jedr

Welcome to the old man club, where we bitch about how it used to be better when the codebase was worse

It's been four ever since I last was here, strange to see it's still going

I want that donut

LFG ratking

Any chance for some ingame comparisons? It's always more productive to see how they would look in a game enviroment, instead of just a blank background

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

Damn son.

I'm no artist, and this feels super selfish to ask, but I'd love to see some renditions of firebug, especially since I'm kinda proud of how the rework turned out. For reference:

If it can't be quickly fixed and curbed, i'd rather see this removed than stay. Some sillyness has it's place in the med rp enviroment we strive for, but the way growth serum is implemented right now, is just jarring. The upscaled sprites are fuzzy, clip through shit, and are just in general bad. This goes for both produce with growth serum and mobs who ingested it. Unless this can be fixed & curbed to decent levels of growing asap, i'd rather see this removed than kept. TL:DR; I don't want to see this shit, it's bad. Either get rid of it or fix it.

"This section is rated H for HONK" We promote ourselves more serious than goon, sure. But we also still allow biblefarting and other random shenanigans. A bit of well timed good humor never killed anyone. Also what am I even doing here, I don't do wiki stuff...

I'm not so sure about this. It'll help on high pop sure, but it'll also provide a fake sense of security, effectively lowering peoples expectations of how lethal this game is, yet again. Often we get complaints about hugboxxing the station, how the game has lost it's sense of lethality. This is 100% going to add to it. This second station might very well enable a split in the community, one half on the cyb where it's still pretty dangerous and shit can go wrong every second and one half on the klap, where people are nice and cooperate. We'd pull the game in two directions when we should be focusing on heading into one, clear direction.

To make this short and simple: Xenoarch as I once envisioned is simple impossible to achieve by myself. Specifically: I’m not versed enough in DM to make the complex digsites happen, and I don’t have to time available to learn it. For months now, I’ve fretted and beaten myself up over this. I wanted to make this. But I didn’t know how, and that frustration clamped its teeth into my ambition and determination. So, i’ve taken to reflecting on the project. See what i’ve achieved so far and what’s left for me to create. And it does seem that those off-station digsites are the only real dealbreaker I’ve encountered. To get them to be generated procedurally, the way I wanted it, is b(e)yond my capabilities. I know Crazy said he’d work on it and help out, but given his recent promotion to maintainer, I myself would prefer it if he focussed on that, and ending the freeze as soon as possible. As an added factor, I was thinking: do we really need more off-station activities? Having people leave the main playing area seems like a bad idea with my personal opinion our growing complaints of the game growing stale. At this moment, I’d rather add something that diversifies the station, than give people more excuses to fuck off, there’s already enough of those I feel. So, I’ve decided to scrap the digsites, and everything related, out. Xenoarch as we know it is dead yet again. No more looking for artefacts off-station. I do intend to add the completed part of my original idea to the codebase. That way, my work won’t be be in vain, and future developments can hook into it if they want. I refuse to pull a nations and leave another half-completed feature floating in the aether. The part that’s already finished would be the book-decoding. It already was a fairly isolated block, so it should take little adjusting code-wise. After some thinking, i’d like to add this to the library. Have decipherable books be maint loot, and let the librarian be the “overseer” of the decoding/translation operations. Anyone can find books and use the terminal, receiving a receipt as proof of their effort. The reward would maybe come in the form of unique, unlockable crafting recipies. But i’ll expand on this idea in a later post, when I’ve had time to think things over. It’s very much a concept in infancy. For now Xenoarch is dead, long live xenoarch. I hope it one day returns, and I hope I can help when it does.

GG you dummy

Rissa's guide to chickens, pls

Not enough frilling on the skirt 6/10

http://www.ckiiwiki.com/Traits#Negative I too wish to see inbred hunchback captains with lisps.

I agree with shadey that if the crew would think things through before mounting their assault on the nest, xeno's would have a much harder time. then again, it'll be cold day in hell before people work together consistently in this game... A nerf to vironests is in order though, I've advocated that before.

Might I suggest adding a "rabid animal" clause. Because now dunking poly for stealing all your shit is vandalism, or am I reading this wrong? That way peaceful animals are protected by the law, but shitters who drag arrested people away/steal valuable shit/etc... can be dealt with swiftly and privately. Or some kind of responsibility thing? Where you're responsible for the actions of your pet? Just throwing around ideas here

8 answers and 2 comment, gg But as cold said, you take the job, you take the responsibilty.

Ah yeah," i'm an antag and need to kill my IC SO". Always makes for great stories. Changeling Bryce going mad, fracturing his personality between Bryce and the other absorbed minds and finally arguing with himself in the bathrooms about killing Alissa or not is a round I'll never forget.

Thanks to someone pointing out to me that the rainbow crayon can actually be used for every colour ever, Honk Ross will now be seen on station more and more.

If a vampire were to bite one, would he be getting blood or orange juice? Or orangood... , bluice?

So for all of you that I didn't already bug the ever-living hell out of for this: I'm trying to work on adding a new xenoarcheology system. For more about that, see this thread here: ( Or ask me in a PM, or over discord) http://nanotrasen.se/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=7192 A complete overhaul means new code, new mapping, aaaand new sprites. The mapping is not going to happen untill all the other stuff is complete so that's still a long way off, and the code is something I can do myself/learn as I do it. But spriting is a thing that takes alot of time, and I rather spend that time looking at the coding side, making sure that the concept and execution stay on track, and to discuss any changes that might be needed. So I now officially request help on the spriting part. Right now i'm working on the analysis part of the job, which involves books, datapads, decryption consoles, anything and everything that might hold some kind of data. I have a few specific requests: Fashion magazine's You read that right, I'd like a few fashion mag sprites. The pictures in those would make for some excellent data on how certain cultures act and dress, so for alien researchers, they'd be a pretty interesting source of info. Maps Maps, charts, drawing on napkins where a dotted line line leads to an X. Anything that implies hidden locations. New books We already have a good set of book sprites, but more never hurts! I'd really like it if there was some more variety or different sizes/styles in our current book collection. The super special stuff There will be a few rather rare data-holding items I seek to implement, with more unique rewards for decrypting them. So the sprites should be very recognizable for any archaeologist looking to find new stuff. If you're interested in doing those, PM me , since I don't want to spoil them just yet. And if you feel a sudden burst where you just NEED to do some creative spriting rising up, keep this in mind. From a message in a bottle to a high-tech super encrypted bluespace drive, everything goes.

As regen said, we don't need another insta-stun ranged weapon capable of dealing large amounts of stamina & brute damage per clip. However, if you remove the combat aspects: the large damage's and knockdown, and have it be like an airsoft gun/pistol in terms of IC function, I can see people having fun with it. Maybe scale the other numbers down from being a weapon to almost a toy. Just a quick idea though. The sprite is very nice and it'd be a shame to let it go to waste. Another option for the sprite would be just a reskin of one of the existing guns, like the stetchkin, altough I don't know how the coders/seniors think about going full "hats by valve" on existing items.

It's going to take some hefty thinking and rethinking to get the race to a unique and not-another-human-reskin implementation. An implementation that's also playable, doesn't shit on other people's rounds because of racial features and is not horrible/lame. If you can pull it off and convince the high-ups to add it, it'd be a nice thing to have. Good luck with that, I hope you make it.