Let Detomatix signals blow up non-PDA items

[Frank_Stein]

detomax is a mild irritation and not a good investment in most cases, since you usually want to steal peoples' ids rather than destroy them. it could use a buff. but how do we pick what objects are good to be targetable or not? fire alarms and tvs and shit dont seem like a useful target, and if you want to pop a locker or door open youd have gotten an emag.

manufacturers and lab equipment would make better targets, breaking manufacturers or other eqipment can really cripple a department, and doing it remotely keeps your hands clean.

maybe even apcs could be remotely ruinable, with a 10% or 20% chance that fabricators and other equipments connected to said apc would overload and blow. this would only temporarily take down an area as apcs are fixable, and if your chance didnt ruin the rest of the equipment you wanted it to, you would have to go in and mop up personally with more conventional bombs or weapons.

edit: oh haha, i know

health monitor implants are connected to the pda network in order to report peoples injuries to doctors. having one start spazzing out inside you could be real nasty, even if it doesnt necessarily explode. it could even induce organ failure. the new implant gun could even enable you to make targets vulnerable to this more easily under the guise of helping them.

and the security hud glasses, theyve got to be hooked into some kind of network to be giving updates on peoples criminal status.

Sec hud glasses should cause blindness

I feel like a hacker antag could have a lot of fun if the detomax thing was expanded.

I am all for detomaxes being expanded into a hacking made easy tool. Emags are always being suggested for having all these functions. A hacker app could fill in the blanks while making the emag a less all purpose tool.

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Retain it's ability to blow stuff up, but give it softer options too, like turning things off temporarily. 

The louder and more disruptive an action, the greater liklihood of the person getting "traced" and their identity being found out