Fire and Glory

I'm not really inclined to review but I am curious. Would this guy actually know how to do his job at all? Besides what a normal, not-secretly-an-engineer assistant might do? thank god

Holodeck should have some lights in it, illuminating the exterior. This looks worse than what lights inside grill/mounted on windows would look like imo.

I would argue that Oxycodone and Arithrizine are not things you should be particularly coy about making. Granted Arithrizine is not particularly needed, but it's not actually dangerous either, the brute damage it causes is scattered in the limbs and tends to reach 1-2 brute in any one limb at most. So really it'd be up to your discretion without any need for a CMO to weigh in. As for Oxycodone, lung punctures are one of (or were one of) the most common workplace accident injuries. If it needs surgery and it doesn't have any broken bones, it's probably a puncture. Anesthesia literally works only half the time on someone with such an injury, so sedatives and/or painkillers are needed, personally if I could I would go with Oxycodone+Sopoforic when doing the surgery since sopoforic takes so long to work. Chloral Hydrate on its own'd work fine but that's something you do need to be careful with. I have a sneaking suspicion that it's typically better to give Oxycodone to someone with bones twisted in all the wrong ways and ribs spiking into his organs instead of Tramadol as well. Ultimately it's up to the doctor administering the medicine to be responsible for any powergaming or malpractice since most chems have a varying range of legitimate uses.

Chada1 reminded me that right now it is not possible to color jumpsuits and other articles of clothing by putting the clothes and a crayon in a washing machine. I personally think this is a great and serious travesty, and I think that by not porting this from old Aurora code, we are infringing on a basic space man right and sacrificing fun for the sake of ''''''realism''''', and thus I propose the following. Make it possible to color clothes by putting them in a washing machine with a crayon again. Add the detective's coat and hat to this list of clothes. Make it possible to draw outlines of bodies on the floor with crayons. I want to see two assistants running around drawing each other's outlines. These changes would improve crayons by several multitudes.

Yes, very much yes. Now, in my humblest opinion. Far Cry's implementation on self-administered first aid is top notch, and we should work on integrating these actions in the server. If your arm, leg, hand or foot is broken, then you can yank on it very hard to fix it. This does not even cause any pain. If you have bullet shrapnel in your arm or hand, then you can pull it out with your teeth without any negative effects, although this'll re-open the wound if it was treated. If you want to do the leg or foot then you need any kind of edged object. Yanking out objects that are lodged in you will heal you.

Tbh I was wondering if someone else wanted to be able to call janitors maids after seeing the thread title. Although on one hand people/janitors generally seem to like the idea of calling themselves something fancy like 'technician', on the other hand...Alternative job titles usually denote that the title is responsible for caring for some specific part of the job, no? You've got your engine technicians who do engine stuff, and your surgeons who are generally expected to do more surgeoning than doctoring, and so on. And off the top of my head I don't recall any job titles that acted as the exception to this. I don't really think janitorials is a complicated enough job to need the work split into designated sub-jobs.

Y'know. Aurora needs magnets. You can apply them to Maint-drones, station-bounds, standard bots, and IPC's. Using these, you can stick paper-notes onto them. Only IPC's are capable of removing them by itself, naturally, it also has a 70% chance to fail at dropping the magnet, with it instead sticking to its hand. You can also use them instead of duct tape to stick notes on literally anything because it's all made of metal. Traitors can order really strong magnets on their uplink which apply gradual damage to the internal components of any robot you stick it to, along with breaking consoles, they'll also pull bullet shrapnel out of people. Also, if you splash coffee on a synthetic then there should be a 30% chance of it breaking. It needs to be possible to put out cigarettes and cigars by spraying someone in the mouth with a space cleaner or water.

I would imagine CMO's shouldn't really be so completely abandoning their department to be faffing around in outer space. Although I don't particularly have strong feelings about this, I am wondering. Do CMO's really not have external airlock access? How long has that been a thing? I don't remember having any issues with airlocks.

Will there be DLC expansion packs and a preorder bonus? Of course. As well as its intrinsic features of getting more functions and capabilities as you pay into it using the EFTpos handle, if you activate the gun within 15 minutes of the round starting before you could conceivably need it, then it gets 100% armor and wall penetration for its bullets.

isn't killerhurtz still the dionaea loreperson this reminds me of when people started applying for being the tajaran guy despite hive not actually announcing anywhere that he was going at that time

Leaked picture of the DLC gun:

'Ello. Have questions. If I have relatives who're willing to confirm that I am part of their clan, even if I, or my clan has no land, I am recognized to be a Unathi part of an official clan? (so long as it was ever actually registered as one) Are Izweski lords currently making vassals out of landless clans? If an Izweski lord is dissatisfied with one or more individuals in their clan, and wants them to be made into a Guwan, are they capable of officially making them into Guwans right off the bat or do they have to issue ultimatums/negotiate with those in the clan about kicking the individual(s) out?

We also need to introduce acid slimes. If it gets on you then forget genetic damage, you'll just take burn damage and get your flesh melted into a skeleton if you die from it. Also they can melt walls and windows. The core makes for a nice splash grenade though, do not advise using multiple cores in the same area lest you risk melting the floor however. Making regular slimes melt your flesh instead is also acceptable. The one thing we need, need, however, is gelatinous cubes, a random event causes one or two to spawn in maintenance, feeding on scrumptious janitors and mice. They can open maintenance doors with the essence of the janitor ID's they've absorbed too. Who wouldn't want one of these filling a maint tunnel?

We also need cool prosthetic abilities tbh, balance be damned. 1: An ability that lets you shoot your arm forward on some extending rods, allowing you to grab things from 2 tiles away and do an extra 3 points of damage in your punch as well. 2: Rocket punches! Though you need to pick up your hand afterwards. 3: You can have remote cameras in your robot hand, so if you detach it and leave it somewhere, you can see through it whenever you want. Audio costs extra. 4: Springy legs! They let you leap over to places (but not over objects or people, if you try, you'll crash and hurt yourself and others.) 5: Rocket feet! You can jump over objects and people in a leap, but you need welder-fuel or something for them and they tend to set fires, but you can also use them to fly in space! You will need to modify the space suit before wearing it though. 6:Lungs that let you hold your breath for 5 seconds without issue, amazing. Also you sprint better. 7:We need prosthetic tails that attach to your spine, clearly. 8:An item compartment in the arm, it can hold one small item. 9:Magnetic feet. 10:The ability to detach and throw any prosthetic limb you have, and then have it explode. We also really really need an organic counterpart, achievable through genetics or changelings or some other spooky science. 1:The flesh on your arm completely detaches and your bone grows longer, giving you more reach, you don't bleed that much though and can stick it back in place just fine. 2:Yeah you can blow your hand off your wrist at high speeds, you do bleed if you do that though, but you can still put it back. 3:You literally have eyeballs in your palms that you can leave lying around and look through. 4:You can jump really hard. 5:If you're in a weightless environment then you can shoot out jets of blood to propel your body, naturally this does have some bloodloss issues and can't be used with a suit though. 6:You too have good lungs. 7:You can literally grow out a tail whenever you want, but you need to cut it off to get rid of it. 8:Yeah you have holes and flaps in your arms. 9:Suction cups on your feet too. 10:You can make your detached body parts explode with bone fragments shooting out. We also need foot spikes, made of bone or metal to jut out whenever you need it, extra damage that cuts whenever you kick or stomp on someone.

No. It will ask directions continually. Every round? You may find yourself getting particularly tired of that, especially in the occasions that nobody responds. Might want to alter the specifics of that particular issue.

I am moderately serious about the CQC thing though, will we be seeing this robot wrestling people to the ground and dislocating limbs and exploit its metal robot capabilities to fight antagonists with 'muh security training'?

Idly wondering about one or two things that probably aren't important. Does it know how to use various weapons and does it remember the basics of CQC? Can it reliably get from arrivals/cryo to the bar, and if so, how does it do that if it has difficulty going to other places?

Oh boy we're doing this thing again It stops you from doing anything that you think Nanotrasen would not want you to do, as in if you try to do that thing, you just won't do it, your arm won't reach for that gun to shoot the CCIA, you won't stop walking on your way to an emergency to have an hour long conversation with your lesbian friends, etcetera. An important thing here is what you think Nanotrasen doesn't (or does) want you to do, if you've gone bonkers from one thing or another and you have a loyalty implant, you could still blow a hole in the station if you think Nanotrasen wants you to because of some insane line of logic. You're still allowed to pass the time and talk to someone about something unimportant, because NT doesn't want you to be a constantly working robot because someone'd probably complain, but there is a cutoff point. Corporate espionage is ApparentlyTM a big problem these days, and thus precautions are taken. Since someone who's a Head of Staff like the Head of Security is obviously invested in your company already, and they would have to be motivated to consent to a loyalty implant anyway, it's a save enough extra layer of security. Ish. Implanted or not, you still have a contract, that contract can still be ended. So it's not like it's a life of eternal servitude to Nanotrasen. I would assume that something or other would happen when the loyalty implanted individual is not working, either it turns off, gets removed, tuned down, etcetera. To the point that they're not always considering Nanotrasen when not working. Buuuuuut, if you find out that it is Nanotrasen's will for you to eat babies while the implant is going, or, hell, for some reason Nanotrasen has decided that you are now a slave to them, you're gonna do it. You'll also probably go insane to one degree or another after that, good fun. I've already answered this more or less. If people were all on the same page about what they do, that'd be fun. I don't really care much, the salt they make does get annoying.

Nah mate this is where we talk about what we really want. The devs will suppress the community in the suggestions board so we must go out and make our wishes known elsewhere

We also need critters for the big asteroid of course, so how about swarms of tiny little things (maybe not swarms and just scattered individuals), about as big as mice, they lurk around inside the asteroid, they also get spooked by light. Should a hapless miner or dude be walking around the asteroid interior without being surrounded by light (say, from a lantern) they'll climb up the miner and cling, sucking his oxygen/stamina/life force/movement speed/precious bodily fluids, and will need to be burned off the suit with a welder. They'd look like little squares/triangles with legs and eyes probably

Oh right this is also really important. The alien spitter's damage is modified by the class of what it eats, plants/nutriment isn't worth much at all, prepared food/protein is moderately decent, and dead creatures gets the best results. Feeding it alcohol will make it shoot faster at the cost of making it occasionally misfire and be more inaccurate.

biased devs Only the DLC gun capitalismgiver would be from NT of course. Leeching alien spitters would have to come from a more local source

Alberyk keeps adding new guns but they're seriously boring, noone wants 20 real life guns and 4 laser variants, so I propose some new guns for those of us who want the good stuff. The first gun would be an alien. It's not an alien gun it's just an alien, pretty small and beetle like, if you hold it and squeeze it while pointing it at something you don't like then it'll spit nasty projectiles. But the twist is that you can only get more shots out of it by feeding it, mice, corgis, John's sandwich, it's all game. Bonus points for: Making its projectiles have different properties depending on what it eats, eating spiders gives it a poisonous edge, bluespace bears causes the projectiles to teleport into whatever mob is in an area of effect near the click, eating combat drones causes it to spit lasers, and so on. Causing it to leech onto the user's arm and be impossible to drop without surgery, maybe sucking up blood if you've not been feeding it or such. Giving it a hefty melee attack with its own effects, if it eats a nurse spider then the melee will infect the target with eggs, good fun. It'd probably appear on the asteroid or maybe just literally anywhere, usually maintenance and in crates (any crate). The next gun will be brought to you by Nanotrasen. It's a combination of an EFTpos scanner and a lawgiver, by default it shoots rubbers, but with just a small donation of 200 credits to your employer, it can shoot real bullets, or if that's not your style, you could give it a toggle laser function! Or tasers, or explosive rounds, all at reasonable prices of course. You also need to pay to make it reload. If you run out of money, not to worry! You can always get your friends to chip in. And even if your friends can't afford the best features, you can all add currency to its storage until your combined wealth can afford whatever you need. It takes cash and card. Standard commercial versions can be ordered from cargo (you will need to pay a reasonable sum to make it possible to fire, of course.), the premium version that comes with bargain prices can be found in the vault. Bonus points if you can buy cosmetic changes for it.

If I remember correctly, since no one could actually see the numbers they didn't know that pro-synths were winning the objectives rubbish stuff (the stuff that rewarded prosynths for 'protecting' IPC's or robotics, yeah.) and basically it ended up being a very close tie with anti-synth's ending. Don't really want another mechanical point-based antag contest after that.

I skimmed this app moments before and Delta is touching on a lot of things I had similar thoughts about regarding the application itself. I will try to avoid repeating most of what Delta said but do keep in mind that I also second his own take on things for this. You don't really seem to be taking any of it particularly seriously. Of course we're not required to conduct ourselves as robots when applying but saturating the entire thread with such an attitude doesn't really appeal that much. Repeatedly insulting those in the department you want to Head doesn't endear you to me that much. There are probably better attitudes to be had when planning on correcting behavior. The backstory feels like you didn't bother with it. "This dumb doctor ended up temporarily paralyzing him from the waist in a foot operation", I'm no surgeon or doctor but I am pretty damn sure it doesn't work like that. Not to mention this entire sentence. And then there's this, the entire backstory reads a lot like "The wacky misadventures of x" instead of an accounting of actual events. He doesn't particularly strike me as someone fit to be a head of staff. Certainly the mentality you put across in the backstory doesn't seem to me as the sort of person who would be elevated to a leadership role. And I do believe being able to be a medical doctor "without fucking it up" is not a real qualification to be a head.