Give the radiation suits a purpose

[Kazuko_myu]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Allow radiation levels to spawn and affect players inside the engine areas when they're powered with the fusion cells. Simply because, well, it's radioactive material, so it'd make sense that people that enter said room without proper gear would get slowly ridden away by the highened level of poisoning that is omnipresent. And also to give them suits a purpose.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): Not many. Just actually puts the hazard suits in the airlocks to use. Right now people just run in, touch the fusion cells like they're Barbie dolls and toss them in without any care for the dangers that come with it. So we should give engineers something to be aware of.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): Once the fusion cells are thrown in and processed to energy, the temperature in the room rises, alongside giving off massive bits of radioactive rays that make the condition in there a little bit more risky for those that go in there. Meaning, if you don't have a suit on, you'll be likely to see the doctors soon for your mishap of not following proper security procedure. Also gives doctors/medics something to take care of in the meanwhile, i.e. when engineers enter without giving too many shits about what they do.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): Read above.

[Forst]

+1

I've been trying MT lately and I want more chances for my life to be in peril, as it should be.

[misto]

i havent experimented with using these suits and hoods much. it is possible to wear the hood along with a welding mask, so you dont ruin your eyes, right?

[Jroinc1]

i havent experimented with using these suits and hoods much. it is possible to wear the hood along with a welding mask, so you dont ruin your eyes, right?

No. You can wear goggles, though.

As for the suggestion, prob not gonna happen.

[Kazuko_myu]

No. You can wear goggles, though.

As for the suggestion, prob not gonna happen.

/shrug

Was something I had lingering in my mind, since radiation suits without anything to use them for is kinda pointless. So far, nothing but customes.

@devs

[Jroinc1]

Agree, but rather just remove the suits than throw in a shoddily-implemented "feature".

[Kazuko_myu]

Agree, but rather just remove the suits than throw in a shoddily-implemented "feature".

I wouldn't call it shoddily, rather something that actually already exists but has yet to be activated. I remember that (correct me if I'm wrong) on the Sulaco you needed the suits to protect you from the generated radiation that came from the supermatter (in case you had any reason to be inside the turret room) and such. Might as well just draw the zone in where the fusion cores resides in, and make it so that heat/radiation rises once they're active and it can only be prevented via suit.

Doesn't sound too hard. I know it doesn't add up much, but might just be a neat little side gadget that people can take care of.
muhimmersion

[Jroinc1]

I wouldn't call it shoddily, rather something that actually already exists but has yet to be activated. I remember that (correct me if I'm wrong) on the Sulaco you needed the suits to protect you from the generated radiation that came from the supermatter (in case you had any reason to be inside the turret room) and such. Might as well just draw the zone in where the fusion cores resides in, and make it so that heat/radiation rises once they're active and it can only be prevented via suit.

Doesn't sound too hard. I know it doesn't add up much, but might just be a neat little side gadget that people can take care of.
muhimmersion

The radiation was part of a VERY detailed system and had a purpose. Same with the heat. I'm just seeing this get shoddily added in and have no relevance to the actual generators.

[Kazuko_myu]

The radiation was part of a VERY detailed system and had a purpose. Same with the heat. I'm just seeing this get shoddily added in and have no relevance to the actual generators.

It's more so something that can be seen as a result resonating from the activated generators. It has no impact on the round, neither to the generators or the way its mechanic works. It's just an atmospheric anomaly that occurs for the sake of it being a little more realistic.

Just as a reference: https://www.euro-fusion.org/faq/does-fu ... radiation/ (Yeah I know, might not be correct, but I ain't no physicist)

[Jroinc1]

It's more so something that can be seen as a result resonating from the activated generators. It has no impact on the round, neither to the generators or the way its mechanic works. It's just an atmospheric anomaly that occurs for the sake of it being a little more realistic.

Just as a reference: https://www.euro-fusion.org/faq/does-fu ... radiation/ (Yeah I know, might not be correct, but I ain't no physicist)

I'm actually a reactor operator (fission, though, duh). I know this stuff

But there's a reason it was removed, along with all ways of altering temperature (except for 2 left in deliberately, and 2 by oversight).

[Kazuko_myu]

I'm actually a reactor operator (fission, though, duh). I know this stuff

But there's a reason it was removed, along with all ways of altering temperature (except for 2 left in deliberately, and 2 by oversight).

What was the reason? I didn't mean for it to be modified, just that it's an present atmospheric occasion that happens when the engines run that justify usage of the radiation suit, lul.

[Jroinc1]

What was the reason? I didn't mean for it to be modified, just that it's an present atmospheric occasion that happens when the engines run that justify usage of the radiation suit, lul.

Reason was removal of features that require even basic competence to deal with (SM blindness, radiation, atmospheric issues). Additionally, too much power in the hands of players (breaching flooring, burning ayys).

I guess you could throw it in, but it just strikes me as stupid. You wanna replace the engine with geothermal fusion generators, devs, fine. Go for it. Just don't be surprised when they're ignored.

[Kazuko_myu]

Reason was removal of features that require even basic competence to deal with (SM blindness, radiation, atmospheric issues). Additionally, too much power in the hands of players (breaching flooring, burning ayys).

I guess you could throw it in, but it just strikes me as stupid. You wanna replace the engine with geothermal fusion generators, devs, fine. Go for it. Just don't be surprised when they're ignored.

I think it's either that, or the suits get removed. I'm sure it's understandable why they were added, but they might as well trick someone into thinking they have a practical purpose other than just being visuals that could be worn 'for the sake of it'. Sure, not everything needs a function, but hazard suits? Eh. Might as well. Or not.

[misto]

maybe someday therell be a map with a radiation hazard area on the ground if not on the ship, and such suits may have a purpose again

[Jroinc1]

maybe someday therell be a map with a radiation hazard area on the ground if not on the ship, and such suits may have a purpose again

Given how hard it is for 'rines to deal with ice colony, and the fact that big red had radiation not added to the "reactor", I'd say unlikely.

[Renomaki]

I asked Apop about it a long time ago, and he said they were planned to have radiation at some point.

I guess they are still trying to figure it out. Until then, they are there for fluff I suppose.

[Sarah_U.]

SM PTSD about the entire ship being slowly crippled with baldies.

NEUTRAL, it's planned, but overal still gives me shivers.

[Kazuko_myu]

Little bump.

Would still like to see what others think of it. Has low priority and importance anyway, but just as a nice heads-up.

[Forst]

I like the concept, but if it hurts humans and not aliens they're gonna nest there erry round.

[apophis775]

This is already planned. It's just taking some time to do because NanoUI is horrible.

[Night007]

I am sorry to be so scientific accurate, but fusion is not generating any kind of "hard" radiation! Thats what fission does. They use uranium or any kind of material, that can be used in that reaction. Fusion generators need allot of energy to start up. When they are running, they smash atoms like Hydrogen into each other, generating heat, which we convert to energy. But this progress does NOT create harmful radiation. So give it another name (Fission reactor or Nuclear reactor) or keep those damn radiation suits away!