skop
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Post by skop on Apr 17, 2014 14:48:20 GMT
1.) The poster that comes in the arts and crafts crate is just a random one (Except when you get the xeno one, then it's fate). What if we could choose the sprite out of a list of sprites availible for posters, the name and examine info. This would allow characters to express themselves at their workplace, and maybe let people know a little bit about them before hand.
2.) Leaving the AI blast doors opened at round start. If the core is empty, there is no need for it to be open as it inhibits the means to install the new AI. Same applies with the turrets, leave them off except for the upload. Because cyborgs.
3.) The notes function on the PDA. It's outmatched by the power of a person's mind. Seriously though, as dumb as some of the characters can get if you type something in your memory it stays for the whole round. Doesn't go. Unless an admin removes it. Let's atleast make the notes save to the PDA and deletable. Also PDA faxing.
4.) Small Sterios. These could be made in the autolathe, even just recycle the radio sprite if we had to. Maybe a few colours for them, but what I'm thinking with them is when they're in your hand you have a verb that lets you change the examine info to a youtube or soundcloud link. Maybe you could be able to program them to change every few minutes. Lets you be a little more immersed, doesn't clog up CPU and ram like midis do. Maybe plays a message every time a song changes? If it's being used for spam, it could probably be confiscated. This last part MAY or may not be a good idea.
5.) Civilian Headsets. What's stopping us from giving Civilians their own headset? Something for janitor, chef, botanist and bartender. I am sure botanists and chefs don't like asking eachother for requests over the radio, and sure they're next to each other most of the time. It'll just make things more convenient.
6.) Adding onto the sterios, but for AI. Give it a verb to ICly post a music link over it. It simply posts a prompt like "You hear a click, and then music plays. LINK HERE" "You hear a click and the music stops." "You hear a screach and music plays extremely loudly." If someone orders the AI to stop, it should stop. Exceptions are if it is ordered not to by a head of staff, traitor'd. Lawless? If it's being abused, it gets dealt with ICly or adminily if it isn't allowed in that case.
7.) A tip Jar for the chef and bartender. Simply holds monies.
8.) Water Coolers with cups in more places, maybe drinking them lets you have more energy or something?
9.) Give punpun a knife
10.) A toy crate under Misc for cargo. Contains wizard hats, random mechas, and other small things. I'd love to be able to give out small toys for "Kids meals"
11.) An emagged version of the toy crate. The toys could give small radiation damage or something like uranium walls but scaled massively.
12.) Make shift explosives. STOLEN FROM TG. Fill a pop can with welder fuel, add wire and timer. small explosion like C4, maybe only makable by revolutionists, traitors, changelings and other antagonists?
13.) Make Disarming a person has a 25% chance of damaging either the person wielding the weapon, or the person disarming. Imagine pushing a person with the energy sword, there is a good chance it would land on one of them if it was knocked out of the way, and it would discoarge disarm spam. Maybe with bombs has a 90% chance of activating it?
14.) Vending machines from the rampant brand intelligence mini-event getting their own names, and saying a rude message when they shoot people. Could maybe be affected by the wire that shoots things at people. Generic names are best names "John shoots a fork at Pink Enter!" "You came into the wrong neiborhood, pal!"
Anyone else got anything?
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Post by forgottentraveller on Apr 19, 2014 9:42:09 GMT
Point one. Yes. Point two. you can make an AI that can override the turrets and the blast doors before being moved into the final place, I have done it a few times before. Point 3. I like it or even the idea of having an ability to have editable text that is saved. Or even uploaded from papers for a digital copy. As there is still a scan function on the PDA's for paper that does not seem to do anything. Point 5. Yes, a crew services channel would be nice.
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Post by Rusty Shackleford on Apr 19, 2014 11:08:23 GMT
More guns in the armory. I like guns.
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Post by forgottentraveller on Apr 22, 2014 0:30:04 GMT
oh and work boots for engineering. Like jack boots but brown. Because when was the last time you saw a repairman around heavy gear in shoes.
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farcry11
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Post by farcry11 on Apr 22, 2014 2:50:29 GMT
oh and work boots for engineering. Like jack boots but brown. Because when was the last time you saw a repairman around heavy gear in shoes. This. This so much. Also, boots for miners! And fingerless gloves for cargo techs (plus a wider range of cargo outfits- perhaps more courier looking things, al la Cole's outfit from Infamous?)
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Post by sgtsammac on Apr 22, 2014 5:07:24 GMT
oh and work boots for engineering. Like jack boots but brown. Because when was the last time you saw a repairman around heavy gear in shoes. This. This so much. Also, boots for miners! And fingerless gloves for cargo techs (plus a wider range of cargo outfits- perhaps more courier looking things, al la Cole's outfit from Infamous?) Engineer boots are already in development by me, they can probably be extended to mining, and I already added a new outfit to cargo, at the very bottom of the technician lockers, Labourer Overalls.
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Post by chrisca on May 7, 2014 4:28:23 GMT
This. This so much. Also, boots for miners! And fingerless gloves for cargo techs (plus a wider range of cargo outfits- perhaps more courier looking things, al la Cole's outfit from Infamous?) Engineer boots are already in development by me, they can probably be extended to mining, and I already added a new outfit to cargo, at the very bottom of the technician lockers, Labourer Overalls. THey umm look a little like uggs to me right now -_- I have no clue why I had to point that out
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Post by Blithering on May 9, 2014 1:27:49 GMT
New chemistry recipe: SPACE GLUE! Apply to an equippable item and it cannot be removed via standard stripping, apply directly to the eyes and the player is blinded, to the mouth makes them mute. Removable via ethanol, to prevent shenannigans.
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Post by Blithering on May 9, 2014 1:39:45 GMT
alternate take on booties!
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robotik
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Post by robotik on May 9, 2014 3:35:29 GMT
Could you make the space glue interact with other things that are attached to it? Can the space glue 'glue' stuff to the wall?
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Post by im8lol on May 11, 2014 22:54:19 GMT
I'm just going to say that the idea about stereos that play youtube audio would not sit well in the stomachs of Space Station 13. You would need to have it actually download the music to the server, convert the file, and then play server-side in a local dynamic area which would be a hefty load to bear.
You wouldn't be able to get it to stream it. For anyone else to hear it, it would have to get the music on the server and distribute the audio to every connected client. Even if it was set up in a way that it could open a panel and go to youtube (Which, it can't because BYOND doesn't support anything that will play videos in the client), it would only just play to you,
so at that point you must ask yourself; Why don't you just open up your own readily available browser in the background and play whatever music you want however you want without trivial issue. And that way, if people don't want to listen to music, they don't have to, and if they do, they can! And they can listen to whatever they want without bothering anyone else.
You /might/ be able to possibly get some time these things into BYOND and SS13, but it would be a LOT of work and effort, and for what? I do not think it would be worth it.
Not to mention legality issues which are an increasing problem with googletube
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Less
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Post by Less on May 12, 2014 0:37:35 GMT
Im8, I don't think the point of the stereo idea was to stream the music through the game, but rather, that it would make a local announcement/message/say with the link so that people can click and listen if they want to. Maybe even show the link upon examining? Obviously the game wouldn't know when a song ended, so it'd be up to players to change the message.
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robotik
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Post by robotik on May 12, 2014 1:09:02 GMT
Orange IPC color screen, would be nice.
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Post by im8lol on May 12, 2014 1:37:00 GMT
Im8, I don't think the point of the stereo idea was to stream the music through the game, but rather, that it would make a local announcement/message/say with the link so that people can click and listen if they want to. Maybe even show the link upon examining? Obviously the game wouldn't know when a song ended, so it'd be up to players to change the message. Well then I still don't see why it would be added. Useless, annoying, pointless, and unnecessary are words that come to mind. Doesn't add anything to the game or RP, and let's face it; Nobody really wants to listen to listen to other people music and if they did, there's way better ways to do it. As an IC item, it'd be really meta anyhow
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Less
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Post by Less on May 12, 2014 1:51:34 GMT
Im8, I don't think the point of the stereo idea was to stream the music through the game, but rather, that it would make a local announcement/message/say with the link so that people can click and listen if they want to. Maybe even show the link upon examining? Obviously the game wouldn't know when a song ended, so it'd be up to players to change the message. Well then I still don't see why it would be added. Useless, annoying, pointless, and unnecessary are words that come to mind. Doesn't add anything to the game or RP, and let's face it; Nobody really wants to listen to listen to other people music and if they did, there's way better ways to do it. As an IC item, it'd be really meta anyhow Obviously, since it was suggested, someone -does- want to listen to other people's music, or allow the functionality to share in that way. It isn't necessary, no. It's maybe even redundant! People can use Me emotes for a lot, including something like... "Me pulls out a jukebox, and a song starts to play. ((- link-))" would be just as functional. I've seen people as DJs and pAI (directly playing the songs) doing similar. But then, it's nice to have in-game items, even just as functionless sprites. I didn't suggest the idea, but I think it'd be neat. I don't understand why you're being so actively hostile about it.
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Post by im8lol on May 12, 2014 2:18:57 GMT
I'm not being actively hostile as far as I know, I posted my two cents and you're attacking my view on it dude, sit back. I was just trying to say of all the things that could be added in the game, I don't think thats one that would be worth while. Flooding the game with millions of useless items for everyone and their dog's ideas will result in generally low quality gameplay and a lack of focus on actual RP and game mechanics.
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witt
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Post by witt on May 12, 2014 2:53:27 GMT
I demand Duck tape and WD-40
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Less
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Post by Less on May 12, 2014 3:02:27 GMT
I'm not being actively hostile as far as I know, I posted my two cents and you're attacking my view on it dude, sit back. I was just trying to say of all the things that could be added in the game, I don't think thats one that would be worth while. Flooding the game with millions of useless items for everyone and their dog's ideas will result in generally low quality gameplay and a lack of focus on actual RP and game mechanics. Nah, no attacking here, I'm just providing a counterargument. You were using pretty loaded language; there's a huge difference between "I don't like this idea and this is why," and "Nobody wants this" and calling it annoying. /shrug Anyway. Having items that don't get used all the time shouldn't and won't affect RP. They simply won't get used... except when people need or want them. Like most things in the holodeck. Or water coolers. Or floorbots. Or the library. The point of a good item addition should be to enhance RP and gameplay, not take away from it. It should go without saying that most ideas people suggest won't make it into the game, but if one of our most gracious and wonderful devs does decide to code one in that proceeds to not get used much, or used too much, it's not going to mean the end of the server or RP. I'd like to think that they've got the good judgment and discretion not to add anything gamebreaking... or at least, the sense to remove or restrict something that was becoming a problem.
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Post by im8lol on May 12, 2014 3:26:14 GMT
I'm not being actively hostile as far as I know, I posted my two cents and you're attacking my view on it dude, sit back. I was just trying to say of all the things that could be added in the game, I don't think thats one that would be worth while. Flooding the game with millions of useless items for everyone and their dog's ideas will result in generally low quality gameplay and a lack of focus on actual RP and game mechanics. Nah, no attacking here, I'm just providing a counterargument. You were using pretty loaded language; there's a huge difference between "I don't like this idea and this is why," and "Nobody wants this" and calling it annoying. /shrug Anyway. Having items that don't get used all the time shouldn't and won't affect RP. They simply won't get used... except when people need or want them. Like most things in the holodeck. Or water coolers. Or floorbots. Or the library. The point of a good item addition should be to enhance RP and gameplay, not take away from it. It should go without saying that most ideas people suggest won't make it into the game, but if one of our most gracious and wonderful devs does decide to code one in that proceeds to not get used much, or used too much, it's not going to mean the end of the server or RP. I'd like to think that they've got the good judgment and discretion not to add anything gamebreaking... or at least, the sense to remove or restrict something that was becoming a problem. Okay well perhaps I should provide you with this "Counter arguement". A stereo object, if for all intents and purposes were to function the way /you/ described it would, you essentially have a static item which would have to be mapped in to the game, which would then sit there, and at the best have a function to exicute when it's examined that would print a URL to the client of whoever clicked it, linking them off the game, to their own browser which they would already have open, and presumably on to youtube (Because allowing it to link under any other domains could be even further abusable) where it would open a youtube video. And not even just music, it would be a video, potentially of any sort, in their browser that they're using in the background anyway, through an IC items, going not just out of character but entirely out of the game to something meta. I get some people want a way to share their music and videos man but come on, and IC "Stereo" object that prints links to people and opens their browser to videos isn't the way to do it. Can't you just say "Hey check this out" or something?
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Post by Mewoykyinuis on May 12, 2014 3:47:37 GMT
Nah, no attacking here, I'm just providing a counterargument. You were using pretty loaded language; there's a huge difference between "I don't like this idea and this is why," and "Nobody wants this" and calling it annoying. /shrug Anyway. Having items that don't get used all the time shouldn't and won't affect RP. They simply won't get used... except when people need or want them. Like most things in the holodeck. Or water coolers. Or floorbots. Or the library. The point of a good item addition should be to enhance RP and gameplay, not take away from it. It should go without saying that most ideas people suggest won't make it into the game, but if one of our most gracious and wonderful devs does decide to code one in that proceeds to not get used much, or used too much, it's not going to mean the end of the server or RP. I'd like to think that they've got the good judgment and discretion not to add anything gamebreaking... or at least, the sense to remove or restrict something that was becoming a problem. Okay well perhaps I should provide you with this "Counter arguement". A stereo object, if for all intents and purposes were to function the way /you/ described it would, you essentially have a static item which would have to be mapped in to the game, which would then sit there, and at the best have a function to exicute when it's examined that would print a URL to the client of whoever clicked it, linking them off the game, to their own browser which they would already have open, and presumably on to youtube (Because allowing it to link under any other domains could be even further abusable) where it would open a youtube video. And not even just music, it would be a video, potentially of any sort, in their browser that they're using in the background anyway, through an IC items, going not just out of character but entirely out of the game to something meta. I get some people want a way to share their music and videos man but come on, and IC "Stereo" object that prints links to people and opens their browser to videos isn't the way to do it. Can't you just say "Hey check this out" or something? Adding to the Postception. It'll open a browser after they click it. And I'm sure our amazing admin team will check the links, to make sure nothing bad is posted >.> Meta is already against the rules, so that point is moot.
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