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[Kaitol]

I was the only sec onboard and there was no CE or captain. Plus you screwed me over by starting that tiny singularity and destroying the tools lying around. If I'd had a toolbelt I'd have figured out the AI wire to the doors and gotten out, then proceeded to murder the heck out of you.

Also, it wasn't pressure that pushed me, I moved. Door stun isn't long enough to kill you from full health and you have time to move out of it unless you manage to hit them again the split second they can move before they get up. Dunno how the engineer didn't get out of it. So tip for future Mal AI. Doors are not a guaranteed kill.

Oh. And the singularity engine has a station bounced radio by one of the emitters. It wasn't an intercom.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Hardsuits slow your movements down, and apparently your recovery times too. So if the engineer had just come back from wiring the solars, then stun-locking them with the doors should be entirely possible.

[Kaitol]

I had an engineering hardsuit on too.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Then I have no clue. Sorry.

[Hanslanda]

I was the only sec onboard and there was no CE or captain. Plus you screwed me over by starting that tiny singularity and destroying the tools lying around. If I'd had a toolbelt I'd have figured out the AI wire to the doors and gotten out, then proceeded to murder the heck out of you.

Also, it wasn't pressure that pushed me, I moved. Door stun isn't long enough to kill you from full health and you have time to move out of it unless you manage to hit them again the split second they can move before they get up. Dunno how the engineer didn't get out of it. So tip for future Mal AI. Doors are not a guaranteed kill.

Oh. And the singularity engine has a station bounced radio by one of the emitters. It wasn't an intercom.

Door stun IS long enough to keep you in place, especially when I'm controlling the door and manually making it close and open as soon as it can. The pressure of atmosphere escaping DID suck you out a bit. You never stood up.

[Kaitol]

I distinctly remember moving out of the way, then being able to immediately move freely. Although I stood still a bit to catch my breath and taunt the camera.


Also I was terrified of laser.

[BigD145]

Someone should have done a 2 minute appendix removal in the shuttle for me. I had a toolbelt and some glass. Tons of things to do the job. Although maybe missing a sheet. Not sure what all works other than bedsheets and surgical drapes.

[Girlinhat]

So I've been dicking around in a round completely alone, and have a small handle on how solars work.

1: They start unwired, so adding the wires links them to the grid.
2: They start uncalibrated, you can set them to 'auto' to follow the sun.
3: The SMES (giant battery) starts uncalibrated.  The SMES has a power threshold and output.  If it receives more than X current, it begins storing, if it needs more than Y it starts discharging.  I don't know entirely how it works.  I do know that if the power ever reaches 0%, they break and someone has to go manually reset them to start sending energy again.  Instead, I got some wire cutters and simply rerouted power around the SMES, and into the main grid.

Routing solars into the main grid is slightly unstable, there's no buffer of battery to keep the station fed while the solars are eventually, temporarily dark.  However it requires entirely less upkeep or knowing what you're doing, and the APC in each room will suffice for keeping rooms lit during non-peak energy times.  Due to the way the solars are arranged, 2 panels are on the same effective side, and will shut down together, which drops power by half, so during these times certain high-energy areas can deplete their APC for a time.  However in casual use, they should never suffer real drops of power.

I've also learned that, in a pinch, you can replace an APC's power cell if you have engineering access/PDA, and instal a fully charged cell, letting you run machines via a battery.  This may be just enough to get atmospherics working again, keep medical bay functioning, keep Escape powered, or especially useful when handling newly constructed bases and/or refurbished derelicts, where you may want to run a protolathe briefly by bringing your own power.

Ghetto power, get used to it.

[Knirisk]

So I've been dicking around in a round completely alone, and have a small handle on how solars work.

1: They start unwired, so adding the wires links them to the grid.
2: They start uncalibrated, you can set them to 'auto' to follow the sun.
3: The SMES (giant battery) starts uncalibrated.  The SMES has a power threshold and output.  If it receives more than X current, it begins storing, if it needs more than Y it starts discharging.  I don't know entirely how it works.  I do know that if the power ever reaches 0%, they break and someone has to go manually reset them to start sending energy again.  Instead, I got some wire cutters and simply rerouted power around the SMES, and into the main grid.

Routing solars into the main grid is slightly unstable, there's no buffer of battery to keep the station fed while the solars are eventually, temporarily dark.  However it requires entirely less upkeep or knowing what you're doing, and the APC in each room will suffice for keeping rooms lit during non-peak energy times.  Due to the way the solars are arranged, 2 panels are on the same effective side, and will shut down together, which drops power by half, so during these times certain high-energy areas can deplete their APC for a time.  However in casual use, they should never suffer real drops of power.

I've also learned that, in a pinch, you can replace an APC's power cell if you have engineering access/PDA, and instal a fully charged cell, letting you run machines via a battery.  This may be just enough to get atmospherics working again, keep medical bay functioning, keep Escape powered, or especially useful when handling newly constructed bases and/or refurbished derelicts, where you may want to run a protolathe briefly by bringing your own power.

Ghetto power, get used to it.

Keep in mind that APCs do not work properly on constructed areas unless they have been designated as areas of the station via the CE's blueprints.

[wlerin]

Routing solars into the main grid is slightly unstable,...

It's not just unstable. Sometime when there's a geneticist onboard and you have done this, try touching a live wire without gloves. Preferably after letting the geneticist know what you are doing and where you are.

Granted it's not quite as bad as routing the singulo directly to the main grid, but I expect it's still more than enough to kill.

I've also learned that, in a pinch, you can replace an APC's power cell if you have engineering access/PDA, and instal a fully charged cell, letting you run machines via a battery.  This may be just enough to get atmospherics working again, keep medical bay functioning, keep Escape powered, or especially useful when handling newly constructed bases and/or refurbished derelicts, where you may want to run a protolathe briefly by bringing your own power.

And battery chargers work via magic, so if someone is willing to keep changing them out, batteries can keep the station alive indefinitely.

[o_O[WTFace]]

Basically you just set the solar batteries to input at 80-90k and output low enough that they wont empty out completely during the dark times, probly 40-50k is fine.  The only trick is you should let the batteries charge up for a while before allowing them to discharge into the grid.  I dont know how much power the station pulls but my guess solar power alone is sufficient and the singulo is like as unnecessary as it is awesome.

Is the safety hazard really that much worse if the solars are outputting 90k instead of the SME's 50k?  Most of the electricity people are going to mess with will be coming out of the local APC's at safe levels anyway, while the direct lines to those APCs are mostly under the floor anyway.  Wiring straight into the grid sounds way more convenient.   

[Chrispy]

The whole station usually draws 120k or so, highest I've seen it go is 200k, but that's after everything was dead and it all needed to be recharged.

[Girlinhat]

Routing solars into the main grid is slightly unstable,...

It's not just unstable. Sometime when there's a geneticist onboard and you have done this, try touching a live wire without gloves. Preferably after letting the geneticist know what you are doing and where you are.

Granted it's not quite as bad as routing the singulo directly to the main grid, but I expect it's still more than enough to kill.

This isn't an issue with solars, really.  This is an issue with "you've grabbed an exposed wire that's power the whole station".  The instability is with the power fluctuations, not the safety of electrocuting yourself.  ANY power source that's large enough to handle the entire station, is gonna be painful to route through your body.

[Nick K]

Well, normally getting shocked by an electrified door doesn't kill you outright if you weren't hurt before, but I've heard that wiring the singularity directly into the grid makes door shocks fatal. Obviously that's very nasty if there's a traitor/subverted AI. Don't know if solars generate enough to do the same

[miauw62]

Also, Andrea, I have to say one thing about that cult round yesterday. You were the sec officer that told me about that Axl and the captain found tomes on the CMO and the HoP, so they were arrested etc. If you were wondering why I didn't instantly post it on the newsfeed, it was because I was a cultist too . Quite a shame, really, because that was very well RPd.
The mime asked help with "Binding a book", but flashed me and dragged me on a convert rune hidden under a secret door. She also was the only cultist that I had some decent communication with in the part of the round that I played, but as she was the mime, it obviously was a little hard. I was trying, but Dr Horrible just didn't seem to give any fucks. I wish I could've kept playing.