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The detective can bug rooms
About the PR
Adds 2 sets of discrete listening devices for the detective to use, given he manages to get access to a communications server, hopefully legally through the warrant of a command staff member.
To preempt the question: It does not give enough keys to make them useful as headset keys, except for listening to the bugs. One of the two available keys must be in a communications server to function.
Be careful not to lose your toys though! An unsuspecting janitor might just throw them away...
Why / Balance
Its funny, mostly.
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- add: The detective has discrete listening devices! To use add one key to a headset and the other to a communications server!
RSI Diff Bot; head commit ca466e7c03ab5176b1fcb1fb7ed50894349279f5 merging into 046d062230ccbc841f969b25f2182c7415e99253 This PR makes changes to 1 or more RSIs. Here is a summary of all changes:
Resources/Textures/Objects/Devices/communication.rsi
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Just a note: I could make the frequencies not require a communications server, but that seems meh, and Ideally Id rather some form of limit to them. I leave the decision on whether the det gets his own server to mappers, since any server will do he can always ask the HoP etc for access to set it up.
Isn't a tape recorder better
I think theyre just different? Unless you want to make an always active tape recorder. Heck you could even just make a tape recorder that could listen to a radio channel and then record this (or general / syndicate / etc) radio. I leave the prospect of wire taps for the future though.
This area of the code is a tad spooky and is touched by #24680, as a warning
Maybe detective should get their own little server with space for 2 keys in it, that we can add to maps in detectives office. Would probably be better solution than detective having to beg to have them put in a telecoms server.
Maybe detective should get their own little server with space for 2 keys in it, that we can add to maps in detectives office. Would probably be better solution than detective having to beg to have them put in a telecoms server.
Maybe. Don't want to make any mapping changes in the same PR though.
This area of the code is a tad spooky and is touched by #24680, as a warning
I skimmed the changes in your PR, and I think they probably wont interfere with eachother too much since this uses the standard radio functionality. I can always update it later if changes are needed.
I would have liked to have some functionality from #21546 and #21513 but theyre not strictly necessary, so much as they just clean up some of the yml messiness.
Another options I suppose is to give the det a communications server board, and its a build your own adventure. I sorta like the idea of the detective having to ask for a warrant or permission though.
The recorder and the wiretapping bug have completely different applications, I don't think they can be compared. I think this is a useful mechanic for tracking suspicious people. Can a bug be hung on a person or his clothes?
Another options I suppose is to give the det a communications server board, and its a build your own adventure. I sorta like the idea of the detective having to ask for a warrant or permission though.
Telecom boards are surprisingly hard to come by and locked behind research (but strangely they only need 2 steel and 3 lv cable to complete, excluding machine frame assembly)
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As per pr guidelines for changelogs 4. You should avoid "IC" speak. Specifically "Maybe the hop will let them be used"
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Closed due to feature freeze May 10th-June 14th. Comment to have it reopen after this.
