Kluys Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 We have had mesons for the miners for ages now and they work fine to see the ore. I do not however like one of their aspects which is the fact that they light everything up I would like to see mining become a little scarier by giving miners and the research outpost crew asteroid scanners instead These goggles would work sort of like mesons, showing the ore and rock and other stuff, but they shouldn't increase the light level like normal mesons do. I made a mockup of what it should look like although the mockup might be a bit too dark mining scanners mockup As you can see the mine becomes a bit more ominous by doing this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJB3005 Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 I personally didn't like the fact that mesons light EVERYTHING up either, I ussually take them of whenever i don't need them, might be easy to code if we look at /tg/ mineral scanner too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fj45 Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 A couple of flood lights and GPS units would also behandy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone White Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Sadly I don't quite understand how the tiles get shaded based on the amount of light so I don't have some helpful insight to give here. Perhaps someone who does understand how ss13 handles shadows/darkness could explain for the thread and for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox McCloud Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 If uh, TG's mining was ported over (which rewards miners for doing their jobs, as well), then mining would definitely be plenty scary due to the various things encountered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fj45 Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 A mix of TG and goon mining would be really fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJB3005 Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 If uh, TG's mining was ported over (which rewards miners for doing their jobs, as well), then mining would definitely be plenty scary due to the various things encountered. I was only talking about how /tg/ handles seeing the ores, but PLEASE don't use /tg/ mining, it's the absolute worst, unrewarding as fuck, dangerous as fuck, and the most porting /tg/ would cause is make mining dependant jobs(R&D, robotics) boring because most shifts won't even have miners with the awfull system /tg/ uses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacemanspark Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 If uh, TG's mining was ported over (which rewards miners for doing their jobs, as well), then mining would definitely be plenty scary due to the various things encountered. Seriously, don't. This will pretty much just fuck over science, as it's 100x harder to get materials. Also, I like to take mining as a relaxative job. It's a decent job for newer players, and allows them to see how EVA and that type of thing works. I wouldn't mind a mesons change, however. However, /tg/'s mesons actually used to work like what OP wants. It was pretty abused, however, in the fact that you could see someone trying to break into, say, engineering, because they had a flashlight on in maint. After that, all you had to do was make a stun prod, cable restraints, screwdriver the door closed, open the maint door, and just sit them down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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