ArgyleSweatShop Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Why we should remove the calculating 1. Telescience calculators 2. Math isn't fun 3. The fun is discovery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacemanspark Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Can we get Goon telescience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox McCloud Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 4. There is no discovery because the codebase is open source and you can literally just open the map to know where literally everything is. 5. Telesci is horrendously broken and overpowered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fludd12 Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 There needs to be some sort of skill to it. Even I admit to using calculators, the whole math aspect really kills it. Hell, the old telescience was better, because at least then I actually did the math. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidchan Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Changing how it works would be kinda nice. The math aspect wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so arbitrary. Integrating a crew monitor function to allow it to lock onto anyone with their tracking beacon set would be nifty, though requiring a calibration first to prevent a mishap (like stationary teleports) Additional components to the telepad or adding other machines to the room could also increase the effectiveness of the pad, I'd be very interested in seeing a full Star Trek themed telescience with multiple telepads to allow multiple people to be beamed around at once, such as sending 2-3 engineers at once to a hull breach in the prison wing, or recalling security officers and sending them to the bridge during a nuke ops attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
improvedname Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Changing how it works would be kinda nice. The math aspect wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so arbitrary. Integrating a crew monitor function to allow it to lock onto anyone with their tracking beacon set would be nifty, though requiring a calibration first to prevent a mishap (like stationary teleports) Additional components to the telepad or adding other machines to the room could also increase the effectiveness of the pad, I'd be very interested in seeing a full Star Trek themed telescience with multiple telepads to allow multiple people to be beamed around at once, such as sending 2-3 engineers at once to a hull breach in the prison wing, or recalling security officers and sending them to the bridge during a nuke ops attack. Nuke op #1: GOT THE DISK AND NO OFFICERS NEARBY THIS IS SO EASY Suddenly security teleports into bridge Nuke op #1: Me and my big mouth SCIENCE ISNT SCIENCE WITHOUT MATH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KasparoVv Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Oh man, straight up Star Trek telesci would be killer. TREKKIIEEEEEE There would be a helluvalot more 'beam me up Scotty's going around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regen Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 Should be a random salt not being able to calculate so easily, removing the math is would make it literally the most OP tool on the station for any idiot able to use. Right now you have to use a sliver of effort in finding / opening a program or spreadsheet. A much better thing would be to either make it a lot more expensive to use, adding a longer cooldown to it, or removing it completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinatacolada Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 How about having RD make an ingame calculator? It could also be linked to a random variable acting as a salt on the calculations, such as sun position (or whatever governs the solars being in shadow or light), making spreadsheats and that kind of out of game calculators useless maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veganzombeh Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 I don't really see this as being feasible without telescience becoming a) Incredibly easy, or b) Too reliant on RNG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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