Add Emergency/Back Up Mini-Tcomms Near Bridge

[Surrealistik]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):

Per subject.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):

Stops Tcomms from being so easily and effortlessly cut and disrupted, all but guaranteeing a marine loss if marines cannot contain at the ladder due to the complete lack of coordination that results (which marines are dependent on as the more teamwork orientated faction).

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):

Add a small tcomms station either as an addendum to the bridge, or in the small maintenance section between the MP station and the southeast section of the bridge.

Alternately make station bounced radios and intercom independent of tcomms (because they should be, even if they can only broadcast to/from the same area).

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

Mapping.

[KingKire]

i would be for the bounced radios and intercoms suggestion, i feel like if anyone decides to cut the radio, they should be rewarded with the radio disruption, but if marines are smart and play around it with the intercoms and such, the marines should be rewarded that way as well.

[Sarah_U.]

For station bounced and intercom it'd actually be annoying to do it maping-wise as it requires to be on the same Z-Level and requires a network. Would require coding to make them independant broadcasters and receivers.
(Receiver gets the signal(s), push them to linked devices, they're filtered, then broadcasted)

[IgnisCorvus]

But marines can use wall radios and the commander can use the comms console to give orders too.

I think that if marines lost the battle in the lower deck, they are doom and his only option is evac, cry and/or pray for reinforcements. Also, it takes time destroy comms and if i am not wrong, xenos cant destroy the machines and computer.

[Jroinc1]

Station-bounced radios and intercoms ARE independent of tcomms.

If you REALLY want a backup tcomms, build it yourself. I believe I gave step-by step instructions on that. If you don't wanna take the time, just mass-fab station-bounced radios at the autolathe.

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[Surrealistik]

Station-bounced radios and intercoms ARE independent of tcomms.

No they aren't. I've discovered this the hard way multiple times. Station bounced and intercoms can be taken out completely, such as in that game last night where the marines lost because no one posted guard at Medbay.

If you REALLY want a backup tcomms, build it yourself. I believe I gave step-by step instructions on that. If you don't wanna take the time, just mass-fab station-bounced radios at the autolathe.

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In practice no one ever does, and I am only authorized to do this if I'm Engineering anyways, and get approval from Command.

[Sarah_U.]

Taking out Tcomm actually horrendeously hinder the independant comms for some reasons, is what I found. Thus it is quite clear Tcomm have a certain influence on the mechanic.

[Jroinc1]

Will do further testing on the matter when I play CE next. Withholding further comments till then.

[Snypehunter007]

Old topic, lack of support.

Asking this to be locked.

[forwardslashN]

We are reworking the comms setup soon(tm). Resolved.