A question for the coders

[amaranthineApocalypse]

To answer your second question: Yes, and there is even specific subforum dedicacted to the adding to the code base.
https://forum.ss13.co/forumdisplay.php?fid=30
There are also topics to help you get started, and links to the irc-chat, where you can almost always find somebody to help you along.
https://forum.ss13.co/showthread.php?tid=7940

You've misunderstood the purpose of this thread

The idea is to try and get a feeling from our codermins on things that are actually likely to be added, since not everything in the patches subforum gets implemented and nobody wants to start a medium-big project without some kind of assurance that something will be made from it