Doukan

The furluminati mafia's invisible hand revealed.

This would be fine if tasers and stuns in general weren't stupid OP already

A lot of the little differences like that and glove clipping was purged because balance and species standardisation. Probably won't get back in since the gleichschaltung is ongoing.

Wew lad I think you're overthinking it a little there, I don't even play diona but on paper they're mostly balanced. Not ideal, but "balanced", could probably do with another little something to make up for that speed loss. I don't play the pod people so it's good to have the opinion of someone who does. The speed reduction is the big negative they get, instead of throwing in a bunch of stuff about rads which would no doubt require IPC levels of code snowflaking probably better to just make them not quite so slow. I've murdered a lot of diona with plant spray and it is a bit overkill, having it act like acid for their skin that nullifies their regening and makes them rapidly become malnourished instead of a u ded spray would be better. And they're de facto space proof aren't they? Just need to bring a light source with them?

TBF arrivals botany is a thing. Making them dependent on plant matter is a bit much though, why not just raw plants?

These would be nice additions, except... RIP any antag getting away with killing a head again ever. They already have the blueshield their BS infini-stunning batons death alarms and their department specific gear, last thing they need are more failsafes.

I submitted a nice wall of text for you. Diona are fine as is IMO, plenty of buffs with a decent drawback and an Achilles heel. If anything they're a pretty good template for what the other races should be, requiring a slightly different playstyle whilst not be too OP or too weak.

It's actually pretty decent for softening up targets, unfortunately everybody metas turning off their messengers so it's completely useless most of the time unless you're just targeting random nobodies to cause a bit of chaos, which is really all it's good for since EVERYBODY METAS TURNING OFF THEIR MESSENGERS EVERYTIME EVER. You are a very bad person if you do this, looking at you, everyone.

It'd work better as an ERT/CC only item, if these became a thing they'd no doubt be spammed out to any and everybody and it's hard enough hiding bodies as it is.

It's a dick move putting a law like that when there are so many other !!fun!! things that could be done instead, but you need a certain type of AI to make that stuff work and it's often just not a defendable risk to take, especially when so fucking many AI players like to be supercops who words lawyer their way out of everything to get dem valids. This is the sort of thing that should be dealt with IG and not with rules, if the AI suddenly kills itself it's something command should really be noticing and fixing. Turning off the AI core APC works too, just takes a few minutes.

The problem with more mining suits is that whenever some conversion antag makes their way to the asteroid it's free EVA for all their buddies, that's why the research outpost lost half it's stuff. There are actually already spare suit scattered around the various little outposts, you just need someone to haul them over for you. Ideally I'd like to see the mostly useless warehouse packed full of semi-randomized spare stuff, like more mining suits.

I predict SSD-bot cheesing to escape areas. An auto teleporter might be better.

Have 7-10 auto BSA the shuttles, that'd make sense. Too many people a habit of fucking off to the asteroid at the first sign of blob, at least make it require a little effort byond hacking into cargo.

Stuns are king ATM and have been for as long as I can remember, don't need more ways to inflict them, if you get into a fight with someone and you don't want to break their bones then you should be push-spamming and GTFO-ing to safety while the cavalry arrive. That and there's no such thing as a non lethal punch, if you hit someone you're going to damage them. Making groin attacks deal stamina damage equal to the brute damage though, that'd make sense.

It'd be a cool thing to have, reminds me of KOTOR, but TBH lasers are weaksauce enough already. If it only blocked say the first 10 damage/a flat 50% and nothing else and had a very tight use time (something like activate it and last for 20 second before needing a new battery) that'd be fine though, makes stealing the cap's personal weapon less of a wonder combination and actually gives a reason to acquire ballistics.

This is a game from 2003, just you be grateful we even have pixels in the right places.

Learn how to wear a gas mask and put your ID in your PDA, problem solved. It's a shame people are the way they are but it's really easy to get around, just gotta git gud.

Worst that could happen is they start super copping but that's not something they don't do anyway. I don't see why they can't have warrant issuing powers either in the absence of a magistrate.

Something specific in space law that SAYS IN BIG LETTERS not to take anything not blatantly illegal/syndie tech/actually used to commit the crime would be nice. Why? It's pretty much SoP to "confiscate" things that aren't technically illegal under normal circumstances like insulated gloves/toolbelts/flashes/knives/armour because sec knows how useful they are, it sucks it really does. I mean yeah obviously if I'm hacking into places and putting holes someone's face requisition away but when it's a graffiti charge and you're stealing my shit 4noraison it just makes me want to antagonise you. That never works ever unless it's an exceptionally slow round or there's an admin PC involved and even then the best you can hope for is a sorry from whoever did it whilst your stuff mysteriously finds it's way out the evidence locker.

If you're being shat on it's usually best just to be bitchy in dchat or on the radio since actually retaliating will get you bwoinked and if they were really in the wrong they're gonna get banned anyway. If you actually have a desire for vengeance though petty things work well, filling up the sec lobby with vending machines for instance.

This could go somewhere, as it stands the captain is a bit of a lame duck since nobody likes being told what to do with all the departments being run as little fiefdoms and all the real decisions being made by CC anyway. Have him be an "independent contractor" with a list of obligations (stuff like complete x tech level and ship it over in return for x, nothing too serious just a mini-incentive to actually work) so they actually have a mandate to interfere, then they'd be personally responsible for managing things and we'd finally have a cure for bridge-captainitis.

Eventually you'll reach the point where you've played the game enough that you just need to do something new. For many people being a jackass greyshit fills that hole, I should know since it does it for me. It's either that or embracing your inner snuflake and nobody wants that to happen.

All you have to do is break their legs/feet/hands/choke them out and run away, there's really no excuse for murdering someone unless you really have to for whatever reason. That said though whenever I get into non-antag related conflict it usually takes about 5 seconds before start flying about "y u beating him", it's rather annoying when it's a reasonable escalation. I mean really with the ubiquitous presence of defibs and cloners "death" really shouldn't mean that much, unless it's blatant shittery I don't see what the big deal is, at worst someone loses 20 minutes because the CMO has no idea how to refill the biomass and genetics actually have to leave their lab.

I think the wizzie's mirror should probably be able to polymorph them, they're the mode's only antag afterall gotta have a little spehshulness.

Yeah horror-form is afaik a goon thing, might have been on tg at some point but it's never been on paradise that I know for certain. Be nice to have a changeling endgame that doesn't involve the crematorium anyway.