BRAINOS Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 laptops are used in damn near every single profession and are well known for being an extremely fast, efficient method to store and access data. so why the fuck does 12 KB of text take up 64GQ of space? do you know how small 12 KB of text is? that's about as much as one "book" from the in-game library, which holds as much data as a single sheet of paper. when it comes to taking notes, writing stuff, or anything, you are literally better off with a pen and few papers stapled together than you are a fucking laptop with a standard-sized hard drive. a small hard drive would be full after about one sheet of paper's worth of storage. for me, trying to write a decent adventure game in NTSL2+ is tough, because i'm about 17 KB in and looking at 90GQ of in-game storage. for reference, 17 KB is smaller than this GIF:My proposal: we change up the way filesize is calculated, and make files take up... 25% of what they do now? My solution: this can easily be done, by anyone willing to make a simple PR: go to code/modules/modular_computers/file_system/data.dm and change block_size from 250 to 1000. i'll explain: file size is calculated in this little .dm file, using this code here: size = max(1, round(length(stored_data) / block_size)) size = max(1, round(length(stored_data) / block_size)) stored_data comes from the actual text you input. block_size is defined as 250, as it is right now. if we change block_size to 1000, it gives us 4x more storage. this means your laptop, with a small hard drive, can store up to four whole sheets of paper before being full. now, my old laptop, which had a 128GB hard drive IRL, could store several fucking sheets of paper as data, so i don't find this unreasonable. "this kills research and makes them useless, though </3" literally no it doesn't. laptops should have more space than a couple sheets of paper by default, period, full stop, end of story. research hardly ever gets requests for modular laptops anyway unless i'm asking. on top of that, it'll encourage research to take their notes on laptops instead of sheets of paper. they really should be taking notes on laptops. seriously, it's faster. it's more efficient. it's higher-tech. "this will be used to powergame wizards and ninjas and malf AI's" literally no it won't stop "this will herald the anti-christ and bring an end to civilization as we know it" ok ur being ridiculous. stop. in summary: this is a simple solution that makes the in-game modular laptops a little more usable and practical, and a clear upgrade from pen and fucking paper. sorry if i sound heated with this suggestion, i kept imagining arguments or opposition to this on the grounds of it being unrealistic or powergamey for a laptop to hold more data than a single sheet of paper.
GreenBoi Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 Thank you, I've had a similar issue with this, which is why I also want this addressed.
KingOfThePing Posted January 3, 2020 Posted January 3, 2020 I want you to get banned for this incredibly cursed .gif. the suggestion is good though.
geeves Posted January 22, 2020 Posted January 22, 2020 https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/8069
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