Little things you learned that are game changing

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 5:54 pm #36142

Bottom post of the previous page:

Kot wrote:
Wizardjenkins66 wrote:The cheap lighter fits inside a Cigarette packet!
THIS IS BEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD
HOLY SHIT

This was actually a recent change.

Cipher3 · Post by **Cipher3** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:45 pm #36201

High potency bananas stun for longer than the minibomb's five second fuse. ツ

Mickyan · Post by **Mickyan** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:06 am #36202

I had a question about using chemicals with cigarettes like it was mentioned a few pages ago, are chemicals inside a cigarette administered all at once or over time? Is there any benefit in using them that way?

Cipher3 · Post by **Cipher3** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:27 am #36206

Mickyan wrote:I had a question about using chemicals with cigarettes like it was mentioned a few pages ago, are chemicals inside a cigarette administered all at once or over time? Is there any benefit in using them that way?

Untested, but I do believe I've heard of people injecting hyperzine or tricord or such into a cigar and then smoking it, giving them an over-time consistent dose of the drug.

Post by **lumipharon** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 11:07 am #36279

zippo lighters also fit in cigarette packs. It's one of the greatest changes we've had.
Chems in cigarettes or cigars (cigars hold a lot more) are used over time. It should be noted however, that the cigarette/cigar lasts FAR longer then the chems you can put into it.
Also dipping one of your cigarettes into beepsky smash then offering someone a smoke it somewhat amusing.

Oh, and you can dip the enitre cigarette pack into a beaker to soak them all, apparantly.

jaxy15 · Post by **jaxy15** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:19 pm #36324

If you're a bartender, need iron for Beepsky Smash/Amasec and there are no chemists, you can just go grab a wrench, dismantle a couple things for metal and then put the sheets into a grinder.

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:48 pm #36332

lumipharon wrote:zippo lighters also fit in cigarette packs. It's one of the greatest changes we've had.
Chems in cigarettes or cigars (cigars hold a lot more) are used over time. It should be noted however, that the cigarette/cigar lasts FAR longer then the chems you can put into it.
Also dipping one of your cigarettes into beepsky smash then offering someone a smoke it somewhat amusing.

Oh, and you can dip the enitre cigarette pack into a beaker to soak them all, apparantly.

I don't know about dunking the pack into the beaker, but you can use a syringe on the packet to load it with chems. I tested the input with a sleeper and it keeps 2.6 or so units of the given chem in your system until the chem content of the cig expires. The cig will keep burning after the chem content is exhausted though so the only tell is that your hyperzine wears off. Since detective play requires smoking and chem is always looking for things to do, I almost always have a pack of smokes on me laced with either hyperzine or anti-tox/synaptazine. Got to dunk a cultist once because he jumped me with a talisman right after I sparked a synap cig.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:22 pm #36400

I am glad I wasn't the only one who thought cig packs needed to be able to contain lighters. That shit drove me crazy.

callanrockslol · Wed Oct 15, 2014 11:32 pm

Cipher3 wrote:High potency bananas stun for longer than the minibomb's five second fuse. ツ

High potancy botany plants are magical, high yeild are great if you know which ones to spam

Tough plants are cool but they are neither of the above.

RIP instacrit deathnettles

bandit · Post by **bandit** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:35 pm #36655

Here's a big one that few people seem to know:

The telecoms traffic monitor console logs all data across all radio channels. Including departmental and Sec/Command. It does not require CE access, just the ability to hack a door.

Raven776 · Post by **Raven776** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 2:17 pm #36865

I don't know if it's been said here but...

Medipens can be unfilled and refilled with a different chemical or mix of chemicals, acting as an emergency 10 unit hypospray or, if you get creative, a parapen.

Mastigos · Post by **Mastigos** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 1:15 am #36987

With a destination tagger you can mail packages to any of the head offices, along with the major departments and the bartender. Pretty baseline, but few people ever use it and it can be really robust if handled right. Also if you want a laugh stuff the clown into a locker, weld and wrap it then send it through the conveyor without tagging it and let him loop through the disposal system forever.

Falamazeer · Post by **Falamazeer** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 1:31 am #36990

Probably already been said, but Inject welder fluid into ciggerettes, Light BOOOOOM.

Just makes the noise, but it's funny.

Saegrimr · Post by **Saegrimr** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 1:53 am #36993

Falamazeer wrote:Probably already been said, but Inject welder fluid into ciggerettes, Light BOOOOOM.

Just makes the noise, but it's funny.

Plasma will actually boom.

kosmos · Post by **kosmos** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 10:25 am #37046

Mastigos wrote:Also if you want a laugh stuff the clown into a locker, weld and wrap it then send it through the conveyor without tagging it and let him loop through the disposal system forever.

Doesn't work. Just loops once and comes back to the Delivery Office.

TZK13 · Post by **TZK13** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 3:22 pm #37069

You can get a lot of cargo points from the seed packets of certain mutated plants, just make sure you place them inside of a crate and you'll get as much as 50 cargo points from a blue-space tomato seed packet. This only works once per kind of seed packet unless you increase the potency which will give you a cargo point for every point of potency higher it is than the first sample you sent. This has been in since January but I haven't seen anybody mentioning it or using it.

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 5:00 pm #37083

kosmos wrote:
Mastigos wrote:Also if you want a laugh stuff the clown into a locker, weld and wrap it then send it through the conveyor without tagging it and let him loop through the disposal system forever.
Doesn't work. Just loops once and comes back to the Delivery Office.

That's why you turn the conveyer belt on you goon.

Post by **Vekter** » Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:18 am #37380

TZK13 wrote:You can get a lot of cargo points from the seed packets of certain mutated plants, just make sure you place them inside of a crate and you'll get as much as 50 cargo points from a blue-space tomato seed packet. This only works once per kind of seed packet unless you increase the potency which will give you a cargo point for every point of potency higher it is than the first sample you sent. This has been in since January but I haven't seen anybody mentioning it or using it.

Good Luck getting it from Botany.

Mastigos · Post by **Mastigos** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 6:46 pm #37690

kosmos wrote:
Mastigos wrote:Also if you want a laugh stuff the clown into a locker, weld and wrap it then send it through the conveyor without tagging it and let him loop through the disposal system forever.
Doesn't work. Just loops once and comes back to the Delivery Office.

Mastigos wrote:send it through the conveyor

kosmos · Post by **kosmos** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 3:34 pm #38073

Mastigos wrote:send it through the conveyor

Thanks, I already got an answer but didn't understand yours now. What the fuck is a conveyor? I can only find conveyor belts leading to delivery chutes.

Mastigos · Post by **Mastigos** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:10 pm #38137

Nope, wrapped and unlabeled packages loop back to the conveyor in the mail room, so if you have someone locked into a wrapped locker with the conveyors on they're stuck there until someone else comes to help. Honk

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 8:44 pm #38511

Violaceus wrote:Don't packaged and unlabelled items land is delivery office special chute? You know, that one never used behind a windoor.

I thought that was routed from the recycler stacking machine in the crusher room.

bandit · Post by **bandit** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:44 pm #38614

For CARGONIA (or R&D): Evidence Lockboxes don't fit in the autolathe. But they do fit in the crusher.

ABearInTheWoods · Sat Oct 25, 2014 2:27 pm

On that note, The destructive analyzer transfers a percentage of the metal/glass of the shit you deconstruct to the protolathe, and how high that percentage is, is based on how upgraded it is.

So it can basically act as an inefficient autolathe/grinder to get metal and glass and shit from shit around science if you are hurting.

jaxy15 · Post by **jaxy15** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 6:16 pm #38898

Forcefeeding someone with a salt shaker or pepper mill won't display the forcefeeding message.

Rumia29 · Post by **Rumia29** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 7:19 pm #39263

If you throw a dice onto a surface, it will act as if you clicked it, rolling the dice to a random number.

deathhoof · Post by **deathhoof** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 7:49 pm #39266

jaxy15 wrote:Forcefeeding someone with a salt shaker or pepper mill won't display the forcefeeding message.

Holy fucking shit I know my new public stealthkill strategy

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:20 pm #39276

deathhoof wrote:
jaxy15 wrote:Forcefeeding someone with a salt shaker or pepper mill won't display the forcefeeding message.
Holy fucking shit I know my new public stealthkill strategy

Sounds like a bug/oversight

Cipher3 · Post by **Cipher3** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:44 pm #39280

jaxy15 wrote:Forcefeeding someone with a salt shaker or pepper mill won't display the forcefeeding message.

Are you sure the pepper/salt/whatever reagent actually goes into them though, seeing as it doesn't show a message?

Saegrimr · Post by **Saegrimr** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 6:45 am #39356

Cipher3 wrote:Are you sure the pepper/salt/whatever reagent actually goes into them though, seeing as it doesn't show a message?

Just tested it, 10u of Neurotoxin right into the guy near you completely silently except for a slurp noise and THUD.
This is probably going to be fixed Soon™.

Cipher3 · Post by **Cipher3** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 8:58 pm #39434

Saegrimr wrote:
Cipher3 wrote:Are you sure the pepper/salt/whatever reagent actually goes into them though, seeing as it doesn't show a message?
Just tested it, 10u of Neurotoxin right into the guy near you completely silently except for a slurp noise and THUD.
This is probably going to be fixed Soon™.

It's a feature*

deathhoof · Post by **deathhoof** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 4:57 pm #39580

Saegrimr wrote:
Cipher3 wrote:Are you sure the pepper/salt/whatever reagent actually goes into them though, seeing as it doesn't show a message?
Just tested it, 10u of Neurotoxin right into the guy near you completely silently except for a slurp noise and THUD.
This is probably going to be fixed Soon™.

I hope that modifying the lid to pour everything out lets you feed them all the units

Redblaze3000 · Post by **Redblaze3000** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 7:33 pm #39594

deathhoof wrote:
Saegrimr wrote:
Cipher3 wrote:Are you sure the pepper/salt/whatever reagent actually goes into them though, seeing as it doesn't show a message?
Just tested it, 10u of Neurotoxin right into the guy near you completely silently except for a slurp noise and THUD.
This is probably going to be fixed Soon™.
I hope that modifying the lid to pour everything out lets you feed them all the units

That much salt or pepper should stun someone. Or make you sneeze a lot if its the pepper.

Saegrimr · Post by **Saegrimr** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 8:43 pm #39599

I could swear you used to be able to target people's eyes with the pepper shaker and blind them, but it just seems to feed them no matter what.

Screemonster · Thu Oct 30, 2014 11:46 pm

To be fair, the mental image of the chef tabling some breakin assistant and feeding them an entire shaker of salt appeals to my sense of humour.

Cuboos · Post by **Cuboos** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 5:35 am #39686

You can insta-crit someone at 100% health if you have enough broken glass on one tile and they're not wearing shoes.

Post by **MMMiracles** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 9:44 am #39696

Not necessarily gamechanging, but there's a '*custom' emote, that essentially is the *me verb expect you can choose if its heard or seen.

ABearInTheWoods · Fri Oct 31, 2014 10:56 am

Disconnected?

Click the byond logo in game.

Go to client -> reconnect.

ExplosiveCrate · Fri Oct 31, 2014 7:32 pm

Does that work when the screen freezes but you're technically still connected?

ABearInTheWoods · Sat Nov 01, 2014 2:54 am

yes, but it most likely wouldn't fix the issue.

Its mainly good for when you don't reconnect on restart because 'another login has been made with your ckey, this one has been closed'

Post by **NikNakFlak** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 4:48 am #40417

I actually never realized this until someone used it to save my life.
The universal recorder is actually universal. Want to talk to aliens or hear what they are saying? Universal recorder can record their voices and then you can playback the sound or print out the transcript and it's translated. Got monkey'd by an evil geneticist but managed to escape? Hit up the library of law office and grab that recorder. It can quite litterly translate anything from monkey to alien. I actually never realized this until I got monkey'd during a rev round and someone used that to understand my situation and I wasn't just murdered on the spot. It was very heart warming.

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 5:14 am #40424

NikNakFlak wrote:I actually never realized this until someone used it to save my life.
The universal recorder is actually universal. Want to talk to aliens or hear what they are saying? Universal recorder can record their voices and then you can playback the sound or print out the transcript and it's translated. Got monkey'd by an evil geneticist but managed to escape? Hit up the library of law office and grab that recorder. It can quite litterly translate anything from monkey to alien. I actually never realized this until I got monkey'd during a rev round and someone used that to understand my situation and I wasn't just murdered on the spot. It was very heart warming.

Theoretically this works on drones too right? Since Dronespeak outside of Drone Binary is just another "language" that always translates to chitters instead of chimpers.

Remie Richards · Mon Nov 03, 2014 5:30 pm

cedarbridge wrote:
NikNakFlak wrote:I actually never realized this until someone used it to save my life.
The universal recorder is actually universal. Want to talk to aliens or hear what they are saying? Universal recorder can record their voices and then you can playback the sound or print out the transcript and it's translated. Got monkey'd by an evil geneticist but managed to escape? Hit up the library of law office and grab that recorder. It can quite litterly translate anything from monkey to alien. I actually never realized this until I got monkey'd during a rev round and someone used that to understand my situation and I wasn't just murdered on the spot. It was very heart warming.
Theoretically this works on drones too right? Since Dronespeak outside of Drone Binary is just another "language" that always translates to chitters instead of chimpers.

Code:

Code: Select all

/obj/item/device/taperecorder
	languages = ALL //this is a translator, after all.

It has all languages.

Cipher3 · Post by **Cipher3** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:58 pm #40643

Doesn't change DRONE LAWS, though. Those things YOU NEED TO FOLLOW. Certain drone players suck.

Actually though that recorder is pretty cool.

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 11:02 pm #40645

Cipher3 wrote:Doesn't change DRONE LAWS, though. Those things YOU NEED TO FOLLOW. Certain drone players suck.

Actually though that recorder is pretty cool.

I was actually thinking of using it to record their excited chittering as soon as they're made. Drones always seem so happy when they skitter off from the first batch ;_;

Post by **MMMiracles** » Tue Nov 04, 2014 1:09 am #40685

On metastation (don't know about box), all of the fruits and veggies that spawn have 50 potency and can be turned into seeds. Useful for kickstarting the basic stuff for the chef.

Remie Richards · Tue Nov 04, 2014 6:15 pm

cedarbridge wrote:
Cipher3 wrote:Doesn't change DRONE LAWS, though. Those things YOU NEED TO FOLLOW. Certain drone players suck.

Actually though that recorder is pretty cool.
I was actually thinking of using it to record their excited chittering as soon as they're made. Drones always seem so happy when they skitter off from the first batch ;_;

Witness the glorious drone birthing, their tiny mechanical minds filled only with the joys of theft helping and repairing things.

Miauw · Post by **Miauw** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 2:16 pm #41122

Yeah, the universal recorder is basically the only way to translate things. It's clunky, of course, but if it wasn't it would be OP. Props to whoever came up with that.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 2:18 pm #41123

You are forgetting the pAI's translation software.

Miauw · Post by **Miauw** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 2:59 pm #41137

Oh, right :V

(>using pAIs)

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 4:50 pm #41164

Miauw wrote:Oh, right :V

(>using pAIs)

>not stuffing a pAI cart into your PDA at roundstart