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I was walking (read: dragging my feet in a mega-slow limp) to medbay, when I fall flat on my face in critical. The mime steals my robes and hood, then drags me to medbay. The head of security fixes me up with ointment and asks what happened, then throws me out after I answer. I promptly fall on my face because the cryo sting is still in effect. The head of personnel drags me in and fills me with inaprovaline and puts me in a sleeper, despite still dying from the burn damage. I die in the sleeper and get taken to genetics, where I re-enter my corpse one second too late and the doctor puts me in the morgue.

Space Station 13, Basil.

I do not like traitor borgs, they are a royal pain in the ass.

That's why you bring flashes and the ion rifle.

Currently furiously refactoring AI module code...

Maybe once I've hammered all the bugs out.

(Seriously jezus christ so much copypasta)

Sweet, some differences in the AI laws from time to time. TYRANT should be an option, IMO, but there's probably some reason why it needs illegal tech to be made and isn't placed on any of the maps.

Bumping this, since I recently bought this game and all the expansions and I'm having lots of fun.

I started in a spiral galaxy, right on the edge before the circle of gas clouds starts. Pirates are brutal. My empire, the Sol Alignment, a feudal human empire, was kicked around by multiple pirate factions for years while I slowly researched and built up my fleet. One band, Black Minerals, was particularly skilled. A smuggling group, they frequently raided my mining stations and my new colonies, quickly hoarding wealth and minerals. They used all of this to build a large space port in place of their dinky little hideout and started mass-producing warships, continuing to raid my colonies and one of my neighbor's.

With the help of recovered abandoned capital ships, I managed to fight off these raids and buy the time needed to research drone tech and some improved weapons, building my fleet as I went. I put together a retaliation fleet of ten escorts(armed with a mix of torpedos and railguns), fifteen frigates/destroyers (railguns/maxos blasters), a few cruisers (railguns/assault pods), and three carriers (railguns/five drone bays each). Using this fleet, I warped into their hideout and turned the space port to dust. Black Minerals immediately set up a new hideout in a system I discovered instantly thanks to my advisors suggesting a mercenary strike team, which I also reduced to dust. After that, Black Minerals surrendered and what surviving equipment they had joined my empire (read: a bunch of freighters turned over to the private sector and some mining stations).

Despite this victory, I'm still in a pretty shitty situation. My empire is tiny, holding four colonized planets, and nearly every empire has better tech than I do. I place either in the middle or at the bottom of every category except strategic value, for whatever reason. I'm also nearly last place in my victory conditions progress. My fleet is 72 strong, and most of those ships are orbiting my colonies fighting off raids from the other pirate bands that keep breaking their fleets over my massively superior recovered capital ships. This game is awesome.

It's safe to assume Nanotrasen AIs have some "no-brainer" basic directives that cannot be modified, I.E. don't let Joe Average, Assistant into the armory or the engine room for no reason. Some AI players make the game interesting by taking things literally, but there's some things you need to have some common sense when dealing with. Seriously, people. In that vein: being an obtrusive, asshole AI that bolts half the station due to them being "secure areas" will not be appreciated.

Also: EVA has no right to be bolted. That is all.

Parapen+C4 is the absolute worst way to kill anyone. People forget that being an antag is about making the round interesting, not accomplishing your objectives. Someone should only be parapen+C4'd if that C4 is set to 99999 seconds and you need a good distraction for the crew ("HALP EXPLOSIVES STUCK TO ME HAAAAALP").

Quote from: Flying Dice on December 13, 2013, 05:24:50 pm

The key is picking the most innocuous containers to hide stuff in. When I'm traitor HoP I make it standard practice to stash a few all-access fake IDs in places around the station, just in case. Likewise, when I'm HoS (with no/few underlings) and have reason to suspect that someone will make a try for the armory, I'll pack everything away and leave a single lasgun in there as sucker bait.

Crowbar toilet, hide stuff in drum, crowbar closed.
To retrieve click on the open drum with empty hand.

I prefer disposal units. Hiding the armory in the bar's disposal unit is great fun.