Martians megathread

[unid15]

With #10045 merged, multi-handed mobs are now possible to code. The most popular idea currently is martians

There are already sprites provided by @NigglyWiggly, as well as some very basic code in the files, but there is still much to discuss

• Should they be a new type of carbon mob (/mob/living/carbon/martian), a subtype of monkey (/mob/living/carbon/monkey/martian) or a subtype of human (/mob/living/carbon/human/martian)? Each of these options has its own advantages and disadvantages
• Should they be available roundstart as a species, like diona or plasmamen?

[NigglyWiggly]

Martians have teeth on the bottom of their skull, and as such, some sort of jaw

[Shadowmech88]

and as such, some sort of jaw

The teeth could be vestigial. Just because their skull has a top row of teeth doesn't mean they have a bottom row anywhere.

[Blithering]

Martians' favourite food!

[Blithering]

I'd say let them drop things when they fall just like everyone else, or it'll take all the fun out of martian tipping.

[Densane]

I wish for martians mob, as a whole, to be a slip source, like clown pda length time.

Like if you run over a prone martian you slip on all the speghett slime tenticlas.

A little bit of balance to the fact that one disarm can make them drop everything. If you knock them over and walk over them when trying to loot their stuff that's your fault, and by the time you recover, the martian has as well.

but that would be kind of abuseable on the martian's side if there wasn't a timer for rest/stand up recovery time to balance the "free slip"

[Blithering]

Give martians five grab levels. Passive, aggressive hands, aggressive neck, aggressive everything, and christmas tree lights.

[NigglyWiggly]

Aggressive everything

I know enough about Japanese pornography to say this is a bad idea.

[Blithering]

WHEN?

[DamianX]

Scootaloos exist since #15726