Doukan

"Setting up tcomms~" It takes the piss, TYPE SPEAK FUTURE SPACE ENGLISH PROPERLY DAMNIT. Kill it with fire +1

The speed malus is the trade off for being nigh invulnerable in the light, it's been that way since forever and is really the only suitable way to balance all the buffs they get. Be nice for them to have leafy hair though so they don't all look identical, the ooaaaah treebeardy speak would be funny too +1

We used to have it so each power would make you suffer continuous clone damage, was easily countered with the occasional hop into cyro but after a half dozen or so it became rapidly incapacitating, not that it stopped anyone. Genetics really needs some sort of bigger downside IMO, one that isn't just "grind and grind and sudden OP'ness", not all that uncommon for super hulks to start running around the 1 hour mark, if we couldn't port goon's system (which is infinitely superior BTW, port it pretty please ) this'd be nice alternative.

And nothing of value is lost. No need to get rid of something which has perfectly legitimate uses when the only consequence of abusing it is that sec don't get to grid fill the cells IMO.

I honestly can't tell if this is satire or not. Good show either way +1

If people would rather leave the round than stay in it the problem is probably more to do with what's happening. *suicide abuse is more a symptom, no reason to get rid of it other than to spare sec's immursions.

It'd only really work as a punishment if we had persistent round to round bank accounts, and I think that idea was shot down due to it's griefability potential. Be a better way to deal with things like "vandalism" though.

Hey it's only real !!FUN!! if it involves confetti and banana peels. Looks like we're off the hub anyway, praise be!

Same griffins round after round, glut of players who think it's alright to run around like it's grief station because "it's mid rp", the likes of dan danger and moon man... This crap just doesn't happen when the server is off the hub, round quality is rapidly going down the shitter.

I can't tell you all of them but there are several item "size" categories. tiny > small > large > bulky etc. Stuff like cigarette butts and pens are tiny, while large would something like a pickaxe, a box would be normal.

The telepathy + water vulnerability/acid immunity + slight brute vulnerability (10/15/20% more? would need balancing) + minor TK (tiny objects only) should make them worthwhile and spehshul enough to play, any more than that would be too much. Then they'd be a real sidegrade instead of the complete -4 robustness they are right now. Hell if they got the water vulnerability back I'd start playing them just for the gimmick suicides.

We get public/radio announcements every time the deaf squids show up and everyone knows to run and that's okay. SoP wise though if they're just not mentioned but still countered it'd help with the air of mystery thing. CC announcement! Ayy lamos rn't real honest! I just don't want it to end up being another "halp xenos in viro!" sort of thing where it's the same boring re hashed re-skinned team deathmatch every time.

If the AI hasn't made it their mission to be the station's supercop you can always try getting it to help you out, I've been rescued from securitrash more than once by a nice AI. That said though the unfortunate recent trend with AI players seems to be to talk nigh exclusively on command/sec comms and support their actions no matter what, if you get the occasional decent AI that actually knows it's their job to help everyone and not just the redshirts though you can go far.

Lore wise NT officially denies that the Deathsquad exists, no reason we can't have it be the same for the lmaos IMO. IC restrictions though... That's something the admins are loathe to go into (with fairly good reason), it comes down to whether or not people want to actually have fun or be meta shits I guess, better option might be to put IN BIG BOLD LETTERS on the identifying antags page that they're officially a rumour and should be treated as such SoP wise (so then briggy mcbaton can still know every gland type and everyone else knows to ignore their no fun allowed ass).

Just imagine, designated IPC APCs, any robo serf caught feeding off one not officially designated gets their stipend cut.

Make them totally-not-slaves owned by NT who have to earn their freedom. Synthetic apartheid when.

Welp all hail democracy I guess.

inb4 pun pun is now a high risk item and cats are contraband

MMI's can speak and when there's surgery involved the body is usually on hand anyway. Sec searching your backpack and knowing exactly who's brain it is though... kinda takes the piss. The point of this would be to make it a bit more !!fun!! when there's an exposion or something, ATM it's a bit too easy IMO just to swap around brains and give VIPs new bodies.

They all have name tags on them for some reason, it'd be kinda funny if people accidentally cloned the assassin instead as well. I just find it a bit silly. Poll maybe?

They kinda look like rabbits... low light vision? better hearing of somesort? If you make them techies perhaps welder resistance? covering their eyes with their ears maybe?

I recall at least one wizard round being discovered right away because of super mind powers, it was still a bit much. It'd be nice if they could have a greater range since it's the only upside for greys right now.

Speed is perhaps the single most important factor in winning fights, if you're faster, odds are you will win everytime. Advantages based on it are routinely shot down for that very reason, probably gonna need some serious balancing to be feasible.

They have weakass weapons, their only real advantage is surprise, and have barely anything worth trading anyway. They'd work much better as a mid round event, or with some equipment buffs (ATM they don't have backpacks so can't even carry any extra ammo). And yeah I really have to say the "kekeke voxy is kin!" BS is getting a bit much, either the vox get skrekked or they spend half an hour "negotiating" before fucking off to collect their items while the rest of us have a lovely boring round of extended +. Just make them an event or buff them.

Changes should be fine as long as they don't have full telepathy again, every nuke ops round being meta'd 30 seconds in was getting rather stale. I think they currently take more brute damage to pay off for the lesser telepathy, what I was thinking might be funny would be replacing that with somesort of extra vulnerability to brain damage, they've got great big bulbous heads right? It seems to fit better than "lol u grey have a broken bone".