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Could have examine start at the area you're 'aiming at', then slowly begin to examine the rest of them on a timer. Think of the timer for stripping as an example, or the way you examine someone with grab + help intent.

I did. This department exists purely to do things that should already be done by other departments and entities. Who provides information? The AI and various departments, depending on what information it is. Who investigates and gathers details? The AI, Security, and Internal Affairs, depending on what the investigation in question is about. Who maintains the comms and computer systems, as well as records? The Chief Engineer for the first two, HoP for the latter. Also, no, you can't remove every department with my argument, because the ones present are key personnel. The station is private property, thus it has Security. The station requires maintenance, thus it has Engineering. Research requires materials, thus it has Supply. People work on the station for extended periods in various life-endangering jobs, thus there is Medical. All of these departments mesh together, providing each other information and keeping the station maintained and each other in good health. This entire department suggestion is just a layer of redundancy, one that is not required. As a final example, there were once telecomms operators. They are no more because it was a job that did literally nothing 95% of the time.

This isn't the military. I don't see why a Corporate Research Laboratory needs an entire department dedicated to shit the crew and heads should already be doing for each other. (That is, providing information.)

Unlike Lifeweb this game isn't really balanced around limited vision in the slightest bit, so I can see issues. As amusing as it might be to be looking around yourself constantly, this just doesn't seem like something can be done without major overhauls in a good few systems (Combat in particular, this game's combat with a line of sight system would play like absolute fucking garbage, even if you use the commands to constantly face in one direction).

As long as it doesn't have one for examining floors like lifeweb does, it can get spammy when you're trying to look at someone moving.

I like to view the process as: Think about how they'll behave with what they're given, and if they truly /need/ it, don't think about whether or not they want it. One example of something they might want but would encourage negative behaviour, a crew monitor in the centre of medbay. Crew monitors should only be on the bridge, the medical front desk, paramedic office (I don't get why this exists), and the CMO's office. If they're in the centre of medbay they will encourage antisocial and avoidant behaviour from people who should be gathered in their lobby when not actively treating patients, those people being Nurses and Doctors. Same reason I heavily dislike departmental break rooms instead of communal break rooms.

This would present a massive issue if ERT ends up coming in later via Admins or Command swiping. The outside the station thing could work if there's any space left between the areas taken by Raiders and Nuke Ops, though this still all requires some amount of mapping work for the current station, which may not be worth it considering the new map in the works.

This, completely. You misspelt elitist by the way.

What. I have never heard this used as a swear once in my fucking life what kind of idiot would consider that a swear.

So basically the distress beacon from CM. I can roll with that, RNG outcomes and all. Though it would potentially require yet another docking port or three on the map.

Add a random (50%) chance for Tajarans to catch fire every 3 seconds.

Metabaiting is fun. The librarian's computer can print tomes and a suit cycler can make any voidsuit resemble that of a nuke op. Sadly you can't make crayon runes that resemble actual runes anymore.

If people actually do this then that's dumb. I see visitor either as an RP tool, or as the IC equivalent of an observer. The most 'authority' any visitor has is bitching at Command when you're in danger from something or another because it'd be bad press if a civilian got fucked up on NT property and noone helped them. Well obviously Kirk would be an Admiral if he was just a visitor and would take control for something or another, or the plotline would involve the one who's taken over fucking up and everyone would instate Kirk as Captain for the immediate emergency situation. Kirk isn't the best example for this kind of thing if you've seen the first Star Trek movie, or pretty much any Star Trek movie with Kirk for that matter.

This would be very, very nice.

When is the last time you chopped a tree or cut out a bush with a drill?

Phoron isn't a scientific name. Daily reminder that the element (Plasma/"Phoron") lacks any proper scientific name. Because kekboot is a memer.

Plant-B-Gone Goats (They already eat space vines like a lawnmower when dragged over them) Various hydroponics tools (Hatchet comes to mind) Fire (And by extension welders) Energy Swords (maybe) Fire Axes (maybe) Strong Acids (iffy maybe) Lasers

Make it so Plant B Gone, Fire, and Goats remove it with ease. That would about fix up any abuse issues whilst still making it require a bit of effort to get your hands on the right tool.

This system would certainly make those occurrences of people meeting and marrying within 2 shifts slightly less retarded. But overall I do enjoy a more slow-paced, realistic progression of time. It's more interesting to watch the people who very slowly progress their characters instead of the lads who rush through it all within a few days.

If they're smart, this won't play to their meta sense at all. It shows the sprites of the specific radio used by the name, including bounced/headsets/synth headsets/comms/etc.

The way I got around people getting suspicious was just being gone and unnoticed for so long that they would assume I was dead... Or fake a death by spacing/murder/etc. Speaking of faking, either with a good bit of cleverness or the help of another traitor to play 'witness', you can fake having been assaulted/parapenned by a third party to frame them. It relies on getting the other party to hold the item in question, say for signing a piece of paper, or taking something they had, then injuring yourself badly with it (Or in the case of the parapen injecting yourself). This is MUCH easier with a second traitor's help, because it means you have a 'witness'. Faking a death is much more difficult and it relies on being able to mimic the text style of paincrit so people are convinced, ICly and OOCly, that you're dying from whatever you say over the radio. Your 'death' has to be something that makes you difficult to find. So pretend to get spaced or 'die' on the asteroid, or if you somehow gain access to a humonkey (I don't know how you'll do this without genetics) you can sufficiently burn up and make the corpse unidentifiable. If you're a Detective, this is all much easier. As a Detective I've even faked being kidnapped and set up a faux crime scene in a maintenance closet that I tied myself up in. Your ability to fuck with medical and security records combined with your gloves means that you can generally frame people easily enough assuming noone is smart enough to read the back of the perp's ID card to see what their prints/DNA/etc actually are. Finally, there's utility in faking your death if you just happen to want some peace and quiet as a non-traitor. Don't do it too much.

I certainly hope you took into account armour with that so we don't have HoS's and Captains soloing nuke op and raider teams.

I've managed 2-3 hostages once as a traitor. It's a matter of having a weapon that will kill them almost instantly if they try to disobey you, so they have an incentive to do what you say. Unfortunately at that time it was Security/ERT disobeying me, so I had to shoot both hostages and replace them with wounded ERT. This wasn't very useful in the end because I'd actually captured or executed most anyone who I could make demands from considering the Captain was among the first of my hostages and he wasn't playing along... Though his brutal death did make the two others play along. In short, you can manage a handful of hostages on your own but it just gets progressively more difficult. Two maximum is recommended, and they need to know that they will die very horribly if they resist. Threat of death is your greatest tool to maintaining order.

I've never seen a more adequate description in my life.

No. People are not fat fucks. They don't need to eat every 30-60 minutes. I'm fully against anything that will make the hunger system even more annoying, and the only change I could suggest to help the situation without it being immediately annoying would be the following. Bolded = Important Remove the nutriment limit, remove the slowdown from hunger, keep the replenishment of blood from nutriment and loss of nutriment from vomiting, tie your base regeneration to nutriment. Make it more of a light health-based fluff chemical, instead of "Oh for fuck's sake I'll be at a literal snail's pace because I didn't eat for 2 hours". If you don't instantly fill off 2 slices of pizza anymore then perhaps the chef will see visitation. No matter what anyone says, the Chef will always be a fluff role. You have to accept it will be less popular than the bar, just like the librarian and chaplain accepted long ago. Forcing annoying code changes will not do a damned thing. I will eat sugar pills if I don't want to visit the chef. People do not eat every 2 hours unless they want to end up overweight or they're constantly fucking exercising at a gym. Edit; To clarify, I understand the pain of chefs. I've played chef on and off for the past 5 years, it was my favourite role at some points, but no matter what it would always have periods of noone visiting you. It's simply a matter of people being busy, and making nutriment annoying won't change that, it will just piss people off immensely. The chef's main customers will always be bored assistants and other assorted people who have nothing to do and happen to pass by the diner. You want the chef to get more visitation? Merge the bar and kitchen counter, go the classic goon mapping route. People can have food and drink together.