Coalf

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!

Considering as resolved, locking and archiving.

Aknowledged.

Additional comment; the supermatter was fucked up by a player ramming into it as a mouse, he was handled in the round by @Pratepresidenten

Alright both me and Shame looked through logs and we found the same conclusive evidence, that a very critical misstep in the investigation was made. Yonni's statement supports this too. To clarify, there were two antags at round end, the Unathi played by @Vizendel and a Tajara1 played by @ReadThisNamePlz. The Tajara1 wished to rescue Tajara2 who had a bomb inside them, security refused to let them interact and thus Tajara1 decided to force their way to Tajara2. At the checkpoint, Tajara1 was approached and aimed at (with a lethal laser rifle) by an officer and told to surrender. Seeing no alternative, Tajara1 began fighting the officer, killing them, the Unathi was present according to the logs as they had created an alliance beforehand. After this the HoS gives an order to shoot lethally at armed people approaching the shuttle, this is logical. Then an officer tosses a single flashbang, this flashbang hits the Unathi and Tajara1. At this point, the Unathi buys frag grenades and EMP grenades. Some fire is exchanged and allegedly the Tajara dies/collapses which, the Unathi breaks into the shuttle and frag grenades/EMP grenades begin being tossed. Logs also include a lot of glaiving, attempted disarms, etc. Here is the issue, the fighting on the shuttle was indeed carried over from the hallway, sure, acceptable, that is included in the rules. HOWEVER No ganking. While antags will sometimes kill, it is expected for you to provide interesting roleplay to your targets first, if your goal is assassination. This does not mean that you need to monologue your opponent before killing them: roleplay leading up to a murder can take place over the course of the entire round, for example, leaving the murder scene itself to be “wordless”. Collateral damage is acceptable within reason, but this means you must use common sense, and avoid creating scenarios with a lot of potential for collateral (setting bombs in high-traffic areas, etc.) This rule is violated via tossing the grenades into a packed, near completely glass shuttle full of Civilians when your goal is to allegedly save someone inside that shuttle. To me, this seems like prioritizing effectivity and DPS. Both I and ShameOnTurtles read the logs INDIVIDUALLY and concluded this. I decided to also read up on all dialogue said that round from the Unathi and Tajara1 and the intent of the Unathi on why exactly they wanted to help was very paper-thin as there seemed to be zero dialogue about any plan, idea or anything else. IN SHORT We have concluded the investigation carried out by @Yonnimer was erroneous. All relevant parties will be talked to. Locking and Archiving in 24 hours unless more evidence pops up, however, do bear in mind that all presented above is OBJECTIVE evidence read directly from the logs which include all words, aims, attacks, and grenade priming and hitting.

Whitelist accepted, locking and archiving.

I'll be taking this complaint along with @ShameOnTurtles @Yonnimer

This is a strange argument, the first implication is that everyone had behaved in a way that could be used to raise an entire staff complaint over, alright fair, nobody is innocent. But the way you structure the argument further baffles the mind, it implies that the excuse for Fowl's behavior is the fact he acts like this constantly when I think that would be the exact reason this complaint was made. Further, the implication that no discussion can ever be had with him due to his prickery is a very strange defense. I'd even think this was somehow a subtle and hidden criticism. Hiding ignorance and inability to argue behind eloquent and long-winded prose or biting commentary gets annoying, true, but I wouldn't call it something to make a complaint over. However what I would make a bashing over is the overuse of slurs in a negative context and the rule numero uno, "Don't be a dick". There are two ways you can regard slurs, "Always bad" or "Regarding context". This server operates on a mixture of both and I agree that words become negative based on context, not based on the word itself. Fowl has violated both definitions, be it the "context" argument or "always" argument. And going from what I know as observed from chat Fowl HAS been talked to about his behavior previously, two times last month and this month about the calendar, yet it keeps repeating. And I think this is where I take an issue, the refusal to acknowledge anything bad had been done in the first place and thus the inability to learn from it. Hinting at the fact that it'll just keep happening. In the end, I think people overfocused this complaint on the stupidity of the arguments rather than the actual issues with the author which were the origin of this complaint.

Ever since we stopped shilling PRA and switched to DPRA people seemed to have taken a waster interest. True and for the better even.

Archiving and locking.

Just like those damn manifestos.

The trial period starting today until 4.12.2018

Splendid, locking and archiving.

To add to all of that, I apologize.

Exactly, so why didn't you post this response in the first place? If we want to change the community we can't keep reacting in overdramatized, buzzword ridden insults that we think aren't going to come back to bite us in the ass just because we didn't mention "specific" people. It's disingenuous to go posting this genuinely well thought out, constructive and honest post when the first post in this thread is a giant "fuck you" to about half the server. I agree with you, these over-reactions need to stop but we have to start somewhere and that somewhere is ourselves, pity parties like this thread do nothing they're precisely that brand of over-reaction you yourself call out, so it's better to not entertain them. You made some good decisions, you made some bad decisions, you made some pointless decisions but you're more of a contributor than I'll ever be and when I fuck off from this server and die of ligma the changes you put in will still be here while I'll rot away in annals of history. Let's start posting what you posted now at the start of threads instead of their end, let's start preventing things instead of regretting things because there are just some things that we can't change but what a person can always change is themselves, with time and effort. I acknowledge what you said and I do have a long way to go as a person in my responses and behaviour, but the simple fact is I responded to a very long disrespectful comment via a very short disrespectful comment. So now I'm responding to this respectful post with a respectful post. As I said at the start, this shift wasn't the issue of a single event, it was the entire playerbase moving the server. In the same sense, you're not responsible for everything bad with the server, neither am I, nobody here is, we're all responsible for the bad and for the good. “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” - Luke 6:31