Happy_Fox

We have these, they're called workboots. They actually provide armour to your feet.

People implying they are part of some command or staffing structure below decks is nonsense and we should just keep it as a very basic place where people are all off-duty.

👎 Meteor is chaotic and beautiful. I don't think it's an issue. Keep it in.

They need RD to achieve true Bond Villain status. Give it to them. +1

I like this but only if security officers have to buy their own ammo from it (encourages accuracy)

5th round where nothing has been found by mining except for non-mineable objects in 1 hour and 30 minutes of searching. Absolute mind numbingly boring and infuriating with the sensor nerfs. I've yet to hear anyone in game actually playing mining who thinks they're a positive change.

Everyone here has covered what I think so I won't add to it, only just to say that I've never had less fun playing roles outside the Horizon. The new sensors are so awkward and clunky to use that the only light at the end of the tunnel seems to be Matt's PR as a band-aid to the issue that the new sensor system is just not good for people flying around to find things.

They keep appearing whenever big community discussions appear and honestly they're toxic and undermining any legitimate discussions that take place.

I agree with the concerns about the militarisation of the ship and how many times we've already fought Solarian mercenaries/warlords etc - with the Elyrans almost seeming to have second billing despite being in "their" region with regards to who we're encountering. And now in the Badlands we are continuing to fight them. I understand that we have some passionate Sol players who want to see the various Solarian Warlords represented but I honestly would rather we have an arc involving anyone else at this juncture. Further to that we have not actually been directly engaging, in these events, over a search for phoron. We had an event where we got to tour a site which had already been found, developed and dealt with (at least until we now have to go back there for more Solarian Warlord involvement). It has not felt at all like we were searching for phoron, but rather trying to defend what we already have - whether that is Solarians robbing the vessel or having to fly back to Orchard Moon.

A master's makes more sense imo. Generally our education requirements seem to match real-world equivalents, although I know this isn't a hard rule. For engineering a Doctorate (PhD or EngD) would be appropriate for someone responsible for engineering research, a faculty position or an executive position in an engineering organisation. A Chief Engineer for a large vessel IRL can get to that position with a bachelor's degree and the requisite experience. The work being more practical than research/academic, they typically focus on achieving certifications related to various aspects of maritime engineering and management. As we already have a high requirement for our ship's engineers (in a real ship the equivalent to our Engineers would be officers, in charge of teams of Engineering crew AND wouldn't need (and most likely wouldn't have as a minimum) a bachelor's degree) it seems reasonable to bump the requirement for Chief Engineer from a Bachelor's to a Master's degree for minimum. A doctorate would not necessarily be something useful to hold in such a position because of how applied the role is towards engineering issues. Consider as well that your engineer has somehow managed to work within engineering for 10 years while having achieved a master's in engineering and a PhD in engineering all part-time after leaving college at 20.

Sputnik plays characters with a lot of care for their motivations and behaviour, I think if they had that same approach for unathi and their specific behaviours they would be a good addition to the lizard horde.

This is a thread for feedback on the event today, in case anyone wanted to post their thoughts on it outside of Discord. For my two-cents I feel like the explicit threat of "intense structural damage" to our unarmed ship from 48 railguns, 6 torpedoes and an array of boarding pods, with "Probability of defensive manoeuvres breaking the lock; zero" in a region of space where we have no backup (because our backup is the warship threatening the Horizon) is probably a bit much to reasonably expect any sort of meaningful armed opposition. I was surprised to hear that there was a strong belief the crew would violently oppose the boarding party from those - to the extent that "We actually made the event for the opposite" of what happened - which was Command complying totally with the demands. What this results in, from what I can tell, is a feeling of railroading the response of compliance - and while this can be a desired outcome it seems in this case that it was the opposite of what was intended.

Really nice stuff. I love the idea of the Skrytisherbergi especially so!