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Author:  Felidae0 [ Fri Mar 20, 2015 4:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Feedback thread for Janitorial Reports
Well! This is an interesting feature, to say the least. I was actually expecting this back in Caduceus when they added the corpses with name-tags, and it's good to see they've fully added PIDs now.

The counters are... Well, they make sense, but GOOD GOD DO THEY DRIVE ME NUTS.

Alien Corpses: Never realized how often there's none of these. Which is kind of unsettling now.

Bullet Casings: tink. tink. tink-tink.

Bullet Holes: This is actually really clever, because this and the above means you can get an accuracy rating, and how many times the hostiles were actually shot.

Total Burned Items: THIS is is the big one. Counting every single thing in the level was driving me nuts. And I wasn't sure whether corpses counted as items. In fact, I still don't. It also makes the bins impractical if you're filling out the report, because stuff still glitches through the bins, and you have to count everything as you're putting it in... It sounds simple, but it's annoying in practice. And that was just Athena's Wrath. (Which, counting chunks of corpses, various trash lying around, and a few dozen buckets, has about 207 items on it that need to be burned.)

Then the personnel reports. Again, make sense, but a few bits of it... don't.

First, I think "Disposal Method" could be made into another checkmark list, maybe like this:

[ ] Incinerated
[ ] Disintegrated
[ ] Fed to Indigenous Wildlife
[ ] Dissolved in Acid
[ ] Trash Chute
[ ] Spaced
[ ] Ground Up
[ ] Liquefied (And then Mopped Up)
[ ] Didn't

I also noticed "Disemboweled" was missing from the "Cause of Death" checklist, as was "Impact". (As if they were splattered against a wall). Not sure if "Eviscerated" covers the former, and I'm pretty sure "Crushed" doesn't cover the latter.

But aside from that, it's a damned nifty addition, and fits, though the game does seem to be steadily progressing towards an ACTUAL Space Janitor Simulator, which is terrifying.
Author:  Black Eagle [ Sat Mar 21, 2015 1:26 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Feedback thread for Janitorial Reports
All of the counters are calculated in such a way that perfect accuracy is not expected.
The closer you are to the true number(as recoreded by the game), the better your score.
Even if you are tens or hundreds out on some of those numbers, you'll still be fine.

What matters is how much effort you're 'willing' to put into it.

The numbers can also be typed into each box, I'm not sure how many people notice this. I might forgo the noisy incremental numeric boxes and use standard ones.

Total Burned Items means literally EVERYTHING you burn. If it goes in the incinerator and gets destroyed there, it will count no matter what that item is.

"Eviscerated" accurately covers disembowelment.
I used "Beaten" for most impact or velocity based deaths...the word certainly didn't fit the situation.
This is of course the first version, so I will be changing the forms to give them the right words and etc.
Author:  Felidae0 [ Sat Mar 21, 2015 2:14 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Feedback thread for Janitorial Reports
Cool, thanks for the reply! So it is literally an estimate then, okay. That makes me feel a little better.

Got any plans for the levels where someone's literally been turned into chunks and bits of hand? (Like in a lot of the old levels, before you had full corpses.)
Author:  Black Eagle [ Sun Mar 22, 2015 2:00 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Feedback thread for Janitorial Reports
Yeah, that's definitely one of the things I noticed was lacking when I did Evil Science.
I'll be coming up with ways to improve that.

I might even replace the old bodies entirely. :think:
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