Arrival of Pod/Shuttle.

[Rey]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):
A quick message 4-6 seconds before the pod or shuttle lands on hangar/planet, something along the lines of "The docking area starts to shake as Rasputin lands" or "You see the pod coming down from the sky", obviously it should only show in the general area of the landing zone.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):
I think it would be useful to avoid getting squashed for both the aliens, since even they are not that stupid to wait as a giant hunk of metal lands on top of them, and marines.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):
Less unfortunate deaths that would seem to be easily avoidable.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):
This might be difficult as I have no experience with the BYOND code, but if something like a basic timer could be started after the shuttle\pod is launched and then have a small announcement in red around the general area of the landing.

Tell me what you think guys and gals.

[Tristan63]

+1 A timer would be alot nicer, but hey beggars cant be choosers.

[Rey]

+1 A timer would be alot nicer, but hey beggars cant be choosers.

A timer is fine, but having it won't help you 5 seconds before you are squashed, unless you mean for the timer to be in the status panel (and not one of the consoles), in which case that's great!

[MauroVega]

Sounds good,1+

[forwardslashN]

+1
I think a sound of arrival would be fine. Someone already suggested it, I believe.

[LordLoko]

Lol, i sugegst that already

viewtopic.php?f=59&t=4943&p=51481&hilit=rasputin#p51481

[MilesWolfe]

yeah at this point we should have something in place for this

[Rey]

Lol, i sugegst that already

viewtopic.php?f=59&t=4943&p=51481&hilit=rasputin#p51481

Oh I must of missed it in the search! D'oh. Anyway looks like Apophis liked the idea so I'll leave it at that.

[Tristan63]

A timer is fine, but having it won't help you 5 seconds before you are squashed, unless you mean for the timer to be in the status panel (and not one of the consoles), in which case that's great!

I mean a timer on the ground like an ETA status clock

[Hycinth]

I want Arrival/Departure Klaxons on both the Sulaco and the planet, personally. Makes sense that you'd have something like that to warn the area.

[Rey]

I mean a timer on the ground like an ETA status clock

Yeah that would be pretty good! Don't think it should be shown to the aliens...
A sound or an announcement on the other hand should be shown to both though.

Perhaps the Squad Leaders/Commander/BO's etc should be able to look at the console, to see the time until destination, maybe a little screen on the wall for those that don't have access. That would be pretty neat...
Anyway I'm just rambling here. Like it was said before Apop seems to be looking into something like this in the future, maybe.

I want Arrival/Departure Klaxons on both the Sulaco and the planet, personally. Makes sense that you'd have something like that to warn the area.

Yeah, I could see that work!

► Show Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2VhB7vaZI0
Obviously a different sound would be used but it is what I found

[Hycinth]

Yeah that would be pretty good! Don't think it should be shown to the aliens...
A sound or an announcement on the other hand should be shown to both though.

Perhaps the Squad Leaders/Commander/BO's etc should be able to look at the console, to see the time until destination, maybe a little screen on the wall for those that don't have access. That would be pretty neat...
Anyway I'm just rambling here. Like it was said before Apop seems to be looking into something like this in the future, maybe.
Yeah, I could see that work!

► Show Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2VhB7vaZI0
Obviously a different sound would be used but it is what I found

Flashy red lights along the edges of the pad, local sound for the klaxon, good to go.

[LordLoko]

I'd love the klaxons.

Is it beyond codable or BYOND codable?

[Rey]

Bumparino. Leave your thoughts.

[KingKire]

Move to LOCK and RESOLVED?
all drop pods and dropships have sounds that occur 6 seconds before arrival, its not text but it does what the original idea was for.

[forwardslashN]

Resolved.