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General idea thread. Here are mine:
Make microphone components able to listen into both sides of phone conversations if standing atop one.
Allow some form of wiretapping for us nerds - especially if lets us mess with it via mechcomp or DWAINE as a microphone component does.
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BYOND Username: ProfessorHugedix
being able to vape through the phone offers another possibility:
Spoiler!
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Calls should continually remove funds from your bank account while connected, and the calls should drop out fairly frequently.
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PARTY LINE! And call waiting. Or something. Let Mechanics fuck with phones, they WOULD anyway.
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12-27-2018, 08:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-27-2018, 09:36 AM by Frank_Stein . Edited 1 time in total.)
Payphones in public areas
Answering machines for leaving a message
80's style mobile phones for VIP's like the Captain or HoS
Being able to snip a line with wire cutters, and repair them with wire
NPC Telemarketers
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heres an idea - gunshots or explosions that can be heard through the phone line? maybe with colours to make it harder to fake with plain text? *BANG* *BOOM*
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@Frank you can already snip the dang line!
Guns through phones is not happening. Nobody would answer phones if thats a risk!
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12-27-2018, 02:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-27-2018, 02:02 PM by poland spring .)
Yeah let's please avoid reasons NOT to use the phone
Actual content: Ability to hide your phone from the phonebook, so you can make calls out but none can come in and vice-versa
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I think Recursor was meaning that you could hear the gunshots through the line, not get shot through the phone
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Speaker phone would be nice, having the handset act like a microphone when not in hand.
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While streaming a viewer mentioned using the phones as modems. I want this if only to hear the modem startup sound.
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Faxmachines for sending documents across phone lines
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Give the AI a phone line and an AI verb to take/make calls
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(12-27-2018, 03:19 PM) Tarmunora Wrote: I think Recursor was meaning that you could hear the gunshots through the line, not get shot through the phone
yush <3