Bigtimetripod

Maybe add somekinda decay system to the food? I think goon has it that if there is food on the floor, ants spawn and eat it.

I know you can put stuff in the bread, but that would get metad fast. Also maybe add somekinda onetime use spacesuits. Put it on and ye are spaceproof. Take it off and it turns into scrap and cannot be used again.

Virology in general is really OP in healing department, but when it come to the "bad stuff", virology really lacks anything... killing wise. I have played virologist quite a bit lately and there are only two real killers. Its either Spontaneous Combustion or Necrotizing Fasciitis. Necrotizing Fasciitis, while effective with very low stealth, its usually easy to cure. I have tested multiple variants and its either 40 brute every 3 minutes, very easy to detect and cure or easy to detect, a bit harder to cure and only deals 20 brute every 3 minutes. Spontaneous Combustion can be made very stealthy and really hard to cure, BUT the trigger for someone to light in flames also triggers only every 1-5 minutes. This can be countered really easy by anyone with just a simple resist that puts the flames out in a second. Its impossible to make viruses trigger every 10-15 seconds, but only 1-5 minutes as its random. Making virology for antags a really useless place unless ye want some cheap heals.

I have seen you guys crack on down illegal executions more harshly lately, but its a thing, that once done, cannot really be undone. For an antag who has been executed unfair or even without a real reason, its a round ender for them and there is no way for them to continue being a antag. Sometimes it takes weeks to roll antag and just to have it be taken away by some overzealous security member or command really leaves a bad taste in yer mouth. Usually security issues a prisoner who has almost killed someone 501 (Murder) instead of even thinking about 403(Attemped murder) or 402 (manslaughter). That is enough space law reason to get them either borged or executed. I have personally seen how people are given 501 instead of 403, even tho the victim survived and didn't need to be revived. Guess they are few random incidents, but just sayin what i have seen.

That might be the case, but as this meta has sunk pretty far into peoples minds. I have seen HoS say that do not stick people in perma, they will just escape. This is usually replaced with either borging or just plain out murder (Read finding a reason to execute)

If vampires have enough blood, they are very hard to contain. No cell can hold a full power vampire. Capturing a full power vampire with enough blood is hard enough, if vampire knows what hes doing. Only weakness for vampires really are mechs and borgs.

Fox was the one who showed the pictures where he compared violin and guitar. So yer not crazy, i have seen em also. I guess ye would have to ask @Fox McCloud

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Lets talk on a realistic ( boo! Its a game, get out! Listen dammit) standpoint. Why would someone with astma work in a flour mill? Answer is he will not. Why would a person with allergies for bees work as a beekeeper? Answer is he will not. Why would a fecking IPC work on a damn SM engine if they know it shoots out EMP? Answer is they will not. In short, its natural selection... But in case of SS 13, ye repeat the same damn mistakes and then complain. If a person with bee allergies gets stung working with bees, he doesnt get a chance to complain, cause hes most likely DEAD! Lets get logical once again (why do people lack logic skill sometimes). If a thing thats only purpose is to kill and disable electonic things hits a eletronic thing, when why should the effect be any way less lethal. If it would not kill, then it cannot be called EMP since it would be something else. Bug spray kills bugs? Check. Weed killer kills plants? Check. Does a fecking mouse trap kill mouse? Fecking check! New PR next week.MOUSETRAP INSTA KILLS MOUSE, PLOX NERF I DED. ADD DELAY TO MECHANICAL SPRINGS. 2cents

Had a crack at the new RnD... https://media4.giphy.com/media/fDO2Nk0ImzvvW/giphy.gif No tier 4 upgrades (bluespess) for machines until a miner buys a lazurus injector and gives it to ye. That also means no NV huds until that cause there is no other way to get magnets up enough. Only way to achieve combat 6 now is by combat shotgun (which is also more expensive in cargo now). One thing i do like. Brains (humanoid) act as level 6 (something like that) bio tech. So ye can max biotech with extracting monkey brains. No logical way to achieve power 6 without xenobio getting yellow slimes and DA one of the recharging batteries. Seems kinda rushed this change and more options then 1 should be made to get tech levels up. Also no experimentor anymore so why not just remove it anyway and leave it a empty room for science to build crap. The maintenance unknown tech crap aint worth it also, since 9/10 times they are useless like magnets 2 or materials 3.

Well... this is odd and 6 months ago i thought i would never return here... but fate works in mysterious ways. Either way, Haya! I'm BigTimeTripod or Tripod for short. In-game i go by the name of Markyoo-Uurom the Drask. Some long time veterans might even remember my old in-game name that was Mark Elmid. Why re-introduction? Well 6 months ago i was a pretty regular player. I was quite active and and started to develope quite the history. First time ever i played on Paradise was at the end of 2015, end of autumn if i remember correctly. In my time playing here, i even was promoted to the rank of Mentor. Started my Youtube series also near... may or june and now has gathered over 3000 views on all my Paradise antag runs combined! The support for my Youtube videos was massive and i can still see the effects now. I have been poking around the server for 2 weeks now and have been on a few shifts. Im happy to see few old friends and i have even become a tiny celebrity. Some people have recognized my name from my videos and said some nice things. Always good to see nice people and old friends. But the TL:DR version. Im slowly getting back on the station and would like to see ya all soon. I hope everyone can put aside past grievances and turn a new page. Also... there are a few other things. I would like to thank two people. They are Earthdivine and TullyBBurnalot. I would like to thank Tully for helping to realize that you cannot be everyones friend and that there are always some, that will disagree with everything you think is right. I'm also glad to see, that ye Tully have climbed the ladder of administration and you deserve it. Also ye got me into CDDA. Earthdivine, i would like to thank you for reaching out to me and having that hour long talk with me. Without you i think i would have never returned. You said yer not good in PR, but damn... after that talk i calmed down and thought everything thru. I'm sad to see that while i was absent, you have retired from yer position as Head of Staff. I wish you good luck in yer future endeavours. Also... I have a apology to make to the new Head of Staff FreeStylaLT. I left in july without as much as saying a word. I wanted to write a letter sayin ill be leaving for a unknown period of time, but by the time i got around to it ye already got ahead of me. So i want apologize for leaving without prior notice and abandoning my mentor duties. Also, congratulations on the new rank. Hopefully i wrote down everything i wanted to say and wish to rejoin this community. On a side note. Ill be having knee surgery in march, so expect to see me around much more then cause... you know... i will not be able to go to work or leave my apartment for that matter.

This is one of the main points i have to agree on. Taser lands ye 15 minutes for 304 while e-bow is auto EoC... no way to obtain it outside of the uplink. (Just in case ill add this... RnD e-bow is not syndicate e-bow, that lands 15 minutes max.)

Fair balance for 12 TC costing E-bow: Make darts inject mute toxin. NaCl

Im sorry, if i sounded hostile or anything, but its just my professional opinion. Also just in case, mentors are people who have offered to share their knowledge of the game to help newcomers or some other questions that might come up. Mentors are not staff, being able to bwoink people, does not give one the title of staff. I understand yer standpoint as a doctor trying to save people, but scientists workin in toxins are more likely to be attacked then OR if bombs are being made. Requesting the ORs to be moved is not an innocent and a small request, i would take mayor remapping of medbay, since its hard to fit 2 5x5 rooms somewhere else in medbay. My suggestion to ye is, that find some metal or a wrench and get metal from few table parts and use 4 pieces of metal to block off maint. access IF it has been breached once. Do not go around medbay blocking doors off "just in case".

Oh... another "I ded plox nerf"... Wiznerd can just use teleport spell to get in, no problems. Tators have e-mags, takes 2 seconds to enter. Learn and live by hacking? Veteran player can hack a door open in 3 or less seconds, depends in lag and if byond is in a good mood. Getting into somewhere does not mean its over... Slings can communicate and im sure he said hes in surgery. Tator with emag can get into armory in 10-15 seconds if he starts from sec maint. Wiznerd just teles in. Slings are not interested in it cause they cannot use weapons. Vampire just jaunt... TBH, surgery is not that important of a Room. Ye can just set one up in the medical storage if ye really want. Magic of surgery is that ye need a table and tools. If yer dethralling Slings, ye really do not have time for N2O. ALSO! SLINGS and LINGS are 2 very different antags.

Im not really seeing the reason. All tools can be replaced, if yer doing surgery and some one barges in, he has to have a reason. Only reason i would guess is to steal the N2O tank, but nothing else.

Im seeing the "I ded plox nerf" complex here. One of the only weapon that tator has access that is on the par with tasers. But due to its high cost, its used very rarely. The age old combo of e-sword and crossbow is dying out. My opinion is to even lower the cost 10 TC since hour into the round, smart tator can obtain one for free basically, but just larger version of it. 10 rad for 8 tc for a weapon that shows visible darts being fired at target? No... we have Rad-laser for that and does the job even better.

Modifiers for the telesci are always random. Them certain cords will not work always if never again. (pHD in telepad use ) EDIT: Yeap... i wrote that before phone died, cords are right, but i messed them cords up with telepad inputs Sorry.

So Haya, I was contacted today by Grey, a fellow i have helped out in the past. He asks me, since im this bigtime (no pun intended) scientist, can i write him a mini guide to max illegal. Im was more then happy to help and as of right now writing this in my bed and on my phone i thought, why not share it with all of ye... Since i have not seen any guide on how to max illegal tech, i present to you Tripods guide to illegal technologies! Copy of a message i sent: Oh, haya once again! Amm... there are a few ways. From illegal level 3 its the same way to continue for either of the ways ye use. If ye have the materials for and and can get Combat level to 6 (either Experimentor infuse Durand board or order a combat shotgun from cargo) then building a xray gun can bump illegal up 3 (DA 2 xray guns) Another way is if yer a traitor and willing to sacrifice one or two TC to bump it up (can be very useful to sacrifice 2 tc to get energy crossbow that is 12 TC on the uplink(if ye have an emag or armory access ID, lockboxed)). 1 TC way: Order one C4, DA it, add one diamond to Circuit imprinter, print AI tyrant module, DA (usual way) 2 TC: Order 2 C4, DA both, illegal level 3 now and continue the usual way. On the abandoned mining outpost where there is a pod and xenosuit, in one of them walls spaces is a syndicate space suit with suspicious toolbox. If a miner gets it for ye or ye get it yer self, ye can bump Illegal to level 2 and continue with AI tyrant module. Now, if ye made it to illegal 3, Gratz, ye can now make the big brother of the mini-energy crossbow, a bit larger, but function is 100% the same. To finish up illegal research, then this is the only way i know to do this, im sure, like always, there are other ways. DA energy crossbow for illegal 4 DA Reviver implant for level 5 Use the Freedom implant in Experimentor to pump its illegal level to 5 DA upgraded freedom implant for level 6 of illegal. And thats it, all ye can get out of illegal research. Hope this helped ye.

2 main rules of antaggin` 1. Lie yer ass off and sow confusion into enemy ranks. Yer a tator? Emag APCs, emag libarians booth thingy for tomes, leave dead humanized monkey around maintenance. 2. Cooperate with security and be nice to people... even them who ye gonna kill. I have seen many maNY MANY times that antags have blown their cover for 10 minutes of jail time. Got a plasma tank on ye and ye got caught? Do not meta on Securitys senses with the whole "Hes got plasma tankz, tator and perma!" NO, that is not proof that yer EoC.. again, Lie yer ass off, ye found it infront of science, yer holding it for a friend, ye just like to hold orangs things... The possibilites are endless...

Port Memes! JK.... Or am i? On a serious note, we need goon genetics bad... would stop alot of the "I gots hulk! Ill look for strange objects in maintenance :wink: :wink:"

Xray completely negates darkness as far as I know. Maybe it wasn't like that in the past? Defiantly isnt how it used to be, before you needed to have Mesons on to attain that. I'm guessing this was buffed when we changed our lighting. I haven't played genetics for a long time due to how boring the job is and I felt bad for having the potential to ruin an antags round just by existing. As of right now, getting x-ray means night vision, thermal and materials vision aka as vision that has no limit except screen border and lighting does not exist. This pretty much covers atleast 12 TC worth of tator if there was such things as "x-ray" glasses (thermal glasses are already 6 or 8 TC). Maybe make it so that light is not removed as in it does not give night vision. This would force people to wear mesons or night vision glasses/huds. As game development inches foward, there are multiple ways to gain night vision now. Main source is genetics ofcourse. Difficulty: RNG/easy X-ray implants Difficulty: Medium (high levels of research and high material cost) Wiznerd orb thingy Difficulty: Rare

BOLAS! Tg has em

I say give the "refueling" task to mechanic... hes still an MECHANIC... not some greytider who hauls boxes. Yes, mechanic is not 100% every round, but then go bug CE.

Im bit late to the party, but w/e. Welcome to our lil slice of heaven, the Paradise Station! Enjoy yer stay!