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I wish there was a way to become HoS if there isn’t one when the round starts. Unless I’m missing something, there’s no other way to unlock the goodies in the Armory.
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Dabir posted:The AI can hack in to the doors. You can't get the crates open though, I believe.
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Mar 20, 2019 04:05
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I was perusing the wiki trying to learn new jobs and fell face-first into a portal to the hellfuck dimension. What black-eyed monster created this horrifying system?
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Mar 20, 2019 06:58
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Mimesweeper posted:I always wanted to make the electrical power as realistic as other systems in the game but holy poo poo it's a lot more work than I expected going in. I think it'll probably just stay how it is. I've played half-a-dozen rounds as Engineer and still don't really understand how the TEG works. Saw my first hellburn a second ago. Now I have even further questions.
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Mar 20, 2019 20:40
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rndmnmbr posted:Hellburn: if you mix exactly this ratio of plasma and oxygen, delete exactly these spots of flooring, fix exactly these broken pipes, and the RNG and/or Satan himself smiles upon you, the PTL suddenly has a use. (And you can cause people in Escape to spontaneously combust, which may be the actual feature of hellburning) I can confirm that this will, in fact, burn down everything. It appears the superheated oxygen will expand, burst the pipes, and become as unto a dragon. Source: I am currently on fire
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Mar 20, 2019 23:38
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As the AI, how do you communicate on different radio frequencies like Security, etc.? Even directly copying the Say commands on the wiki didn’t work.
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Mar 21, 2019 18:23
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Tibbeh posted:The hotkey Y should let you pick which frequency to say something on It does for normal players, but it doesn't work at all for the AI. There's a "Toggle Internal Radio" command under the "AI Commands" tab, but I haven't gotten it to work. Best I can do is turn the general radio on/off, or the machine radio on/off. Sometimes you want to let Security know where the Changeling is without letting the Changeling know. Or hound Engineering about putting out the fire in the engine room without bothering the rest of the station.
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Mar 21, 2019 20:34
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Actually getting the engine going isn't too hard. Getting enough power to use the PTL is hurting my brain, though. Can you even generate enough power to use it without a hellburn?
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Mar 22, 2019 01:49
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Mimesweeper posted:pretty much this, yeah Why didn't they just...patch out hellburns? They're silly as hell. I respect the ingenuity involved in making it work, but you could have a system that doesn't rely on exploiting the game's code.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:29
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I can respect that too, but a nuclear reactor could also lead to amusing shenanigans without making you dive for a wiki. Or you could make hellburns by mixing various gases instead, which I gather was originally the point of Plasma Research? Does anyone try mixing gases for non-bomb-related purposes? There's worse things than convoluted silliness for sure. Oshan's geothermal plants are simple and also pretty boring.
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Mar 23, 2019 23:36
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Shinmera posted:It's not like getting the engine to a point where it can supply the station is difficult or requires the wiki. Hahahaha. I see Engineers failing every round at the moment.
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Mar 24, 2019 01:40
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The Cheshire Cat posted:I think this is why people have found SS13 so difficult to remake. It's not really any one system that makes it so much as it is a whole bunch of extremely deep systems that you can optionally engage with. Space Alert does a good job of boiling the concept down.
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Mar 24, 2019 02:57
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The Cheshire Cat posted:It’s often impossible to tell the difference between a surgeon who is trying to kill you and one who is genuinely trying to save you but doesn’t know how to use the interface very well. Meanwhile I keep getting impatient patients who demand I perform surgery NOW instead of waiting for the morphine to kick in. You know this is gonna hurt, right?
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Mar 28, 2019 19:55
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Is there any way to open card-locked crates besides an EMAG?
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Apr 1, 2019 21:42
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redneck nazgul posted:There's already a horribly complicated mess of a system that has limited beneficial usage but can be used by an antagonist to kill the entire station. See, I feel like there's an easy solution there: let Pathologists ship cures and vaccines off-station for cash.
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Apr 2, 2019 06:24
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Changeling seems stupid easy. I was a chemist, so I was prepared to use all kinds of chems to aid my foul designs, but...it turns out that “hey, can I have a quick word with you in private?” is all you really need. I had 13 or so kills, and that was definitely not playing optimally—for instance, I mistakenly thought ‘Lings were immune to radiation and died while trying to secure a “free” kill. Luckily, my headspider bailed me out.
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Apr 3, 2019 09:00
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Pathology is duuuuuumb.
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Apr 8, 2019 03:45
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frodnonnag posted:Steal/trade/loot a pair of insulated gloves. Better method: pulse the door wires until you see the test light go off. You now have a couple (10?) seconds to crowbar the door open, step through, and crowbar it back in place with no-one the wiser. dylguy90 posted:You're a funny guy, I like you, I'll be sure to infect you last Just gives me more time to call up the CDC and invalidate all that effort.
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Apr 8, 2019 06:02
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dylguy90 posted:My friend, do you have any idea what trying to treat a plague that mutates every other time it hops in a 50+ pop round is like No, because I've never actually seen anyone seriously engage with pathology.
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Apr 8, 2019 07:54
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dylguy90 posted:Really? It's not hard, the wiki is accurate. You should give it a try if you're curious. The problem isn't that it's hard, it's that the process is really tedious and random. First you roll the gacha for pathogens until you run out of cash. Then you start randomly guessing. If you don't contaminate your petri dishes, you'll get what you want eventually. Assuming the shuttle doesn't arrive first I also don't like how it is so utterly separated from the rest of the station. If you're in Pathology, you're either a traitor in there looking to make Space AIDS, someone looking to learn how to make Space AIDS for educational purposes, or hiding from the law. I think I would make curing pathogens the focus of Pathology for non-traitors. Cure the pathogens present in the lab, ship out the cures for cash. Maybe even have random event pathogens to help make Pathology a valuable part of Medbay instead of its own little corner in the middle of nowhere.
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Apr 9, 2019 02:21
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TheDK posted:Whaaa I've been told the beneficial symptoms are pretty poo poo, though. Explains why I've never seen them.
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Pleads posted:Quick question: Is there a way for HoP to grant superuser access for the Guardbuddies without just giving that person RD access? Had it come up, couldn't figure it out, at the time passed it off as corporate bureaucracy. You need a DWAINE terminal. Have them login with their card, enter the su command, then enter a card with RD or Captain access to approve the new superuser.
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Apr 10, 2019 04:23
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The detective is so great. It’s a shame people don’t use forensics more, because you can really ruin a traitors’ day with it. If you get a sample of their blood, they can’t run or hide. Also, you get *monologue and *twirl, the most powerful emotes imaginable.
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Apr 11, 2019 05:48
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I thought you were getting off remarkably free, considering you were literally stealing poo poo in plain sight in front of everyone. The NanoMed pissed me off because I had done a masterful job of sneaking in to steal the lesser-used one in Surgery, and right as I was about to make the theft, Med started freaking out. Security in general was asleep that round. I positively identified all of the other spies early in the round because they clearly stole poo poo while I was looking. My plan was to loiter near Security and when an arrest was made, I would Detomatrix their PDA and watch Security flip out and kill them thinking it was an escape attempt. But lo, Security bagged exactly zero of them despite my repeated pleas to "just loving search them, I know I saw him pick up a gun!" 
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Apr 16, 2019 06:58
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I'm so mad I walked into that trap. The mechanic telegraphed his treachery really far in advance by sealing the doors, so I was expecting it...and then I accidentally walked into the teleporter anyway. 
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Apr 23, 2019 23:55
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DarkDobe posted:How does that work? He placed a teleporter pad on both sides of an airbridge and then welded/dropped the bolts on all the doors. People would run up, realize the doors were sealed, and run into the teleporter expecting it would take them to the other side. And for a while, it did. Which helps build trust that can later be exploited. Then he built the trap out in space. Just three tiles, walls to seal them in, a teleporter pad, and graviton traps that fling anyone who walks on them into a crusher. After he built his crusher trap out in space, he rerouted the teleporters to lead to his trap...one-way. So people would walk into the teleporters and get insta-mulched.
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Zoig posted:So, played a round as scientist, mostly to get a look at chemistry stuff, and then spent half the round slowing figuring out how to make luminol, and succeeding. After that, I walked out of chem, armed with a bottle of luminol, and then promptly got caught in a explosion. A combination of playing, tutoring, and reading the wiki can let you pick things up super fast. My recommendations for new players: First, play Miner to learn the controls. Miners are useful, hardy, highly appreciated if they actually deliver ore, but non-essential, so no one will miss you if they disappear for the whole round (or die in space). You'll learn how to move around, how to use the hand system, how to set internals and navigate in space--all useful things. The downside is that if you do die miserably in space, you probably won't be revived. Try to get a tracking implant from Research/Security and scream your impending death over the radio, so someone can drag your frozen corpse back to be cloned. While you're dead, try playing as a Ghost Drone to learn how to repair/construct things. Again, ghost drones are very useful but non-essential. People will ignore you, and you are obligated by the rules to ignore them back. After you have basic controls and concepts down, go Staff Assistant and bug the Captain or HoP for access to whatever department you want to learn. You won't take up a job slot this way, and people will cut you a lot of slack if your ID badge says "Med Student" instead of "Doctor". Make sure to also request a jumpsuit that matches whatever department you're joining, or you'll be seen as just another Grey Menace. Alternatively, if you just want to screw around, the various Civilian jobs are low-responsibility and very non-essential. You can pretty much do whatever the hell you want, so try getting mixed up in other peoples' bullshit. You can go create a cargo cult in Cargo, get shitfaced in the bar and pick fistfights with Security, experiment with making the Omega Weed in Botany, or plumb the profane depths of the Loafer and Deep Fryers...the possibilities are endless. Once you're comfortable in your skin, turn on the Antagonist roles. Now you are a true spessman.
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counterfeitsaint posted:When people say you have to ask the Quartermaster for a thing or get the HoP/Captain to grant you some clearance or something, does that mean you have to go physically find them and ask or is it normally done on the radio? One of the best ways to get their attention is to send them a PDA message, since it gives them a BEEP BEEP alert. This is also a good way to ensure Cargo actually orders your poo poo.
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Apr 26, 2019 02:31
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Larry Parrish posted:i dont like the choose captain or hop advice, because sometimes people get VERY upset if you dare intrude on their sanctum. like I once had a geneticist try to stick me with a blindness needle because I wasnt actually a geneticist but i was hanging out there for a while to give myself comic sans. there was only the one geneticist so like. Who cares right? This is why you should always default to "bomb genetics" if you don't know what to do with your traitor rounds.
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ChaseSP posted:You used to be able to harmbaton stun people. It was changed to gently caress over bad sec officers yes. It’s a really dumb thing that just fucks over new players.
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rndmnmbr posted:Two successful mining rounds. You can also have cargo fab you a Medibot.
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Just ask chem to whip you up a lifetimes’ supply. It’s really easy to make.
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Can the Wifi Component from MechComp send messages to players? I was trying to link a trip wire to a Wifi Component as a sort of silent alarm. The Wifi Comp was sending out the signals just fine according to my Packet Sniffer, but they weren't actually reaching anyone. Tried sending the message as a text message to PDAs and as a radio signal over various frequencies, but it never arrived.
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May 5, 2019 07:55
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Space Alert captures the "Oh god everything is awful" feeling of late-round SS13.
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Chemistry, Mechanics, and DWAINE all have the exact same problem--It's hard to puzzle out your own cool, unique "thing", but very easy for someone else to copy it and run it into the ground. Thinking specifically of that one really annoying power-switcher-offer mechcomp setup, where you use a Powernet component to rapidly send lights=off&enviro=off commands via DWAINE to all the APCs. The only counterplay is to beat the mechanics to death as soon as you notice APCs being tampered with (without any fingerprints on them). You can set that thing up anywhere with a data terminal. Now they're talking about raising a similar barrier to entry for refactoring the AI laws, because god forbid you just hit a button to make a thing happen. If you aren't furiously paging back and forth between BYOND and an unlisted wiki page, are you really even playing? Vengarr fucked around with this message at 19:56 on May 22, 2019 |
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There was a preview of the new map on Goon2 today and it looks insanely cool.
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Omi no Kami posted:Is there a known bug with the menus? I've found that sometimes (usually when hacking), menus will start flashing between normal and all-white, and I'm genuinely unsure if it's a bug, or a mechanic I'm unaware of. Bug with the unfinished new chui menus. Turn them off under the interface tab.
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Speaking of shitsec, I applied over at goonstation for HoS. So if there is anyone here who was wronged by Wilt Rangdow, now is your time to get revengeance.
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Jun 21, 2019 02:48
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frodnonnag posted:See this wall of text? It's full of bullshit and terrible opinions. Summary execution is garbage and bad. No. It’s not secs job be the Fun Police, the police who are fun. Its not their responsibility to make the round entertaining, no more than its the Engineers’ or Scientist’ job. It’s not their job to be the fun police, deciding which antagonist is worth getting shut down and which get a slap on their wrist. If Security is so integral to the fun of the round, that’s a bug in the system. I’m here to play “Find the Criminal”, not serve as the Dungeon Master in your D&D campaign.
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Zamujasa posted:There's already a low chance to randomly "yeet" things when you throw them. That'd be a little more difficult because it's not possible to know if the yeeted one is actually going into space. I love that throwing the Detectives gun has a chance for it to randomly go off.
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