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Post by ar on Mar 22, 2018 6:48:24 GMT -5
Haha. It *is* possible to hotwire a car on day one; there isn't anything that's technically impossible out of the gate, though some things would need your character to be geared up - especially for matrix related stuff, trying to hack a corporate system just won't happen without some serious hardware. Skill raising is kind of secondary, it does help (especially for combat), but for tertiary systems it's not quite so extreme, aside from the requirement for you to cap it out in chargen before you can do more than kill yourself trying. You'd need the electronics skill to do it without, uh... Well, I've never seen a Ford Pinto kill anyone before, now I have. That's probably a failing on the game's part, I don't think it should let someone who can't even operate a light switch even try to hotwire a vehicle.
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Post by latrineswimmer on Mar 22, 2018 7:02:41 GMT -5
I thought it was a pretty hilarious way to die and didn't even know the electronic skill was needed for hot-wiring at that point. The echo was amazing where my pc just started fisting the electrics. To be fair I had a bad internal infection from something so was pretty messed up. I wouldn't change that at all I would just put a hotwiring and theft section of the wiki.
I still want to play a mutant from bio-tech failings.
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Post by ar on Mar 22, 2018 7:39:25 GMT -5
I'm in the process of migrating all the in-game help files to the wiki, it's just a fucking slow process (because I'm a lazy cunt). I mean I'd have to run a script and everything.
The way MOO works doesn't lend itself brilliantly to help files either. There's a main help category in-game which is a piece of piss to migrate, but the way a lot of things work is that the help file is on the object or verb itself - so you can access `help hotwire` if you're inside a vehicle, because that's where the verb is:
@program $interior:"hotwire" none none none
1: "Hotwiring vehicles:";
2: "This command attempts to override the vehicle's ignition security system. Your character will use his/her electronics skills in an attempt to rewire circuits and
jury-rig chipsets.";
3: "If successful, the vehicle will start. Varying degrees of failure could cause harm or electrical shock.";
4: if (!player.ic)
5: return player:tell("You need to be @ic to hotwire vehicles.");
6: endif
7: ... code ...
Which is fine and all, but unless you're familiar with the codebase pretty fucking unclear.
That's why I let the players edit the wiki in the hopes they'd put this sort of shit on there, but it turns out they're all lazy cunts too.
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Post by jcarter on Mar 22, 2018 9:37:12 GMT -5
The staffer Rain seems really cool. If you reapply I'll approve it just for saying that. Although: [page] Rain [to latrineswimmer] No problem. Just out of curiosity, did you come here from the shadow board? Tue Mar 20 08:39:42 2018 EDT *** OOC page from latrineswimmer located at Maggs Creations *** [No I think a lot of those guys are autists and always act they are victims, have chatted to a lot over the years but I avoid both gdb and shadowboard. Came from TMC.] . I mean he's not wrong
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Post by latrineswimmer on Mar 22, 2018 10:30:24 GMT -5
Yah then I was back here after ages acting victim a couple of days later. I really did find you from TMS though you guys have been in the top 5 for several days now.
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Post by ar on Mar 22, 2018 11:17:08 GMT -5
If you reapply I'll approve it just for saying that. Although: [page] Rain [to latrineswimmer] No problem. Just out of curiosity, did you come here from the shadow board? Tue Mar 20 08:39:42 2018 EDT *** OOC page from latrineswimmer located at Maggs Creations *** [No I think a lot of those guys are autists and always act they are victims, have chatted to a lot over the years but I avoid both gdb and shadowboard. Came from TMC.] . I mean he's not wrong Who else would play text games in 2018?
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Post by legendary on Mar 22, 2018 21:17:41 GMT -5
Are you Australian by any chance, Ar?
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Post by ar on Mar 23, 2018 3:24:44 GMT -5
English, that's why I've got such a sunny disposition.
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Post by legendary on Mar 23, 2018 16:21:22 GMT -5
English, that's why I've got such a sunny disposition. Your posts reminded me of a bunch of Aussies I used to game with, back when dinosaurs ruled the earth. I guess that's almost as good, though
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Post by latrineswimmer on Mar 25, 2018 7:16:48 GMT -5
You open the box of 6mm magazines. get magazine from box You remove a 6mm magazine from the box of 6mm magazines. load fedarms You load your FedArms 6mm pistol with your 6mm magazine wield fedarms You pull FedArms 6mm pistol from its holster.
think Fuck this existence. Hardplace . o O ( Fuck this existence. ) kill me A suicide hotline is available to sort out these matters. Are you sure? [Enter `yes' or `no'] yes You place the barrel of your FedArms 6mm pistol into your mouth and, sweat pouring down your brow, you pull the trigger! You feel the entire world fading to black, and a low humming sounds in your ears... *** Disconnected ***
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