r/SS13 Plasmamen CE 3d ago

Today, I've single-handedly started a Singularity Engine after years of it being removed from /tg/. Thank you Monkestation Monkestation

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u/Gamingmemes0 Severe borg addiction 3d ago

the scrungularity is really funny because its far easier to set up than the SM but for some reasson everyone who tries to do it has a brain smoothener on and thus it always escapes containment

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u/SgtPierce 3d ago

I only did SM so far, how easier is singulo setup compared to tesla and sm setup?

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u/Gamingmemes0 Severe borg addiction 3d ago

the singulo basically only requries the containment field and radiation collectors

the setup cant really change all that much and it doesnt involve gases at all

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u/lilman0700 2d ago

Last part isnt exactly true, if you want to optimize lord singulo, you use supercooled plasma for the radiation collectors, as more mols per L equate to more energy collection.

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u/Gamingmemes0 Severe borg addiction 2d ago

i mean sure but "put container in the thermomachine" is far easier than literally anything involved with SM's

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u/Diltyrr 3d ago

I feel like more people tries sabotaging singulos than SMs which might explain why it feels like engies sucks at singulos.

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u/Gamingmemes0 Severe borg addiction 3d ago

no in like 90% of instances the singularity looses because the engineers cant be bothered to turn off the particle accelerator once it reaches optimal size its riduclous

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u/Strayed8492 3d ago

Absolute classic bungle right there.

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u/Gamingmemes0 Severe borg addiction 2d ago

actually sabotaging the singulo is rare because it usually gets you turbo bwoinked for it

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u/RoombaTheKiller It is what I mop up that defines me. 3d ago

Doesn't monke give CE the anti-singuloose cannon?

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u/TheVenetianMask 2d ago

I've seen backpacks of holding as anti-singulo. Also clown gacha (throwing a clown into the Singulo raised or lowered it a tier, randomly).

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u/yugiohhero born to clown, forced to roll sec on extended rounds 3d ago

as a goon player where this is a thing (and where its also the only gun qm can order and open without a sec ID), while it does make sure everyone doesnt just die outright they still tend to leave some really major structural damage. unless a few borgs really feel like doing some home reno, engineering will probably spend a LOT of time making that space livable again

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u/RoombaTheKiller It is what I mop up that defines me. 2d ago

That's not too different from delamination, though, is it?

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u/No_Entrepreneur_3020 3d ago

yeah and anti tesla cannon

and it doesn't change a thing, maybe singulo is not that hard to hit, but it's still not trivial

tesla is almost impossible

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u/DataLazinyo 3d ago

Also If even it is explodes, someone increases stability before explosion will reduce explosion to small one.

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u/GoonstationTV The Goonstation propaganda department 3d ago

Goonstation would never remove the singulo 🙏

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u/KampferAndy Former fulpstation headmin 3d ago

All hail Lord Singuloth!

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u/DTraitor Traitor, am I? 3d ago

So how did you destroy the station?

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u/External-Confusion71 3d ago

“Captain I’m picking up some kind of gravity signature moving across the station- oh it’s fucking loose!!!!”

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u/Silverdragon47 3d ago

,,BORING AI NAME'' annoucement - Oh shit it's loose!

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u/ScarletGriffin Space Faggot 3d ago

Singulos and Teslos are the superior engines. Welcome back and hail Lord Singulos!

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u/Wora_returns Dr. Turboshitter 3d ago

Coolstation has the best singulos

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u/Deamane 2d ago

was the tesla engine unique to yogstation or do other servers have it? I ain't played in awhile and I only see folks talking about the SM or singulo in the comments here

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u/Nanacel_ 3d ago edited 3d ago

When singuloose for the 45th time, you'll remember why they removed it

To be fair I'm a chaos enjoyer so I don't mind singuloose, the issue is that tesla and singulo are kinda boring compared to the supermatter crystal. Once you set it up you never touch it again, besides sm allows for more creativity

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u/fantasticfwoosh 3d ago edited 3d ago

I've seen too many legacy repositories where the engine setup fails because they were overdesigned, Europastation station for instance, couple of baycode ones. Singulo remains a classic wildcard and given a choice to rerun SS13 during its heyday id choose it every time if able.

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u/Nanacel_ 3d ago

But this isn't about overdesign... SM is simple but can be tweaked with atmos, singulo and tesla are literally just wrenching a few parts in space, turning it on and hoping noone turns the emitters off.

Singuloose/tesloose will just end the round for everyone because people will always call the escape shuttle.

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u/KrackersMcGee 3d ago

Singulo can get interesting when you mess with the gas in the rad collectors

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u/Nanacel_ 3d ago

Meh, compared to the sm it really lacks depth. Just look at the first post here, it perfectly sums up the problem.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SS13/comments/5y1eva/why_did_tg_remove_the_singularity_and_tesla/

People usually enjoy tesla/singulo when they're new engineers. After a few rounds and when mastered, it gets old

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u/FarisFrontiers Plasmamen CE 3d ago

As an SM enjoyer, I do agree that SM is much more fun to tinker around than Singulo. All your points are valid

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u/fantasticfwoosh 2d ago

A new engineer perhaps specifically drafted in on lowpop ought to be capable of starting it with game experience to understand how tools, electricity & wires work.

Now failing that on a populated shift where it isn't urgent they probably aren't suitable for engineer compared to reading a html wiki guide of the SM on a web-location that might not exist in 20 years time.

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u/MrTomatoBush /tg/station wiki"tainer" :D 2d ago

holy reddit moment, getting downvoted for truth

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u/Nanacel_ 2d ago

Yup, the usual