Simple Questions Thread

Raven776 · Post by **Raven776** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 8:48 pm #53736

Bottom post of the previous page:

The atmospheric anomaly is one of the few reasons making atmospherics better is actually useful in most rounds. In other rounds, any atmospherics problems sprout from atmos anyways, making doing anything but changing the pumps to volume pointless.

Earthykiller127 · Sun Dec 28, 2014 1:07 pm

How do i depower a console as an AI?

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 1:15 pm #53874

Earthykiller127 wrote:How do i depower a console as an AI?

You turn off the apc or turn off equipment power to the room.

Pybro · Post by **Pybro** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 4:12 pm #53904

Earthykiller127 wrote:How do i depower a console as an AI?

You have to depower the entire room via APC (Unless you're malf which can just blow up a single console).

Click the APC, and set EVERYTHING to off. Or, if you are rogue and if you're plasma flooding, leave main power, atmos, and lights on, but just disable equipment. Then bolt every door in the room. This way you have to tear down walls/windows instead of just crowbarring the door, the plasma continues to get to it's destination, and you can still blow light.

Raven776 · Post by **Raven776** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 4:19 am #54720

What are the exact damage values of common mining weapons (from pickaxe to diamond drills to resonators)?

Post by **MMMiracles** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 4:49 am #54723

Raven776 wrote:What are the exact damage values of common mining weapons (from pickaxe to diamond drills to resonators)?

All pickaxes and mining drills do 15 brute, while a shovel does 8. Kinetic does 30 brute in unpressurized areas, 15 in pressurized. I think the resonator does 60 brute in unpressurized and 30 in pressurized, but I may be wrong on that.

Earthykiller127 · Thu Jan 01, 2015 8:19 pm

Is there even any cons to augmented limbs? You can heal yourself with a little welding here and there and all that yabadee yatata

Xhuis · Post by **Xhuis** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 8:51 pm #54885

If you get EMPed, bad things happen like lots of damage.

ExplosiveCrate · Thu Jan 01, 2015 11:08 pm

I'm probably remembering things wrong but it's a flat 20 damage per limb.

Which can be fixed with a bit of welding.

Pybro · Post by **Pybro** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:04 am #54946

ExplosiveCrate wrote:I'm probably remembering things wrong but it's a flat 20 damage per limb.

Which can be fixed with a bit of welding.

So if you fully augment yourself you take 120 damage...?

bandit · Post by **bandit** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 2:17 pm #55039

With the new nutrition system, is it even worth it as botanist to provide higher-potency produce (besides things like wheat, where the potency mostly affects what you get from grinding)?

Raven776 · Post by **Raven776** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 2:24 pm #55040

Pybro wrote:
ExplosiveCrate wrote:I'm probably remembering things wrong but it's a flat 20 damage per limb.

Which can be fixed with a bit of welding.
So if you fully augment yourself you take 120 damage...?

Can't be true, I've lived through EMPs fully augged.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 2:26 pm #55041

Limb damage on augmented limbs is tracked separately to your HP

FrostFenex · Post by **FrostFenex** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:00 am #55271

How to I see my admin notes?

AnonymousNow · Post by **AnonymousNow** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:03 am #55272

FrostFenex wrote:How to I see my admin notes?

You have to request an admin to retrieve them for you on the spot, as far as I'm aware.

FrostFenex · Post by **FrostFenex** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:19 am #55273

Okay thanks

peoplearestrange · Mon Jan 05, 2015 12:44 pm

How do you make a "Attention:" announcement as the AI?
Doesn't seem to be through the request console as I thought it might have been.

Pybro · Post by **Pybro** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 2:53 pm #55886

peoplearestrange wrote:How do you make a "Attention:" announcement as the AI?
Doesn't seem to be through the request console as I thought it might have been.

Communication console. AI/Borgs automatically log into it and can call shuttle (but not recall) and make announcements via it

Hence why you can always tell when the AI is shitposting (shitannouncing?), because the message has the request console style but doesn't give a heads job.

peoplearestrange · Mon Jan 05, 2015 3:12 pm

As in the one in Tcomms? Ah nice thanks!

Not-Dorsidarf · Mon Jan 05, 2015 3:20 pm

No, the shuttle consoles, peoplearestrange.

peoplearestrange · Mon Jan 05, 2015 3:24 pm

Ah ok, right, now I understand whatcha saying. Will try it next time I role AI.

Pybro · Post by **Pybro** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:36 pm #55945

Not-Dorsidarf wrote:No, the shuttle consoles, peoplearestrange.

Pretty sure the AI also has an actual icon for it on the new AI hud. I don't play AI much however, so I may be wrong.

Braincake · Post by **Braincake** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:56 pm #55949

Pybro wrote:
Not-Dorsidarf wrote:No, the shuttle consoles, peoplearestrange.
Pretty sure the AI also has an actual icon for it on the new AI hud. I don't play AI much however, so I may be wrong.

Nah, that's correct. And it had a verb before that. It's never needed a communications console to call the shuttle.

cedarbridge · Post by **cedarbridge** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:13 am #56040

Fun Fact: Borgs can make "Priority announcements" from the bridge communications console just like the AI can.

DonkeyTeeth · Post by **DonkeyTeeth** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 6:04 am #56748

Some food recipes call for 'Chanterelle' but Botany only produces 'chanterelle clusters.' Whenever I try to cook a recipe that includes 'Chanterelle,' I put chanterelle clusters in its place, and the recipe comes out a burnt mess. How would I get Chanterelle?

mikecari · Post by **mikecari** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 6:54 am #56757

How does one flood the station with plasma or n02 as a malf/traitor AI or traitor atmos tech?
I've never been able to understand atmos after all this time.

Rhisereld · Post by **Rhisereld** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:34 am #56775

mikecari wrote:How does one flood the station with plasma or n02 as a malf/traitor AI or traitor atmos tech?
I've never been able to understand atmos after all this time.

At its most basic level: Find the tank of plasma/whatever. Find its OUTLET PUMP (it should have a red mark pointing AWAY from the tank) and turn it on.

Then turn on these pumps:
- PURE TO MIX pump (it connects the orange loop and the green loop - in the little top-right room)
- MIX OUTLET pump (about in the middle of the little top-right room)
- MIX TO DISTRO pump (connects the orange loop and the dark blue loop)

Then run around the station accessing Air Alarms. Turn off the external pressure check. Turn on the internal pressure check. Turn the pressure to 0.

This will get you a basic flow but it will be weak. To get a better flood you will want to do the following:
- Maximise the pressure at the tank console
- Exchange your pressure pumps for volume pumps
- Add oxygen
- Modify the pump setup to entirely bypass the mixing tank and flood directly into Distro.
- Any other creative ideas you may have.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 12:20 pm #56794

And if you have the patience, disable air alarm settings for plasma, heat and pressure.

Konstantinos · Post by **Konstantinos** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 3:54 pm #56832

Where do I get extra supplies for construction besides the tool shed and cargo?

What exactly does Beepsky Smash do? I've seen it made a couple of times but no one has ever tried it.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 3:56 pm #56833

It makes you unable to move. Insanely robust when applied to xenos or hulks via syringe gun

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 4:34 pm #56848

Neurotoxin does the same, except it also knocks you down.

Xhuis · Post by **Xhuis** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 6:04 pm #56870

Yep. They're both useful but they have their own uses; Beepsky Smash is constant and less conspicuous, Neurotoxin keeps them knocked down just like oldchloral.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:07 pm #56902

Konstantinos wrote:Where do I get extra supplies for construction besides the tool shed and cargo?

Mining

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:16 pm #56909

From Mining to Science, from Science to the RPED, from the RPED to the OWLCAVE.

Cheimon · Post by **Cheimon** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 2:37 pm #57186

Can I get off a surgery table without help from someone else? If so how?

Kot · Post by **Kot** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 2:54 pm #57189

Cheimon wrote:Can I get off a surgery table without help from someone else? If so how?

Use beds.
Any bed. Build a bed from metal.

Cheimon · Post by **Cheimon** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 4:05 pm #57198

Kot wrote:
Cheimon wrote:Can I get off a surgery table without help from someone else? If so how?
Use beds.
Any bed. Build a bed from metal.

So, no? I'm asking because it's kind of weird at the moment (e.g. xeno walks into the room while you're getting de-larva'd, youlie on the table screaming while the surgeon gets eviscerated).

Miauw · Post by **Miauw** » Fri Jan 09, 2015 4:14 pm #57204

try resting, that SHOULD give a message saying "you are now getting up"

AnonymousNow · Post by **AnonymousNow** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:58 pm #57544

I'm going to do my own testing later, but - can certain mobs see through walls?

I swear I got ganked by a goliath in an impossible position just now.

iRazgriz · Post by **iRazgriz** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 6:06 pm #57547

AnonymousNow wrote:I'm going to do my own testing later, but - can certain mobs see through walls?

I swear I got ganked by a goliath in an impossible position just now.

Aliens can, for example. Not sure about the Goliath.

Peble · Post by **Peble** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 8:59 pm #57588

is the pizza at operative base meant to be a hologram

AnonymousNow · Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:23 am

Despite the long time I've been playing, I've never had the opportunity to actually do this, so - how do you go about making constructs?

I thought there was something limited to wizards and cultists, but apparently even security can find a shell somehow. What's the process? What do you do from the point that you have your soul-possessed shard?

Erbbu · Post by **Erbbu** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 12:14 pm #58278

You use the shard with a soul on a shell and choose which construct you want to make out of it. As far as I know you can't get construct shells outside of wizard/cult rounds without admin fuckery unless mining happens to find them.

AnonymousNow · Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:44 pm

Erbbu wrote:You use the shard with a soul on a shell and choose which construct you want to make out of it. As far as I know you can't get construct shells outside of wizard/cult rounds without admin fuckery unless mining happens to find them.

What I was really asking was - how do you get the shell?

AnonymousNow · Mon Jan 12, 2015 11:53 pm

Violaceus wrote:These security constructs were a thing because security robusted cultists and took soulstones that someone had in backpack.

But how did THEY get shells?

AnonymousNow · Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:05 am

Violaceus wrote:Well they probably found a shell that cult left, made artficier and aetificier makes more soulstones and shells.

And how does a WIZARD get shells...?

EDIT: No, wait, this still leaves the problem of how they got the shell for the artificer.

AnonymousNow · Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:23 am

Violaceus wrote:Wizard receives 60s cooldown spell that makes a shell when he decides to buy soulstone belt.

And I just explained that the shell was probably found in cult nest raided by security.

That explains the wizard.

But not the cult. You don't seem to be getting at what I'm getting at - how does the first construct shell that exists in a cult round come into existence?

as334 · Post by **as334** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:29 am #58463

That explains the wizard.

But not the cult. You don't seem to be getting at what I'm getting at - how does the first construct shell that exists in a cult round come into existence?

There's a rune that summons an artificer shell and also you can have a talisman that also does that.

Loonikus · Post by **Loonikus** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 5:47 pm #58698

Violaceus wrote:Is it true that antag roles are selected before job assignemnt, so I can have HoS on high and still have the same chance to be an antag as others?

I think its true. I've set jobs like Security Officer to high before and had it spawn me as a tator in other jobs while the security team isn't close to being full. The only way I think it could do that would be by choosing me as an antag before it rolls my job.

Saegrimr · Post by **Saegrimr** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 5:56 pm #58700

I'm honestly not sure what the status on that is, its been set and reset and removed and re-added because of things like Changeling AIs, or spawning Malfs as humans and instantly ending the round, and traitor HOS. Man that was some wacky shit for a short while there.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 9:16 pm #58748

So ":g absorbing AI" actually happened for a while?