Funky Station Update - 07/21/2025

Rainbeon

Pinktexts and Freeform Antags

-# Originally by beckthompson (Pinktexts) and deltanedas (Freeform Thief) on Delta-V | Ported by @correspond

Greentexts will now no longer display on the round-end screen. In their place is pinktexts: a custom objective summary displayed upon round-end that you, the antagonist player, may write yourself. Currently, Traitors and Thieves use this system.

Additionally, Thief is no longer assigned any objectives at all, and acts as a freeform antagonist instead. They are instead given a prompt to "Become the greatest thief of all time. Pull off the biggest heist in the galaxy, make it one for the history books." and may decide for themselves what they wish to steal, and write a pinktext stating what they decided for themselves, and the outcome.

Suit Storage Split

-# by @QueerCats

The Suit Storage slot on characters has been split into two: Tank Storage Slot, and Back Storage Slot. The Tank Storage Slot can hold air tanks and jetpacks, while the Back Storage Slot holds most other items, such as weapons and instruments.

Combat Hardsuits now have both of these slots, allowing you to carry both an air tank and an additional item on your back at the same time. This applies to Security and Salvage suits, but also non-crew combat hardsuits, such as ERT and Blood-red Hardsuits.

Most Civilian suits now only have a Tank Storage Slot. The exception to this is the bartender vest, which now has a Back Storage Slot, allowing them to wear their shotgun on their back.

Cargo Catalog Changes

-# by @thatonemoon

Expanded the Cargo catalog with many new options:

Several types of bulk crates: Steel, Glass, Plastic, Plasma, Wood, Clean Nades
Emergency Defibrillator crate
Emergency Medipens crate (contains 6)
Medical Equipment crate (Med Belt + MedHUD, health analyzer, topicals, medical mask, and gloves)
Medical Biomass crate (contains 100 biomass)
Colored Light Tube crate, and Colored Light Bulb crate
Cargo Locked Crates
Fulton Supplies crate
Engineering Locked Crates
Engineering Equipment crate (Engi Hardsuit, Filled Toolbelt, Meson Glasses, RCD)
Engineering Atmos Equipment crate (Atmos Hardsuit/Firesuit, Fire fighting backpack, atmos gas mask, filled tool belt, meson glasses, RCD and RPD)
Hydroponics Locked Crates
Hydroponics Chemicals crate
Medical Locked Crates
Paramedic Voidsuit crate
Security Locked Crates
Security Basic Armor crate
Security Equipment crate (Armor, Helmet, Flash, Disabler, Sec Glasses/Belt, Holobarrier, Jackboots Seclite)
Armory Locked Crates
Swat Armor crate
Security Hardsuit crate
Command Locked Crates
Basic Hardsuit crate

Additionally, some changes to contents of other crates were made.

The Riot Armor Crate no longer contains Enforcer shotguns, and now contains Sec Gas Masks and Tear Gas Grenades, for a reduced price.
The basic armor crate now takes the place of the body armor and helmet crates. Now uses standard security vests instead of bulletproof vests.

LOOC Budget

-# by @de_duston

Added LOOC message budget to limit the total amount of LOOC messages players can send per round. The default number of LOOC messages players may send per round is 20 messages.

Other additions

Microwaving the nuke disk will now slightly randomize the nuke countdown timer. - originally by ElectroJr on WizDen, ported by 88tv
Added BSO and NTR PDAs. - by Catazeus
Added Holoflare Pen, which spawns in the BSO's PDA. Has one shot and slow recharge. - by Catazeus
Added radiation healing to vodka. - by selvamoonbell
Added helmet sprites for Vulpkanin! - by Zephyrpak, Ci1rus, LizArmchair

Miscellaneous changes

Made Paradox Clone improvements to greatly reduce the area of attack on identifying the fake. - by GreyMario

Map Changes

Amber
-# Changes by @Huhm

Added Requests and Communications Consoles.
Added Courtroom and Magistrate, as well as NTR and BSO.
Added Genpop Brig.
Added a Crystallizer Machine Board.
Added a Medical Biofabricator.

Omega
-# Changes by salpphie

Added AI turrets to AI room.
Removed Material silo.
Added LV wiring for unpowered scrubber and air vent in Courtroom.
Added Psychologist camera.
Removed extra mining suit in the QM's locker.
Removed salvager supplies crate in salvage.
Removed HFR flatpackers and HFR room.
Connected all Bluespace Gas dispensers to the Bluespace Gas Network.
Moved materials room button for blast door so it can't be accessed from the outside.

Roid
-# Changes by @mkanke

Fixed cabling issues.
Fixed access issues.

Resprites

Resprited job icons to consistently align with a more pastel color pallet. Some job icons have been redesigned as well. - by Catazeus
Changed BSO's job icon to be more recognizable. - by Catazeus

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug where cowboy accent characters would replace "worried" with "cowboy-accent-replacement-89". - by 88tv
Fixed mech movement breaking when rotating camera or grid transferring to a shuttle/station. - by dch-GH

Miranda

Honestly, I'm a little concerned about the LOOC budget; I don't just think it's too low (20 is ridiculous, though), I think it shouldn't exist at all.

Funky is supposed to be fairly beginner friendly, right? LOOC is really, really important for giving control advice to newbies, and I don't think they should have to be conservative about asking questions if they're genuinely trying to learn.

Sullivas

Miranda

There was discussion about increasing the budget for learning roles on the discord, but as Tay mentioned admins can adjust LOOC budgets.

I'd have to agree with the LOOC change generally, especially as a Security player who can see abuse and arguing in LOOC often. Hopefully, the budget at least makes people think twice about taking disputes out-of-character.

If you spot a new player, iirc the protocol is to ahelp already. This just means 'mins need to be on point for new players.

Goose

To be honest Im a little worried about the kinda direction thief seems to be in and in a minor part pinktexts

Thief to me seems to have no real purpose anymore, sure you can steal stuff easier without being caught but there’s no real incentive to do so anymore due to the lack of objective, sure you can make your own objectives but you don’t really have to either. You can do nothing and still ‘win’ in some regard, and also since theres no ‘escape to cc alive and unrestrained’ you can be cuffed and still win because you still stole the stuff if it’s by a beacon, of course this already applies but it kinda encourages you to be reckless due to the only backlash being a few minutes in jail

Also about pinktexts, I like them I will say now, but taking away the completion amounts kinda sours the round summaries, if someone doesn’t explain their completion status youll never know how far into their objectives they did and it kinda ruins the point of a summary save for the roles like nukie or blob that don’t have pinktexts, and just showing what antags existed. i feel like they should both be included if possible

But hey, that’s just my views and I seem to be the only one that thinks any of this so it’ll probably grow on me or smth idfk :p

JackSilver

Goose I'm in agreement about the pinktexts. Thieves no longer have direction, and whilst that seems good on paper, in reality people will just wander listless about. Thieves already had freedom once completing their objectives, and could steal within reason, and also had things they were encouraged not to steal.

I'm of the further opinion this will make the non-antag players less happy with the antag, nobody likes getting their stuff stolen, but upon seeing that whatever it is was stolen from them was the persons objective softens the blow a little.

Now, with that being removed, I can envision people seeing it more personally "Why steal X from me? I didn't do anything to you" type of thing.

Anyways it's early days, I hope I'm wrong.

jesulas

Not a fan of either the pink text or the LOOC changes.

I fail to see the need for a LOOC limit, specially when its mostly used to teach newer players in a supposedly newbie friendly server. I feel like this is just going to cause headaches for people trying to teach their assistants about more gamey stuff that cant be explained IC.

As for pink text changes, I feel like there should be as a minimum an opt-in between it and normal objectives. The most fun I've had while playing thief has been attempting to succeed at utterly impposible sounding tasks and I feel like this system is just gonna devolve the antag into just stealing shoes.
Same with Traitors honestly, this whole change feels like something for a HRP server...

taydeo

jesulas Same with Traitors honestly, this whole change feels like something for a HRP server...

dont understand this comment, how is this for an hrp server. the pink text thing. we got something else planned for thieves

jesulas

The only place I remember seeing something like this before was in ss13 HRP servers were they intended for antagonists to just fully come up with their own reason for being in the round. I dont know how else to describe it though, other than like it feels almost like its putting the reigns completely on the player, rather than setting a objective and letting see how the player deals with such objective. Sorry if it sounds like schizo posting, just wanted to throw my hat in.

taydeo

jesulas rather than setting a objective and letting see how the player deals with such objective

antagonists like traitors still have objectives and are still expected to complete them. the intent behind this change is to reduce the amount of people who only play for their objectives and ignore every other aspect of the game. green text and seeing the status of an objective completed puts an emphasis on players to "win" the game when this is primarily a roleplay game.

the change also brings us more inline with our design principles listed here.

Goose

In a way I get what they’re saying, gonna put my point in again, yeah I like the intention to make better rp, but thief kinda goes 1 of 2 ways. They steal the most invaluable thing imaginable (seen 2 games where all people have stolen is shoes so far) or they steal something that is absolutely ridiculous for any reasonable person to take, such as the gravity generator for the whole station. It’s not good rp, it’s just being stupid. I think it works much better when they had objectives because at least they had a reason for everything because it was ‘ah, my character wants to add this to their collection that makes perfect sense!’ and it wasn’t ‘ah right, yeah, sure, I’ll steal all the stations microwaves! That’ll surely be funny!’ Since again that doesn’t feel like rp it just feels like goofing off, and it felt like it could include more engaging rp with objectives because your character wants something specific, people don’t go into heists not wanting something in particular. It’s like having a robber go into a bank not to steal money but to steal their furniture or something. Sure, stealing bedsheets or id cards is a little dumb but in such a case where it is dumb, why not just remove the stupid objectives thief has and replace it with more sensical ones?

As for pinktext, after playing for a bit, I like it i will say, it is cool, but it doesn’t improve rp or feel like a character is explaining their accomplishments most of the time, people either leave it completely blank or it feels like a thing I’d read off fourchan. And in the case where it’s blank you never know what a person achieved, at least when it is the fourchan case you can kinda get a grasp on what someone did. I’m still gonna be a firm believer that the summaries should at MINIMUM show if they completed ___ Objective. Yes i know this server is focused on rp but at least make the round summaries an actual round summary. I don’t see any reason why both greentexts and pinktexts can’t be included besides like, coding limitations which could probably be worked around

Niklaz

I REALLY dislike the LOOC budget thing. You sacrifice so many fun things just for the sake of limiting malding in LOOC.
Here is what I think is lost when you limit LOOC messages to such an extent:

Asking questions about game mechanics or rules is limited and responding to them actively discouraged.
Making a joke that could not happen IC due to RP reasons is punished.
Asking another player about information from a previous round or simply a fun interaction where one recognises another is also punished.
Separation between OOC and IC is also damaged because believe it or not, another player talking about "right click" muscles IC isn't the best thing for immersion.

And for all that we simply gain less malding. While I do understand the frustration with players being annoying and angry in LOOC, we gotta understand that this is simply a sad side effect of humans communicating with eachother.

Here is my alternative to the LOOC budget.
Let us mute other players in LOOC. The thing literally every game has.
Someone is being annoying and constantly complaining in LOOC? MUTED. Crisis averted.

Autumn | Rose Hise

Niklaz pretty sure muting specific people would require a whole lot of coding hell just based on what I've heard about the chat code. Honestly it's not needed though imo