GelatinousGlob

Kidan meson mining helmets would be enough for me. They are a mining race and yet suck at mining? Makes no sense. It could be combined with a eva suit mod for kidan helmet and meson vision on mining. While it is a pain in some ways, Kidan security can be fun without sec huds, just people have to tell the names of people set to arrest on the radio.

Add in a dye pack for forced lockboxes that stains them and their clothing with high visibility dye.

Would it be some way possible to have the eye sprite brightness increased for low illumination? So like light level 1 light would cause their eyes to be significantly brighter than the rest of their body. But at 0 light you wouldn't see the eyes.

It has been tried before, people still do it. It is great stress relief for the players though too, people get really pissed at spessmans. Treat the moment the end round menu pops up that its all ooc.

Could me a miner specific traitor item.

I would second some rearranging in atmosia. The turbine pipe outlet is in a terrible spot where you have very deadly gas mixes being pumped right next to the air supply pipe and it also makes most any other work in atmosia require complete revamp of the system while the turbine gas is being pumped. You can actually fit more shit in there if you are clever using the different scrubbers and supply pipes but it is not feasible to do by hand every round. Even if there was even just more floor space added people could build new systems for awhile and screenshot them to help design a new and improved atmosia network.

"The Kidan goes stiff as a pungent pheromone permeates the air."

Yesterday I went to use a passive vent for some turbine experimentation only to have this dissappear when I tried to wrench them. I got told to post a bug report , which I did, then someone claimed they don't exist and deleted them! I know they exist, I used them many times, and its the only way to get full pressure from rooms into pipes. Someone please see where they want, I know they existed a few weeks ago and have for quite awhile.

I agree its turning into a cancer. When it first came out we got excuses about it being improved or sped up or whatever else so they don't want to remove. Now we get excuses that it has been in too long to just remove. Nobody likes it, its buggy, it just gets in the way of repairs and moving things around for no reason long after shit was sealed up, it messes up the air alarm system, not even atmos techs like it, trying to fix pipes in a room that had anything go wrong atmos wise is a nightmare, you have to time between atmos ticks so your pipes don't just flip around or go flying away. Pushes people around from fixing breaches. Mag boots are a requirement for even the fixing the simplest things even after an area has been resealed for 20 minutes. You get pushed away from airlock buttons and the like so you can't open panels and shit in time to close the door. LINDA is a gun shot to your foot and it feels like the staff are trying to claim they prefer having their foot broken and bleeding.

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE! Don't need to get all crazy about this. That said, its better to revert now than months from now with even more crap added on making it harder. It sucks when shit doesn't work out as well as planned but it happens.

Linda physics got int he way on mining the other day. First we had three miners try to pile out an airlock and got stuck by their ore boxes, but they had tools so its cool and they cut the wall out. Unfortunately, being pushed makes you lose hold of the ore box, so while two people could get out, they couldn't grab the ore boxes which also would let the other miner free. Spent a good 10 minutes trying to get the guy out from the ore boxes that trapped him. Then 5 minutes later, there was plasma walls with goodies inside. There was ad resser in the middle of the room with an item behind it so it enter the walls had to be removed, unfortunatly the torch causes the plasma walls to burn/disintegrate into free plasma. Now the server spent the next hour processing this plasma pushing out and around the mining tunnels, pushing players so they drop their ore boxes, pushing them around so monsters can kill them, causing superheated 'air', all this with like 1 kPa of plasma pushing around. It still hadn't dissipated (In fucking space!) after the entire round ended. No matter how much work was put into LINDA, I think it fails to do any good and whatever work it takes should be put into removing it and reinstalling or improving ZAS or a similar system. The only way LINDA really works well is if its going WAY faster than it currently is, which will use just as much, if not more, processing power than ZAS took. Never did fix that airlock wall though, every time someone tried to put girders they got pushed from the minuscule amount of air left from 30 minutes ago that kept flowing. Most people don't even use airlocks anymore because of linda, they just force the airlocks and let it leak because if there is a vent anywhere near the airlock, it doesn't matter. it just causes problems 30 minutes later when someone doesn't notice the walked into this oddly over or underpressurized tile in a room that is otherwise fine.

I really only see one way to nerf the chainsaw and not make it useless, lower the chance to stun somewhat. If i doesn't block projectiles it is useless because insta-stuns are ridiculous op right now. No point in having a chainsaw if you just get tasered or batoned immediately. You can't hide it in your bag, it is loud and extremely obvious, you can't use any sort of shield with it, you shouldn't be able to charge someone with it. Also, a chainsaw isn't just going to get stuck on a bone. The chainsaw teeth are made to take the tiniest little cuts at a time and even have little rakers to help pull that material out of the way and throw it off to the side. They are designed to not suck shit up into the gear drive. If you want it to wear down, make the blades get dull over time and require a file or tool to sharpen it. A chainsaw will go through flesh like butter even if you just got done destroying the teeth grinding on rebar. I do like the space-lube idea, also a mask would be totally awesome. If you remove projectile blocking and stun the only way to keep it viable would be increase user's speed. Perhaps if there is a way to make it block only stun weapons, a normal taser with wires would be ripped out or cut away and useless and a baton would jump and skip off a running chainsaws blade if it didn't just get snapped or cut in half from the force of getting caught on the blade. If you have it modeled as a non-wire futuristic taser then the chainsaw itself could have future technology, like absorbing the electricity from the taser, maybe even help super-charge the chainsaw. It could also for example disarm and toss a baton away if someone tried to to hit a chainsaw guy with it from catching on the blade. Compare this to other weapons a syndicate might use, not to civilian and security standard weapons. A syndicate bullet to the head will knock down or out, a bomb will blow you to gibs, a plasma fire will cook you in no time, a vacuum (current shit atmos withstanding) will pop your lungs and break bones. It may be powerful, but it is also a huge sign that announces "im a dangerous antag ready to kill", I don't think anyone is going to hear a chainsaw noise and be like "huh, lets go see what this giant chainsaw wielding space maniac is up t- ARRGHGHGHA"

Im disappointed that ive been made to remove my oldest character Dick Payne due to changes in rule 9 prohibiting that name. I suggest reverting the rule to the previous definition, I put so much effort into creating a reputation on station with that character and now it is gone. Im especially disappointed because it is a real name of many very successful people including real estate agents, bankers, there is even a Dick Payne Jr.! These rules are getting ridikulous, even SpongeBob would be able to say this stuff. PG isn't good enough, gotta go for a G rating on a super niche game that has objectives to murder people in cold blood and burn them alive and has organs flying all around and all sorts of terrible crap going on.

I actually have a barber-surgeon character that does ghetto surgery but it takes awhile to assemble the kit and I seem to break more bones than I fix like 75% of the time. It makes people reluctant to use my services so it gets really boring spamming for people to visit me or trying to jack patients for ghetto surgery. All that being said, the barber needs a straight razor he can use as a scalpel, also to shave beards and defend his very sterile and boring shop.

An "imaginary" wall would be so sweet if it acted like a real wall while in use. A mime could save the day bu plugging a breach with his imaginary wall until others escape or until an engineer arrives or until he gets tired or knocked away and gets sucked out into space.