Goonhub
05-08-2025, 03:20 PM
Strongly agree with what Lefinch said.
Simply put, the challenge of doing complex stuff should be that some asshole is trying to blow your shit up. Then, when you achieve it, it's impressive! You did a hard thing, it took an hour, and you managed to do that DESPITE everything going to shit around you. If you can consistently do it every single round, it's not a challenge, it's just a checklist. Fuck a checklist. There's about a million things that have been made less destructive, less powerful, less round-ending, etc. in recent years. I'm not here to debate those, but the CORE of ss13 is chaos. I'll die on that hill, and I really do not want us to continue making the station LESS chaotic. Absolutely not, never, no way in hell. Would much rather correct in the other direction, with a NITRO 2.0 or some stupid shit that's just chaotic nonsense. If you wanna work on solo projects, open up a developer instance on your computer, it's a little annoying but there's a good somewhere. You can practice making a billion dollars at QM, your omegaweed, and your SUPERHEALNEVERDIECHEMMIX. If you wanna do it with other people at goonstation, in my humble opinion, it should be hard and you should die sometimes. And you should lose power. And you should lose oxygen. And you should get bolted in by the AI. It's more fun that way.
Simply put, the challenge of doing complex stuff should be that some asshole is trying to blow your shit up. Then, when you achieve it, it's impressive! You did a hard thing, it took an hour, and you managed to do that DESPITE everything going to shit around you. If you can consistently do it every single round, it's not a challenge, it's just a checklist. Fuck a checklist. There's about a million things that have been made less destructive, less powerful, less round-ending, etc. in recent years. I'm not here to debate those, but the CORE of ss13 is chaos. I'll die on that hill, and I really do not want us to continue making the station LESS chaotic. Absolutely not, never, no way in hell. Would much rather correct in the other direction, with a NITRO 2.0 or some stupid shit that's just chaotic nonsense. If you wanna work on solo projects, open up a developer instance on your computer, it's a little annoying but there's a good somewhere. You can practice making a billion dollars at QM, your omegaweed, and your SUPERHEALNEVERDIECHEMMIX. If you wanna do it with other people at goonstation, in my humble opinion, it should be hard and you should die sometimes. And you should lose power. And you should lose oxygen. And you should get bolted in by the AI. It's more fun that way.