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I like the idea of oil- blood can be regenerated slowly, or at a faster rate with chemicals like saline or iron- or even you know with blood that can be grabbed in medical (or out of it if you know where to look) while with oil there are very few tanks and few if any are willing to make you some from one of the chems. As stated above, if you need oil its going to be an emergency since by that point you can barely, if at all, move. Welders and coil are a nonissue since you can get the latter especially in a lot of places. IPC can live without a body, but they're not functional in the same way that ipc without oil are technically alive but they can't... actually do anything. That's a pretty big emergency. 50u oil or whatever small amount to make something useful in the emergency kit I think would be great.

And when it does come, it'll be a grand day with much celebration! (But also in a few weeks my shift will quiet down and I should be able to get on more... Hopefully)

ipc dont need to breath, they dont need survival kit at all. wires and welder? well you dont see trauma and burn kits in human box, do you? if any, a custom thing may be added, which is like emergency autoinjector, but for ipc.

As the title already states, i want to suggest customized starter kits (those boxes everyone starts out with) for IPC, like Vox and Plasmamen have. Those would contain instead of the small oxygen tank and breathing mask an oil can, containing 50 to 100u of oil. This would fix some problems with the IPC race in general, would take little coding (could be just these red oil containing vessels in robotics) and would only make sense from a lore perspective. Also an emergency welding tool and a cable coil could be possible, but those two, or better, are so easily acquired that it doesn't really matter. The glowsticks should just stay for the hell of it, even though they are pretty useless as fast as they expire, as well as the injectors, for those flimsy organics.

I don't think it would be the same, and i got a number of reasons on why i think so: 1. Burn packs have a lot more healing potential for organics then 15 cable coils have for IPC. 2. While emergency welding tools can be easily refilled, they are only able to contain 10u of fuel at once, making the brute pack in emergencies more useful (it is called emergency box). 3. Brute and burn packs can be instantly applied, making it possible for you to heal faster than an IPC and making you able to do it while in motion. 4. IPC take 50% more brute and burn damage. 5. To not repeat myself on the oil, here you go: 6. Organics can easily heal the same brute and burn damage an IPC can with an emergency welding tool and 15 cable coils by eating something [I am not too sure about that one, correct me if i am wrong].

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This would be pretty neat, as a 2 year IPC main, it would save hassle for sure.

That would be the equivalent of having brute packs, burn packs and 50u of blood in your emergency box, which would be unbalanced.

awwwwwwwwwwww, maybe one day if we wish hard enough they will become ingame characters. Still awesome though

I totally support this one. People say it's unbalanced, but IPCs are one of the squishiest races on the server, and can get damaged very easily, so having a way to repair some very light damage to themselves wouldn't be too much to ask for, especially since everyone else starts with autoinjectors, which are plenty useful at doing the same thing, more or less. With how little fuel an emergency welder has, and only having a few wires in the wire stack, it'd only really be useful in repairing them enough to get to robotics, if they get heavily damaged. Plus, every other race aside from them has the ability to regenerate blood passively, so having them start with a bit of oil wouldn't hurt anyone.

So it's probably been suggested before, but a subtype of blob that is kudzu would be pretty neat. Instead of having a central core, kudzu blob would be decentralized, and if even one vine persists the antag persists. Chemical storage would be used to induce mutations within the kudzu, and the primary gameplay of the kudzu would be managing which mutations spread so that weaker vines don't block off your stronger vines as all have some degree of automatic spread. As far as difficulty of implementation, all of the assets are probably already in the game already, but I don't know how difficult it would be to code abilities that mutated vines on command.

This suggestion was never about welding tools and cable coils in the first place, the original thought was to give every IPC a bit of oil. I just wrote it down as a side idea, a possibility. Furthermore as already stated, those two are so easily acquired, it doesn't matter if they would be added or not. In my opinion 50 to 100u of oil, or even less, are not game changing at all, as the moment an IPC really needs oil is when they can't move a finger anymore. Furthermore there is only one oil tank on the whole station and IPC don't regenerate blood in comparison to most other races. Squishes being the only exception i can think of, but how many water tanks are there, more than twenty? Oil is next to EMPs the greatest weakness to IPC, and the only way to compensate for it is to use this one tank in robotics, which blows up regularly, or to hope someone with access to chem dispensers is nice enough to make you some oil, in small quantities of course.

If Voxxy yaya and plasmeme have their own survival kits, then IPC should get their own too. I agree with this.

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I think it was just never thought of in the first place, which is why it's not added in. IPCs are pretty much untouched when it comes to newcrit, so my straight forward guess is that it was never thought of, cause no one really expected IPCs to need it.

This is a very solid idea. The only change I would suggest is going from 15 to 10 cables, but that's an incredibly minor thing just to avoid IPCs starting with a pair of cable-cuffs, which, in all honesty, shouldn't be a problem. If anyone wants to take this up, and wants to make some emergency oil injector or emergency oil container of any kind and needs sprites, shoot me a ping on Discord.

A web browser with simple websites would be nice. Hell, you could even make a few simple LAN based games that people could play together.