IPC Rework Feedback Thread

[Sniblet]

Solar+passive cooling again, same bartender shell as my last post. Put my thermostat up to max again, because it still couldn't get me below 65 anyway.

This time I spent the majority of my shift at max charge. I would slowly drain if I idled on certain tiles behind the bar, but I just spent more time in the right spots and I was good. Felt nice. I sort of expected the intended power level of the solar reactor to just be slowing down the discharge process, so making a gain was a pleasant surprise.

I could safely run for like 7 seconds at a time before needing a 20ish second break, but I never needed to run.

Security shells went on complaining in LOOC, and I was standing there dionamaxxing like "uh huh. tell me more about how you suffer for your own inferior choices."

Edited Monday at 04:04 by Sniblet

[VeteranGary]

The Bishop wireless ability is seriously quite cool, though it does come with a few minor oversights regarding ID access restrictions. A few oversights/bugs I've found are as follows.

Bishops can wirelessly siphon power from APCs due to being able to interface them from a distance.

They can also hit buttons from a distance which means a lot of rooms especially command rooms that lack ID restriction on the buttons can be accessed through the windows (captain's office, consular and representative offices, security lobby. And I imagine many more places that have no ID restrictions on buttons, like the commissary)

They can really do a lot of funny stuff which I hope doesn't get ruined by anyone maliciously ruining it. The ability to remotely open doors, pull fire alarms, use consoles, etc is a very fun feature. Though also comes with some silly stuff like being able to remotely interface ATMs and steal people's information while they are using it. At the very least maybe giving them unique flavor emotes when they interact with stuff to make it slightly more obvious. Currently it uses the default ones, so all you would see is 'X presses the button."

[UltraNumeron]

One thing, which I think may be related to the complaints about overheating. Is that having the safeties on seems to shut off running far before youd actually take damage from overheating. Being tripped as soon as you move from uncomfortably cold.

[UltraNumeron]

Some bugs:

Antags and ghost ships can't change their reactor or cooling unit, the button to change organs does show them but clicking them does nothing and keeps you to the current configuration. (Also had solar power set on the original character that rolled offship, and it didnt seem to work? While it worked as regular crew. Might be an issue with the lights I was at though or something.)

Overall still same issue with ghostship/antag configuration in that with IPC appearance being tied to markings, and markings being unavailable in the appearance changer menu, making them impossible to color.

Technomancer healing both with mend internals which is meant to work on IPCs and likely mend synthetics too does not seem to work, not healing any visible damage regardless of how many times I use it or where I target.

Also the usual lack of antag healing for ipcs, though I do get it somewhat since it is one of the big weaknesses of IPCs to have difficult on the go healing and nonregenerating chip damage. Though some way for solo antags to recover when they have an arm disabled from damage or something would be nice.

Overall rework is a solid improvement though.

[MattAtlas]

Live for next round:

• Temperature gain is capped to species heat levels in some places (mainly cooling unit temperature gain)
• Fixed plating damage reduction not working properly
• Fixed hardsuit cooling units not working correctly (for some reason they had totally separate code from voidsuit cooling units)