Little things you learned that are game changing

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Tue Jul 01, 2014 11:56 pm #16920

Bottom post of the previous page:

Swagile wrote:Glocks act like lasers when it comes to breaking r-windows and grilles.

Two shots = r-window broke.
Three shots = grille broke.

>shooting grilles

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:09 am #16940

wire knots

Neerti · Post by **Neerti** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:19 am #16943

You can rig a crate to shock someone if they try to open it without insulated gloves, if you apply a cable coil, then an electropack to a crate.

Cipher3 · Post by **Cipher3** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 4:03 am #16959

Neerti wrote:You can rig a crate to shock someone if they try to open it without insulated gloves, if you apply a cable coil, then an electropack to a crate.

That's awesome. Booby traps! SURPRISE, CARGONAUTS!

Spacemanspark · Wed Jul 02, 2014 4:56 am

An AI (Maybe a cyborg too, dunno.) can click on a light bulb or Fixture, and it will blink off for about 1- 2 seconds. Good for spooking the crew.

WrexingDrew · Post by **WrexingDrew** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:27 am #16998

Quick question, I heard that if you release N2 during a fire, the fire would be put out, is that true?

Munchlax · Post by **Munchlax** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:38 am #17002

Kinda.

TheTerbs · Post by **TheTerbs** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 7:40 am #17005

WrexingDrew wrote:Quick question, I heard that if you release N2 during a fire, the fire would be put out, is that true?

Sleepy fire is best fire. Space the scrubbers they are for faggots

srifenbyxp · Post by **srifenbyxp** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 10:33 am #17028

Cult? > Get stun tali and wear it as a paper hat > security wants to search you > assuming your book is in your bag drop your bag on the floor and take off your clothes > security will assume your not a threat... yet > run next to security and use your "paper hat" on security > make him disappear.

Kraso · Post by **Kraso** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 11:08 am #17035

You can still make wire knots by standing over the tile you want to add cable to and facing the direction you want it to start from. This wastes less wire, albeit it looks fugly. Unless you're making 1-tile-wide solars.

Miauw · Post by **Miauw** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:53 pm #17051

Ivan Issaccs wrote:Its literally old chloral.
And I hope to god it stays that way.

:^]

RG4 · Post by **RG4** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 8:57 pm #17118

With a level 4 Goliath Plate Mining RIG (max level) and its helmet and a security jumpsuit you have 95% brute damage reduction.Amazingly useful when there's a cult around and you're up for saving the station.

ExplosiveCrate · Thu Jul 03, 2014 1:01 am

Cult tomes do a fixed amount of burn damage regardless of armor (10-15, I think?), so it would only really be useful against constructs.

Pandarsenic · Post by **Pandarsenic** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 3:05 am #17195

It turns a cult sword's 40 damage into 2.

Swagile · Post by **Swagile** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 3:08 am #17198

Pandarsenic wrote:It turns a cult sword's 40 damage into 2.

doesn't really matter when it doesn't have stun protection...

one baton and woop goes your armor and hello space

BillWilson · Post by **BillWilson** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 3:41 am #17205

You can provide power to the station by setting up the particle accelerator in engineering. Many things in engineering, such as the rigsuits for walking around the station in and the plasma leak device can actually be used to set up this engine.

bandit · Post by **bandit** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 4:45 am #17211

The lawyer's ID will not only get you into the brig but into the evidence/contraband lockers.

Steelpoint · Post by **Steelpoint** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 5:16 am #17212

Yeah, I noticed for some reason the Lawyers Security Access got increased recently, they can not only get in those lockers but into the Security Break room.

BigJamminJim · Post by **BigJamminJim** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 5:40 am #17213

BillWilson wrote:You can provide power to the station by setting up the particle accelerator in engineering. Many things in engineering, such as the rigsuits for walking around the station in and the plasma leak device can actually be used to set up this engine.

lol

RG4 · Post by **RG4** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 10:11 am #17260

Swagile wrote:
Pandarsenic wrote:It turns a cult sword's 40 damage into 2.
doesn't really matter when it doesn't have stun protection...

one baton and woop goes your armor and hello space

It's hard to chance an upgraded miner with the grav gen offline wearing a jetpack as he flies through and pickaxes everyone's head. Even worse if you find and energy cutlass on the station then the cult has even bigger reason to fear you.

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 12:49 pm #17281

where do you even get e-cutlasses? just in treasure rooms?

Giacom · Post by **Giacom** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 1:33 pm #17289

Pretty much.

TheTerbs · Post by **TheTerbs** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 2:04 pm #17295

miggles wrote:where do you even get e-cutlasses? just in treasure rooms?

Convince the admins your doing friendly pirate RP

Giacom · Post by **Giacom** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 4:30 pm #17341

The banana stun duration is based on the bananas' stats.

ExplosiveCrate · Thu Jul 03, 2014 4:36 pm

How long does a potency 100 banana stun for?

Also, plant size is also based on stats. You could have a bunch nearly invisible banana peels that stun for less than a second of you really wanted to.

Miauw · Post by **Miauw** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 5:07 pm #17345

neverforget issue report "the clown's banana is fucking tiny"

Giacom · Post by **Giacom** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 5:28 pm #17352

never forget issue report "female hulks don't have tits"

Miauw · Post by **Miauw** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 5:38 pm #17354

neverforget pull request "removes boulders from female golems"

JJRcop · Post by **JJRcop** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 11:15 pm #18051

You can hold CTRL to temporarily enable hotkeys mode while it is held. CTRL 1, 2, 3, 4 to switch to help, disarm, grab, and harm respectively. CTRL Q to drop items, CTRL E too equip items, CTRL X to swap the active hand, CTRL Z to activate the held item.

dionysus24779 · Mon Jul 07, 2014 7:56 am

Something I learned quite some time ago: Cyborgs can pick up things if they already hold a stack of the same item.

Example: If you're an engie borg and hold floor tiles but you're under your maximum you are able to pick up floortiles by click on them with your stack of tiles.

This is incredibly useful for engie borgs because they can remove leftover rods and metal by picking them up and can pick up cables which increases the speed of being able to wire solars soooo much. Like normally an engieborg has to recharge after every solar, but by picking up some cable that just sit around in maint etc. you can do all 4 solars in one go without the need to recharge.

peoplearestrange · Mon Jul 07, 2014 12:31 pm

dionysus24779 wrote:Something I learned quite some time ago: Cyborgs can pick up things if they already hold a stack of the same item.

Example: If you're an engie borg and hold floor tiles but you're under your maximum you are able to pick up floortiles by click on them with your stack of tiles.

This is incredibly useful for engie borgs because they can remove leftover rods and metal by picking them up and can pick up cables which increases the speed of being able to wire solars soooo much. Like normally an engieborg has to recharge after every solar, but by picking up some cable that just sit around in maint etc. you can do all 4 solars in one go without the need to recharge.

Unless you use up all your cable, then the item disappears and you have to recharge in order to get at least 1 piece to use to be able to pick up the similar item.

Kelenius · Post by **Kelenius** » Mon Jul 07, 2014 12:37 pm #18126

peoplearestrange wrote:Unless you use up all your cable, then the item disappears and you have to recharge in order to get at least 1 piece to use to be able to pick up the similar item.

Nnnnnnnnope, that was fixed.

And, by the way, you can use up and kind of metal and restore it with any kind of metal now, too. Remove floor tiles, reinforce floor with rods, pick up tiles to restore metal stock.

Swagile · Post by **Swagile** » Wed Jul 09, 2014 4:51 am #18387

You can stun, heal, and slip while still down, even as a non-antag, with the use of chemistry.

Ikarrus · Post by **Ikarrus** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:49 am #19598

Beepsky will arrest you if your threat level is 4 or higher

If he is emagged, everyone has a threat level of 10

Things that can increase threat level:
-Not having an ID on when IDcheck is enabled (+4)
-Holding a weapon in your hand when weapon check is on and you do not have a weapon permit (+4 per hand)
-Having a weapon on your belt when weapon check is on and you do not have a weapon permit (+2)
-Having a criminal status of "Arrest" and records check is on (+5)
-Having a criminal status of "Incarcerated" or "Parolled" and records check is on (+2)
-Wearing a wizard hat or wizard hardsuit helmet (+2)
-Not being human (+1)
-Attacking beepsky (+6) (But he will arrest you regardless of threat level)

Things that can reduce your threat level:
-Being loyalty implanted (-1)
-Having an Agent Card in your ID slot (-2)

This means being loyalty implanted will make beepsky overlook most of your offenses, with the exception of an arrest warrant

Having an agent card makes beepsky ignore you altogether so long as you don't stack more than one offense

Mastigos · Post by **Mastigos** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:19 am #19619

Wait so if you get loyalty implanted and use an agent card, you can beat Beepsky to death without getting arrested?

Ikarrus · Post by **Ikarrus** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:28 am #19621

Unfortunately, no, Beepsky's self-defense mechanism kicks in and arrests you anyways.

Rumia29 · Post by **Rumia29** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:56 am #19881

Haven't tried this myself yet, but lit flares do as much damage against a blob as lit welders or plasma cutter.

paprika · Post by **paprika** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 3:59 am #19907

Beepsky is surprisingly complex, I thought he just hit people for basic 'arrest he' shit, not 'adding points' as ikarrus explained.

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 5:41 am #19920

paprika wrote:Beepsky is surprisingly complex, I thought he just hit people for basic 'arrest he' shit, not 'adding points' as ikarrus explained.

Beepsky has changed a few times in the notes.

TheTerbs · Post by **TheTerbs** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 7:56 am #19931

beepsky is retardedly complex

SkipsPro · Post by **SkipsPro** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 9:09 pm #20033

what do those bot control things under the floor tiles do? can you edit beepsky's path with them or something?

Zaffre · Post by **Zaffre** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:03 pm #20046

>Emag beepsky so that he cuffs everyone without an ID
>drag him to HoP line
>watch everyone get cuffed when they take off their ID to give to HoP

kosmos · Post by **kosmos** » Sat Jul 19, 2014 9:39 pm #20355

You can make a voice-activated bomb and have it activate with your final words -whisper if the voice analyzer-signaler is in your pocket, it won't work if it's in your backpack. Use preferably a very short word so your gasping and such won't ruin it when you try to say it.

Swagile · Post by **Swagile** » Sat Jul 19, 2014 10:46 pm #20361

kosmos wrote:You can make a voice-activated bomb and have it activate with your final words -whisper if the voice analyzer-signaler is in your pocket, it won't work if it's in your backpack. Use preferably a very short word so your gasping and such won't ruin it when you try to say it.

Oh wow, I never thought of this when I figured out how to slip people while stunned as a scientist.

10/10, will try this.

Rumia29 · Post by **Rumia29** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 11:10 pm #20775

You can remove reinforced flooring with a wrench.

Jalleo · Post by **Jalleo** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:15 am #20785

The best place to be during a emergency is normally where the fighting was unless the singularity was the cause of it. ( running around like a headless chicken normally gets you in the middle of danger.

EmptyK01 · Post by **EmptyK01** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 8:47 am #20834

Learn telescience; it is extremely helpful. Both as a non-antagonist and antagonist alike.

Tokiko2 · Post by **Tokiko2** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 9:09 am #20836

There's a way to make a 10 use smoke grenade kind of thing. It has one downside: It will be spawned on your character so there are only a few uses for chems but still!

Get a cryobeaker from R&D. Fill it with the smoke reaction mix, 10u of each. Fill the remaining 20u with whatever chem you want in the smoke. Set the transfer amount of 5u and then pour it into a regular beaker/glass/whatever whenever you need a smoke cloud.

Potentially useful chemicals for this:
Plasma smoke! This way it's distributed really nicely and you can flood entire departments in seconds, no need for a suspicious canister!
Regular smoke is nice aswell, for when you want to be a ninja.
Carbon for when you feel like covering the station in dirt.
Mutagen works really well too because it will rapidly mutate anyone if used in smoke form. You better have plenty of antitoxin, hyronalin and ryetalyn in your body though!
Ryetalyn/(poly)acid smoke walls to shut down rogue esword hulks also seem somewhat practical. Maybe?
Spacelube smoke could be useful if you are a hulk yourself.

Lo6a4evskiy · Post by **Lo6a4evskiy** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 11:42 am #20844

You don't really need cryobeaker for it, it just helps with space management. Have two beakers with ingredients for smoke separated and put them together, that will achieve the same effect.

Mastigos · Post by **Mastigos** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 4:07 pm #20861

Yeah but Tokiko's method actually lets you get multiple uses in a really easy and efficient way. Only way you could do it with regular is having them split up and having both set to like 5u and pour separately into a third beaker but even then you'll be going through it twice as quickly as Tokiko's method.

Lo6a4evskiy · Post by **Lo6a4evskiy** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:59 pm #21293

You can always use droppers.