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Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 8:15 pm
by Malkevin

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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 8:54 pm
by Reece
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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Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 10:36 pm
by Zilenan91
Yeah this isn't the SomethingAwful forums, we shouldn't glorify bans.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 4:01 am
by kazeespada
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:55 am
by killerx09
If you have two sleepy pens filled with the ingredients of nitroglycerine, and inject them into a person, will it gib him?

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 8:45 am
by Reece
AFAIK it should. The ingredients for chems do mix inside the body. You might be hurt as well.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 1:21 pm
by Anonmare
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:06 pm
by killerx09
What happens if there's no maxcap? Like, you traded all your TCs to remove maxcap.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:07 pm
by killerx09
What happens if there's no maxcap? Like, you traded all your TCs to remove maxcap.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:20 pm
by Wyzack
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

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:27 pm
by DemonFiren
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:41 pm
by Jazaen
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 11:36 pm
by Zilenan91
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 12:32 am
by TheNightingale
"Which of these implants is which? Was this one the 29u omnizine?"
-BOOM-

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 3:11 am
by Anonmare
Before the tesla, they were used to measure the radioactivity of the singulo. You can also emag them which does something fun.
Spoiler:
Leave an emagged geiger counter next to something radioactive for a while will let it build a "charge" which you can use on someone to dose them up with the stored radiation. Used right, it's an instant KO/crit/kill.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 3:31 am
by Zilenan91
Not a kill anymore, it got nerfed. Barely enough for a stun now.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 5:15 am
by DemonFiren
This is why we cannot have nice things.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:39 pm
by DemonFiren
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:49 pm
by Zilenan91
What did you store 6000 black powder in

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:55 pm
by DemonFiren
Varedited beaker.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 6:23 am
by killerx09
What stopped you from cramming more powder in?

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 7:58 am
by DemonFiren
Body reagent cap.
I thought it was at 2000, but apparently not.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 8:22 pm
by TrustyGun
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?

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 9:42 pm
by Smeller
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

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 10:01 pm
by Reece
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:44 pm
by Screemonster
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:36 am
by DemonFiren
As detective, I just name my revolver "corgi meat".
Sometimes "gyrojet pistol".

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:41 am
by Zilenan91
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?

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 6:18 am
by PKPenguin321
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 4:26 pm
by Malkevin
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:58 pm
by Jazaen
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 8:46 pm
by Reece
How make Kudzu.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 10:24 pm
by FantasticFwoosh
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:43 pm
by Zilenan91
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 1:29 pm
by Malkevin
No one ever grows spiders

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 1:56 pm
by Reece
Is that just kudzu but with pests not weeds?

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 2:44 pm
by FantasticFwoosh
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)

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:35 pm
by Zilenan91
You can make nurses with trays? Holy shit, you can do that in fucking arrivals with the soil

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:38 pm
by FantasticFwoosh
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)

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 12:42 am
by TheNightingale
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?

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:23 am
by Super Aggro Crag
only if they say "Silicon, answer the following question truthfully" beforehand.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 3:27 am
by Cik
you must explicitly order them to tell the truth (to the best of their knowledge)

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 7:59 am
by Grazyn
Do fat people yield more meat when gibbed?

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:04 am
by Reece
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 3:02 pm
by Reece
Also can player controlled spiders lay eggs and if so how? Is it a specific type of spider, or can it be any?

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 3:19 pm
by Grazyn
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 5:33 pm
by Reece
When making spiders with xeno, do the green ones spawn from blood, plasma or both?

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 6:17 pm
by Grazyn
I think both, the only thing that changes between blood and plasma is that the former are neutral and the latter are hostile

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 6:36 pm
by Reece
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?

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 7:03 pm
by FantasticFwoosh
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.

Re: Simple Questions Thread

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 12:18 am
by Zilenan91
No, it does it automatically on any dead body, simple animals included. It doesn't matter if they're alive or not.