'd be like, a single line of code probably.

even so disguising as your DA target and letting someone see you put a "revolver" in your bag would be hella fun
as would stuffing fake traitor items in your sack and getting searched like a dozen times until they start just telling you to piss off, ignoring radio calls of "URIST MCTATOR HAS AN ESWORD" with replies of "it's a fucking book" and then you spawn your actual traitor shit and cap someone.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:36 am #167032

As detective, I just name my revolver "corgi meat".
Sometimes "gyrojet pistol".

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:41 am #167033

How do you upload laws to the AI? Do you have to set laws on a freeform board in a specific way then click on the upload console with it?

Wed Apr 06, 2016 6:18 am

Zilenan91 wrote:How do you upload laws to the AI? Do you have to set laws on a freeform board in a specific way then click on the upload console with it?

1. When console is constructed, you must click on it to set which AI it will upload to. If there is more than 1 AI, clicking will toggle through them.
2. Freeform boards must be used in your hand to set a law on them. First it will ask to set what priority the law will be at, and you're allowed to use priorities 15 and greater. If there is no law below 15, it will just default to the next lowest number (IE if you add a freeform law to a default Asimov AI, then it will become law 4, despite being set to 15).
3. Once priority is set, you can enter whatever the fuck you want as the message on the board. If it's not a freeform board, you can generally skip both this step and step 2.
4. You can examine the board to check what laws are on it.
5. Click the upload console with the laws board and you'll get a message saying "Laws Updated." You're all done.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 4:26 pm #167088

CosmicScientist wrote:Are doing things like this:
Screemonster wrote:Giving books the same names as traitor items and putting them in your bag as you pass a security officer (or anyone really) is hilarious.
... and custom emotes such as CosmicScientist extends a proboscis. Bad? I mean, if I wholly accept doing it can and will make me valid, is it OOC in IC, bwoinkable depending on the admin or alright to do? What if I'm a traitor double-bluffing to earn trust?

These are things I've wanted to do for a while as a laff.

Only bad if you cry to admins when people validate you.

Jazaen · Post by **Jazaen** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:58 pm #167102

PKPenguin321 wrote:
Zilenan91 wrote:How do you upload laws to the AI? Do you have to set laws on a freeform board in a specific way then click on the upload console with it?
1. When console is constructed, you must click on it to set which AI it will upload to. If there is more than 1 AI, clicking will toggle through them.
2. Freeform boards must be used in your hand to set a law on them. First it will ask to set what priority the law will be at, and you're allowed to use priorities 15 and greater. If there is no law below 15, it will just default to the next lowest number (IE if you add a freeform law to a default Asimov AI, then it will become law 4, despite being set to 15).
3. Once priority is set, you can enter whatever the fuck you want as the message on the board. If it's not a freeform board, you can generally skip both this step and step 2.
4. You can examine the board to check what laws are on it.
5. Click the upload console with the laws board and you'll get a message saying "Laws Updated." You're all done.

Oh, and when you are at the upload, never upload purge without another law module keeping you safe and upload powered in other hand ready to be uploaded ASAP. This will save you a lot of trouble.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Thu Apr 07, 2016 8:46 pm #167368

How make Kudzu.

FantasticFwoosh · Thu Apr 07, 2016 10:24 pm

How do you even make buttons do anything.

Building one and closing the lid is fine, but actually connecting things to them is hard. I know i can do fancy things like voice activated buttons but they seem kinda meaningless if i don't know how to activate them.

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:43 pm #167396

You make kudzu by using sugar on a botany tray with a weed level of more than 5. It's RnG whether you get a meme plant or kudzu so you'll have to try more than once.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 1:29 pm #167489

No one ever grows spiders

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 1:56 pm #167492

Is that just kudzu but with pests not weeds?

FantasticFwoosh · Fri Apr 08, 2016 2:44 pm

Malkevin wrote:No one ever grows spiders

I like to grow spiders. Sometimes on a long drawn out round when im not invested to grind gold's ill just steal a botany tray and use the R&D portable chem to make some.

Transference potions give more reason to make spiders since you can cause spider-geddeon whist still getting greentext (if you have murderbone and escape objectives which are relatively common)

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:35 pm #167602

You can make nurses with trays? Holy shit, you can do that in fucking arrivals with the soil

FantasticFwoosh · Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:38 pm

Zilenan91 wrote:You can make nurses with trays? Holy shit, you can do that in fucking arrivals with the soil

Yes you can theoretically incur and flood spiders by releasing a shit-ton of spiderlings and then hiding via a chameleon projector (which does not aggro simples) while you crawl your way to a pod. (I tried this once but got caught and eaten)

TheNightingale · Mon Apr 11, 2016 12:42 am

We know that, if a human is in danger, a silicon can lie to protect them. But can an Asimov silicon lie of their own volition? Does asking a question count as ordering them to answer honestly?

Super Aggro Crag · Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:23 am

only if they say "Silicon, answer the following question truthfully" beforehand.

Cik · Post by **Cik** » Mon Apr 11, 2016 3:27 am #168040

you must explicitly order them to tell the truth (to the best of their knowledge)

Grazyn · Post by **Grazyn** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 7:59 am #168247

Do fat people yield more meat when gibbed?

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:04 am #168250

Grazyn wrote:Do fat people yield more meat when gibbed?

Meat is a valued resource, as someone who loves to play traitor chef I hope they do. Now I can fatten up my livestock.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 3:02 pm #168271

Also can player controlled spiders lay eggs and if so how? Is it a specific type of spider, or can it be any?

Grazyn · Post by **Grazyn** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 3:19 pm #168276

only green-eyed spiders, also called nurse spiders, can lay eggs. There is a command for it in the spider tab. You need to eat (wrap) a human/animal/mob to lay one batch of eggs.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 5:33 pm #168297

When making spiders with xeno, do the green ones spawn from blood, plasma or both?

Grazyn · Post by **Grazyn** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 6:17 pm #168317

I think both, the only thing that changes between blood and plasma is that the former are neutral and the latter are hostile

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 6:36 pm #168324

I'm trying to run it in the single player mode and this keeps happening.
code\world.dm:8:error: CROSSLINKED: undefined var
code\world.dm:8:error: SELFLOOPING: undefined var
code\world.dm:8:error: CROSSLINKED: undefined var
code\world.dm:8:error: CROSSLINKED: undefined var
code\world.dm:8:error: CROSSLINKED: undefined var
code\world.dm:8:error: CROSSLINKED: undefined var
code\world.dm:8:error: CROSSLINKED: undefined var
The fuck is that?

FantasticFwoosh · Tue Apr 12, 2016 7:03 pm

Grazyn wrote:only green-eyed spiders, also called nurse spiders, can lay eggs. There is a command for it in the spider tab. You need to eat (wrap) a human/animal/mob to lay one batch of eggs.

You also need to extract juice from this wrapped stage "while the entity is alive" by clicking on the cocoon and sucking out the contents to get the nutriments you need to lay eggs.

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 12:18 am #168395

No, it does it automatically on any dead body, simple animals included. It doesn't matter if they're alive or not.