Minor Suggestions

callanrockslol · Tue Apr 21, 2015 11:43 pm

Bottom post of the previous page:

As topic name. This would improve high quality smokeables.

John_Oxford · Post by **John_Oxford** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:13 am #83213

All for this, one cigar that spawns in maint somewhere, maybe a red Chohiba cigar.

With a name like "El Smoko" or something.

Balut · Post by **Balut** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 3:45 am #83218

TheNightingale wrote:You should be able to wear a bedsheet on your head slot to look spooky. Cult bedsheets (admin-only, I think) turn your sprite into a ghost whilst you wear it.

On a related note, if you hit someone with flour on harm intent it should smack them with the flour and turn their sprite entirely white except for their eyes. Make this some kind of spooky monster (wraith, whatever) for hilarity.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 4:44 am #83236

In addition to syndie cigarettes, we need syndie cigars that do exactly that.

Post by **lumipharon** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 5:22 am #83244

EndgamerAzari wrote:Capsule rounds for the revolver. IIRC there are fillable shells for the shotgun, so why not?

Not-Dorsidarf wrote:Because if you put pfleurodecalin into it, your revolver is now a silencer gun that does massive damage.

There are already mime bullets in the code which is exactly that.
If you somehow get a badmin to spawn you a reticence, giggle as you roam around with your (almost) invisible mech, silently murdering people.

TheNightingale · Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:03 pm

Note: the Reticence has a mounted RCD too.
Because it makes walls?
Get it?

qwert · Post by **qwert** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 3:19 pm #83582

May be spears should not spin, when they are thrown? Or botanist hatchet should embed.

Gun Hog · Post by **Gun Hog** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 5:28 pm #83617

Let players control Nar-Sie when he is summoned during Cult!

One of the nine players who summon Nar-Sie via the rune has a random chance of becoming Nar-Sie! If they have their BE_CULT flag disabled, they will be passed up for the chance. (Think people who are converted). A player Controlled Nar-Sie would have X-ray (it is a god, come on!), and would speak via cult telepathy in bigger font than other cultists. You could also have some sort of soul points for creating non-harvester constructs!

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 5:12 am #83748

^^^^+1 for those sweet ideas.

Make rice available from the seed vendor, doesnt make much sense as a mutation of wheat. Also make it so rice + universal enzyme makes sake

qwert · Post by **qwert** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:33 am #83788

Give some limitations to gang grief license, because it is grief fest x 2. And damn, crew members are sort of willing to join as fast as possible.

Post by **MisterPerson** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 3:55 pm #83815

Gun Hog wrote:Let players control Nar-Sie when he is summoned during Cult!

One of the nine players who summon Nar-Sie via the rune has a random chance of becoming Nar-Sie! If they have their BE_CULT flag disabled, they will be passed up for the chance. (Think people who are converted). A player Controlled Nar-Sie would have X-ray (it is a god, come on!), and would speak via cult telepathy in bigger font than other cultists. You could also have some sort of soul points for creating non-harvester constructs!

Minor suggestions. MINOR.

TheNightingale · Fri Apr 24, 2015 4:21 pm

Suggestion time...

Raise the price of Security clothing crates from 30 to 35, and add the HoS's trenchcoat (the one they spawn with).
Add a bulletproof helmet crate, requiring Armory access to open, costing 15 points, and containing three bulletproof helmets.
Add ablative helmets! One in the Armory, two in Cargo crates at 20 points each. We have riot and bulletproof helmets already.
Port Bay's cat mechanics and in-hand/worn sprites - you can pick up a cat, and put it on your head or keep it in your hand. It still meows.
You should be able to zap yourself with a staff (like with a wand).
The Liberation Station shouldn't need a Security ID to purchase things, because right to bear arms.

Fragnostic · Post by **Fragnostic** » Fri Apr 24, 2015 6:46 pm #83844

Traitor Item
Electron Bond Gloves:
Gloves appear and function like insulated gloves, but wearing them prevents the user from dropping the held item(s). The ability can be toggled via HUD/button.
Maybe 10 TC for balance, but have a decent tech level.

Not-Dorsidarf · Sun Jul 30, 2023 1:33 am

So the NODROP implant but a pair of gloves? Sounds powerful. Maybe they should be cheaper, but a permanent stick. You can have your advanced egun - riot shield combo but you can't hold anything unless someone cuts the gloves off you with surgery.

TheNightingale · Fri Apr 24, 2015 11:04 pm

You have to take the gloves off to disable it... so if you activate it with both hands full, you're SOL.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 6:08 pm #84030

Unless someone strips you.

TheNightingale · Sat Apr 25, 2015 8:12 pm

"Hey, can you take these gloves off me? I kind of have them stuck to my ha-"
"TRAITOR LYNCH HE"

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 11:26 pm #84076

Not if you're a) a lizard or b) keep contact with your fellow traitors.

kevinz000 · Post by **kevinz000** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 2:52 am #84103

SIDE NOTE: IF YOU DESTROY ANY TURRET CONTROLLED BY A PANEL LIKE THE UPLOAD ONES, YOU CAN NOT FIX THEM AND MAKE THEM WORK LIKE BEFORE
'We should have a better way to control portaturrets
buildable (and linkable) turret control panels like the ones that control AI upload and AI core
Make them shoot people without certain accesses (Security and command mode shoots the CE/RD/CMO last I checked)
Make them able to change mode if they have a gun in them that can change mode. Its annoying to have an egun in a turret which can never be toggled stun/kill when thats what you want.
And, maybe give them an upgrade that gives them better aim/control (Notice how the AI turrets stop stunning when you are down, and stop lasering when you are dead, and not just unconcious?) Better aim = Not shooting if someones in the way,

and maybe remote controlled ones too :^)

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 1:06 pm #84145

Wearing cherries on your ears should be possible.

Post by **MisterPerson** » Sun Apr 26, 2015 3:38 pm #84157

Reconstruction of the turret control panels is actually a tougher problem than it looks. After destruction/disconnection of the panel, if the turrets stay on, reconnecting them to a panel is basically impossible. If they turn off, destroying the panel becomes an easy way to destroy all the turrets in complete safety.

A compromise might be to have the turrets stay on, but newly built ones shut off. Or possibly some sort of remote linking system, I'm not really sure.

Remie Richards · Sun Apr 26, 2015 11:09 pm

just use the multitool buffer like telepad linking does.

Jacough · Post by **Jacough** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 2:11 am #84240

Fresh gibs should slip you if you run on them. Why? Let's face it. Someone's recently expelled innards would be pretty slimy and easy to slip on. The idea of the chef accidentally slipping and sliding around his blood and gore caked meat locker seems like it could pretty entertaining as well.

Reimoo · Post by **Reimoo** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 2:22 am #84243

Why don't we have dead man's triggers for traitors yet?

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:53 am #84268

It's similar to what I suggested, Bay-style signaller buttons where you can 'threaten to push the button' with a verb, meaning if/when you got shot you'd flinch and push it.

Not-Dorsidarf · Mon Apr 27, 2015 9:41 am

Or just a signaller that threatens to push the button when you activate it? I don't think dead man's triggers are deactivatable easily.

qwert · Post by **qwert** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 2:09 pm #84322

Change race spell for wizard. Choose spell transform effect. Run around yelling bootadoo and turning everyone in lizards/ skeletons/ zombies/ slimepeople / flypersons. Earn 9000 style points for turning HOS into lizard, so AI can protect you from human harm.

Tue Apr 28, 2015 12:15 am

qwert wrote:Change race spell for wizard. Choose spell transform effect. Run around yelling bootadoo and turning everyone in lizards/ skeletons/ zombies/ slimepeople / flypersons. Earn 9000 style points for turning HOS into lizard, so AI can protect you from human harm.

This is a really great idea, but probably not the most "minor" of ideas. Consider making this it's own thread if it gets no attention here.

Skorvold · Post by **Skorvold** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 4:33 am #84433

put feral wolves in maint.
make maint dangerous.

Gun Hog · Post by **Gun Hog** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 5:10 am #84441

Skorvold wrote:put feral wolves in maint.
make maint dangerous.

Shadowlings, Changelings, Cultists, certain traitors, rogue borgs...Maint is a pretty risky place to be!

Loonikus · Post by **Loonikus** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 5:22 am #84447

When bullets hit a wall they should make a PLANG noise.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 8:26 am #84469

Skorvold wrote:put feral wolves in maint.
make maint dangerous.

So, one furry tells another that feral monkeys would make more sense...

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:35 am #84485

Monkeys used to be feral, the amount of geneticists that were bitten to death by monkeys was hilarious

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 4:22 pm #84511

Maint is not dangerous in lowpop or extended rounds (every other round on badger) unless spiders or xenos have shown up

Gun Hog · Post by **Gun Hog** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:51 pm #84585

Loonikus wrote:When bullets hit a wall they should make a PLANG noise.

That would not be very difficult to code...

Remie Richards · Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:52 pm

on_hit() playsound('/sounds/effects/PLANG.ogg',50,1)

Drynwyn · Post by **Drynwyn** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 2:48 am #84631

Remie Richards wrote:on_hit() playsound('/sounds/effects/PLANG.ogg',50,1)

PLANG.ogg: http://soundbible.com/2042-Rapid-Ricochet.html

Post by **Vekter** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:21 am #84635

Wizardjenkins66 wrote:Bring military jackets from NTcode over.

Should be able to do this. Lemme look into it.

E3: Nevermind, I know the jacket you mean. I'll work on it this weekend.

Balut · Post by **Balut** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 5:14 pm #84916

>Wolves

Why not R.O.U.S.es?

Also feral monkies sound great.

sirnat · Post by **sirnat** » Sat May 02, 2015 6:50 pm #85342

For chemistry-
Chem dispenser is alphabetical in the menu (Makes it easier to quickly make emergency chemicals.)

Large grenade- Make it hold 3-4 beakers atleast, I mean it is a "large" grenade maybe someone would like multiple things to happen when it goes boom!

Patch bag- Much like the botanist bag or mineral bag that can pick up large amounts of patches in a pile and place them on a table.

A negative effect to happen when you slap on 3 or more patches in a small interval maybe 3 seconds, will stop shit heads coming in and wasting all the patches chemists make that would probably knock them out and allow for detainment by security.

Cheimon · Post by **Cheimon** » Sat May 02, 2015 8:46 pm #85365

This seems like a perfect list for the minor suggestions thread.

I like most of them, though the large grenade does sound like it could be ridiculously powerful. Especially with explosive chemicals, I worry that it might end up being a decent alternative to a medium tank transfer bomb, which doesn't seem right.

Gun Hog · Post by **Gun Hog** » Sat May 02, 2015 11:28 pm #85399

Allow Hand Tele teleportation to show the destination instead of a random number corresponding to a teleporter, when choosing which target to select.

EDIT: I am a coder...I COULD do this myself....

Sat May 02, 2015 11:39 pm

Gun Hog wrote:Allow Hand Tele teleportation to show the destination instead of a random number corresponding to a teleporter, when choosing which target to select.

please

sirnat · Post by **sirnat** » Sun May 03, 2015 12:09 am #85410

Oh, can a mod move this to the minor suggestions then? Sorry, I just quickly posted these.

Post by **MisterPerson** » Sun May 03, 2015 2:09 am #85427

For anyone confused, this post was originally its own topic:

sirnat wrote:For chemistry-
Chem dispenser is alphabetical in the menu (Makes it easier to quickly make emergency chemicals.)

Large grenade- Make it hold 3-4 beakers atleast, I mean it is a "large" grenade maybe someone would like multiple things to happen when it goes boom!

Patch bag- Much like the botanist bag or mineral bag that can pick up large amounts of patches in a pile and place them on a table.

A negative effect to happen when you slap on 3 or more patches in a small interval maybe 3 seconds, will stop shit heads coming in and wasting all the patches chemists make that would probably knock them out and allow for detainment by security.

qwert · Post by **qwert** » Sun May 03, 2015 8:22 am #85465

Mulerider traitor kit - special saddle for mulebot, which gives manual control( aka moving with arrows), increases speed and disables safety and any way to turn it off except blowing up. Cowboy hat and suit included.
An opportunity to climb nuke ops nuke or to buckle someone on top of it.
Syndicate radiation emitter and remote control button for it. Hide it under tables or in lockers, lockboxes, first aid kits, turn it on. Works like ripley nuclear reactor radiation effect. Fucking rad.

Tokiko2 · Post by **Tokiko2** » Sun May 03, 2015 10:44 am #85483

I think doors should show the APC they're draining power from. This is really hard to figure out otherwise unlike most machines and consoles. Sometimes a door is powered by a hallway APC, sometimes it's the room APC instead.

Jeb · Post by **Jeb** » Sun May 03, 2015 1:06 pm #85502

When you hit someone with a guitar I would assume that you get a nice WHAAONG sound.

You don't.

I was sad.

sirnat · Post by **sirnat** » Sun May 03, 2015 3:45 pm #85516

A chemical chemists can make to clean up the air? Like a air purifier but must be made in a grenade, and smoke.

Xhuis · Post by **Xhuis** » Sun May 03, 2015 5:31 pm #85533

Allow the janibelt to hold more things, such as the janicart key and boxes of lights. Also, a trash bag that holds bigger items would be nice, like an enhanced elasticity version from R&D, maybe?

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sun May 03, 2015 5:55 pm #85541

Trashbags of Holding, is what I imagine.

Maybe in two variants, light can fit on a janibelt, heavy can swallow even the largest items.