Goonhub
05-29-2014, 05:10 AM
I have a suggestion for the effects of telecrystals. It would be neat if a box or a gas canister made of telecrystal would have an increased storage size because of the space-warping abilities of the crystal. So, a gas canister or tank would have 5-10 times the storage capacity, and boxes could hold objects of any size that will fit into your hand (or even larger than that?) like a backpack. However, if the alloy used is anything other than the highest quality, give the boxes a small chance of warping objects inside to some random location, and make the gas canisters teleport small to moderate quantities of gas to nearby tiles, but don't let these objects randomly teleport on their own unless hit by something.
To do this, I suppose you'd give telecrystal alloys an additional stat, teleport stability, that is decreased only when ore quality is lowered, but is not changed no matter what other materials the crystal is alloyed with.
This way, we'd have a reason to deliberately make alloys of lower quality. For example, an enterprising traitor could fill a canister with a huge quantity of unpleasant gas, hide it somewhere near an area that doesn't have a repressurization port, and let the teleport effect do the rest. Actually, you could even place such a canister on the outside of the station in an area that can't be seen because of walls. That'd take some effort on the part of the crew to deal with.
Also, I had hoped that char-erebite alloy would cause something interesting to happen if used in the furnaces, but that doesn't seem to be the case?
To do this, I suppose you'd give telecrystal alloys an additional stat, teleport stability, that is decreased only when ore quality is lowered, but is not changed no matter what other materials the crystal is alloyed with.
This way, we'd have a reason to deliberately make alloys of lower quality. For example, an enterprising traitor could fill a canister with a huge quantity of unpleasant gas, hide it somewhere near an area that doesn't have a repressurization port, and let the teleport effect do the rest. Actually, you could even place such a canister on the outside of the station in an area that can't be seen because of walls. That'd take some effort on the part of the crew to deal with.
Also, I had hoped that char-erebite alloy would cause something interesting to happen if used in the furnaces, but that doesn't seem to be the case?