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This completely breaks the balance (and logic) of the game and should never be added for that sake, but I do rather like the laser scalpel suggestion.

There's also a pretty decent chance some non-automated person will shove you into cryo. Nobody knows about your connection issues Perhaps you may lack social contact but that isn't the case for everyone, it isn't difficult to contact a staff member (Or someone ingame who can contact them for you) and inform them that you're having temporary issues and to ensure you're not cryo'd. It does give you time. As specified the cryobot would only take peolple who've been SSD for some configureable amount of time. And once you're in cryo, there's also a 15 minute delay before you're removed It certainly needs to give you more than five minutes, it personally can take my computer an upwards of 20-30 minutes to reboot, with extra time for just getting BYOND running and back into the game. Why should people with slower machines get punished? far too long, pointlesly restrictive. The bot would just idle in medbay the whole round and not pick up anyone with a 5 minute timer on the bot, you have a total of 20 minutes afk time before you're removed. If you need to be afk from a game for longer than that, why are you even playing it at all? But if you do, go sleep in a bed. Done Maybe you get disconnected and intend to return, but your internet is down for the night, an d you won't come back. Should we let your corpse sit around medbay wasting your class slot and blocking someone else from it forever? An online game is about other people, not just your own comfort Noone's internet is ever down for an entire night, and as mentioned above, 20 minutes simply isn't enough, some people have slow machines whilst others have to deal with real life on occasion. What you don't seem to realize is we have crew transfers just for this purpose. When people pile up, it might just be time to start the round anew and give everyone available a fresh start. This isn't an MMO where an auto-logout is required to ensure lack of cluttering, it's a game that runs roughly 2-3 hour sessions that reset themselves completely between each session. The only roles in particular need of watching for cryo are Heads of Staff, and even then such a confounded system isn't needed. Keep in mind that the pathing for AI in this game is truly fucking horrible, Beepsky constantly vents hallways or gets stuck on the way to one of his beacons, whilst the other bots quite often lag the game to Hell and back or get stuck on windows. If you really expect a bot that can seek people out reliably no matter what little crack or crevice they're in, you'll be in for a Hell of a surprise when it gets stuck as often as Beepsky or a Mulebot.

Hello! I've noticed there has been an ever constant debate regarding the name of Plasma, and that often it's noted that neither Plasma or Phoron truly fit as a proper name for this element. Plasma being the fourth state of matter, and Phoron being a spice. So I decided to speak to Jackboot, and he suggested I create a thread discussing possible options. In my research on the traditional naming patterns of elements, I've noted the two most common sources are either the individual who discovered it, or the location of discovery. As the wiki page on Plasma provides no direct individual at the present time, I can only provide a limited array of suggested names based on the location. Names I pondered were 'Romanovium', after the Romanovich Cloud, or 'Archimedium' after the Comet in which it was discovered, though that name (Archimedium) works less so due to the fact there's a (real life) business group currently named such. Feel free to provide your own suggestions below, or discuss the ones I've presented. Suggested reads: http://aurorastation.org/wiki/index.php?title=Plasma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_of_elements

such as? I don't spoonfeed the fun stuff. Look through the github and you'll soon find all you wish to know.

If you want to look at upgrades, look at Gooncode's limbs and various upgrades for inspiration. Light/Standard/Sturdy/Heavy limbs, with accompanying mechanical differences in Speed vs Durability, as well as Treads. Consumable repair/recharge packs, a rebooting upgrade that uses power to get out of stuns, HUDs, shields against damage types, even a teleporter letting them go between the beacons. Customization is fun, encourage it!

People overused and abused these things to Hell and back, especially /against/ antagonists, to this day I still find Chemists/MDs scarier than Security. There are also still certain chems in the code that will insta-down you if you don't particularly mind going out of your department with a shopping list. So you can still create a nasty sedative/stun mix if you know where to look.

This is a nuke op's and warden's wet dream (As well as an antag quartermaster's). But it does sound like a coding nightmare, as well. Otherwise, love it.

Pls no.

If you're smart at dodging it, then any IR report they make is metagaming because they will have held no information of your activities in the first place. Git gud.

Removing mechanical differences is arguable as to whether or not it's an improvement. If anything what I see as a good fix would be making it so non-humans/robots can't wear the stealth suit, perhaps limiting the availability of hardsuits as a whole to exclude non-humans/squids/robutts. But as the issue stands it seems like a suggestion that just demands a sprite request more than anything. So why not hit up a spriter?

You realize if you're an antag you can completely ignore all of those things? I'm speaking purely about antags here, non-antag pet projects can be usually be done in a span of 20-30 minutes tops as well if you're a competent engineer. If paperwork stands in the way, either go to the asteroid where noone cares what you do, or if you're in Medical or the like just disappear for a few minutes until they forget about the papers. It's remarkably easy to dodge a lot of the bureaucratic bullshit if you're smart.

I've been called a manipulative snake, does that count?

I don't know about you but I love the taste of grass.

I would never actually want Commander, nor Commandant as titles, because as I noted neither of them truly fit the rank. Most of the 'military' titles generally don't work as well considering the setting is corporate. Though if I had to add alternatives or change titles it would be adding 'Chief of Security', 'Chief Science Officer', as well as lengthening 'Chief Engineer' to the proper 'Chief Engineering Officer' to bring the whole title/rank theme together. Whilst also renaming the HoP to something like 'Personnel Officer' or 'First Officer'.

The last time I saw a station full of thralls, they were being sent on suicide runs against literally any opposition. I say suicide runs because I had to kill one Thrall, and light up the vampire proper with a few shots as Detective before they'd stop chasing me.

Literally the least sensible alt-title ever considering it's hardly a proper rank for the station! (Station being the HoS role, not the space station, though it doesn't much make sense for the space station either.) Now, if we're going by what sounds the most amazing.. Commandant.

Being able to deny Security your headset as a group antag is something I'm completely in favour of considering how often they instinctively strip it first chance.

I remember Bay had an Administrator alt-title for Captain that supposedly got removed because dumb players would confuse them for server admins. Considering that I've seen some truly dense people in this game, I'd lean towards the Station Overseer title for just that reason.

And as a nice bonus, if you set it to maximum output and let it overheat, it can function as a rather potent explosive.

It functions. To use it, wrench it whilst it's on-top of a terminal beside an APC, make sure it has plasma sheets loaded, press start. Adjust output as needed.

You think 30 FPS is acceptable? Console pleb.

There are people who still try to be spiteful no matter how strong or weak the influence/laws on them are.

Alternatively just make a small map via dream maker and host it on your computer for smaller RP sessions. It's more effort, but effort tends to pay off. I've halfway done a few tiny 'fluff' maps this way.

Most people forget they exist. I believe they require a wire under them or something, but I can't sure if they're working or bugged because as I mentioned, noone remembers they exist nor do they ever get used.