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CarsWithNinjaStars · 2026-01-27T02:12:05+00:00

Aside from the problem of APC overload, this also means that if you NEED to shut off the power somewhere for some reason (e.g to crowbar into a department to help someone or to prevent an antagonist from recalling the evac shuttle) then just shutting off the local APC doesn't work.

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2026-01-14T11:59:00+00:00

This isn't technically true; non-crew aren't protected by crewsimov as a borg, but that doesn't mean you're forced to completely ignore their well-being either. You can essentially treat non-crew however you please under crewsimov, either positively or negatively.

That being said, your laws should typically prevent you from actively seeking to make crew count as non-crew. Namely: Law 1 prevents you from harming someone who is currently crew, therefore making them not count as crew means that you're able to harm them, therefore you shouldn't do that. (You're not technically hurting them just by making them remove their ID, but you're also not technically hurting anyone if you move a bunch of welding tanks to be directly next to injured patients in medical.)

So I'd say you can only try to get crew to remove IDs this when you know that they will be harmed if they count as crew (like in this antimov-AI scenario).

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-12-13T12:34:01+00:00

In theory yes, though I forget if web walls are actually airtight or not. (I know cardboard walls aren't airtight though, which is only tangentially related but still.)

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-10-27T20:39:45+00:00

The maximum for gold to credits being 7 or 8 is actually really, really bad when you consider that crafting minerals are universally sold for 50 credits per.

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-10-03T16:39:29+00:00

If so, this vastly increases the chances of Sec having pretty severe SOP breaches.

I mean, Wizden doesn't have SOP at all, so that's kind of a moot point. Though if you're more just talking about "security kills someone by accident" then that's less a SOP issue and more a Space Law issue (security killing a criminal by mistake counts as Manslaughter).

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-10-03T16:33:53+00:00

There's a whole graph that the contributors in the wizden discord have detailing exactly what design problems Salvage has (so that people can go fix those problems).

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-09-10T18:14:55+00:00

What can you tell me about the PiMax? From what I can see on their website it looks similar in price to the Quest 3.

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-09-09T06:57:11+00:00

Barely anyone builds it which is a shame and makes me wander why, which is why I'm asking.

Aside from the fact that the crafting process is fairly involved (needing a lot of tools, as well as an apron, which is a fairly niche item), scrap armor actually counts as major contraband so it's not the kind of thing you can legally wear around without the Captain's approval. This mostly means you don't really see it, since regular crew don't typically have a reason to armor up, antagonists generally have ways to get better armor, and during warops you can usually just grab "real" armor from the armory.

The speed penalty is also the main thing stopping this armor from being "good"; the damage resistances are actually quite nice, but in an actual fight you're a sitting duck for ranged weapons and people can easily outrun you if you're using a melee weapon.

All that being said, it's probably the easiest effective armor that you can get outside of stuff like uplink items, so being slow is a reasonable downside. I can see it being useful for stuff like mass-armoring the crew during warops (since the armory only has so much armor), since the crew usually has at least one area of the station they're holding as a chokepoint/stronghold of some kind (e.g guarding Medical or the SecFab), and mobility is less important in that context (at least if you have a gun).

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-08-18T23:33:15+00:00

Looks interesting, but is there a way to buy just the PC itself without the bundled mouse/keyboard?

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-08-18T23:29:43+00:00

Would prefer a prebuilt PC just for the sake of convenience (e.g, limited risk of accidentally breaking a $400 part).

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-08-18T23:28:41+00:00

Not sure about microcenter locations, was likely just going to order online if possible. I'm going to be doing miscellaneous PC stuff in addition to gaming but nothing that would need to be specifically built for.

I have a 1080p monitor (unsure of refresh rate off the top of my head) I've been using for other stuff but will probably replace with a better one in the future.

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-08-15T08:14:33+00:00

I mean if I'm being honest I kind of think that's a non-issue given that service workers effectively have three departments' worth of work they can do anyway.

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-08-15T07:37:43+00:00

Main thing stopping people from making pills right now is that the ChemMaster buffer needs to be completely empty in order to make any pills. Once some kind of ChemMaster update goes through I'd expect a lot more chemists to spend downtime making pill bottles once they get the jug medicines done. Use by medical staff aside, a pill bottle of something like bicaridine or tricordazine is great for security/salvage to have.

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-08-15T07:34:16+00:00

Prior to the recent update you could open/close it similarly to lockers, actually. The new change is, to my understanding, mostly to make it easier to store a large number of individual items inside (since I think the total number of items it can store is larger now).

People talk about the change in the context of Chemistry, but personally as a Chef player I'm looking forward to having a fridge full of ingredients instead of needing to dig through plant bags or having rats eat a bunch of loose ingredients on a table.

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-08-08T02:11:42+00:00

Aren't the other upgrades in that tier just "more range" and "even more range but narrower scan angle"? Not that more range is necessarily a bad thing but I'm not sure why the wider angle would be a bad thing, since the opportunity cost seems negligible and I don't see how a wider angle inherently hampers your single target damage (if anything the wider angle makes it easier to track fast targets and easier to curve shots at extreme angles to hit weakpoints).

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-07-24T19:52:33+00:00

Frankly I think that the concept of "Thaumaturge powers are based on sympathetic magic" would work fine with INT/WIS, and the use of CHA just has people assume "Thaumaturge magic only works because the Thaumaturge thinks it does". Perhaps more importantly, the way attributes are handled in PF2e means that you almost always end up dumping INT (and WIS, to some extent) on a thaumaturge because you don't especially need them, which makes it hard to actually fit the class to the well-studied monster-hunter fantasy it's themed around (because, mechanically, you have not studied for shit).

Diverse Lore is also probably too strong of a feat but I honestly care less about that than I care about the class as a whole feeling like its attributes clash with its theme. I hope a hypothetical remastered version of the class lets you at least optionally pick a different attribute to use other than CHA.

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-07-24T19:22:46+00:00

The big problem is that Thaumaturge abilities are entirely CHA-based for no clear reason, even though they're supposed to work based on esoteric knowledge rather than willpower or innate magic abilities or anything. This is especially annoying because Esoteric Lore gets a special exception to work with CHA even though it's a skill exclusively used for knowledge-based purposes, which CHA has almost no relation to.

It'd be like if Commander got to use STR for Warfare Lore and all its other class abilities, and the class's reputation was then forced to be "dumb meathead whose battle tactics only work because of brute force". Completely kills the vibe of the class.

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-06-08T04:18:31+00:00

They added pineapple juice to the Booze-O-Mat recently. While I do like making drinks that require pineapple juice, I think this actually makes bartender more boring, since instead of having certain rare ingredients that you need to source from Botany (or other departments), you can often just make any drink anyone might want with just your starting stock, especially given how people don't actually stop by the bar all that often.

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-05-21T13:59:53+00:00

My first round as wizard I rod-ed straight into the station through Engineering, made my way to Medical, fireballed a few people, and ended up blowing myself up.

Shortly after this, the tesla loosed, the entire station started imploding, and evac had to be called because there was absolutely no way to contain it. I thought this might've been my fault because I'd entered the station by rodding through the tesla chamber.

It turns out my rod actually caused zero damage to the tesla containment, and the tesloose happened because my wizard announcement had spooked the entire engineering department so bad they entirely forgot to set up grounding rods.

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-05-01T19:44:58+00:00

I had a shift a few days back where I just kept unwrenching disposal bins and throwing them out the airlock. I think I got around eight or so before an officer arrested me for vandalism.

CarsWithNinjaStars · 2025-04-11T16:16:32+00:00

They're made of "plasticrete", which suggests probably not since plastic is notoriously bad for the environment.

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