Coalf

If you would direct your gaze to what Kyres wrote and read it instead of looking at it, you'd read this: "The offworlders on board NanoTrasen stations are not a new introduction, but higher gravity stations have recently began to see workers descending from zero-gravity environments. This is due to the recent proliferation of the unique ESS modules thanks to NanoTrasen’s mass distribution of them to workers seeking alternative job routes. These ESS, or Exo-Stellar Skeleton modules, are RIG-like exoskeletons that assist in movement and comfort in a standard gravity environment. Though old inventions, their recent mass upgrades from NT has allowed them to meet health and safety standards for comfortable work, and has sparked a large immigration back into the Core Worlds from these afflicted Humans." Which answers your first question. "Why so many now?" To answer your second question: "Why are there no xeno low gravs?" We feel this is unnecessary bloat. Spacers have been already present in the code long before, and if all our ideas would boil down to "the species but it gets the spacer suit", it would be redundant. You are however free to code, sprite and suggest these variations if your heart desires but I feel those will be rejected due to being bloat. We do have the Lore Request forum. Regarding: "Mechanics" If you consider all of the additions that have been suggested as "not enough", then I simply can't help you. If you feel like you're being robbed of vital mechanics, you're free to offer or make more. We are looking forward to the solutions suggested by people. Regarding: "Factions" Spacers, as seen above, are only a representative faction. You are 100% allowed to make them from any faction you please, with your own twists and turns on them! This is why they're remaining un-whitelisted.

All the issues that come with Off-Worlders come with Spacers. 1) Characters already call themselves spacers. 2) They're not just in space, they're from low-grav planets. 3) Spacers is technically everyone who lives in space.

Third addendum, yaaay! Technically both Spacers and Off-worlders is incorrect as these people CAN be from very low-grav planets, moons, and asteroids.

Oh! And a thing I forgot. You don't have to be the "species spacer" to be a "spacer". These are genetically changed humans, you could call them a genetic offshoot similar to how a dog is not a wolf. You can just as easily make a spacer that isn't from the species, it simply means he isn't the "5th generation no-grav human", he simply is the first generation or his parents never lived in no grav for such prolonged periods of time. Just like people can make an IPC and say they're from Bishop without using the Bishop sub-type.

On Matters of "Bloat" Hello, I worked on large part of the lore with Kyres and co-oped space-humans, whatever the name is now that people are upset over it, so I'll answer a few questions. But first I'd like to ask what "Bloat" means as it has been thrown quite a lot without any actual definition. Code bloat? Well no, Grav-Adapted-Humans, Shadowpeople, and Resomi are all spawnable already and have their own mechanics so I'd guess that is incorrect, after all, we're adding a hardsuit and changing properties of a species that was already there. Although it is true that people should give more thought before they vote or code new things to implement. Lore bloat? Frankly, I partially agree that the spacers shouldn't have been propped up as a big faction and I raised my concern over it with Kyres and asked at the beginning of the project when I began writing the lore for them. Character bloat? Well judging by the people here everyone is a big boy pant veteran and I think that harms the view of how people approach the server. Sure it "Doesn't have to be" mechanical, but as Ornias said: " But she can already make whatever character she wants to make within the human subfactions without having to be backed up by a RIGsuit. " Yep and plenty of people can't because they are not as good as Sleepy. I live in a world of idealism and in that world, mechanics serve to boost Roleplaying capabilities, both of those experienced and those inexperienced. I believe spacers are a door for people who have not even considered the possibility of being a weird genetic freak, which leads to my second topic. On Matters of "There Be Elves In Them Hills" Nein would be incorrect, the person was originally not scorned over having "elf ears", but over the fact, they claimed to be a literal elf. I was there during the debate. On Matters of "Off-Worlders" My idea was to call them Spacies so I could tell them to get off of my station, reee. But alas this is why we have feedback threads and this is one of those, so I implore all upon this thread to help us make a new name. Since we as a team had multiple picks and off-worlders was chosen as the easiest to pick-up for players, however, if they don't like it, it can always be changed to something better. I believe the other suggestions were: Spacers (But I know of characters who call themselves spacers too so that cannot be done), Spacies, Galactons, Low-gravs, Gravoids, Gravy bois,

Please restrict your posting to genuine feedback. Thank you.

So can non-factioneers "win" the event? Are players going to be rewarded for reporting them? What is security going to do about all this? Isn't this technically corporate espionage? Something I believe we already have laws for?

Sorry for the delay, locking and archiving.

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So recently Burger brought up that he has an issue with the three Nanopastes down in sub-level of science. As seen here: As he said it's been rushed basically every round by IPCs and IPC antags alike to be snatched and used in self-healing. So the suggestion was brought up that instead of changing the nanopaste itself the machines could be made fixable by other means so they could be deleted from that level. Burger didn't want to do it so I am making a suggestion thread that some other developer or someone with at least a passable ability of coding will see this and pick it up. Yes, xenoarchaeology isn't the most used department but outright removing the Nanopastes without substituting could cause some fatal mishaps, as they're pretty fucking dangerous since they let out radiation and explode when they overheat too much.

Due to the resolution of the other suggestion I'll be archiving this one. Locking and archiving.

I humbly accept the most important award.

It's a bit weird that in your thread where you try to reinforce the trust in staff and non-public communication you present two examples of staff being biased or making mistakes as main points. Perplexing boast, yet alas. Now don't get me wrong I get where you're coming from, the issue is this is going to have some serious unintended consequences which Bay has felt when they censored their own complaint threads. Paranoia. Let's say a thread appears, Character A killed Character B, your Character C saw it happen. You know that Character A did not kill Character B. An Admin accepts this complaint. A week later the admin concludes Character A is guilty and closes the complaint. Do you see what I mean? While it's admirable you trust us enough, as is demonstrated in this thread plenty of people don't. And I do understand where you're coming from in removal of toxicity, but this cannot be done by throwing a blanket over said toxicity. People are still going to be toxic, they'll just use every other medium available to express their opinion. Development is a perfect example, we have feedback threads, we have GitHub feedback threads, we have polls and we have the github log on discord. Yet with EVERY change the discord, private PM's, OOC and LOOC erupts into the discussion about this and that and how it's wrong and I am right. Imagine this happening with literally every single complaint thread and unlike the forums, discord is MUCH harder to administrate. In short, while I do admire this attempt I don't believe it's the right thing to do. I think it's the equivalent of putting a rug on the stain rather than cleaning it up. You are right in that change of character, a true change can only happen through discipline and learning. This is why the warning system exists if people do not learn, they get banned. So I'd rather see a person being reported for using history to call someone out, rather than holding my fingers crossed that the admin really did interview literally everyone possible.

Application denied by Jackboot. It is not in our vision to have Changelings organized in a government; they are a mysterious force we do not understand. Locking and archiving.

Notice @ben10083 you've played a HoS once and an IAA twice at the complete end of your trial. We and other players cannot measure your ability to play this way and thus will be extending your trial for a week to give you more time to play heads of personnel.

To clarify voting values on how well equipped your character will be in the gauntlet: 0-1 - Due to this being an SFW environment they'll be getting a loincloth. No weapons. 2-4 - Wool clothing along with stone daggers. 5-10 - Leather armor, Bronze Weapons of varying shapes and sizes depending on how high they are. 11-15 - Bronze Armor and Bronze Weapons of varying shapes and sizes. 16-19 - Iron Armor and Iron Weapons of varying shapes and sizes. 20< - Steel Armor and Steel Weapons of varying shapes and sizes. All characters will be AMATEUR practitioners of a weapon they're wielding. If you donate 300 dollars to my paypal I will give a character of your choosing adamantine.

The votes have been counted, the people have been heard and the waifus have been, well you know. SO LET'S GET ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIGHT INTO THE NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWS FIRST PLACE #1 LOOCing loudly into first place, it's none other than the squeaky cleany, skrell talkiny, spider huginy. Ava Hazel SECOND PLACE #2 Who is holly, jolly, round ball of fun and securing a second place? (this is literally a fucking ball people wtf your tastes are getting worse) ORB THIRD PLACE #3 Eridani born and HoP heading, give it up for our paper pushing, paper drowning, paper papering girl! Amaya Stone There are a lot of others and I'd like to say. You all suck, you don't matter, if you're under this 3 system ranking you're useless and unimportant. BUT STAY TUNED, SINCE ALL THE SUCKERS WILL BE CAPABLE OF FIGHTING A FIRST PLACE IN THE GAUNTLET OF DWARF FORTRESS The waifu wars will return after messages from our sponsors:

I'd support this, for ghosts/observers only. I've seen players help each other, clarify things or ask for voiding or "going AFK". Ghosting and observing shouldn't be encouraged, this is exactly what ghost LOOC does. Not only that but it encourages people to start dumb peanut galleries and constantly chip in with dumb and frankly unfunny commentary to pretty much every situation no matter how serious it gets, it's nothing but annoying when people are dying and you're struggling to spot tiny black text between the fat, bolded, light-blue letters going "LMAO XDDDDDD" "XDD REKT" "GET REKT SHOTGUN LOOOL". Now you can go, "Just mute it", well that doesn't work either. First off I'm muting everyone in-game as well, second off I cannot influence other people in turning it off and of course they react to the shit that gets posted LOOCly. I've seen entire conversations stall because someone ghosting wanted to be hilarious. If people want to use LOOCly so badly, they should at least be in the game. Addendum: Didn't talk about selective blocking in-game because there doesn't seem to be an actual negative to it. Well maybe besides someone LOOCly saying they're AFK and you not seeing it.

They're all weirdly miss-colored, the blue, white and yellow being the worst offenders as they're for some reason dirt smeared on the sides while the top is brightened out. The red has deep red on the side but a soft red on the top? And for some reason, the green one has just been colored by the same color all over EXCEPT the corners and external sides? Furthermore, the white medkit has an ugly black outline all around itself but then all the others have a black outline just AROUND the handle? Zero ingenuity has gone into the design besides "me put cross on healy thing", where is the flame, where is the O2 sign? To top it all off the handles were apparently made for people with gigantism and become fat and round. They're objectively uglier.

Alright, now all you have to do is change every existing sprite to that standard. Good luck Matt, see you in 5-10 years. Addendum: Those medkits look terrible.

The community out-reach is TEMPORARILY CLOSED. Please do not make more suggestions, the maintainers and developers are in the process of getting everything on the wiki. They might open at later dates. Thank you.

Hey, hey people, Ccoalf here. I've heard the whining, the mining, the moaning, and groaning. Then I turn on the internet and bam, people on Aurora are also complaining! "Wherein be the waifu wars?" they asked, and I answered http://www.strawpoll.me/17024432 The strawpoll is here, voting will be open until Friday the 14th upon which I'll close the voting and rank the waifus. REMEMBER, the waifus WILL FIGHT TO THE DEATH IN DWARF FORTRESS. THE AMOUNT OF VOTES YOUR WAIFU RECEIVES SECURES THEM BETTER GEAR IN THE GAUNTLET, SO THEY'LL HAVE A BIGGER CHANCE TO LIVE!