ProperPants

Maybe list for the first week of every month or something along those lines, just to see who comes in. Or the first week of every two months.

Too strong as all hell. Less shock damage, maybe, but not immunity.

lolno. I'm just salty because Fox keeps making updates that, regardless of people's opinion of them, literally make research (i.e. acquiring knowledge) and making new tech more tedious and difficult. It's kinda a loose connection because obviously he isn't a Vulp IRL but still. An actual critique is I don't personally like the subspecies thing. Unathi don't have "gecko, monitor lizard, chameleon" subspecies, for example. Skrell don't have "frog, toad, salamander." It just seems too... weird. I generally dislike when alien species in any sci-fi universe are "Earth animal, but with human shape," so maybe it's just me.

lmao

It continues to befuddle me how you think IPCs are not balanced. Pros: Easy healing. No diseases/tox damage. Cons: More brute damage taken. Method of instakilling them exists. Not needing food is a nonissue. Organics can just get food from any vending machine, of which there are many.

Let's flesh out other races before worrying about ones that are already fine.

Sure, why not, just as long as the janitor can mop up the snow. +1 I can already see people shoving mini meteors into snowballs.

inb4 Factorio in Spess

Jobs are currently prioritized as "low," "medium," or "high." I propose that this be changed to five tiers, instead of 3, just to allow more flexibility with preferences. "Top" would be maximum preference, and "bottom" would be minimum preference, while still not being "NEVER." Names are debatable, but the concept is simple.

I could have sworn there was a way to do this on another server I played on, but I couldn't find it. It involved a wire panel that could be accessed once you removed the battery from a mech.

I've already done this. Plasteel was decided on as too OP, though. No more replies. Issue resolved. https://github.com/ParadiseSS13/Paradise/pull/4017

Jesus, sorry. I didn't demand it or suggest it in place of anything else. I said "maybe," "would be," and "if someone choose to do this." I was just saying that when another huge refactor or rewriting of code happens, be it days or weeks or months from now, mechs might receive that treatment. I understand vaguely how hard it must be to code something like that, because I've had enough work and stress after my three tiny PRs; I can barely imagine how hard an actual project is. I also overestimate how much free time people have because I've got a lot.

The comparison of their speech to whalesong, maybe. I dunno.

Perhaps this could be the next great task, similar to how surgery was. It'd be nice if someone could start it, even if it takes months to finish. There's also a thread discussing "modular mechs" somewhere that could be considered if someone chooses to undertake this. It would be wonderful and beneficial in the long term to have modernized code, even if it takes a few months or however long surgery did.

I don't know how it would be done, but each module could be made to be one of those tabs in the top left of the screen, like spells and magboots and hardsuit helmets and whatnot.

Alright, that's actually a fine point, but everyone's issue with it is that it few people ever try to remove bulbs without gloves. It's nearly always an accident, and that's why it's so annoying. Though now I'm getting a nasty idea for minor accidents. Like, a paper cut that does as much brute damage as a light does burn. It has a whatever percent chance to trigger when picking up paper. What have I become?

People sometimes make entire threads out of these little things because, like Ping said in Petty Changes 2, a lot of stuff in Petty Changes 1 didn't happen. Skimming through the first petty changes thread, I can confirm. Single big threads catch more eyes, I suppose. Long story short, nobody actually likes lightbulb burn, and plenty of people dislike it. Let's lore up that lightbulbs have grates, because they normally do (except when they're too high to reach, but then you still can't touch them). It isn't a big deal, but that also means it's really easy to remove. It was already removed once, and then put back for seemingly no reason. Can anyone provide a reason as to why it must stay in? Otherwise, this is small enough that it really should be "majority rules" / "popular demand."

Make lightbulbs not burn your hand. I can't think of any other way to accidentally hurt yourself. Even cutting with glass shards, you would have to purposely click your sprite.

Why was it removed in the first place if nothing's wrong with it? Why was it put back after being removed if it's such a minor feature? Nobody is trying to exaggerate anything. It's not a problem to do it once or twice or three times. But if some tiny little annoyance happens again and again and again day after day, it adds up. In middle school or something, one kid would just flick people's ears lightly every single day. Towards the end of the year, another kid beat the shit out of him just because he finally had it. The light bulbs burning is that ear flicking douche. It's unfun and unnecessary, and most of all, unwanted. When it comes down to it, this is a game centered on a community, and people collectively decide what is enjoyable and what is not. This feature isn't even the good kind of shitty, like Nations. Nations are horrible, but in a way that's a change of pace and puts you out of your comfort zone, so it ends up being fun overall. The lightbulbs are just dumb.

+1 Please. My first month or two was as a Roboticist. Literally every day for a few weeks I burned myself picking up the toolbelt and beaker on the north table. At least I'm an IPC, but seriously, why does this exist?

inb4 2D spessmens is not Mass Effect I love the diversity of races in Mass Effect. They all seem positively alien. Sure there are a few anthropomorphic ones, but there are plenty that aren't. Even the anthro races seem unique in one way or another, with Asari being super psionic and Krogan being walking tanks. The only race I can think of off the top of my head that plays differently from humans is IPC. They heal differently, require nutrition differently, are adversely affected by different things. Slimes and diona come in a close second, for me, with their regeneration and other abilities. Vox come in third because they do have some different features, but also add a lot in terms of RP and general weirdness. The other races are all sidegrades or minor upgrades of human, and few people RP them to the degree Vox are RPd, so they're not that interesting.

I've already made this suggestion. I can tell you exactly why this is the case. The spawned in Chem Master and Chem Dispenser are unique machines. If you build a Chem Master or Chem Dispenser with circuit boards and parts from R&D, it's a totally different machine than the versions that spawn in. The buildable/upgradable ones start out worse than the existing ones, but end up better once they have bluespace parts. AFAIK, the spawned ones don't have any parts and just exist as they do, but it would be really nice to have it be like the slime processor.

I like them, but they sound a little bit too robotic. I heard a "bleep" or "bloop" somewhere in there. They kinda sound like hydrophone recordings. They are really nice, but I feel they should sound a little more organic.

That's already been discussed extensively. Problem is there's nothing acidic in the biggest problem, lube. something something space lube's chemical structure prevents it from being made into a fine mist/aerosol

Not everyone knows how to or wants to go digging through code to find this stuff when easier ways exist. I just checked and the gibber is the only machine (I know of) that doesn't show its parts when you examine it with a research analyzer. It just doesn't. Every other machine in the kitchen did, but not the gibber. I also deconstructed the gibber and it dropped no stock parts or circuit board. An admin had to put it back. I didn't get to check if an RPED works because I was playing as a drone.