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I have literally seen/been the person that has ruptured a lung, continuously popped dexalin, and walked around just fine despite the fact I was never actually inhaling. You think it's arbitrary, to get brain damage from not breathing at all for twenty minutes, taking the same meds to not go down? The only thing that got to me over time was losing so much blood i collapsed, and couldn't take dexalin anymore. That took forever. My suggestion isn't to make dexalin do nothing, but less. I am trying to think of a situation where someone could just take a magic pill over and over to just not breathe for an extended period of time. That is highly experimental, as far as I know. It has to actually be in your lungs, and wouldn't help much in a pill-form. But this is the future, and I'm sure that's some padding. But that doesn't explain how the pill just works. Don't have to explain it, though. Oh yeah? What I'm trying to say, is that you could literally just take dexalin and not even faint. Just walking around, somehow speaking without air in your lungs. If you're not going to nerf dexalin, could it at least be made so that speaking without air in your lungs is impossible? If your oxygen meter is flashing red, just make it so you can't talk?

Nothing should substitute for breathing air, ever. In real life, having no oxygen in your brain means brain damage. Brain damage is a big deal. Right now you can still get it in the game, but it's negligible. If you are using meds to survive oxygen deprivation, you can only get so far with that. If your lungs are busted and you're taking dexalin to stay conscious, but literally cannot breathe, you should be dying. Not running around for over a half hour, chatting people up while sometimes hacking up blood and coughing nonstop. Dexalin is not oxygen in your brain.

Give us an emergency switch/button that unbolts and opens the airlocks, regardless of station power. Say it's powered by its own battery. After all, the shuttle has enough power to leave if nobody's on it. This prevents people from being locked up for long periods of time. If the vacuum of space is an issue, that's why there are space suits and loads of oxygen tanks/masks in the lockers. If pressure is an issue, it would most likely even out once it gets back to the main base(once it sucks in pressure).

I don't know how to get these. Also, it doesn't HAVE to replace unbranded ones. Just an idea.

COULD. yeah you better hnnhh

Nanotrasen manufacturing their own brand, replacing the unbranded prosthetic. No lore just yet, but I could have sprites tomorrow. Presumably the most affordable option, lore-wise.

There's no possible way it could be limited to all PAI(if choosing is lame), and only able to be dealt to mice? Guess it's a headache to implement, but I think it's kind of silly how a supposed cat computer can't do anything about the mice nibbling on a sandwich in the kitchen. Then again, cats are animals. PAI aren't by a long shot.

This guy gets it.

This is a suggestion to make them silent, as they're virtually the same as wearing socks. No tapdancers here. EDIT Possible rebalance for this. Make them not protect you against cuts from glass and so on, but you won't get floored. This way they're not a direct buff over shoes, but are still good for being stealthy on the go.

Give them the capacity to kill a mouse in one or two bites, and also a biting/clawing mechanic. Small damage. Good for janitors, potentially.

Yes!

They're organized into categories on the bottom, which makes sorting through them easier.

It would be easier to sort through the records if they were categorized less like and more like

are you literally insane

I guess my suggestion is not worth it, then. I concede. Sometimes we'll just have to deal with characters being stupidly suicidal or blind and dying as a result. It's not frequent, thankfully.

Now I know what you're thinking. Game balance. And to be honest, I'm a bit of a minority which I will get into. But it's a roadblock for me, and I don't want to jump hoops when I have a legitimate backstory for my character and reason for them to need sunglasses. I'll use them as an example to further explain myself and the reason for this suggestion. Sunglasses are reserved for certain job roles, and cannot be selected in your loadout for some reason. My character is an albino. Snowflake, right? Haha. Funny. But that doesn't mean she just is pale and has red eyes. Albinism in real life can cause annoying problems. Problems like photophobia(the medical symptom, not a literal phobia), underdevelopment of the optic nerves, nystagmus, and crossed eyes. Whatever. Regardless if bright light is uncomfortable for them to handle or if it hurts, there's still a reason to have sunglasses. I want the character to wear prescription sunglasses for these problems. This item is already in the game. I don't want to have to write a custom item application for it and get a spriter to have these on. I don't know where to categorize this post. If I'm wrong for putting this here, you can shoot me. I just don't know what else to do aside from writing an item application which seems excessive. Unless I'm misinformed and that's what they can also be used for. From a game balance perspective, sunglasses aren't a huge deal. A security officer can tase you, use pepper spray, or whack you with an electric stick. I understand escalation and resorting to more severe options, but we're already being floored by a bright light blinding us. Getting whacked by a stun baton is extreme and I understand the purpose of a flash. But officers already check you for sunglasses as is, and most of the time they're willing to use something else on you if they must. No biggie.

+1, 100%. Some details would be greatly appreciated for even one such as myself, let alone a beginner.

Pens aren't electric, this cannot be canon! Let me write you a five page essay about why this is a bad idea. Just give me a few minutes to write it up and edit it into this post. Just keep checking, it'll show up eventually. Until then, I tenuously support this idea, since it seems fairly harmless, but I'm concerned about noise spamming, because it already happens a lot. This isn't for spamming, in hindsight. It's just to make paperwork more satisfying, right? Imagine clicking your pen before writing some paperwork. Then again when you're done. There could even be some flavor text telling whoever is watching, so they could know you've begun writing or not.

So you're saying that a company can dispense something completely lethal(TO EVERYONE EXCEPT ONE RACE) with everyone else's food, without a single safety net beyond 'DO NOT EAT' printed on the side? Don't you think that's irresponsible? It's not like they're drinking from a bottle of bleach. Doesn't it come wrapped in a candy bar, in a snack machine next to everything else? Really? Imagine real life, that K'ois bars are in your dispenser at the local supermarket. Something poisonous to everyone except Asians(who need it to survive) is dispensed in a snack bar. Regardless if the person is illiterate or retarded and there's a warning, if it was killing people sometimes it would have been removed or dispensed some other way. Don't you think? Maybe I'm misinformed. But last I checked, they're lethal to non-vaurca. Right?

NanoTrasen, as a company, should prevent k'ois outbreaks more professionally. The fact that anyone can go purchase one just boggles my mind. It's insane that something as dangerous as, like, EBOLA is crammed in with everyone else's food. NanoTrasen should make it so that the vending machines at least check the ID to verify that it is, in fact, a vaurca purchasing the bar. This or some other precaution would be reasonable for NT to do. And honestly? The machines can still be hacked for them, if you're not a vaurca. If you're a traitor, you can just do that. Thoughts? Discussion?

Just like that ONE GUY in real life.

Anything to make them less broken and more reliable than they already are. The only way you can keep things the way they are, is if they just changed the text to say you're ejecting bone swords from your arms. Lose the explosion and so on. Just pop swords completely out of your body that can be held or thrown around? Either way, it's broken as is.

That's not the only thing I'm suggesting. Aside from parties, I mentioned non-antagonistic events. Something happening that isn't always bad or annoying. Think of a non-lethal alternative to a radiation storm. Instead of radiation, something else that's cool or a marvel of space outside the windows. How about instead of meteors, something harmless hits the station? Friendly space bears from space circus debris? Heck if I know. I'm willing to concede if that's also a waste of time.

Right. An engineer 'should' wear their hardhat. A security officer 'should' wear their vest. It's not required at all on this station. But it gives you protection from an accident or situation should it happen. How far you'll go with the emphasis is up to you guys. As long as it says 'you can' or 'you could' that's enough to officially allow the armor on green. To say 'should' is to encourage it. As though you're unprepared without it.

This could work as well.