Wintermote Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Firing weapons without hearing protection should cause small amounts of hearing damage. Yes, including lasers and affecting anyone within 1 tile of the person shooting. More if it's a big gun. If you do a lot of shooting without any hearing protection, you should go deaf. Even better if we can have machinery in engineering that's so loud it makes talking impossible and causes gradual hearing damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldrin-Kanthos Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 No, just no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceTimeNow Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 I aggree it would realistically make sense, but i don't see how this would transition well into SS13. Using hearing protection would mean that you couldn't hear anyone around you talking. So you have the choice between beeing deaf while the big fire fight (hearing protection) or after it. I think this would impact RP way to much. The only benefit i would see is that if a random derp steals a weapon he would have problems when using it. But i don't think that's worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fj45 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Nope, we do not need more "realsims." Not at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacemanspark Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Can we stop trying to nerf weapons already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumiluntti Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 That sounds about as useful and fun addition as a pinecone would be for your anus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbits Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 That sounds about as useful and fun addition as a pinecone would be for your anus. omg are they adding the pinecone asshole code from /TG/ into Paradise? Fucking FINALLY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox McCloud Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Sorry, no--this aint happening. Yes it might be "more realistic", but absolute realism isn't something we're aiming for, nor is it very fun. This would also essentially render nuke ops permanently deaf due to their complete reliance on ballistic weapons. Better yet, why in the world would lasers cause hearing damage anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheakhan Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Lasers would cause eye-damage, which would largely be a non-issue for the usual folks who wield them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacemanspark Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Lasers would cause eye-damage, which would largely be a non-issue for the usual folks who wield them. Come on, now, we gotta give revolutionaries SOMETHING to fight security with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diseasel Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Deafness implementation could be so subtle that it required very prolonged point blank exposure to weapons fire to do anything major. You could even implement just a very short 5 second debuff that garbles speech you hear after a gun goes off next to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plotron Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Apply that to ballistic weapons. Make the hearing damage progressive so that you require medications after a prolonged time. Make whispers unhearable at one point, or garbled, even when someone is next to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fj45 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Why bother coding it in then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plotron Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I didn't say it's worthwhile. I just wanted to say that the idea is not totally rubbish. It's certainly not worth the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wintermote Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 Well, there's hearing damage in-game, but nothing actually makes loud noises that'll make you go deaf, except explosions. And for explosions to do that, you need to sit in more than one. The funny thing is, we have earmuffs today that not only have radios built into them, but also microphones that allow them to hear speech in spite of loud noises through electronic noise canceling. I even own a pair. Adding ear damage to lethal firearms when you're standing within a tile of the person shooting does not seem like a big issue to me. In any case, it'd be nice if pumps and other machinery would generate ear-damaging noise. We have ear damage that's never utilized when it could be great for engineering and atmos and give people an actual reason to wear earmuffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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