Coalf

Over your time here you have connected 10 times as two different characters. You have 9 notes, 3 of which are bans. You have a character which is dark skinned and speaks in "ghetto talk" who has been charged over 4 times when he has connected 3 times. The first words to come out of your mouth were "I didn't break any rules, get off of my back". When I finally spoonfed you the correct rule your only explanation was "I want to amass a small robot army" and "That's the extent of it" I gave more effort into typing up this response than you gave into trying to actually stay on the server and play correctly. Denied.

I think Burger is mostly adressing the non-canon events which happen, those tend to be a lot more agressive nad gun-ho. Although I would appreciate feedback on canon events, I got great feedback from ToasterRobo on discord about my previous event.

Plural, refered to the previous posts before Scheveningen's. You are not hammering it into it's old spot. You are just making it a worse pepper spray. After a bit of wondering this legitimately seems like a further NERF to the flash, not only do you plan to remove the strongest and most unique thing the flash has going for it, which is the completely screen white-out. You plan to add effects which the pepper spray not only already has but has them last much longer and ACTUALLY STUNS PEOPLE. Also if the AOE effect would just be the curret effects but weaker then it's just going to be straight up not worth wasting a belt slot on.

What I said is, pepper spray fills the place of flash 100%, it's useless to revert it in any way. Currently flash is an anti-borg tool and a crowd distruption tool as when you activate it in your hand you blind everyone who is currently on your screen. It's purpose changed and people need to learn that instead of trying to forcefully hammer it into the old spot.

So what exactly does this do? I mean, let's review. Add an actual battery charge to flashes. Battery charge determines how many times a flash can be used before the flash needs to be recharged. Pepper spray has limited shots. The bulb of a flash can still burn out if used too frequently. Pepper spray can't burn out. Add different variants of flashes researchable by R&D. Pepper sprays don't rely on R&D Causes temporary blindness for 2 seconds. Pepper spray Causes blurry eyes for 10 seconds. Pepper spray Causes disorientation (chance to move in a different direction) for 2 seconds. This is new Causes slow (movedelay increase) for 2 seconds. Pepper spray Causes clumsiness (current method of clumsiness will need to be reworked, easy to do) for 2 seconds. This is new. The flash will have the whole one advantage of being able to stun borgs, which it does now, still. In short this'll become a mediocre pepper spray. To further hammer in the point the teargas grenades do everything above AND cause halloss, making it impossible for anyone to run off.

Sol Ban Continues, Refugees Flood Tau Ceti The decision of Sol Alliance to ban Tajara immigration still sends shockwaves out to the known space, most recently aboard the NSS Aurora. On the 28th of June a shuttle registered to a human fabric trader named Mirvan Spietzstein had entered the space near the Romanovich Cloud, passing all security checks and identification marks it was on its way out of the system when an unknown shuttle was suddenly detached from the space freighter and began heading straight for the Nanotrasen Research Station, Aurora. “We always begin with a scan before we send out any drones and it paid off in this case,” comments drone operator Joshua Spitzrite. Indeed as the unknown shuttle wasn’t a bomb but in fact an auto-piloted shuttle housing 6 Tajara refugees, three men, two women and one underage teen. One of the male Tajara was found dead on arrival, having suffocated due to the lack of oxygen. The NSS Aurora and its crew had done their best to accommodate, treat and properly log all of the Tajara refugees even if it does not fare with standard protocol. Later the rogue shuttle was seen violently ejecting from the landing port and crashing into a nearby asteroid, this time empty. However drama had ensued as one of the Tajara, identified as Ameer Al-Sesay, discharged multiple shots from his illegally acquired handgun which he had hidden in an unknown storage area on his body. Names of the officers in-charge during that crisis are being withheld for privacy and safety reasons however Nanotrasen officials have assured us appropriate actions would be taken. The victim of the shootout, Evangeline Du Dancion, stated; “I am not angry about getting shot, accidentally. I even sympathize with the man…” Miss Evangeline Du Dancion was a Chief Engineer aboard the NSS Aurora, at the time tasked with building a temporary shelter for the refugees. Further she added, ”…I’d probably reach for my gun as well.” However slip-ups like these are multiplying in number as Tau Ceti officials struggle to process refugees which now rush to Tau Ceti, their entrance to Sol being refused, the authorities of Mars had reported similar issues. But we remain positive as more and more refugees are being accepted into our system and showered with love, understanding and technology which they most likely never dreamt of. One of these being the 17 year old Koskov Al-Sesay, an aspiring computer wizard and a nephew of the shooter, "Koskov feels, this might be better than his families intended destination of Detroit ... There is so much more here for a Tajara than he hears of Sol, and he sees people that are like him! The people are so kind, they fixed his families wounds, and he was given compassion ... He wants to make this his home ..." The government of Sol refuses to comment on the current immigration issues. PLAY: Khaled Al-Bastaki adressing yesterdays crisis.

I will agree on mechanical traits towards things that cannot be simulated by in-game roleplaying. I.e. flat damage reductions, hastened bleeding, metabolism as these things are basically held down by the game code and no matter how much I pretend I can't really bleed faster. HOWEVER, other things such as inaccuracy, wimpiness, slowness, etc etc. CAN be easily simulated by the player and in my eyes it's an important test of self-restraint, are you a bad enough dude to NOT click directly on the antag because it's not something your character could do? Further I'd remove specific percentages from being mentioned, vagueness prevents people from picking traits just so they can get a quick ticket to medical whilst knowing the exact number to keep it easily managed and not a problem at all.

Appeal Accepted.

Hello, welcome back and I'm glad you took the suggestion to appeal and had some time to think on it as I suggested. The issue wasn't really the fact you didn't KNOW the rules, it was that you CHOSE to disobey them as you were banned for something you did TWICE before, i.e self-antagging and starting needles manhunts. I am willing to appeal this ban and I will appeal it (Later in the day not on my computer right now) However you must understand that if you break the SAME rules in an IDENTICAL manner, I'll skip the noting proces and simply remove you again. Will accept appeal once I get home.

Veni Vidi Vici. We've discussed this and found absolutely no reason to not accept this. Ergo accepted.

Yep, sounds fine.

Dang, left that point in there, thought about deleting it. Glad you pointed it out the single thing that you could defend yourself against and accepted the rest of the feedback as correct.

Addendum: If you want to properly fix this issue, turn blacklisting from "X hours since first time logged" to "X hours played" This would actually be effective in giving people time to learn the game mechanics themselves rather than jumping into these gamemodes.

Alright, let's take it form the top. Issue 1: Publicity and the role of an antag. Issue 2: The Curve Overall this is based on a lot of opinions and annecdotal evidence. You're on a different timezone, I'm on a different timezones, my experience is that antags tend to be overall average-good with the individual noobie or some such learning how to play said antag. It is also impossible to accomplish, literally, every single thread would devolve into ad hominems, shouting matches, annecdotals and unsupported evidence as the only way to prove someone was a bad antag would be to review an entire round. The whole fucking thing in a .txt document with no visual ques, good fucking luck. "But staff is present" Yes staff is present but we cannot remember every single antag round that has ever happened, many of us ghost or sit in the lobby listening for ahelps or actually play the game, leaving us open to our own personal bias. Hell some of us ARE the antags and I've seen multiple staff members do thins which I personally didn't like as antags, oh yeah personally there is that word again. Tl;dr this is not only improbable but actively distruptive and server sinking.

I support this.

So let's get started, first good feedback although a bit short it's still nice to see you have multiple people who are willing to vouch for you. You have a few notes but nothing outright bad, OOC explanation is satisfactory and for IPCs it is indeed irrelevant how old they are before they apply. However. I've seen a few comments on and off forum that you have a slight rebelious streak not only with your characters but (according to one of the notes) you yourself like to stick up to the authority from time to time. Now, the former is not an issue the IC and OOC seperation is an important thing however the latter is indeed a problem. You see, giving you a whitelist is going to enable you to create ANY character as ANY head and sure Ob-iwan Servobi over here is neat and sticks to his job this doesn't mean you'll later create new characters which will breach the proper whitelist procedures. But I'm willing to trust you, so don't dissapoint me. Application Accepted.

Application accepted.

Heyo sleepy, I got an absolute unit of a question for you. What do you want? Everyone who joins lore (as far as I know) has had wanted to do SOMETHING to a species, be it as minor as more quality control to something as big as making an entire new line of sprites and mechanics. So what are you planning to influence Jackboots on? Further I'd like to ask IF JB was kidnapped by the Brazilian Mafia and seceeded his position to you. What would you do with the unathi species? Would you plan to change anything or let it rest like this?

Locking and archiving.

"Just because one miner is incompetent or doesn't want to provide materials, doesn't mean you have to hate the whole department." "Man science is shit, this dude didn't give me upgrades!" Co-dependance, science can't make upgrades or progress properly until they get materials, mining can't progress properly without science making upgrades. Provide half the materials, demand an upgrade, deliver rest of materials after an upgrade is provided. This is called, interaction. In essence, firing pins for mining and as developers agree firings pins weren't a bad idea, no? Jokes aside I do agree with Dronz, the KA needs to be a TAD bit stronger or atleast enough not to make mining a death march but more of an inconvenience without the upgrades. Something you don't NEED but would be great help to have. Removing the whole thing would be idiotic, it IS on the correct way however it still needs to be fine-tuned as with every PR that hits live.

Now me and Burger were in a bad spot, I made a complaint about him he made a complaint about me and we moved on but for the sake of fairness and to avoid being accussed of holding a grudge I'll only raise issues I have encountered a month after the complaint when we have not spoken at all since like forever. Now first off he's active, very progressive and a lot of changes he implemented were very useful and/or cool, sometimes both. I appreciate those changes. Further on github he took my feedback with stride, taking what I said into consideration so I don't have an issue about that, he's been respectful and I haven't seen him salt in deadchat as much. So what happened recently man? Specifically I'll talk about the Dungeon thread in which you've replied to Kaed with, to quote; "Then perhaps when the pr gets merged (it will) you can modify it to your liking :)" I get that not all feedback is useful, but replying to someone like this seemingly evokes the idea that you actually do not give a fuck about feedback or addressing feedback and that the suggestion forum is just an annoying checkmark you'll ignore until Skull inevitably accepts your great idea. And I get where this reply might have come from, Alberyk often replies with "do it urself :v)" on server in OOC or deadchat, but that's in-game, it's because he's trying to play a game and people keep bothering him with suggestions and ideas and reworks. You said it on the suggestion forum! The exact place that SERVES for feedback, none of the coders ever replied with "do it urself" on the suggestion forum because that IS the place to ask for things to be done! I won't give a +1 or a -1 you can gauge my feedback from the above, you're capable sure but as a developer has proven before there can be proper skill but there must also be a proper intent.

Clinging to the ways of old leads to stagnation and stagnation leads to death, the golden path of humanity must arrise from conflict. +1 the text adds nothing besides le xd funny clown mey mey. Praise be to Shai'Hulud may his passing cleanse this world.

Asked around nobody knows much, his last post was on the 23rd of May but nothing to indicate what happened or where he went.

Keep in mind that as a Heads of Staff you will be held at a higher standard and I hope I won't see what happened in that round again from you. Application Accepted

Alright first, sorry for the wait we've had a bit of a giant wave of applications and those we aren't 100% sure on tend to get stuck a bit. Let me begin with this, we have agreed as a group that we cannot give you this application in good faith and allow me to explain why. You have consistently played absolutely nothing else but a Cyborg for the past I want to say year, I have checked your characters and not until recently have you started branching out into other jobs particurarly Forensics Technician and Roboticist if the WI is not lying. This is nowhere near enough to actually judge how you'll play a head and even when we observed you as a cyborg it was not favorable. Every other week you seem to be entangled in one ahelp or another about how you play a synthetic and how you interpret laws, we've received reports and witnessed ourselves that you intrude into the jobs of other people doing the job for them instead of assisting them because "It's faster if I do it". A big part of roleplay is being able to inconvenience yourself for the sake of a story or other characters having a chance, this goes double for heads who are expected to go atleast partially along with the antagonists and not jump on the first chance to destroy them. So the question remains, if you can't really follow rules, try to skirt around your iron-hard lawsets on purpose and solve everything hands-on. How can we trust you with upholding in-game regulations properly? I recommend to you that you try to force yourself to play normal crewmembers more actively instead of falling back into your cyborg comfort zone and when you do fall into that comfort zone you need to start thinking how to follow your laws rather than how to follow your laws enough to not get banned. You are on the correct path as is seen with the positive feedback you have received compared to your old application but you still have a long way to go before we feel comfortable with you enough to give you a head whitelist. Application Denied