Coalf

I'd agree to them blocking a single projectile after which they'd shatter or broke.

Adjustement, you were banned by Alberyk (Ckey: Alberyk), not Host.

or splice it into parts like a normal human

Might as well, nobody outside of IPCs wears it anyways. But I don't see why not just keep it as an option in the sub-level medical and make nurses spawn in something more normal. It's about a "Why not" out of 10 from me.

Fuck you I'm not doing this again I had to keep serious to so many fucking people holy shit.

I don't care much about anything else, honestly Community Manager disgusts me slighty but if I speak out against it people will think i'm opressing the masses. Vox, whatever. blah blah What I'm concerned is ERP because we're clearly going to have to implement some kind of age restriction and I cannot agree with that. First of all multiple admins/moderators have been confirmed as underage and doing something like this means wwe won't be able to accept them evne if they're fully capable, that is retarded. Two, we're the top HRP server, are we seriously going to ruin our current reptuation with this? Everyone is going to flock to baystation if we really leave this update to happen. Three seriously? Fucking seriously? Initially I thought this was an actual joke but after actually discussing it in adminchat this apperantly isn't even a joke. I'm no stranger to ERP, I admit, however I don't come to Aurora for that, I come to Aurora for some mindnumbing fun, not this bullshit. No, do not let this go through.

Added to the list. *Additionaly confirm you are actually interested.

I already said it was MAJORLY about the ADMITTED intent. Skull already pointed who's fault it was and that they're going to take more precautionary steps since even small shit like this can completely flip turn the game upside down. I know intent is hard to discern and that even the most selfish reason can lead to improving the game overall. However even if this was a PR I agreed it, for example the IPC ressurection change, and Alberyk admitted in public after I asked him multiple times it's done purely because he "hates IPCs" I'd make this request about him. I knew at the time the fucking PR was already getting reverted, I knew it was changed and everything holy canoli people this isn't about a bad PR for the most part. I admit I should have probably made a player complaint instead.

Fair enough I guess. Band Request resolved and stuff.

Alright I get it was a fuckup, this post wasn't about the PR itself a lot of people misunderstood that. The point was the intent, which you adressed and I think the way you adressed it is, stupid and shortsighted. I accept when a mistake happens because someone wanted to balance the game or wanted to make the server as a whole better. Like an engineer who delaminates the SM while trying to make it produce more power. But someone who made a mistake because of completely selfish reasons. Like an engineer who delaminates the SM because he was using it as a personal disposal bin. That I have a problem with. You usually can't check on intent, but if someone is stupid enough to publicly admit they're messing with the code for an entire playerbase out of their own self-interest. Then honestly I don't think they should be let anywhere near the code. I accept the judgement of the other policies, I didn't frankly care about them. But I want for Burger to be either held under higher scrutiny from now on or actually explain his intent as a whole in his PR's. Admitting it was selfish on public discord is like a magician revealing all of his tricks, just stupid.

BYOND Key: Coalf Accused Players Byond Key: BurgerBB Time of Act: Not a server thing, but I guess you could say the time on the PR Reason for Ban: So I wake up one morning, brew my coffee hop on discord the usual shitpost around on discord yada yada when I see Burger's post, refer to point number 1 in evidence. Now I think "Haha he's joking" but then I ask him, other people ask him and he says he's completely serious, alrighty then so we're here. To seriously get into this, for me the Devteam has been a rogue unmoderated element that is a mystery for most staff. We let them do their thing and all we expect from them is not to screw up too much, that happens however but we excuse it since bugs get fixed, mechanics get reworked it's all good. The thing is, I as probably many other playeres presume this is all done as a token of goodwill, that not only do the devs want to fix and improve the game for themselves but to leave their handprint on it and make it more enjoyable for everyone. Frankly what burger did is disgusting. Changing one of the core mechanics of the game around to the point where eating vendor food shuts down your organs just because you didn't get enough people eating your ravioli is selfish, ugly and mean spirited. Not only did this cause an upheal of deaths which administrative staff had to clean up, as the code was admittedly broken and just fucking murdered the shit out of people even if they ate only like 2 bread tubes. It also did absolutely NOTHING to improve the chef situation as all that players did was either ration their vendor food better or click "Yes" on lunchboxes. I was thinking "okay this kinda pisses me off, but he's a volunteer and not even a coder so he isn't as trained/experience" you know, shit happens I understand that, even during implementation sprinting gave you brain damage and that was something added by our senior coders. But I honestly think the intent is important, not only was the PR bugged and in the end useless, but it was also created for completely selfish and selfabsorbed reasons. I don't believe we should trust someone like that with our code. Now there are quite a few outcomes for this: A) BurgerBB gets banned/restricted from github OR BurgerBB is to be held under extra scrutiny and has to post every PR on the suggestion forum no matter how small. B) The dev team gets a QC team which will serve to judge the impact of implemented mechanics on the game. C) The dev team posts all their mechanical changes on the forums no matter how small. D) We forbid contributors completely, only letting devs add code. D) Burger says it was a joke and we forget about this. Except not really because at this point it's too late to say if it was actually a joke or if it's just backpeddaling. Also it's not like a player complaint so I put it here, also it'll catch attention. Evidence: Post numero uno, this started the whole thang. "Haha, good post-modernistic humor, oh wait he might be serious" Second time, this time he talks about his cargo rework which he has open on github, his character also works in cargo. coincidink? No maas Here I ask him again just to 100% confirm it wasn't a post-modernistic avant garde shitpost.

The thing is WHAT shenanigans? In all my time I have not seen or heard of a single time where telescience literally "Ruined a round". The one time I saw it used effectively, it was to save 4 scientists from where they just teleported themselves to the first safe location they found. Quite honestly I don't get why the playerbase is trying to limit itself in the amount of possibilities that allow you to approach a single interaction, all you're doing is streamlining the game to the point where the only viable solution to problems is going to be "Me hit stick against antag". Telescience offers a wide margin of options and possibilities and a lot of these complaints are vague suggestion of "powergaming", however if this "powergaming" is true why haven't the people complaining about it ahelped it? Not everything requires us to casualize the game mechanically. And please if you're going to use examples of shenanigans use current ones, not something that happened 1-2 years ago.

Telescience is intended for transportation of things from one place to another which is under the responsibility of science, I.E it is part of their job. So get back on topic.

But why? Because people are bored? Because the antag isn't meeting the expectations of the majority but instead roleplaying with a few people? Because the ninja is unable to roleplay with anyone since security won't stop chasing him around? Because the cult won? Because I died? Y'see this is the problem with voting, we can't differenciate these people. We don't know who legitimately thinks the antag is bad and who is just salty the antag didn't diddle THEM personally. How do we differenciate between people who think the round has gone on for long enough and people who are upset because they died during the "climax"? Rev, Cult, Mercenary and Autotraitor all defy your chart with their lenghts. Cult and Rev rounds in particular tend to be played way over the second hour mark as new and new people are getting sucked into the snowball of action and heads have less and less time to call off red. I'd agree to a reminder message sent after half an hour that code red is active to remind all heads that they should probably turn it off. However I won't agree to an anonymous "Everyone in the round" vote, as those tend to boil down to above mentioned points. Also I have yet to see an antag round that isn't overly active drag into a 3:00 mark, like seriously that happens once a blue moon and we don't need an entire system for it when you can just ask us.

Thanks, anyways to address this further. You are right, I didn't have this in mind, however I think a Tajara specific departmental jumpsuits would not be a bad idea, mainly so that everyone stops sweating so much (And ignoring the sweating messages). To elaborate on this issue, so far the mindset was "Tajara have a cold planet, I should give them warm clothes!" This has lead to majority of Tajara clothes causing heat messages themselves which is just dumb. This is the main thing I plan on removing since more than one player expressed their annoyance at not being allowed to look good while at the same time not getting spammed with redtext. Honestly most of the clothes so far planned (and sprited with the help of Bauser) are only meant for fancyful occassions or hardcore dockworking like miner, cargo tech or assistant. But I'll keep your feedback in mind and see if I can make more accessories in general as those don't really break the dress code.

I support this policy because it already exists. It exists in the form of staff, what do I mean by that? The fact is that no matter how long and grandeur your backstory is, I have the last word, well not me specifically but also Alberyk, Prate, Flimango, TrickingTrapster, Shameonturtles, Ezuo, NursieKitty, Exia, DatBerry, Aboshehab, Garnascus and others equally important people but with names I won't bother typing. I live in the Czech Republic. Berry lives in Egypt, Catnip is an Australian,. Garn is from America Alberyk is Brazillian. 2-3 years ago Aurora had 30-45 people on peak hours, this is the norm now with peak hours reaching 60-80 people. We are the number 1 HRP server on the hub :confetti_ball: . Server mentallity has COMPLETELY shifted atleast 3 times, with people liking IPCs, hating IPCs, wanting cloning, hating cloning, wanting brainmed, hating brainmed etc etc. But do you see what I mean? It is impossible for us to see and manage people by case to case basis, I've come to a disagreement with Nursie on Jenn's IPC previously which had to be adressed in a complaint. Which was resolved by? Alberyk, a staff member. Another example, I can say yes to someone and Flim says no. Who is more right? Who is less right? We have absolutely NOTHING to lean on regarding this, outside of begging Garn or Aboshehab to resolve it between us, neither of which considers that to be the height of their day. This is why I not only WANT but I think we NEED something for us to lean on, because in the end this is a voluntary job and I don't want to receive a staff complaint for every case of me saying "No" to someone. Yes, it is pedantic but because we NEED to be pedantic now. We are no longer a small family server with friendship circles. Our players are most often complete strangers. Each one with radically different opinions and ideas. Also I find the "Too realistic and Too hardcore" a bit ironic, mainly when during the last two complaints that were raised about this people started showing up with IRL examples and IRL comparisons instead of using gameplay or in-game lore as a reference. tl;dr, yes I think we need something, perhaps not something THIS restrictive but something me, other staff and players can lean on when deciding "What is too much/little" EDIT: The whole thing was fucked up regarding sentence structure, re-did that.

What the fuck man. The point is that an IPC with a spare body will be easier to dispatch, I.E die faster, I.E need another body, I.E need more time and materials! These bodies take time to print and playing robotics daily I can tell you majority of the time I do not have the materials to keep even the borgs active, If I did have this stipulated infinite amount of materials you assume robotics has for making bodies, I'd just print myself a Phazon and run the antag over myself. Even IF someone can pre-print bodies, why? Why would you pre-print bodies outside of perhaps powergaming or being asked by an IPC that works a very dangerous job specifically? You can easily ahelp these things and we can easily spot these things, just as we can easily spot when a cargo tech is cloning people. So yes, having to print an entire body, equip it with neccessary organs, assemble it, take out the brain and put it into a new body overall takes more time than taking a brain out and putting it back in while I beat the body with a welder and cable. And EVERYONE is weak to leg removal excluding dionaea. Not just IPCs.

That's what this compensates for, the inherit weakness of the prepared chassis. Instead of punishing a player by a period of a waiting time it punishes them by giving them a weaker body with which they'll have a harder time to powergame with.

There is one strenght you forgot of the IPC and that is being the T-1000 of SS13. By that I mean it literally is unable to die unless specific conditions are met, those two conditions are. 1: Nobody who can reset it is present 2: The positronic brain was deleted. 3: The body was deleted. Outside of that an IPC is unable to die and a retard robotics who is day 1 in his job can revive an IPC in less than 5 minutes after following a guide. EMP and Ion damage is randomised, it takes good 2-5 hits depending on your luck. This is dumb, however a bad mechanic that is currently in the game should not dissuade you from putting a good mechanical punishment like this into the game. It SHOULD make you want to remove shitty instant death mechanics like EMP's. (Which I heard Kyres and Cake are working on adjusting/fixing/removing) Sytic, nanopaste repairs internal components, fixes all types of damage regardless of type AND IPC's can use it on themselves to self-heal, it's basically a DOOM health kit. Again, something that Kyres and Cake are hoping to work on eventually. I agree with Baselines or perhaps a more generic uggo industrial being available option at the cost of materials, the sprite presented by alberyk is currently way too visualy close to the clasic cyborg sprites for my liking. Also for all the people going "U JUST HATE SYNTHS!!!!", I mean holy shit look at yourselves and the character you play most often. I bet he is most likely a synth so stop using this as an argument. What species you play is invalid as long as people have a mechanical understanding of it. OPINION ALERT OPINION OVER, YOU CAN LEAVE THE NUKE SHELTER So yeah, I support this.

While it's not enforced anywhere, I would recommend forcing a Bachelor's on chaplain as every crazy dumbass can claim to be a chaplain while in reality you require atleast something in theology. Also I can bash 17 year old chaplains with a dwarf beard over the head with this in that case.

Since the staff member that applied the ban is no longer present in the staff team and a considerable amount of time has passed since your last offense, I shall be lifting the ban however I recommend giving the rules a quick re-read and familiarizing yourself with the relatively new "no-job hopping" rule. Appeal accepted.

I support this fire buff, as of now using a flamethrower or flame weapons outside of flooding a room with phoron is about as effective as dropping my mixtape. My biggest issues are that flametrhower does absolutely nothing and the molotovs tend to simply shatter against someone and set the tile below them on fire while leaving them un-touched, superheated air tends to be way more dangerous than the actual fire which is just confusing but I bet an IRL firefighter is just about to jump on me and tell me how wrong I am about superheated AIR.

Fair enough.

Please fix your formatting first.

Is this not also true of toxins? It takes a little bit of real-world knowledge to unlock the potential, and then the sky's the limit. Still we see that the potential isn't widely abused because if the scrutiny always placed in it - if you overstep whatever invisible threshold is there, you get in trouble, IC or OOC. Personally, I've always thought this was a strength of the role... It plays very uniquely because of that barrier, and is rewarding if you work through it. Now, whether or not it's overpowered... Seems to depend on what you try to accomplish with it. Like toxins, again. Well 1: The use of toxins is limited due to the obvious rules. 2: Toxins still takes about 10-20 minutes as you need to properly heat up/test the canisters if they actually work. 3: If you fuck up toxins once, you're dead. Technically telescience takes time too, but it's not mechanically enforced as you wait until phoron heats up, the only limit is your own calculations.