Editing Guide to Research and Development (section)

== How 2 Gain More Points: 4 Dummies ==

=== Ballmer Peak ===

* [https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/33979 DRINK ALCOHOL GODDAMNIT]. If you drink juuuust the right amount of alcohol, you can research new technologies faster. However, if you drink too much alcohol, you research new technologies slower. As a scientist, instead of slurring, you start shouting out phrases from the pool below. Some of these phrases signify good blood alcohol levels, some of them signify pretty damn unhealthy blood alcohol levels.

Ballmer Phrases: The Good Sayings (indication that you've drank enough alcohol to get that sweet tech boost)

* Hey guys, what if we rolled out a bluespace wiring system so mice can't destroy the powergrid anymore?
* Hear me out here. What if, and this is just a theory, we made R&D controllable from our PDAs?
* I'm thinking we should roll out a git repository for our research under the AGPLv3 license so that we can share it among the other stations freely.
* I dunno about you guys, but IDs and PDAs being separate is clunky as fuck. Maybe we should merge them into a chip in our arms? That way they can't be stolen easily.
* Why the fuck aren't we just making every pair of shoes into galoshes? We have the technology.

Windows ME Phrases: The Bad Sayings (indication that you've drank too much alcohol, please don't do RnD)

* Yo man, what if, we like, uh, put a webserver that's automatically turned on with default admin passwords into every PDA?
* So like, you know how we separate our codebase from the master copy that runs on our consumer boxes? What if we merged the two and undid the separation between codebase and server?
* Dude, radical idea: H.O.N.K mechs but with no bananium required.
* Best idea ever: Disposal pipes instead of hallways.

=== Tachyon-Doppler Array ===
[[Guide to toxins|Toxins]] bombs detonated at the test site generate points through the Tachyon-Doppler Research Array which records the size of the blast. Somehow this generates points. After a change 2018 the maximum amount of points you can get from a bomb and round is 50 000. 
<br>[[File:Dopplerarrayformula.png]]
:The formula returns the delta between the total points generated and the points that would be generated by the bomb. The above graph statically applies whether you detonate the smaller bomb first or last, the downside being that improving your bomb will still reward you but with significantly less points than before. A maxcap bomb (purple), and a 700 (red) and 1000 (orange) radius bomb are marked on the graph with horizontal lines.

=== Radiation Collectors/Tesla Corona Analyzers ===
* [[File:Radiation Collector.gif]] Radiation Collectors can be set to generate research points instead of power, if the engineers are bored and you're already rolling in power. Radiation collectors require a mix of tritium and oxygen to produce research points. These gasses are consumed at a very rapid pace when the rad collector is in research point production mode. Work together with science or atmos techs to increase the station's research point production at the temporary cost of power production. For reference, one room temperature tank with 50% tritium, 50% oxygen will produce a total of 50 research points with the most frequently used supermatter setup. More radiation will increase the rate at which research points are generated, and packing more moles of both gasses into the tank will increase the amount of time a rad collector will be able to generate research points.
* [[File:Ateslacoil.png]] Tesla Coronas (a variant of tesla coils) can be set using a screwdriver on the circut board to generate research points instead of power, if the engineers are bored and you're already rolling in power. Unlike the radiation collector, it simply generates research points through electricity striking the object, not through variable gas mixtures. This means that although the Tesla Corona generates points more reliably, you don't have as many ways to increase the actual amount of points generated.