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Bit sad to see Nuclear Operatives losing their legacy. Never bothered me when they used it because it ends the round anyways, so if anything they just cut themselves short by opting for it.

Shame the age bump didn't go through. No psychologist qualifications?

I dig the EMT White a lot.

On the note of 3-D printable, wouldn't mind if some of the parts for these sorts of things require a hacked autolathe instead of random Engineers and Cargo workers assembling functional weaponry by hand alone.

They've more rarely been used because they're trivial to break. As barriers, the most they give you is between 2 and 15 seconds of respite if someone wants to get through depending on what said person has available. It doesn't help that some mobs (monkeys immediately come to mind) can also just pass through them, from what I remember. If they want to see use, I'd rather them become a solid barrier functionally similar to the branded 'Riot Glass' in effect - preventing pass-through by any mobs, heavily if not immune to non-energy melee weapons, but allowing to be shot through by lasers. Then they'd have a potent effect in fortifications against enemies who aren't wielding firearms or lightsabers. Attached video to explain what I mean by 'Riot Glass':

By that logic it's only numpties who confuse the two Federations then, no?

These things are too easy to mass produce for just how effective they are. Had we some requirement of craftsmanship and machining in the process rather than it taking more than all of 15 seconds to build with bare hands and a pile of extremely common materials, then I'd see the value in buffing them. Things like crossbows are powerful for having niche material requirements (and being harder to use but let's not delve into that) at the very least.

As said, there's so much for roboticists to do that encouraging them to do it all gives them a greater prowess than a super-doc CMO. Either retain the specialization titles, or rip some of these features and put them elsewhere (exosuits/hardsuits) for a new and different job to do. On the note of 'doing it all', put medical in charge of all the surgeries not related to fixing prosthetics or robotic chassis.

I did read it. I'm stating how I expect the 'meta' for disabling a changeling in combat to change - if cuffs don't work, then they'll progress to dislocation or use the more lethal grab moves. It's more that I don't expect all that much to change - as if you were able to get cuffs on, you're also opened up to a myriad of other disabling tricks.

There is nothing opinionated on my deconstruction of how, from the ground up, this design either takes over the focus of the round or is ignored entirely by mining. I'm posting feedback on a feedback thread.

I don't understand why nations need to sound wholly different. Similarity in titles is already common in real life, especially when those titles are translated to one language. If anything, those rare moments of confusion coming from it are immersive.

Like has been said, this just encourages killing the changeling and makes the changeling commit to murderbone in a fight. It would change from aggressive grab into cuffs, to aggressive grab into either dislocation of arms/legs or neck grab into throat slit. Grabbing is still the ideal outcome and you merely remove the most immediately non-lethal option in favour of the more brutal grab moves.

If it can be easily disabled on the owner's end, sure. The required ID swipe does makes this sound somewhat harder to abuse.

1) No, even with the revised health an antag would not be able to do so on their own without an immense time investment. That's more than enough health to freely tank an Anti-Material Rifle. Something on the asteroid visited by a handful of miners and xenoarchaeologists should not be a 'team effort', as by design you'd be pulling people away from the station (for no short amount of time, either) and thus away from the round (and the antagonists) - placing the focus on this monster over the roundtype itself. 3) 7 seconds is much shorter than you would in a dark, confined asteroid when you're wearing magboots and a voidsuit/hardsuit. 4) Why should they be stronger than the most potent, end-game ability of a changeling? Spawning them farther only means they'll either be ignored and a worthless addition (if no one engages with it, why even add it?), or they'll take further time and focus away from the round. There's no reasonable excuse to see something this tanky outside of adminbus events, if these things were more common than adminbus event rounds then NanoTrasen would have valid reasoning to give miners assault rifles and a dedicated guard. 5) A rose by any other name. An embedding brute damage projectile is functionally a ballistic firearm per how the game works, and even at 15 damage presents a significant risk (furthered by the dick-kick of RNG). 6) You would engage it in melee because whether 1.35k or 750 health, you will run out of ammunition and need to spend 5-20 minutes (with every single trip, if multiple) returning for more. You cannot kill something this strong in one go without an absolutely massive expenditure of ammunition, so logically the realistic approach on both a basis of DPS and not spending your whole fucking round (or dedicating the entire Security Team) is to use a melee weapon like an energy sword or a pike. 7) You demand a heavy combat-focus (and thus, mechanical focus) and expenditure of resources to kill this thing. I'm not going to go through all this effort for some jackoff crystal to give to an ungrateful scientist, or for some chems that would have been far more time and cost-effective to request a cocktail of similar usage from Chemistry itself. Other servers with ridiculous fights for miners give you tremendously interesting (and valuable) rewards such as high-tier armour, weapons or gimmicky yet powerful unique shit like the Obsidian Crown.

I was rick rolled by the piano today. I don't know how to feel about that.

Just slap a book in medical and the library that says what each renamed chem does. Keep in mind this change also further outdates more or less every single medical-related book in the database.

A psychologist also doesn't run a religious institution, and yet that's what relocation to Chaplain would entail. A psychologist fits working in Medical or Research far, far better than working in the chapel. I'd sooner see the title removed entirely than contesting a far more precious slot that has an entirely different role within the round.

Whilst I was for the initial two points, I'm against the removal or relocation of psychologist. Whilst not a doctor like a psychiatrist, the psychologist is still a professional in a health-related field (mental health). The chaplain and his numerous alt roles hold the distinction of not really requiring any formal training, unlike a psychologist - and I'd really rather not see psychologists taking away from the possibility of a chaplain being in a round.

Honestly, it's in those cases that I'd like to see ahelping further encouraged.

If we're going to BS chem names, can we not have them sound like the same chems being spoken by a drunk? At least with Tricordrazine, Polytrinic Acid and the other Star Trek/sci-fi names they're both significantly different - yet follow conventional naming methods. I'd truly be down for this if the new names didn't just sound like someone took the old names, smudged them a little and made them look like random shit. Change demands effort.

If you opt for this route, which may be difficult considering exactly how the holodeck generates - you (for better or worse) open up the door for many other types of 'usable' holodeck simulations such as a medical center or similar. When the holodeck starts becoming 'mechanical' then I'd argue it starts to lose some of it's charm.

It's also a valid method to avoid antag draft after the reversion of draft mechanics in relation to the round vote.

I suggested this in lieu of a serious discussion channel. You can still usually ask there if it's dead discussion-wise, but I still think it's a good idea to have and would be better than the channels no one uses like #i_like_books or #movies_series_videos.

30u's not even bad. Going by the comparative portion sizes, that's about the amount I'd drink during a night.

To avoid restricting legitimate usage of ghost LOOC; mentoring, casual conversation during very slow periods, asking a question to someone after a round ended whom you don't know their ckey/discord, etc.