• A relatively unused and very new system where an admin can ping a bunch of ghosts to let them know a THING is happening related to a specific player. Instead of using chat messages, it pops up a notification dialogue so people's attention is rudely interrupted by it.
  
• FUTURE PLANS:
  • Prompting ghosts for event/player/admin driven respawn opportunities (some of you may already have seen this used for flockdrones, which I'll get to)
    
  • Prompting ghosts where the nuke is when it's activated and other fun stuff
    
  • Letting ghosts know where some of the more specific located events are taking place (eg. where a kudzu seed is planted, where a gravitational anomaly begins, where the first meteor is at when it spawns in a meteor shower, where the first radioactive burst is)
    
  • Adding better user configuration to disable categories of messages (at the moment you can disable categories of messages but only per round so you'll always be stuck with seeing the first one)
    

• Recently added critter respawn (available five minutes after death, and then twenty minutes after respawned critter death)
  
• Very early system
  
• Critters can't speak english, can't understand english, and can't read or write
  
• FUTURE PLANS:
  • Add additional possible critters to spawn as (need to be suitably weak)
    
  • Objectives for critters?
    

• So most of you probably have no idea what this is, it's an antagonist I've been working on
  
• Actually there's little to get feedback here I haven't had already, if you don't know what this is, don't worry, but just know things are coming
  

(11-29-2017, 09:30 PM)John Warcrimes Wrote: Sidenote: could ghosts get that AI thing where you click a chatbox name and observe that dude?

(11-30-2017, 12:01 AM)poland spring Wrote: tell us about the damn flockdrones

• Establish a signal relay to transmit itself onward, at any cost.
  
• Manufacture as many combination distributed computing units and worker drones as necessary to do this.
  
• Eliminate any factors inhibiting these goals.
  

• Spawn Egg - The remnant energy that the flockmind has carried with it will allow it to manifest one flockdrone egg (technically second-stage assembly device, but who cares) to begin its flock of drones, but upon doing so it will be entirely dependent on its drones to survive and produce further eggs.
  
• Designate Enemy - Let AI-controlled flockdrones know that someone is a threat to be dealt with, and let player-controlled drones track an enemy via a helpful glowing marker above them.
  
• Designate Tile - Add or remove a floor/wall tile from consideration by AI-controlled flockdrones. Possibly also helpful to coordinate player-controlled drones.
  
• Awaken Drone (500) - Attempt to make an AI controlled drone into a player controlled drone. (Pings out a ghost respawn notification, which after 30 seconds takes everyone who said "yes" and picks one of them at random to be the drone player)
  
• Slumber Drone - Is a player controlled drone AFK? Actively harming the flock's efforts? Kick them out with this, returning a player-controlled drone to AI-control.
  
• Concentrated Repair Burst (1000) - Through direct concentration of computational resources enough attention to detail and focus can be given to a drone on an almost incomprehensible level of detail, allowing for every minute circuit and fibre of a drone to focus on its own repair. This fully repairs a drone.
  
• Gatecrash (1500) - Skilled packet creators can open a door with a radio transmission they put manually together. As a being of pure radio, you can just shunt open every door in sight with but a thought, and some further beyond.
  
• Radio Stun Burst (2000) - While individual crew members might praise other pieces of equipment, the radio headset is a blessing. With this, it can be turned into a curse. All humans in visible range, who aren't deaf and have a radio headset, have their headsets burst into deafening static, stunning them and dealing sonic damage.
  
• Narrowbeam Transmission (50) - Broadcast a very specific message to an individual (as long as they have some form of radio receiver on them, else you're out of luck) or broadcast a message into an active radio device, such as an intercom. However, as an alien radio signal, mass broadcasting via intercom is likely to lead to strange distortions of what you transmit.
  

• Hear all radio signals transmitted by any (non-encrypted) radio device, but with heavy distortion
  
• Intercept all silicon transmissions, but again with distortion
  • On the flipside, all silicons can hear flockspeak with heavy distortion, thus making your robot buddies possibly your best source of intel on what the heck these weird roombas want
    
• Able to instantly communicate with each other regardless of status (and, maybe unfairly, regardless of signal loss conditions that would affect other radio devices)
  
• Able to ascertain exact health and resource status of any other flock member just by examining them
  

• Disintegration Reclaimer - Placing an item into this slot will automatically break it down into resources, required for many of the flockdrone's other capabilities. The longer it takes to break down the item, the more resources it grants. At the moment, the length of time it takes for an item to break down is based off of how long it takes to burn down.
  
• Grip Tool - Functions like a normal hand, allowing for the flockdrone to pick up an item.
  
• Nanite Spray - Varies on intent and target.
  • Help
    • On Floor/Wall - Convert the floor or wall into a flock tile at a cost of 20 resources, allowing for benefits. [note: benefits still under consideration] Also converts all windows on the floor into flock windows, and all doors into flock airlocks, which allow all access.
      
    • On Other Flockdrone - Repair other drone for 33% of its max health, at a cost of 10 resources.
      
  • Disarm
    • On Stunned Target - Incarcerate the target into an energy cage that will begin to slowly, painfully break down their equipment and organic parts into resources. For every 50 resources gained in this way, a new flockdrone egg will be generated adjacent to the cage. On complete processing of the individual, the cage dissolves. It's noteworthy that someone coming to inside this cage can mash the movement keys in order to try and escape, but they might be missing a limb or two. Or perhaps fortunately only missing all their gear.
      
• Incapacitor - Fire a stunning bolt that stuns any non-flockdrone target it comes into contact with.
  

• Collector - A zero-point vacuum energy extractor, advanced alien technology. However, it also draws power from whatever powernet it's attached to -- while typically the zero-point energy generator will be far more efficient and provide a greater output, through completely inexplicable reasons the residents of the station sometimes manage to create more power than a star, which will amplify the power provided by the collector.
  
• Pylon - Wirelessly transmits flock power without the need for direct flock tile infrastructure, but only in cardinal directions. (Yes, I did steal this idea from myself from that intruder gamemode thread)
  
• Nest - Instead of spawning eggs directly, a flockdrone can dump 30 resources into a nest to have it focus on spawning the egg instead for a more efficient ratio of resource to egg. Additionally, dragging an energy caged victim onto a nest will cut out the middleman and convert the hapless victim into a self-aware flockdrone directly.
  
• Barricade - A weak, grille-strength-or-less barricade that flockdrones can inexplicably phase through without issue while others can't pass through.
  
• Array - Three of these need to be constructed in strategic locations in order to triangulate the direction for the relay signal to be transmitted in. They're costly, fragile, and will interfere with the radio communications of others the closer they get to them, so good hiding places are essential, and keeping them as far apart as possible is also advised.
  
• Relay - The ultimate goal. Can't be constructed until three arrays are constructed. Upon construction, the flockmind can initiate its charging procedure, and must defend the relay while it begins tracking and charging for its one burst transmission. All crew are made aware of where the relay is when this happens. Upon finishing, the escape shuttle is automatically called as the station begins to fall apart. The flockmind gets infinite computational resources, tlayer drones become something akin to the flockmind and can mess with the crew, and any ghost can hop into a flockdrone as the transmission beams out and the crew scrambles to evacuate a station being consumed for the purposes of one massive broadcast.