Farya

Hi, guys. After watching Ghost in the shell I got a *crazy* idea. How about allowing player to choose which type of brain his/her IPC will have: posibrain or brain in MMI. Why? Pure RP reasons. People would be able to roleplay IPC as a human who lost his body and whos brain now reside in cold metal shell. That could lead to some really interesting characters.

"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Dealing with dicks by becoming one is not the way actually. Station crew(and players playing them) are supposed to be cultured(at least enough to be tolerated by society) people not a bunch of stupid apes understanding only the tongue of violence. Crew have Space Law to abide, SOP to keep in mind and legal department(IAA, lawyer, Magistrate). While security is here to enforce security when words are not effective.

The idea is easy... probably. Let the warden print the infamous WANTED posters of criminals with photo, list of crimes and possible reward. While greytide should have an option to vandalise such posters with cryons. Drawing mustaches on them e.t.c. Wanted newspaper issue is good, but it could be only one at the time and... who even read newspapers now?

Well, its time to introduce my numerous characters here. Some of them are in current use and some are part of the history. IPC character will be first because I wanted IPC for so long...

Thats why we need Community Service and Fines as alternative punishements for minor crimes. Rather then locking people up in brig(where they will do nothing useful for corporation) make them pay the fines or do some dirty job like collecting litter, moping the floors, helping the cook with his job, etc. That would be much more effective and satisfying measure to deal with troublemakers that way. Prison cells must be used only for people who are dangerous for crew and/or too hard to control. Damn, it would be fun to add possibility of sinks and toiletes jamming- with prisoners cleaning them instead of janitor. Maybe improve disposals as well? Manual sorting of trash for recycling.

The problem is that current drones are supposed to work on their own. Floorbot is just the only bot which require human intervention(new floor tiles). While pAIs are supposed to be strictly tided to their owners and always be nearby. But current pAIs are mostly boring to play(even mining bot and Ian are more fun to play) because they have very little functions, people usually never need. Doorjack is the only really slightly useful tool. That platforms would allow pAI to be more fun to play while not being validsalad machines(and keeping scripted bots vital on their own) by allowing them to assist their owners more proactively. Making AI a bit more mobile and giving it some simple data providing tools(mostly) is the way for me. However some of your ideas are good as well but in other way - pAI is still immobile but have it hacking features improved making some kind of hacking tablet/electronic lockpick out of it. But I think the best thing we can do is to allow pAI to use PDA of the owner when pAI is inserted inside(you can do it already to save space). So pAI could use cartridge functions of PDA to do something more. And as I remember we had hardsuits in the past - at that times pAI card could be inserted inside to serve as board AI and control its modules. P.S You can communiate with pAI using radio semi-privately already. Get yourself second headset, set it to custom frequency and instruct pAI answer to you using it. Only AI and borgs could intercept you.

I will make a clear list now: Medical support drone - fast medical platform outfitted with medical tools, owner need medical access to use that platform. Equiped with: medical HUD, medical scanner, syringe, mass specrometre, reagent scanner, pathogen analyzer and bodybag dispenser which would deploy bodybags owner must load inside manualy. With upgrade it gains ability to refill medipens and charge defibrilators. Security support drone - average speed platform(a bit slower then human) with some armour against blunt objects. Comes with shiny police lights. Equiped with hailer, security HUD and police line. Can get forensic scanner and ability to repair plastic cuffs with upgrade. Owner must have security locker access OR detective access to use it. Engineering support drone - slow speed but have slight resistance to EMP and airflows can't suck it out. Equiped with mesons, engineering tape, multitool to check power cables. After upgrade it can eat glass shards to refine them into sheets and carry supply of welding fuel(must refill it from tanks). Engineering OR mining access is needed for owner to use it.

But still pAI are meant to be like talking smartphone not validhunting machine. So security validhunt-bots controled by pAI is a no no. However I see nothing against new support platform which could be researched by RnD and produced by robotics. Like medical drone for paramedic, which could administer drugs loaded(no internal generator), scan the patient and maybe zap them with defibs. Security drone could manage records, collect forensic data, apply security tape and scream intimidating lines(or making infamous WEEOOO-WEEOOO) while its owner is chasing the criminals. *Maybe* cuffing caught criminals as well, but nothing more for sure. Its a support thingy and its not supposed to work without master. Science drone could probably carry vials, data disks and other tiny research things. Engineering drone could probably access power equipment and and possess powerful flashlight, mesons and multitool to check current in power cables so it would be easier for its owner to find and replace damaged cable/broken wall.

That could actually be nice addition. And if robotics/mechanic would be merged such feature could be given to them. They would produce exosuits and other mass-produce things, as well as refill disposable things. While science toy around with incomplete prototypes.

I think we could split Forensic Techician into standalone job with his own equipment. If detective is a hardboiled investigator with a cool gun, forensic tech would be his CSI-like sidekick who fight crime with his wits and variety of scanners. Give him unique metal briefcase with ID lock and big space inside, telescopic baton, reagent and blood scanner, science googles and other shit. And it would be interesting to add security cadet as alt.title for security. Or maybe 1-2 slot job. Security officer with less gear and access, but who also unlocks early for newcomers.

I wish chemistry could refill existant epipens. Maybe special dispenser with internal supply. And traitorous chemists could emag it to replace chemicals.

We have *crawl verb on Tau Ceti. Its fun and often used feature. Assistants also master the combat use of it - they can dive on the ground and roll away from taser balls with that infuriating newbies in security. And security/paramedic also often crawl inside cargo to get corpses came from disposals, miners often use ripley flaps to get outside without using slow working airlocks. +1

We had that before. Its ended up BADLY. And the pais are meant to be pocket helpers, who are always near their masters. So no more pai-piloted bots unless there could be the way to shackle them to their masters like hologuardians. Maybe make special remote-controled chassis robotics could produce. Something like these: It would be tied to owner of pai and its will shutdown when owner is killed or incapicated.

But that will prevent the use of morgue as emergency surgery when both OR are inaccessible for some reason(bombed, occupated by enemy, just TOO much VIP patients who must be saved at all costs by surgery. I also used morgue as a place to augment people as roboticist once because RD was a weirdo and forbid me to do that in robotics because "its not sterile for surgery". But damn, that was fun.

Honestly I think merging them and making mechanic more useful for station(and reducing karma cost for one acordingly) would be neat. Instead of being useless guy with pod for 30 karma, you will be optional but moderately useful guy. I also think that science should not be industrial force of the station. Protolathe must be machine for producing imperfect prototypes which science need then polish into perfect condition. While engineering will take the role of manifacturing finished product for crew.

Syndicate have hyposprays, ERT have them as well if not here, but in other build. Hypospray is more like grief-potential thing and lorewise it could be just expensive to produce and probably require some training to use effectively so only CMO is trusted to have one.

Tau Ceti is russian High-RP server and it have cryosleepers in prison without any problems. And what RP you an even get if you are lone prisoner forgotten in perma by everyone because of some bigger shit happening? Its not fun to sit in four r-walls without any chances to change that. Cryosleeper is for that situations. If traitor knows that he will be rescued by his comrades he would never suicide/ghost out or cryo. So I see no problem in giving such opportunity.

Honestly thats why I think robotist must be divided from science corps and become part of engineering like mechanic. Being robotist is more like being industrial engineer rather then researcher. And that new mechanic could make a great pair with robotist. One produce things and the second will improve them to better degree. And how cargo is sub-department of civilian department(with HoP being their big boss), mechanic and robotists could become an industrial sub-department of engineering, assigned to manifacture station equipment. By the way, Goons mechanic would be awesome to port here. It just cool.

Forensic additions could be nice for me. So industrious detective could gather even more information of he want to. Like finding the spot where was the blood but was washed out e.t.c. It also would be neat have optional fingerprint cards, you can attach to your case files for more RP. And honestly it would be better if forensic scanner would not magicaly tell what gloves and clothes criminal wore. Goon system is more fun for that matter. Scanner detect different fibers instead, so instead "insulated gloves) there will be "rubber fibbers" or something. Combat gloves would leave "high quality synthetic fiber". Scanning the respectful object would also expose its content, so if you are not sure that fibers could be left but that piece of clothes - you scan it.

I think some kind of database would be neat. You put scanner inside and store data from it here. And then you can run "consolidation mode" to find matching data. But that thing would be a addition to existing one and very optional.

So how about making suh hyposprays a RnD thing? That would be neat.

Well, my suggestion is simple - add one cryocell to perma, so prisoners who have no hope to escape and want to ghost out and observe round/have to go due to IRL reasons can lay in one and get removed from the round without suicide. Some servers have such feature already and it works just fine.

Goons handed out hyposprays to every doctor. However every hypospray have internal safety which prevents its usage as weapon. You just can't fill one with any of harmful chem. Maybe go the same way? Give doctors crappy mass produced hypospray with safety in it(no harmful shit, no drugs, no shit causing addiction), while CMO would have superior one - it would have no safety inside and have ability to adjust how much you want to inject. From 1u to maybe 10u.

You also have duffelbags and MD lockers in surgery. Put tools in duffelbag and stuff duffelbag into locker, then close and lock - only someone with emag or other means to blast open the locker could get your tools.

Why not actually? Will make job less stressful a bit. Would be also good to make pocket version of Space law book and make it spawn item. You can keep it in your box, pocket, e.t.c.