putting a marine in a nest turns off/blocks/dims their worn/equipped light sources
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putting a marine in a nest turns off/blocks/dims their worn/equipped light sources
Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):putting a marine in a nest turns off/blocks/dims their worn/equipped light sources
Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):a new use for nests, turning the lights down low, alien light management
Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): currently the only way to manage marine suit/equipped lights is to drag the body off to some godforsaken corner or possibly entomb it within a bunch of walls. or to swallow and digest them? i havent tried that... well, anyways, i hope that this nest option will encourage drones to nest the dead where they fall, or at least nearby in cases where weeds cant be planted
plus it just makes sense, dont it? youre covered in gloop, some of it got over your lights
if you struggle out of the nest you should be able to just turn your lights back on to full strength
Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): have putting someone in a nest dim/block/turn off their light sources
(has this been suggested before? its so obvious i thought it must have been, but i did a brief search for the combination of "nest" and "light" and didnt get much)
Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):a new use for nests, turning the lights down low, alien light management
Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): currently the only way to manage marine suit/equipped lights is to drag the body off to some godforsaken corner or possibly entomb it within a bunch of walls. or to swallow and digest them? i havent tried that... well, anyways, i hope that this nest option will encourage drones to nest the dead where they fall, or at least nearby in cases where weeds cant be planted
plus it just makes sense, dont it? youre covered in gloop, some of it got over your lights
if you struggle out of the nest you should be able to just turn your lights back on to full strength
Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): have putting someone in a nest dim/block/turn off their light sources
(has this been suggested before? its so obvious i thought it must have been, but i did a brief search for the combination of "nest" and "light" and didnt get much)
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Re: putting a marine in a nest turns off/blocks/dims their worn/equipped light sources
It makes sense, but ultimately is worthless as 99.99% of all cases of nested marines will be surrounded by walls, simply seems like more work for a meager reward.
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Re: putting a marine in a nest turns off/blocks/dims their worn/equipped light sources
if it turns off their light, its not worthless. if you can accomplish with 1 nest the light blockage you need several walls for, its not worthless. sure, you could go thru the trouble of dragging all the dead marines into 1 square and walling them off, thus accomplishing with a few walls what youd need many nests for, but why take the time when you could just nest them as you go? plus, encouraging aliens to nest up even dead marines to block their light will also result in cooler looking infested areas
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Re: putting a marine in a nest turns off/blocks/dims their worn/equipped light sources
Light will sometimes "leak" out of walls -- I imagine it's a bug with the BYOND engine more than anything else but persistent light after the sources are removed are awful as xeno.solidfury7 wrote:It makes sense, but ultimately is worthless as 99.99% of all cases of nested marines will be surrounded by walls, simply seems like more work for a meager reward.
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Re: putting a marine in a nest turns off/blocks/dims their worn/equipped light sources
Actually it makes sense because chances are the resin would be covering part of the light source, dimming it, plus, this will encourage Xenos to leave dead bodies in nests, which generally makes a more atmospheric environment instead of a stack of 20 corpses. Soooo
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Re: putting a marine in a nest turns off/blocks/dims their worn/equipped light sources
I can definitely see this getting abused. Especially with combat nesting
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Re: putting a marine in a nest turns off/blocks/dims their worn/equipped light sources
please to explain what is abusable about it and perhaps we can think of solutions
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Re: putting a marine in a nest turns off/blocks/dims their worn/equipped light sources
When even crab_spider says this can be seen as getting abused...heh
There is no point to this, queen will still user her gib like always, she won't bother nesting someone's corpse to turn off their light, and alive marines are already walled off so their light doesn't shine anywhere.
There is no point to this, queen will still user her gib like always, she won't bother nesting someone's corpse to turn off their light, and alive marines are already walled off so their light doesn't shine anywhere.
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Re: putting a marine in a nest turns off/blocks/dims their worn/equipped light sources
there is a point to this?
the queens gib power is not a practical light management option because only 1 player can do it, and shes usually occupied with more pressing matters like laying eggs, screeching, running away or typing angrily
this is something for mainly drones to use to tidy up the light sources without needing to make multiple walls or engage in time consuming body dragging
the queens gib power is not a practical light management option because only 1 player can do it, and shes usually occupied with more pressing matters like laying eggs, screeching, running away or typing angrily
this is something for mainly drones to use to tidy up the light sources without needing to make multiple walls or engage in time consuming body dragging
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Re: putting a marine in a nest turns off/blocks/dims their worn/equipped light sources
you're already pretty fucked while nested. this is adding salt to a meal made completely of salt
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Re: putting a marine in a nest turns off/blocks/dims their worn/equipped light sources
good thing anyone playing this game must already have incredible sodium tolerance
if youre already fucked how much of a difference does it really make?
what part of "this is mainly about managing the lights of already dead people" are you not getting
do you need me to explicitly change it so that live marines somehow retain their full light radius and only dead nested marines lose it?
if youre already fucked how much of a difference does it really make?
what part of "this is mainly about managing the lights of already dead people" are you not getting
do you need me to explicitly change it so that live marines somehow retain their full light radius and only dead nested marines lose it?