Dinarzad

While I agree a lot of it goes too far, I think the BASIC gist was just to make a race that could stand to NT/Humans so it's not just "HOOMUN MASUTR RUC" which is fun at first but gets progressively more tired every instance it's used. I think it'd be better if it were more on par with what our Grey are supposed to have.

I say yes, honestly. If you are someone who is deaf or mute, you probably know Sign Language given it is a primary means of contacting other people so long as they also know the language. If your hand/hands are broken or missing then you cannot sign at all. And this is all dependant on OTHER people knowing sign language, which also cannot be used over the radio, so it's still very much a disability. If the issue is primarily the Mime using it to try an circumvent his "No-talking" then make it punish him? It's a secondary language after all, it's a language. Does it make sense? Not at all, but it also doesn't make sense how a mime can bend quantum physics with his bare hands to form invisible walls.

I'd enjoy the hell outta this honestly. I -like- being a pAI and being a helpful asset to someone, being glued to them does not much bother me. Just.... the problem is, pAI's can't do all THAT much for people, at least actively. It'd be kinda nice to have something a step up from a pAI, but not as... drop in an drop out I guess would the term to fit. A Little more involved.

I don't entirely agree on dividing Surgeon and MD karma unlocks, since surgery is part of an MDs job, Surgeon is simply an alternate title. Titles simply make you a 'specialist', if there's nothing but Surgeons in medical someone still has to go play nurse and man the front desk.

I don;t imagine Greys have a language, they have psychic telepathy after all, they just transmit their thoughts to one another.

The Real challenge would be, what the fuck do you give Greys and Plasma people? Greys already have Telepathy, I can't think of much else thematically they could get that would not be insanely strong if we keep wit hthe whole "Psionic" theme they got going. Empathy power maybe, but that's about it, Telekinesis would be hella strong. And Plasma-dudes.... I got nothin.

No idea how hard that'd be to code, but I like the idea actually. It makes logical sense, plus it's another nerf to balance out the speedy boots, given how bad their sight range is, anything beyond it being grey shapes would mean they can't identify much until they get closer which... I mean they're Short-sighted, that makes sense.

I'd like to chime in that having Resomi as a race would be tops. Though definately not -replacing- Vox. ALSO ADDING that from some posts made, people think the "Permanent Wleding vision overlay" means they can freely weld shit and be A-okay like an IPC That's. Uhh. That's wrong. They still need goggles or get their eyes fucked. They have a permanent Welding vision overlay as in the short-sightedness aspect. They can only see as far as a human can when they have a welding mask down, thus the "Thermals" they get by hearing, cuz they hear good but see for shit. So they're short sighted, can be knocked unconscious in a matter of punches in the single digit range, or limbs broken with something as easy to get as a crowbar. Seriously they're Squish even more then IPCs I think, you can punch them to death real easy. And the Upsides are speedy feets and the "Thermals" effect. And the mixxed bag is the being super short and peiople can pick you up like a diona nymph/Drone and wear you on their back like a living adorable as fuck backpack.

*Raises hand* Why not make it like the AI's version of a pAI? You have a master to serve (The AI) You get a limited toolset in order to prevent grief. (Although you still have cameras and comm channels maybe other assorted features depending on balance.) Because in essence what I get from this idea is something to help the AI manage the sheer amount of shit that goes on, which is exactly what pAIs are meant to do for command staff, they are secreterial and help monitor radios and perform additional helpful functions to be an asset. So for the core of this idea is to be something like a pAI for the Station AI to help it manage stuff. EDIT: Plus as a more pAI style functionality this allows the AI to CHOOSE if it -wants- a node. Some players won't like having some ghost just pop in and get into their business, this would allow the AI to clock the node core or whatever to activate it, and similarly to wipe it if the node is being a shit-lord.

Why not a method to hack the lock? Or has the idea of 'lockpicking' been utterly eradicated in the year 2555. That means it takes insulated gloves and multi-tool/Wirecutters. Make it like cameras, so booping the wire sets off alarms (We do have that new 'Burglar Alarm' Category after all.)

And all of those should come after RnD, personally. Medical is made infinitely less stressful when sleepers are properly upgraded, cloning is much less of a pain in everyone's ass when the Pod is upgraded or when husks an shit can be cloned. Robotics -requires- it to make most their mechs, because the QM gets understandably annoyed having to waste supply points to order mech circuitry because the entire science department is off touching themselves with some sort of proto-doodad or feeding themselves to slimes (Which now ALSO benefits from RnD gun Temperature Gun goodness.). It's part of the job. Part of it that other people kinda rely on. You can't be an Engineer job and just go "EHH FUCK THE SING AND SOLARS I WANNA GO BUIIIIIIIIIIIILD" without getting called out on it, and science should be no different. Havin' a giggle in Xeno or chems or whatever is A-okay. AFTER you do the -important- part of the job first, unless someone else is already taking care of it.

Kind of moot since it would take Bay's RIGsuit system, but pAI's should be able to do it if it's gonna be a thing, otherwise it may as well never be ported over because how often are you REALLY going to have an Intelicarded AI to slot into your suit. I can agree to limiting it to a living user's suit though, unless maybe emagged or something. Would be pretty nice to have a kinda JARVIS style pAI going on, instead of the current Siri that we have whose only benefit is a universal translator. I mean pAI is a method of returning into the round that is in direct competition with Positronic Brains and becoming a Cyborg or Maintenance drones that while non-interactive, can pretty freely build shit as well as be emag'd to be tator assets.

That speed debuff is the only thing htat keeps them in line. Currently, Diona are injured by darkness and healed by light. As such, every Diona you meat is a walking light source with 2-4 flashlights on them at any given time. I believe with just 2 light sources (not counting your PDA light) you can survive and actually net heal a space walk or otherwise dangerous trip through a breached room/vacuum. Actually, just wanted to make this notation: Diona are immune to space/Pressure. I regularly played a Diona Shaft Miner and they actually cannot wear hardsuits at all. I would regularly walk out onto the asteroid with only my PDA light and a mining lantern, no suit or oxygen tank and I was not only completely fine, I was practically invulnerable. Goliaths would mess me up only for me to be back to full health in short order, NPC's stop attacking you when you pass out, so you simply re-heal and go back to it. Just kinda felt that was pertinent info.

You mean like people who wanna play 'Bulma Briefs' and 'Fox McCloud' and insist it's not a joke? =^) If we're gonna have this rule, it should probably go full measure and not half measure with very flimsy bits here an there that are kinda okay for.... reasons that don't match to the rest of the rule. Frankly, I'd rather have it abolished back to how it used to be in the first place, since I really don't care if people are named 'Fox McCloud' or Hughe Jass' or some other permutation of odd nomenclature.

Personally, I see no reason to -not- give them one. Literally the entire of medical has general access to these items, it's not like they are science toys like the laser scalpels, there are 2 in every Medi-vend. And frequently enough as a medical borg, I have to either play triage inside med bay or help the Paramedic by going into hazard zones or just outright going with them to give access an help load people up if it's a like a bomb that has injured several people. Being able to spot people with coordinates on is a big part of that job.

45 karma. 'S not much different from Vox, being space worthy an needing internals to breathe from. And honestly I'd say they are not TRUE space worthy, they need hardsuits still, but are capable of 'swimming' in space. That's just me tho. I agree with people saying the 2nd picture is the one I'd go for, in terms of appearances.

8/10 would play space mermaid.

If we get not shitty SM as has been suggested then I would approve of it. Though I'd also prefer Singuloth being set up somewhere as a backup engine in case SM got asploded. Just cuz... I mean he's Lord Singuloth, he has to be there somewhere. :<

Personal opinion time: Valid Hunting isn't gonna go away unless similar ideaology/rules are in place -for the antags themselves-. I had a ling round where the ling, within a span of 20 or so minutes, killed a nearly double digit amount of people that were wholly unrelated to his objective. (I know it was over 6, but I surely didn't count them all out.) His location was screamed out with the first victim, so naturally people went to check it out, security, some others, either to find the changeling or to look for the body of the guy who'd just bit the dust, a sec officer. Except, thing was, he stayed near the growing body pile with space lube an his arm blade the -entire time-, wordlessly slaughtering everyone who slipped in the maintenance tunnel and the only reason he booked it at all is cuz someone brought a friggin -ripley- to the scene. And then he just did it to a smaller degree later on before finally high-tailing it. It's really hard to say Validhunting is a problem and something we're striving to solve when -that- kind of action is fully allowed. If it had been a non-antag who had been doing that to .... let's say a Vox Raider team, everyone would have shouted "Valid Hunter". Why does any of that whiny bitching of a tirade matter? Cuz if antags -are- allowed to just go ham like that an wordlessly/no RP slaughter mass populace wholesale an sit atop their throne of corpses, preventing any body retrieval, then yes, my first reaction is going to be to gut the ling/wizard/traitor/whatever, because if I give him a chance to RP, he's not gonna give me the same and he's going to remove me from the round, objective or no. If I can't trust the fact a wiz won't just magic me on sight why should he be able to trust I won't just insert a metal rod down his throat on sight?

Wrong, flat out. There's jobs within a department you can have distaste for, while still liking the department as a whole or vice-versa. I've played CMO previously, I know medical pretty well, More then most and less then some. I have played Genetics, MD, Chemist, Surgeon, Coroner (Yes they are alt MD titles but different expectations of them.) I have not played Paramedic, Psychiatrist or Virologist. Mostly because Virology is very slow and boring to me and I don't care for paramedic. When I was CMO, we had Clean SE's on stand by at Genetics, we had the chems, cryo was set up and doctors knew to talk to me if there was a problem. I didn't need Virology and Paramedic playtime to know this, and if it came down to a viral outbreak, there's a very detailed wiki guide on how to handle those. Vice-versa I have -very- little desire to play proper Security, it is not my cup of tea in terms of playstyle and yet, I like and sometimes will go into, Brig Physician. Because I am -not- an officer I am a medic, the department as a whole is very much not my speed but the singular job is. The Brig Phys is not an arresting officer he is a doctor, his grasp of space law is there, but much less then others, his task is the well being of officers and prisoners. Requiring someone to play Security to play Brig Phys is making someone play a job they have no desire or want to play to unlock a totally separate job. Requiring a CMO who otherwise knows the entire department front to back, except Paramedic procedure and advanced Virology, to then play those jobs is excluding an otherwise, for the most part, competent CMO who knows how not to kill patients. As long as said CMO knows how to handle a viral outbreak does he REALLY need to know how to manufacture a virus lethal or beneficial? Now while this all sounds like "Me, me, me" I'm just using myself as an example, you can like certain jobs WITHIN a department or certain departments excluding certain jobs.

Yeeeeaaaah, I can't... support this idea, sorry. It's INCREDIBLY restrictive, especially the limit on Karma jobs. If I blow my karma that took me a lengthy amount of time to build up, on a job and then the game tells me 'lel no' when I wanna play it? Sorry, but no. I bought it, I want access to the feckin thing. If I buy an ice cream I expect to get an ice cream not be told "Thanks, you'll get it two days from now." This is even more restrictive then just flat out setting up a whitelist, because at least with a whitelist I don't have to dump an unholy amount of playtime into roles I might not care that much for just to apply.

This is where I'll update whenever I edit a wiki page. For now I've only edited two pages and all I really did was update the chemicals referenced in a few of the medical guides, replacing references to no longer existing Bay chems with the Goon chems appropriate and removing mentions of Clonexadone since it was removed/rolled into normal Cryox. http://nanotrasen.se/wiki/index.php/Chief_Medical_Officer#Overview http://nanotrasen.se/wiki/index.php/Guide_to_Medicine#General_Diagnostics

That said though, while I understand the Power Armor was stupidly OP. It WOULD be nice to see parts of that code be salvaged if possible. Like the armor AI module thing was pretty boss, I'd be neat to be able to get science to make an AI-Assisted Hardsuit for sec or make it an ERT thing or something. Sorta like the ERT equivalent of a pAI, a suit bound AI that can monitor their health an maybe highlight targets or something. EDIT: And by Monitor health I mean more indepth since the AI is inside the suit itself and if it's ERT only, then it would not be like a civilian access thing like a pAI is. Something that can locate exactly what bones are fractured, what type of damage is happening and to what limbs like a health analyzer.

If this goes through, would compound the change by expanding out the morgue like has been talked about before. Knock in the wall to the Exam room and move the desk work part of the Coroner job in there. Medical laptop, Autopsy Report filing cabinet and body scanner. Medical Laptop to be used for noting which crewmen are dead-dead (Cannot be cloned/borged) and usually printing out a copy of their med records to attach to Autopsy report. (Helps Sec/Detective, since it has their DNA and Fingerprint hash) Would add room for additional morgue trays as well I would think. Might be something I try to do who knows.

Hmmm. Wouldn't it be easiest to just add a German Shepard pet for the Warden? That way if people wanna RP a police dog, they just join as NPC like now and play the Sec dog?