🥝 Community Kiwi Space Station 13 Server (2024 edition) - Space Station 13

[HahaYes]

Couple of round stories for shits and giggles

>Blob
>Ft local engineering spastic
>Total green death
>One core spawns right next to engineering workshop
>Fuck off
>Suit up and get rid of the little shit
>Quick start the engine
>Run up and start looking for other cores
>"North of arrivals" comes over comms
>Find and start burning that core down as well with MD
>Piece of shit breaks something in my chest
>Ow fuck
>Kill blob core
>Oh Jesus I can feel bones moving around in my torso
>Get out into arrivals tool storage with MD
>CMO comes over to help
>Get dragged back to medbay
>Confirmed broken bones
>Dope me up on painkillers doc this green nigger needs to die
>"Lolno" - CMO
>MD comes down to the OR and takes over
>Get put under
>Zzzzzzz
>Wake up
>Bones aren't moving around anymore
>Thanks doc
>Still feel a bit off, kinda dizzy
>Lost a lot of blood, figures
>Get some more blood
>Cool lets fucking go
>CMO radios in that he's quite injured and trying to go around via space to get to the final core by crew quarters
>Something still feels like it's stabbing into my stomach
>Fuck this I don't have time for this bullshit anymore people are in trouble
>Bolt up towards the crew quarters
>She'll be right mate
>Arrive at the holodeck, call over comms that I'm up there
>Start burning anything green in my sight
>Too dizzy to see straight
>Something latches onto my right arm
>Blob breaks it like a cunt
>Piece of shit starts shredding me
>Lord the pain
>Collapse from extended blood loss
>Surrounded by green
>The agony
>Everything goes black
>...
>Fuck it's cold
>Pulled to my feet
>In the cloning bay with a shitload of other people and some body bags
>Linton standing right next to me
>Niggas completely fucked up but alive
>Thank God
>Say something but can't hear it
>I can see people talking around me
>Can't hear shit
>Must be deaf from brain damage during cloning
>See on a monitor the shuttle just arrived
>Holy shit we actually killed the blob
>Help get everyone still alive/freshly cloned on the shuttle
>Buckle in
>Shuttle takes off for CentComm
>Half the crew are fucked up but we still made it out
>Another day the blobnigger loses



>Meteors
>Be Chief Engineer
>Help wrangle all crew to the bridge with CMO Linton
>Get your suits on faggots
>All stuck waiting for the damn shuttle to finish refueling so I can call it
>Shits flying everywhere
>Some impacts get concerning levels of close
>Shuttle is finally ready to go
>Call it
>SST Trinity talking shit to the Syndies redirecting meteors at us
>Based
>Head out of the bridge towards evac to check if we even have an evac hall anymore
>Telecomms are down
>Borg follows
>Most of the evac hall is absolutely fucked from meteors
>Shit
>Tell borg to leg it back to the bridge and tell Linton that shits fucked and I'll start repairs
>Begin repairing parts of the hallway to get walls and a walkway back up to shield the crew getting on the shuttle when it shows up
>CMO and an MD join
>More meteors
>We keep going for the safety of the crew
>Fuck you space rocks
>Another meteor wave
>Direct hit where we're working
>Janny explodes completely
>CMO loses his right arm
>MDs head melts off
>My lower body gets blown off and I get flung all the way down to R&D, immediately dead
>Somehow the CMO and MD are both still alive
>Shuttle actually arrives
>Airlocks are fucked and can't open
>Surviving crew make their way over and smash in a window
>Drag the injured onboard
>Shuttle departs and actually makes it to CentComm
>NT CC staff are there to meet them
>At least some of the crew still made it off the station in one piece
>And yes it was all the fault of blacks

 

[McMitch]

>Janny explodes completely

Dude, when this happened it legit jump-scared me. I had a pretty good chuckle at being a ghost brain.

I can see why this game had the following it did, and it’s a shame the only way to experience it in a reasonable way is Kiwistation.

 

[HahaYes]

Dude, when this happened it legit jump-scared me. I had a pretty good chuckle at being a ghost brain.

Ngl I didn't even realise you got obliterated by it at first and had to re-read the log, shit was hysterical. Actually lost it when I got tossed out the station then my body just kept going

I can see why this game had the following it did, and it’s a shame the only way to experience it in a reasonable way is Kiwistation.

Yeah when you get the right players together on the right station it really is something special tbh

 

[Hantavirus]

I hopped on by myself and tried to get the station's power running by following the tutorial in the wiki (I have never played Engineering before). I got the generator fired up, set the SMES to maximum charge but none of the SMES units charged at all. Is the wiring broken or did I screw something up with their configuration? Also, how do I got about wiring the solars? I know they typically start in various stages of broken/needing to be turned on, but I am not sure about this codebase. Thanks for spoonfeeding.

 

[Mister Baranavichy]

I hopped on by myself and tried to get the station's power running by following the tutorial in the wiki (I have never played Engineering before). I got the generator fired up, set the SMES to maximum charge but none of the SMES units charged at all. Is the wiring broken or did I screw something up with their configuration? Also, how do I got about wiring the solars? I know they typically start in various stages of broken/needing to be turned on, but I am not sure about this codebase. Thanks for spoonfeeding.

Just read the sticky and keep trying niggy.

Also, have we had a HOP consistently? Because if not I might take over it just so people have more accesses.

 

[geckogoy]

I got the generator fired up, set the SMES to maximum charge but none of the SMES units charged at all

In addition to setting the charge to max you also have to enable charging, if you do that before there is any input power they will re-disable themselves (not my code thats just how they are)

Also, have we had a HOP consistently? Because if not I might take over it just so people have more accesses.

I would suggest captaining so you have more to do its a bit rare for the hop to see much action due to the fairly low pop (although tbf they have the access/weapons to act like a mini captain if they want to)

 

[HahaYes]

I got the generator fired up, set the SMES to maximum charge but none of the SMES units charged at all

Make sure you read the post ignition section closely, it shows exactly how the SMES need to be set, and remember it will take time before you can switch all four SMES to output. As the TMGs generate more power as the delta grows between both loop temperatures, each SMES from bottom to top will switch from not charging, to partially charging, to charging. Once an SMES is showing it's partially charging you can switch it to output

Also, how do I got about wiring the solars?

Guide for solars in the wiki is here

 

[Hantavirus]

Okay, not sure what I did wrong the first time, but I restarted the round and was able to get the generator running along with four of the five solar arrays, all while being pelted by spam messages from Nigerian princes and Russian mail order brides. I then tried my hand at botany, which I have mostly done on /tg/ servers before. I think I prefer the old style botany with the gene splicer to /tg/'s weird cross-pollination system that makes it almost impossible to just grow stable, normal plants for the kitchen and medbay.

I hacked the seed vendor and grew a bunch of hallucinogenic mushrooms, but I did not see cannabis seeds. Any chance of getting weed? SS13 isn't the same without an underground weed ring run out of Botany.

I will be on later tonight if anybody wants to join and do a round or two of cozy lowpop play.

 

[0000]

i can join tonight too just tell me at what hour (EST).

 

[The Luigi Player]

i can join tonight too just tell me at what hour (EST).

6 PM?

 

[MAAAD]

I'm hopping in

edit: @geckogoy we need you to reboot the server man, the Time To Start counter is stuck on 0 and we can't start any vote.

edit 2: resolved. The solution was to wait 7.5 minutes for the vote to become available, though I kinda wish there was any indication of how much more one has to wait to start a vote.

 

[Figger Nucker]

I'll try to hop on in the next hour. I have to drive home from the wage cage.

 

[Hantavirus]

I can hop on in an hour or so as well. Hope to see a couple of you there!

 

[Grayson Death Carlyle]

I can join around 1.75 hours from now God willing if there's still people on.
I can also do nearly all day Friday if anyone wants to do another unofficial time.

 

[geckogoy]

I'm hopping in

edit: @geckogoy we need you to reboot the server man, the Time To Start counter is stuck on 0 and we can't start any vote.

edit 2: resolved. The solution was to wait 7.5 minutes for the vote to become available, though I kinda wish there was any indication of how much more one has to wait to start a vote.

Thats weird, i didnt know there was code that would prevent you from doing restart votes

 

[Hantavirus]

Good round tonight, didn't get any screencaps, but highlights were the generator shutting down prematurely and getting myself locked out of the station airlock while wiring solars, then the CMO had to break me back in to Maintenance. Shuttle was called for a crew transfer, then the Clown's robotic leg got infected and he asked for Canadian healthcare. He opened the blast door and killed everyone but me.

The wiki has a note that small amounts of N2 can be used in the hot loop and plasma in the cold loop, do either of these actually increase power generation? I tried to keep the pressure below 10 kPa, and I added N2O to the hot loop thinking it was an oxidizer so it would burn hotter, but I think it might have slowed the burn down. I was struggling to keep the power above 200 MW, so we kept losing power, and I had to enact rolling blackouts they rolled over everywhere but Atmospherics and Engineering and mostly didn't stop until I escaped. Probably didn't help that I was only able to get two solars going before things started to fall apart. Running the generator sure got a lot easier once I figured out that you can refill canisters in Atmos

 

[geckogoy]

The wiki has a note that small amounts of N2 can be used in the hot loop and plasma in the cold loop, do either of these actually increase power generation? I tried to keep the pressure below 10 kPa, and I added N2O to the hot loop thinking it was an oxidizer so it would burn hotter, but I think it might have slowed the burn down.

I rewrote the generator to have thermodynamics, I shall explain

The hot and cold loops exist purely to pump heat to the generator and back out, the cold loop gets cold in space, and the hot loop gets hot in the engine, the engine is the only place where combustion actually takes place, not in the loops.

The thermoelectric generator makes power based on the temperature difference between the hot side and the cold side. If the cold side heats up too easily, the power generation falls down due to the temperature difference decreasing. Because plasma has really high heat capacity, it can absorb more energy before heating up, meaning the temperature difference can stay higher and you can prop up power generation by adding more gas to the loops.

For some reason the cold loop seems to be a lot more productive to add gas to than the hot side which doesn't really make sense to me, I didn't change anything about the heat exchanger pipes so they may be a bit jank. The whole thing needs a bit more work TBH but its good enough for now.

 

[Hantavirus]

My apologies, I said I added N2O to the hot loop, I meant I added it to the combustion chamber. I see how a bit of plasma in the heat exchanger pipes would help move heat. Apparently N2O is a fire extinguisher in some codebases? Thanks for the info, I have mostly payed Cargo and Botany so I am learning all this Engineering stuff as I go.

 

[MAAAD]

Bug & engineering retardation report:

• The existence of a time restriction to prevent you from starting a vote roundstart is not indicated or hinted at in any way;
• For some reason roundstart crew is not present in the Crew Manifest anywhere, only latejoins are;

• For some reason the breaker box near Sec was not providing any power for its powernet (no cables were cut, I checked);

• This APC refused to charge despite being connected to power, but for some reason began to charge when the solars started to output a bit of power to an already highly powered network;

• SMES room has another lone steel wall surrounded by the reinforced ones (to the right of the power monitoring console);

• WOOP WOOP TRAITOR GAMEMODE IS FUCKING BROKEN, ITS NOT ASSIGNING ROLES TO ANYONE!!1

 

[geckogoy]

WOOP WOOP TRAITOR GAMEMODE IS FUCKING BROKEN, ITS NOT ASSIGNING ROLES TO ANYONE!!1

Yea that one is fairly recent and is top priority, the thread changes somehow broke it, it needs to be re-organized the antag system is terrible