Blue Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 (edited) After one particularly bloody round with a traitor AI, it occurred to me that we don't really know how brutal the antagonists are, besides from the threats we here, the declarations of murder, etc. We don't have a physical record tracking of that. At the end of the round, it would be nice if it said "X out of Y people died!". I'm no coder, but I'm sure Meow Skull Scopes someone could figure out how to do it. It would make it easier to measure the true damage done by an antagonist. credit to Kiento for the idea. roy twatt Edited March 14, 2015 by Guest
Guest Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 The bodycount from that round was 9 This wouldn't be too hard to code.
Guest Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 Wouldn't bodycount promote ganking somewhat? I mean, it's a cool idea, but this is a legit question.
Skull132 Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 I'm curious about something. What exactly does it add to the environment? Dunno, seems like a bit of a meaningless thing. Also, Scopes. Make a global number variable and var++ every time the feedback databse gets its death table updated. Easiest way, anyways.
Blue Posted March 11, 2015 Author Posted March 11, 2015 It would just be a nice little feature to have. "Holy shit 26 people died from that bomb in medbay?" As for ganking, I don't really think it would. It would be for ALL deaths, regardless of cause.
mrimatool Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 Just a note, before we fled from Apollo laser was doing this as well as adding random useless facts like how many donuts survived the round "21 donuts survived the ravenous Security force" like that, I think it's a really neat idea
Guest Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 I think funny EoR quirks like this would be rather amusing, such as some examples as above or the types of death that the crew members suffered, maybe how many times people were cloned that round.. But if it gets to the point where people start using those funny statistics as ammunition to bitch about the round type or how the antagonist pulled it off in OOC or anywhere not belonging on the forums, then it'll be a very sad thing to see get pitched out the window. But, back on point here. While most people don't always look forward to the end of round just for the funny statistics, it'd be more or less interesting just to see them at EoR. People would say, "Wow, this happened and I wasn't even aware of it. Holy crap, that's cool." I mean, it's. Eh, not high priority. But it'd be interesting to test drive for a few days.
Conservatron Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 Just a note, before we fled from Apollo laser was doing this as well as adding random useless facts like how many donuts survived the round "21 donuts survived the ravenous Security force" like that, I think it's a really neat idea apollo had the full 'end of shift report' right? where it tracked materials mined/ cargo orders/ science progress/ broken windows/ cleaned floors/ whatever else they thought of and applied a profit/loss algorithm to evaluate the station competency having that would be p. cool and would give a sense of actually doing something.
Guest Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 Also, Scopes. Make a global number variable and var++ every time the feedback databse gets its death table updated. Easiest way, anyways. Mhm also Mutiny already tracks deaths and mentiones them at the end of the round. There is actually a hook that gets called when someone dies.
Jamini Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 apollo had the full 'end of shift report' right? where it tracked materials mined/ cargo orders/ science progress/ broken windows/ cleaned floors/ whatever else they thought of and applied a profit/loss algorithm to evaluate the station competency At first I was really uncertain about this idea, but then I thought "How cool would it be to have numerical representation of how well you did?" Maybe we could try an EOR report ourselves?
BadLemonsXI Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 apollo had the full 'end of shift report' right? where it tracked materials mined/ cargo orders/ science progress/ broken windows/ cleaned floors/ whatever else they thought of and applied a profit/loss algorithm to evaluate the station competency At first I was really uncertain about this idea, but then I thought "How cool would it be to have numerical representation of how well you did?" Maybe we could try an EOR report ourselves? I would like to have something like that. It would probably also course a bit of competitiveness between departments to see who did the most that shift.
Skull132 Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 I'm curious. What kind of data would you lot be interested in? Mining data, simple enough. Research score as well. Body count, eh. Anything else?
Guest Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 Cuffs slapped onto people. Floor tiles cleaned. Cases of surgery performed and organs fixed. Bullets/lasers fired. Amount of adminhelps in the round. Amount of modlogs in the round that included the words, "Shit, fuck, ass, tits, butt, sex, hot", and anything else that has a sexual connotation to it.
Blue Posted March 11, 2015 Author Posted March 11, 2015 Time the deep fryer was used, people slipped, drugs used, baldies employed, honks honked...
Skull132 Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 Okay. One step back. Do we want this to be something legit looking, like a productivity report, that gets printed out with a fancy sound effect? Or do we just want it to include random, goofy shit for the sake of including goofy random shit?
Gollee Posted March 11, 2015 Posted March 11, 2015 Goofy random shit, so people can have a laugh after a bad round
Blue Posted March 11, 2015 Author Posted March 11, 2015 A little bit of both, maybe? Like, 3/4 of the stats are serious, and the rest are something silly.
Guest Posted March 12, 2015 Posted March 12, 2015 If you've ever played a Maxis game, 3/4ths of the actual stats are serious and the other fourth is goofy, meaningless crap. It's still funny to see, however.
mrimatool Posted March 12, 2015 Posted March 12, 2015 I agree with everyone on this but yeah goofy shit for the sake of being goofy, I definitely think "x donuts survived the ravenous hunger of the security force and Michael Thorne" *nids* or maybe "x amount of people typed nids instead of nods" xD
Blue Posted March 12, 2015 Author Posted March 12, 2015 Also, if possible, one for papers denied/approved.
Serveris Posted March 14, 2015 Posted March 14, 2015 Following a development coder focused team meeting, we've decided that we wanted to build on this topic, and create a statistics report at the end of every round. Currently, this will include a body count, but we were hoping for more suggestions concerning what else the community would like to see at the end of the round. End-round research levels? End-round cargo points remaining? Really, anything that you would be interested in seeing at round end.
Guest Posted March 14, 2015 Posted March 14, 2015 Following a development team meeting, we've decided that we wanted to build on this topic, and create a statistics report at the end of every round. Currently, this will include a body count, but we were hoping for more suggestions concerning what else the community would like to see at the end of the round. End-round research levels? End-round cargo points remaining? Really, anything that you would be interested in seeing at round end. Amount of people set to arrest during the shift if possible? Amount of plasma mined, total U's of chemicals made.
SgtSammac Posted March 14, 2015 Posted March 14, 2015 Huh... A development team meeting... Yet every developer neglected to inform me.... -.--
Serveris Posted March 14, 2015 Posted March 14, 2015 Huh... A development team meeting... Yet every developer neglected to inform me.... -.-- Correction, coder meeting.
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