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Removes Sleeper delay (w/ anti-surprisesoporific)

Created by: 9600bauds

Cryo has no delay for placing someone inside or ejecting them, neither does the body scanner or the DNA modifier. The delay on the Sleeper only really serves as a hassle, making it clunkier to use in a hurry.

"But Bauds! That delay is there to keep people from getting surprise sleeper'd+soporific'd!" I'm going to list why I don't think that is an issue at all:

  • Soporific takes a while to work. Cryo knocks you out instantly, and AFAIK there's never been a delay on it. If someone wanted to knock a guy out and didn't have anything to do it, they would just take 6 steps to the right and use Cryo.
  • There's already soporific round-start in Medbay's backroom. If a doctor wanted to be a shitter and surprisesedate people, they could just harmsyringe without even having to step into chemistry... and without needing the person to stand within 1 tile of the sleeper.
  • You'd seriously have to be conspicuously standing right next to the sleeper without paying attention to be the unwitting victim of this. If someone were to abuse this they'd much more likely be pulling you and/or have you stunned, at which point there are tons of much more effective and quick ways to knock someone out (once again, soporific takes a good while to work). Such as the aforementioned cryo.

To help with that, I added a short delay before you are able to soporific a guy after putting them in the sleeper. Should keep anybody from trying to abuse this and hopefully be a better solution than hoping it doesn't happen.

Also for some reason there was a delay for click+dragging someone outside, but no delay for rightclick+eject

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