ProperPants Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Humans (and probably other species, though I don't know) can get some amazing upgrades from Genetics (strength, night vision, telepathy, invisibility, whatever), but there are also risks associated with modifying your genes. Since Genetics has high risk and high reward for upgrading your organic character, Robotics should have safer and less extreme upgrades for IPCs. As far as I remember, IPCs have optics and a battery, and I have one suggestion for each. An upgraded Optics Array would give toggle-able night vision or maybe built-in Meson scanners. An upgraded Microbattery would give higher movement speed, between 1.5x and 2x (I would say it should give more capacity, but as soon as I see that hamburger on my screen as an IPC, I move to any of the probably hundred APCs in the station. It's so hard to lose charge that having more is pointless. My rationale for move speed is having more energy, but I'll admit that's a bit of a stretch.) Let me know what you guys think about these suggestions. Even if you don't agree with exactly what I've suggested, I strongly believe IPCs should be able to receive upgrades from Robotics, and I hope others (especially my fellow Synthetics) agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTSAM Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 IPCs are kinda snowflakey as hell as-is, honestly, so we shouldn't add 2000 more things to it I don't think giving high movement speed'd be wise, but I'm all up for higher hunger capacity. Could be nice. I myself think we could go for a weak EMP shield upgrade that can increases your EMP resistance by like 0.5x, it's not a ton but could save your life without being op pls nerf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plotron Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Shouldn't IPCs also have modifiable genetics? Unless it got removed somewhere along the way, injectors still work on IPCs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTSAM Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 They don't anymore. And they shouldn't because that's fucking stupid, they don't have DNA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plotron Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 They don't anymore. What a nerf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Some way to prevent instant-death by EMP would be nice, whether through an item or an upgrade from robotics. Borgs aren't harmed by it AFAIK, only stunned in the same way a flash stuns them. Even humans with robotic hearts don't die instantly, they're alive long enough to tell people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacemanspark Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Cyborgs are very much damaged by EMP's. It's just not instadeath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox McCloud Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 IPCs are kinda snowflakey as hell as-is, honestly, so we shouldn't add 2000 more things to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacemanspark Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 At one point, when I felt like figuring out Byond (and, by extension, SS13 code) a bit more, I wanted to try coding viruses for IPC's. Like, computer viruses. How these would be created in game, I have no clue. Perhaps something for robotics to do. They could have a range of effects. Not likely to happen sometime really really soon, but still something interesting to think about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
improvedname Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Traitor item for laptops make virruses when? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacemanspark Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 They wouldn't necessarily have to be 'bad' viruses. 'Good' viruses exist, y'know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
improvedname Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 They wouldn't necessarily have to be 'bad' viruses. 'Good' viruses exist, y'know. But its for the thought like hackers etc etc Also why not make a ion storm randomly give a virus to them like malfunction Aka dropping things out their hands or something and give the viroglist a special laptop virus application or sonething idk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tauka Usanake Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Doesn't ion storm only hit a certain spot(s) of the station? The IPC would have to be in that area when it hits and that would probably cause more problems than just a virus/fragmented memory-something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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