diff --git a/code/datums/tips/tips.dm b/code/datums/tips/tips.dm index 637fe85c62f..47b300d8f41 100644 --- a/code/datums/tips/tips.dm +++ b/code/datums/tips/tips.dm @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ GLOBAL_LIST_EMPTY(tips_by_category) "You can use . (period) instead of : to speak into a radio.", "The radio key .i will allow you to speak into a nearby intercom, .r will speak into a radio in your right hand, and .l will speak into your left. The microphone does not need to be enabled for this to work.", "Your ID card's access determines what departmental channels you can set intercoms to.", - "You can fax papers between requests consoles by attacking the console with a paper. Make sure the paper tray is closed first!", + "You can fax papers between requests consoles by attacking the console with a paper. Make sure the paper tray is closed, and you're on the main menu first!", "No wall or window is 100% impervious to heat.", "Never try to fight the hostile maintenance drones on your own.", "There is no cloning, but you can respawn... as a different person, obviously.", @@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ GLOBAL_LIST_EMPTY(tips_by_category) "Your PDA messages can't be erased, so use them wisely.", "The rules are there to help, read them today!", "Role-playing isn't easy, the wiki contains resources to help.", - "Trash piles are bounties of interesting loot, but you can also hide in them, just drag your sprite onto the pile." + "Trash piles are bounties of interesting loot, but you can also hide in them, just drag your sprite onto the pile.", + "Switching to another weapon is always faster than reloading.", + "Remember to turn off your VPN before you try and connect." ) /* @@ -84,6 +86,7 @@ GLOBAL_LIST_EMPTY(tips_by_category) "Service borgs can use the special maidborg sprite if they pray hard enough.", "If you see this message something has gone seriously wrong.", "If you're having trouble as an antagonist, consider a Dionaea whitelist.", + "If you're having trouble as an antagonist, consider playing a G2.", "The second antag contest is still running, you know.", "Killing rats on sight is not and never will be gank, no matter how much people complain.", "NanoTrasen Actors can't do anything. Thank Bay.", @@ -98,7 +101,34 @@ GLOBAL_LIST_EMPTY(tips_by_category) "There is no escape.", "Most large kitchen appliances 3D print their own single-use dishes out of leftover food scraps! Yum yum, recycling!", "As a Clown, you are probably on the wrong server.", - "If you say the Q-word, anything bad that happens this shift is your fault." + "If you say the Q-word, anything bad that happens this shift is your fault.", + "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie, and hurt you.", + "Ginny is the best department pet.", + "Ian is the best department pet.", + "Crusher is the best department pet.", + "Columbo is the best department pet.", + "Don't lie to yourself, when was the last time a Research director took Ives out?", + "Chauncey is the best pet.", + "Remember, live wires want to hold hands with you.", + "A tip or something... Whatever...", + "500 Cigarettes.", + "Remember, you can touch grass in real life.", + "If you walk without rhythm, you won't attract the phoron worm.", + "Ough!", + "Rubber ducks are just reskinned bike horns. There's two of them on the ship by default.", + "As a chef, you can oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food!", + "As a Sturgeon, you are a fresh water fish.", + "As an Engineer, you can pick up your Sentry Gun, Dispenser, and Teleporters with right click.", + "As a Vaurca Consular, you're a big bug.", + "Would you like to sign my petition?", + "I bought WinRAR, did you?", + "Extended voters always win, the game was rigged from the start.", + "#BringBackVirology", + "You are not Literally Him, you're just dehydrated.", + "You should listen to ghost chat, who always have your best interests at heart.", + "As an Assunzionii, breaking spaghetti in half is both a moral sin and against the law.", + "As an Eridian, you have the second best lingo in lore. Its blue sky writing, or some milk.", + "As a Colonial Marine, you're probably on the wrong server. Oorah?" ) @@ -113,7 +143,19 @@ GLOBAL_LIST_EMPTY(tips_by_category) messages = list( "As the Captain, you are one of the highest priority targets on the ship. Everything from revolutions, to mercenaries, to traitors that need to rob you of your antique laser gun or your life are things to worry about.", "As the Captain, you have absolute access and control over the ship, but this does not mean that being a horrible person won't result in mutiny and a ban.", - "As the Executive Officer, you are just as large a target as the Captain because of the potential power your ID and computer can hand out." + "As the Executive Officer, you are just as large a target as the Captain because of the potential power your ID and computer can hand out.", + "As the Bridge Crew, you can send detailed scans around the ship. Just combine them into a stack of papers, and attack the requests console. Xenoarcheology and Mining thanks you.", + "As the Bridge Crew, you have access to the teleporter. Try not to abuse it.", + "As the Bridge Crew, people often look to you for guidence when there's no command. Unfortunately, you're apart of the bridge crew. You have no authority.", + "As the Bridge Crew, you have access to a lot more things than you would think. Try opening a few programs.", + "As the Bridge Crew, you have the power to ask other members of command to delegate work to you. When they do, you now have command authority, but only in the rigid bounds of that task. Don't let it get to your head.", + "As the Bridge Crew, you have no more authority than an assistant. However, you do have limited authority over non research and non operations crew when on the Intrepid.", + "As the Corporate Represenative, you represent the interests of your company above your own.", + "As the Corporate Represenative, being nice goes a long way.", + "As the Corporate Represenative, try ordering pizza, and throwing a pizza party to boost morale.", + "As the Consular, you have a lot of power over characters on the ship. Have a very light touch.", + "As the Consular, you represent the interests of your nation and or your home planet aboard the ship, above your own.", + "As the Consular, try to remember and celebrate the holidays of your home and culture. Throw a party or two!" ) /* @@ -125,10 +167,16 @@ GLOBAL_LIST_EMPTY(tips_by_category) messages = list( "As the Chief Medical Officer, coordinate and communicate with your doctors, chemists, and paramedics during a pirate raid, blob infestation, or some other crisis to keep people alive and fighting.", "As a Physician, you can attempt to draw blood from a husk with a syringe to determine the cause. If you can extract blood, it was caused by extreme temperatures or lasers, if there is no blood to extract, it was caused by something unnatural.", - "As a Physician, you can surgically implant or extract things from people's chests. This can range from putting in a bomb to pulling out an alien larva.", "As a Physician, remember to target the correct limb and be on help intent when trying to perform surgery on someone.", - "As a Chemist, there are dozens of chemicals that can heal, and even more that can cause harm. Experiment!", - "As the Chemist, your job is to tinker more generally with the secrets of chemical concoctions." + "As a Surgeon, washing your hands and changing your gloves is deeply important. Don't rely on antibiotics to fix what hot water and soap prevents.", + "As a Surgeon, you'll be doing what is often a thankless job. So thank you, surgeon mains. You mean the world to us, even if we don't say it.", + "As a Surgeon, you can implant or extract things from people's chests. This can range from putting in a bomb to pulling out an alien larva.", + "As a Pharmacist, there are dozens of chemicals that can heal, and even more that can cause harm. Experiment!", + "As a Pharmacist, your job is to tinker more generally with the secrets of chemical concoctions.", + "As a Paramedic, you can take special drop pouches. These let you have more room for medical equipment. You can find them in the accessories tab.", + "As a Paramedic, its a good idea to stop the bleeding before transportation.", + "As a Paramedic, you're naturally cool.", + "As the Psychiatrist, advertise yourself. Go talk to people. Otherwise, you'll be bored out of your mind." ) @@ -145,8 +193,7 @@ GLOBAL_LIST_EMPTY(tips_by_category) "As a Xenobiologist, you can maximize the number of uses you get out of a slime by feeding it slime steroid, created from purple slimes, while alive. You can then apply extract enhancer, created from cerulean slimes, on each extract.", "As a Scientist, researchable machine parts can seriously improve the efficiency and speed of machines around the ship. In some cases, it can even unlock new functions.", "As a Scientist, the teleporter in Telescience can be set-up to teleport across the whole ship! All you need to do is crack the formula, but be careful to not teleport into space.", - "As a Scientist, you can attach limbs from one species to the torso of another species. You too can make your own Frankenstein monster!", - "As a Xenobiologist, your monkeys are perfectly suitable for human consumption even after your slimes are done with them, perhaps you can work something out with the Chef?" + "As a Scientist, you can attach limbs from one species to the torso of another species. You too can make your own Frankenstein monster!" ) @@ -161,7 +208,13 @@ GLOBAL_LIST_EMPTY(tips_by_category) "As an Engineer, the supermatter crystal is an extremely dangerous piece of equipment: touching it will disintegrate you.", "As an Engineer, you can electrify grilles by placing wire \"nodes\" beneath them: the big seemingly unconnected bulges from a half completed wiring job.", "As an Engineer, you can lock emitters using your ID card to prevent others from disabling them.", - "As an Atmospheric Technician, you can't unwrench a pipe if the pressure within is too high, unless you use a pipewrench." + "As an Engineer, you can get almost anywhere with just the snip of a wire.", + "As an Engineer, you can fix rogue vending machines with the debugger tool, or manually fix the wiring.", + "As an Engineer, you can make gold, silver, and platinum with the INDRA.", + "As an Atmospheric Technician, you can't unwrench a pipe if the pressure within is too high, unless you use a pipewrench.", + "As an Atmospheric Technician, you can remotely control the atmospheric conditions around the ship.", + "As an Atmospheric Technician, you can heat the Horizon's thrust gas with anything that burns, and anything that fuels that burn.", + "As an Atmospheric Technician, you can try using other gas for thrust than just Phoron. Though, you'll find that its less effective on the Horizon without some considerable work." ) @@ -182,7 +235,11 @@ GLOBAL_LIST_EMPTY(tips_by_category) "As a Security Officer, communicate and coordinate with your fellow officers using the security channel (:s) to avoid confusion.", "As a Security Officer, your sechuds or HUDsunglasses can not only see crewmates' job assignments and criminal status, but also if they have a mindshield implant. Use this to your advantage in a revolution to definitively tell who is on your side!", "As a Security Officer, examining someone while wearing sechuds or HUDsunglasses will let you set their arrest level.", - "As the Investigator, you can dust almost any surface for prints. People leave fingerprints on everywhere they touch unless they are wearing gloves. However, as gloves leave fibres specific to their type, such as black or nitrile, it is possible to guess what general department they come from." + "As a Security Officer, you're not here to kill your coworkers. Try non lethal ammo and weapons first.", + "Using your Officer issue stun baton, you can either stun by attacking someone with it on help intent. Or, both stun and brute damage by attacking on harm intent.", + "As a Security Officer, try to go talk to people! Don't just sit in the lobby, go build a rapport.", + "As the Investigator, you can dust almost any surface for prints. People leave fingerprints on everywhere they touch unless they are wearing gloves. However, as gloves leave fibres specific to their type, such as black or nitrile, it is possible to guess what general department they come from.", + "As the Investigator, you're not just solving violent crimes. Try solving other crimes, too!" ) @@ -193,10 +250,18 @@ GLOBAL_LIST_EMPTY(tips_by_category) /datum/tip/operations category = CATEGORY_OPERATIONS messages = list( - "As a Mechanist, you can repair your cyborgs with a welding tool. If they have taken burn damage from lasers, you can remove their battery, expose the wiring with a screwdriver and replace their wires with a cable coil.", - "As a Hangar Technician, you can earn more cargo points by shipping back crates from maintenance, liquid containers, phoron sheets, rare seeds from hydroponics, and more!", "As the Operations Manager, be sure to check the manifests on crates you receive to make sure all the info is correct. If there's a mistake, stamp the manifest DENIED and send it back in a crate with the items untouched for a refund!", - "As a Shaft Miner, always have a GPS on you, so a fellow miner or cyborg can come to save you if you die." + "As a Machinist, you can repair your cyborgs with a welding tool. If they have taken burn damage from lasers, you can remove their battery, expose the wiring with a screwdriver and replace their wires with a cable coil.", + "As a Machinist, you can upgrade all kinds of machines around the ship. Just use the rapid parts exchanger, with upgraded parts inside of it!", + "As a Machinist, you can manufacture all kinds of tools for the crew.", + "As a Machinist, you can surgically implant or remove things from people. Stuff stuff in the chest cavity, its good for them.", + "As a Shaft Miner, always have a GPS on you, so a fellow miner or cyborg can come to save you if you die.", + "As a Shaft Miner, you really should tell people where you're going before you leave.", + "As a Shaft Miner, you can buy teleporter beacons and packs to attach to your ore bag. You can then attach the beacon to an ore box, and link them by attacking the box with the bag. Now, your ore teleports back to the box, no matter where you are in the sector.", + "As a Hangar Technician, you can earn more cargo points by shipping back crates from maintenance, liquid containers, phoron sheets, rare seeds from hydroponics, and more!", + "As a Hanger Technician, you can raise money by completing bounties, delivering cargo off ship, or selling materials your miners bring back.", + "As a Hanger Technician, you can order just about anything you want. Taking out of the crate, however, can be a bit more tricky.", + "As a Hanger Technician, you can order just about anything you want. Try using that to improve crew morale!" ) @@ -285,6 +350,7 @@ GLOBAL_LIST_EMPTY(tips_by_category) "As a Cyborg, you are immune to most forms of stunning, and excel at almost everything far better than humans. However, flashes can easily make you blind and you cannot do any precision work as you lack hands.", "As a Cyborg, you are almost impervious to fires and heat. If you are rogue, you can release phoron fires everywhere and walk through them without a care in the world, if you can handle the bwoink afterwards.", "As a Cyborg, you are extremely vulnerable to EMPs as EMPs both stun you and damage you. Ion rifles or a traitor with an EMP kit can kill you in seconds.", + "As the Matriarch Drone, you can pick upgrades for your maintenance drones. Though, you don't get those bonuses yourself.", "As a Maintenance Drone, you can put on hats, but not take them off.", "As a Maintenance Drone, you cannot repair yourself but you can ask other maintenance drones to do it for you." ) @@ -337,7 +403,26 @@ GLOBAL_LIST_EMPTY(tips_by_category) category = CATEGORY_IRL messages = list( "Stand up and move around at least once every hour... in real life.", - "Don't forget to drink some water... in real life." + "Don't forget to drink some water... in real life.", + "If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. If you can't crawl, stand. Any movement in real life is good for you, get some.", + "In real life, you should tell your friends you love them sometimes.", + "In real life, you can watch ants do things. Isn't it cool?", + "In real life, you can try eating vegetables. They taste good, I really don't care that they're good for you. If they taste bad, try cooking or eating them different.", + "Call your parents, guardians, or loved ones at some point. Its good for both of you.", + "Check twice, worry once. Don't create undue stress for yourself, its just not good.", + "In real life, doing stretches and even yoga for just a few minutes a day makes you feel a little better. It doesn't solve your problems, but you can at least feel good while doing them.", + "Check your loved one's birthdays, in real life. It means a lot when you remember. Especially for men.", + "In real life, you should complement people more. Tell them you like their shirt, their hair, or other things about them.", + "In real life, you can do whatever you want when you're an adult. Don't feel trapped, do whatever. Just be kind.", + "In real life, you can mix granola, yogurt, and some frozen berries for a really nice and cheap per serving snack.", + "Remember to vote... in real life.", + "You can read books, in real life. Its good for you, usually.", + "In real life, you can just buy whatever you want. I bought a plastic forty-to-one scale shipping container for my desk. Buy fun little things for yourself.", + "In real life, you should cook food for yourself. If you're struggling to, invite a friend over. Its easier to cook for someone else than yourself.", + "In real life, you can cut an onion into thin slices (this is called Julienning) and cook them low and slow in a pan with olive oil. Let it cook for an hour and no less, stirring regularly adding water as needed to keep it moist. Then, you have caramelized onions.", + "Know when to dial things back. There's plenty enough sarcasm and anger in the world, try adding a little kindness and some genuinity.", + "Remember, USAmericans, to pay your taxes." + ) diff --git a/html/changelogs/CourierBravo-moretips.yml b/html/changelogs/CourierBravo-moretips.yml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d3eaa34c3c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/html/changelogs/CourierBravo-moretips.yml @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +################################ +# Example Changelog File +# +# Note: This file, and files beginning with ".", and files that don't end in ".yml" will not be read. If you change this file, you will look really dumb. +# +# Your changelog will be merged with a master changelog. (New stuff added only, and only on the date entry for the day it was merged.) +# When it is, any changes listed below will disappear. +# +# Valid Prefixes: +# bugfix +# - (fixes bugs) +# wip +# - (work in progress) +# qol +# - (quality of life) +# soundadd +# - (adds a sound) +# sounddel +# - (removes a sound) +# rscadd +# - (adds a feature) +# rscdel +# - (removes a feature) +# imageadd +# - (adds an image or sprite) +# imagedel +# - (removes an image or sprite) +# spellcheck +# - (fixes spelling or grammar) +# experiment +# - (experimental change) +# balance +# - (balance changes) +# code_imp +# - (misc internal code change) +# refactor +# - (refactors code) +# config +# - (makes a change to the config files) +# admin +# - (makes changes to administrator tools) +# server +# - (miscellaneous changes to server) +################################# + +# Your name. +author: CourierBravo + +# Optional: Remove this file after generating master changelog. Useful for PR changelogs that won't get used again. +delete-after: True + +# Any changes you've made. See valid prefix list above. +# INDENT WITH TWO SPACES. NOT TABS. SPACES. +# SCREW THIS UP AND IT WON'T WORK. +# Also, this gets changed to [] after reading. Just remove the brackets when you add new shit. +# Please surround your changes in double quotes ("). It works without them, but if you use certain characters it screws up compiling. The quotes will not show up in the changelog. +changes: + - rscadd: "Added almost 100 new tips to the start of round tip rotation." + - rscdel: "Removed a couple of outdated/inaccurate tips."