Atmospheric Technician - Revision history

Spagooty at 00:42, 22 June 2021

2021-06-22T00:42:39Z

Florb: new rank

2021-05-23T15:26:22Z

new rank

Grabowski: Fixes the picture and adds a short paragraph on the NSV engines

2021-01-20T13:34:53Z

Fixes the picture and adds a short paragraph on the NSV engines

Grabowski: Changes the job template to the new one + its not a station

2020-12-15T12:48:10Z

Changes the job template to the new one + its not a station

Bokkiewokkie: adds rank

2020-09-20T14:50:17Z

adds rank

imported>W65 at 05:23, 20 June 2019

2019-06-20T05:23:47Z

imported>Angust: /* File:Atmospherics Hardsuit Helmet.png Firebender */ Fixed atrocious typo.

2018-11-10T15:40:31Z

File:Atmospherics Hardsuit Helmet.png Firebender: Fixed atrocious typo.

imported>PotatoMasher: Whew, thats all for my Engineering job page updates. Images, better formatting, updated info and a bit on atmos resin.

2018-10-17T03:33:51Z

Whew, thats all for my Engineering job page updates. Images, better formatting, updated info and a bit on atmos resin.

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imported>Kingfish: guide to atmospherics

2018-02-07T06:15:25Z

guide to atmospherics

imported>Kingfish: /* What you Can do to Pass the Time */

2018-02-07T06:14:43Z

What you Can do to Pass the Time

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 |difficulty = Medium
 |supervisors = [[Chief Engineer]]
-|rank = Enisgn ('''ENS''')
+|rank = Specialist ('''SPC''')
 |duties = Ensure the air is breathable on the ship, fill oxygen tanks, fight fires, purify the air because jerks release toxins, do the job of the always incompetent [[Station Engineer|engineers]].
 |guides = [[Atmospherics items]], [[Guide to Atmospherics]], [[Guide to construction]], [[Guide to the Stormdrive Engine]], [[Guide to the Nuclear Reactor]]

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 |difficulty = Medium
 |supervisors = [[Chief Engineer]]
-|rank = Lance Corporal ('''LCPL''')
+|rank = Enisgn ('''ENS''')
 |duties = Ensure the air is breathable on the ship, fill oxygen tanks, fight fires, purify the air because jerks release toxins, do the job of the always incompetent [[Station Engineer|engineers]].
 |guides = [[Atmospherics items]], [[Guide to Atmospherics]], [[Guide to construction]], [[Guide to the Stormdrive Engine]], [[Guide to the Nuclear Reactor]]

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 |headerfontcolor = black
 |bgcolor = #ffff88
-|image = AtomsTech.png
+|image = Generic_atmos.png
 |jobtitle = Atmospheric Technician
 |caption = "I am at work. I can't leave work. Work is breathing. I am testing air quality.'' - Manfred Hayden, Atmospheric Technician
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 |rank = Lance Corporal ('''LCPL''')
 |duties = Ensure the air is breathable on the ship, fill oxygen tanks, fight fires, purify the air because jerks release toxins, do the job of the always incompetent [[Station Engineer|engineers]].
-|guides = [[Atmospherics items]], [[Guide to Atmospherics]], [[Guide to construction]]
+|guides = [[Atmospherics items]], [[Guide to Atmospherics]], [[Guide to construction]], [[Guide to the Stormdrive Engine]], [[Guide to the Nuclear Reactor]]
 }}
 [[File:Atmospherics.png|300px|thumb|alt=Atmospherics|Welcome to [[Atmospherics|Atmosia]].]]
 What you do is rather simple, if there is any sort of environmental disaster, head off and fix it! You have your tools, your [[headset|engineering headset]], pipe, space heaters, and atmospheric survival equipment. When things get quiet, sit back and start building an on ship super slide while people ask why you even work here. When things go wrong, people will scream at you and ask why you even work here.
-'''Bare minimum requirements:''' Fight fires, restore the atmosphere in rooms that can't support life. Know how to fix sabotage to Atmospherics. Secure dat fukken axe.<br>
+'''Bare minimum requirements:''' Fight fires, restore the atmosphere in rooms that can't support life. Know how to fix sabotage to Atmospherics. Secure dat fukken axe. Give the engineers the engine mix they ask for.<br>
 '''Basic skills:''' Know what the pipe loops and air alarm settings do. Optimize the waste loop so it doesn't get clogged in case of a hull breach (cold gases) or plasma fire (hot gases). Carry an [[Atmospherics_items#Items|Atmos Holoprojector]] with you.<br>
-'''Advanced skills:''' Know about moles/volume and the properties of gases. [[Beyond_the_impossible|Selectively cause plasma floods]] to slow down a blob/xenomorph/spider infestation. Know the basics of Toxins and Engineering.<br>
+'''Advanced skills:''' Know about moles/volume and the properties of gases. [[Beyond_the_impossible|Selectively cause plasma floods]] to slow down a blob/xenomorph/spider infestation. Know the basics of Toxins and Engineering. Know good mixes for the [[Stormdrive]] and the [[RBMK]]<br>
 ==[[File:Atmospherics Hardsuit Helmet.png]] Firebender==
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 ==[[File:Analyzer.png]] What you Can do to Pass the Time==
 Atmos Techs usually have no clue what they can do, and often drift into a spiral of depression and suicide. Fret not! Here are some suggestions for you to do.
 ===[[File:Turbine computer.gif]] Set up the [[Turbine Engine]] ===

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-{{JobPageHeader
+{{Infobox_jobs
 |headerbgcolor = lightblue
 |headerfontcolor = black
-|stafftype = ENGINEERING
+|bgcolor = #ffff88
-|imagebgcolor = #ffff88
+|image = AtomsTech.png
 |jobtitle = Atmospheric Technician
 |access = [[Atmospherics]], [[Maintenance]]
-|additional = [[Engineering]], Power Equipment, [[Tech Storage]], External Airlocks
+|access2 = [[Engineering]], Power Equipment, [[Tech Storage]], External Airlocks
 |difficulty = Medium
-|superior = [[Chief Engineer]]
+|supervisors = [[Chief Engineer]]
 |rank = Lance Corporal ('''LCPL''')
-|duties = Ensure the air is breathable on the station, fill oxygen tanks, fight fires, purify the air because jerks release toxins, do the job of the always incompetent [[Station Engineer|engineers]].
+|duties = Ensure the air is breathable on the ship, fill oxygen tanks, fight fires, purify the air because jerks release toxins, do the job of the always incompetent [[Station Engineer|engineers]].
 |guides = [[Atmospherics items]], [[Guide to Atmospherics]], [[Guide to construction]]
 }}
 [[File:Atmospherics.png|300px|thumb|alt=Atmospherics|Welcome to [[Atmospherics|Atmosia]].]]
-What you do is rather simple, if there is any sort of environmental disaster, head off and fix it! You have your tools, your [[headset|engineering headset]], pipe, space heaters, and atmospheric survival equipment. When things get quiet, sit back and start building an on station super slide while people ask why you even work here. When things go wrong, people will scream at you and ask why you even work here.
+What you do is rather simple, if there is any sort of environmental disaster, head off and fix it! You have your tools, your [[headset|engineering headset]], pipe, space heaters, and atmospheric survival equipment. When things get quiet, sit back and start building an on ship super slide while people ask why you even work here. When things go wrong, people will scream at you and ask why you even work here.
 '''Bare minimum requirements:''' Fight fires, restore the atmosphere in rooms that can't support life. Know how to fix sabotage to Atmospherics. Secure dat fukken axe.<br>
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 ==[[File:Atmospherics Hardsuit Helmet.png]] Firebender==
-As the Atmospheric Technician, you have what should be a simple and easy job: [[Beyond the impossible|Keep Atmospherics operational and make sure the station doesn't burn down or run out of breathable air]]. As long as you have a good idea of how everything works, then this <i>shouldn't</i> be much of an issue. Atmosia may be a daunting mess of pipes, but after a few shifts of toying around with it, it will all make sense.
+As the Atmospheric Technician, you have what should be a simple and easy job: [[Beyond the impossible|Keep Atmospherics operational and make sure the ship doesn't burn down or run out of breathable air]]. As long as you have a good idea of how everything works, then this <i>shouldn't</i> be much of an issue. Atmosia may be a daunting mess of pipes, but after a few shifts of toying around with it, it will all make sense.
-Basically, being an Atmospheric Technician can be easy if you want to make it easy. You can sit around and do minor improvements and fix atmos issues around the station, or you could be an absolute madman and perform ritual magic with Trintium Fusion bullshit and make advanced gasses. Your choice.
+Basically, being an Atmospheric Technician can be easy if you want to make it easy. You can sit around and do minor improvements and fix atmos issues around the ship, or you could be an absolute madman and perform ritual magic with Trintium Fusion bullshit and make advanced gasses. Your choice.
 ==[[File:O2 Canister.png]] [[Atmospherics|Atmosia]]==
-The great city state of pipes, it is used as a jetpack recharge station for Syndicate Agents, a hideout for [[Wizard|Wizards]], a breeding ground of [[Xenos]], and has a general alert computer that will tell if any place is messed up.
+The great city state of pipes, it is used as a jetpack recharge ship for Syndicate Agents, a hideout for [[Wizard|Wizards]], a breeding ground of [[Xenos]], and has a general alert computer that will tell if any place is messed up.
-People rarely come here, but it is possible to do a lot of harm to the station if you know how.
+People rarely come here, but it is possible to do a lot of harm to the ship if you know how.
 <b>Please keep in mind that making Atmospherics sabotage-proof (for example by removing the plasma tank from the loop) before you have decent IC evidence that someone is going to sabotage it is considered metagaming.</b>
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 Normally the vents will fill the room slowly by default, though using some filled Portable Air Pumps, or Air Canisters you can refill the area much more quickly.
-===[[File:Waterbackpack atmos.png]] '''BE THE FIREFIGHTER THE STATION DESERVES'''===
+===[[File:Waterbackpack atmos.png]] '''BE THE FIREFIGHTER THE SHIP DESERVES'''===
 A fire is easily the most fun thing that can happen in a round (for you anyway); successful firefighting requires a real understanding of the atmospheric system. At all times, wear basic tools in a toolbelt and carry your firefighting gear in your backpack. When the call goes out, don your fire suit and gas mask, get yourself running on internals, put your oxygen tank ''on your back'', and carry your fire first aid kit, extinguisher and reinforced glass in your backpack (carried in a hand slot).
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 ===[[File:PortablePump.png]] Life Sucks and Blows===
-You can purge the air out of rooms using an emergency siphon, or change the air filter controls with the air alarm attached to walls! Just take your ID in hand, and click to un/lock it and play with the controls. Setting up the pumps in Atmos now allows you to pump any gas to any point in the station! You could also do this more manually with the use of Portable Air Pumps if you needed to.
+You can purge the air out of rooms using an emergency siphon, or change the air filter controls with the air alarm attached to walls! Just take your ID in hand, and click to un/lock it and play with the controls. Setting up the pumps in Atmos now allows you to pump any gas to any point in the ship! You could also do this more manually with the use of Portable Air Pumps if you needed to.
 Protip: Pure oxygen lets people survive in a breached compartment much longer.
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 # Fit your volumetric pumps in place of Waste In and Air to Distro, making sure the red stripe lines up with how the pumps were fitted by default so the flow goes the right way.
 # Volumetric pumps are automatically set to full fucking power so just turn on both of them.
-# Set every scrubber in the loop around the room to 4500 kPa. This is full blast.:* You have now completely set up Atmospherics to be beast mode in, like, three minutes. You can also do other stuff, like fit manual valves to the bad gasses to hamper solo-AI floods, and replace other pumps in the bowels of Atmospherics with volume pumps, but really, that five-point checklist will do it. Ninety-plus percent of people don't know jack shit about Atmospherics, and it's so easy to set it up so that it actually does shit. It's so rare to see it happen that the CE actually sought me out for praise for doing it this way.:* For AIs, if no organics are around competent/willing to do this manually and your Engiborgs (if you have any) are busy, which is like a guarantee, you can do a simpler version of this; just turn Air to Distro and Waste In up to 4500 kPa and set each scrubber station to 4500 kPa too. It won't be as effective but it's so much better than nothing. Cranking up the air available in the distro loop poses no threat to safety, and in fact, makes it harder to start up harmful floods since there's so much good air in the way in there. And since you're the AI, you can now use air vents (and scrubbers) as they were fucking designed to be used; to scrub, drain, and replace air in rooms as necessary, and it fucking works. It is astonishing how little is required to turn a system so often seen as worthless into a helpful part of the station.:* Minor addendum: A maxed volume pump and a maxed normal pump pump at the same rate given ideal circumstances. The difference is the volume pump won't stop pumping once its output end is at 4500 kpa or more. This makes it excellent for waste in, where no matter how much gas the previous fire/atmos experiment clogged the filtering loop with, Waste In is still pumping waste out of the scrubbers pipes, and by extension, helping keep the scrubbers from getting clogged to the point of uselessness.:* For the record, the advice of adding manual valves to the plasma loop will result in you getting yelled at by an admin if there's no evidence that the AI is rogue. It's "Spacing objectives tier", and for good reason.:* Setting up atmos doesn't really matter that much anyway as long as you give the distro loop some pressure. The entire supply and equipment is designed for a space station that's supposed to last month. There's about two instances in which a proper setup is useful: massive hullbreaches which will drain a lot of air (most of which will then uselessly disappear in space anyway) and station-wide plasma fires which might fill the waste loop (in which case you're at fault as an atmos tech for not keeping an eye on the system in the first place).
+# Set every scrubber in the loop around the room to 4500 kPa. This is full blast.:* You have now completely set up Atmospherics to be beast mode in, like, three minutes. You can also do other stuff, like fit manual valves to the bad gasses to hamper solo-AI floods, and replace other pumps in the bowels of Atmospherics with volume pumps, but really, that five-point checklist will do it. Ninety-plus percent of people don't know jack shit about Atmospherics, and it's so easy to set it up so that it actually does shit. It's so rare to see it happen that the CE actually sought me out for praise for doing it this way.:* For AIs, if no organics are around competent/willing to do this manually and your Engiborgs (if you have any) are busy, which is like a guarantee, you can do a simpler version of this; just turn Air to Distro and Waste In up to 4500 kPa and set each scrubber station to 4500 kPa too. It won't be as effective but it's so much better than nothing. Cranking up the air available in the distro loop poses no threat to safety, and in fact, makes it harder to start up harmful floods since there's so much good air in the way in there. And since you're the AI, you can now use air vents (and scrubbers) as they were fucking designed to be used; to scrub, drain, and replace air in rooms as necessary, and it fucking works. It is astonishing how little is required to turn a system so often seen as worthless into a helpful part of the ship.:* Minor addendum: A maxed volume pump and a maxed normal pump pump at the same rate given ideal circumstances. The difference is the volume pump won't stop pumping once its output end is at 4500 kpa or more. This makes it excellent for waste in, where no matter how much gas the previous fire/atmos experiment clogged the filtering loop with, Waste In is still pumping waste out of the scrubbers pipes, and by extension, helping keep the scrubbers from getting clogged to the point of uselessness.:* For the record, the advice of adding manual valves to the plasma loop will result in you getting yelled at by an admin if there's no evidence that the AI is rogue. It's "Spacing objectives tier", and for good reason.:* Setting up atmos doesn't really matter that much anyway as long as you give the distro loop some pressure. The entire supply and equipment is designed for a space ship that's supposed to last month. There's about two instances in which a proper setup is useful: massive hullbreaches which will drain a lot of air (most of which will then uselessly disappear in space anyway) and ship-wide plasma fires which might fill the waste loop (in which case you're at fault as an atmos tech for not keeping an eye on the system in the first place).
 * If you are an atmos tech and want to greatly reduce possibility of harmful atmos manipulations... or if you are an AI and you spotted a guy just turning valves to release plasma to distro:
 :* Open atmospherics console for a specific chamber and toggle power on output. 90% of players don't check this console. As AI I laughed many times as sabotager was running back and forth, checking every pump 3 times, and still, no plasma appeared. In this way you can also shut down harmful gases pumping when one is smart and changed pipes under grilles.:* Or put manual valves in front of every harmful gas, switch out some gas pumps for volumetric pumps, and repipe the mixing pipes to disallow the mix tank to provide into the distro. (Setting up Atmos in such a way it can't be sabotaged by the AI before there's a reason to think the AI might sabotage Atmos is not only metagaming, it is also bannable. If you see this happen, adminhelp it!)
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 ==[[File:Doubleagent.gif]] Oxygen is Overrated==
-Traitor atmos techs have the potential to become one of the most devastating forces on station. [[Guide_to_Atmospherics#Being_a_Traitorous_Scum|If you know what you're doing]], you can pretty much flood the station with whatever harmful gas you want. If you do, remember to take measures against the AI messing with your work, and always keep your internals on. This means either subverting the AI or cutting its access. If you're feeling particularly daring, you can unwrench the pipes and rearrange them, ensuring the AI cannot fix it. Bolt the doors, or set the room on fire to prevent humans from fixing it too. Depending on how bad it's going to be, you might want to procure a [[Syndicate_Items#Syndicate_Space_Suit|space suit]] to escape the hell you've created.
+Traitor atmos techs have the potential to become one of the most devastating forces on ship. [[Guide_to_Atmospherics#Being_a_Traitorous_Scum|If you know what you're doing]], you can pretty much flood the ship with whatever harmful gas you want. If you do, remember to take measures against the AI messing with your work, and always keep your internals on. This means either subverting the AI or cutting its access. If you're feeling particularly daring, you can unwrench the pipes and rearrange them, ensuring the AI cannot fix it. Bolt the doors, or set the room on fire to prevent humans from fixing it too. Depending on how bad it's going to be, you might want to procure a [[Syndicate_Items#Syndicate_Space_Suit|space suit]] to escape the hell you've created.
 ===[[File:Light Bulb.png]] Tips for Traitoring===

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 |difficulty = Medium
 |superior = [[Chief Engineer]]
 |duties = Ensure the air is breathable on the station, fill oxygen tanks, fight fires, purify the air because jerks release toxins, do the job of the always incompetent [[Station Engineer|engineers]].
 |guides = [[Atmospherics items]], [[Guide to Atmospherics]], [[Guide to construction]]

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−	To use the Backpack Firefighter Tank, equip it on your backpack slot and click the new hud icon to take out the nozzle[[File:atmos_nozzle.png]]. You can then cycle modes between extinguisher, resin launcher and single tile resin launcher (foamer) by activating the nozzle in your hand. It spends water when used. Examine the nozzle to see water remaining. More of these bad boys can be ordered from [[Supply_crates#Backpack Firefighting Crate\|cargo]].	+	To use the Backpack Firefighter Tank, equip it on your backpack slot and click the new hud icon to take out the nozzle[[File:atmos_nozzle.png]]. You can then cycle modes between extinguisher, resin launcher and single tile resin launcher (foamer) by activating the nozzle in your hand. It spends water when used. Use the nozzle on a water tank to refill it. Examine the nozzle to see water remaining. More of these bad boys can be ordered from [[Supply_crates#Backpack Firefighting Crate\|cargo]].
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		+	'''DO NOT''' spray a Supermatter engine with atmos resin if you don't want it to delaminate. Sure, it seems like a good idea if it's on fire and full of plasma, but impairing the movement of gasses around the crystal doesn't help the situation the way you might think.

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−	~~\|reason = Needs updated information regarding the Atmos overhaul on October 27, 2017.~~
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 ==What you Can do to Pass the Time==
 Atmos Techs usually have no clue what they can do, and often drift into a spiral of depression and suicide. Fret not! Here are some suggestions for you to do.
 === Repressurization and Filtering ===