Coalf

Now let me start off with saying that "m-muh professional b-behaviour!" on discord can frankly go suck a dick, the only thing is accomplishes is creating a stigma between the players and staff, if I acted like this is my job half the people I now consider friends would have never approached me in discord simply from being intimidated by my position. Voltage has kept his shitposting completely reserved in trashcan unlike most of the other people that just shitpost freely and while I did block him eventually as his behaviour was repetetive and predictable I have once again unblocked him as he actually seriously started posting in general. I've gotten voltage enraged once or twice in political thunderdome and I can say with guarantee that he's a very factual and laid back person when he gets that noggin' joggin'. Now there are actual issues I have, one of those is server mentality. The is one thing I've seen "oldguard" struggle with the most, returning to the server and discovering it is nothing like they left it, our restrictions are more numerous and the idea of how an antagonist should act has also changed. Most of the I find try to push back and put "The server back where it was" and frankly this is now impossible, we've increased playercount from 35 on maxhour to upwards of 70 if we do not hide the server in time. Which also links me to my second reason, which is server presence as that has so far from you been as far I'm concerned only a few weeks of gameplay. Thus I'd like to ask do you think you'll stick to the server? How long do you plan to stick on the server? (If you have a plan, could be indifinetly for all I know). Do you plan to change your behaviour in any way on discord and other social platforms now that you'll be trying for a mod? If I'd recommend anything it is to play for about a month more before continuing with this to get acquinted with the station and newcode, otherwise I know voltage is a solid dude and outside of these presence issues I hope he makes it into a trial.

This was an absolute and COMPLETE exception that the MERCENARIES themselves requested and quite honestly CCIA's should not have this stupid aura of angelic might. The only reason they're protected by the rules is because it would be EXTREMELY annoying as pretty much every antag defaults to "Me bing bang CCIA". The reason this happened was because mercenaries were bored of capturing the same targets, this enabled quite a lot of teamplay from them as they actually disabled the CC shuttle before engaging the target, making sure he couldn't escape. Furthermore me and JMJ made it VERY CLEAR this was the ONLY TIME CCIA'S were valid and the only reason it was a CCIA was for the ease of spawning as I didn't have to make a 2 page paragraph explaining why this famous guy is suddenly coming to the station AND it enabled heightened co-operation as even the captain, i.e yourself got quite involved in the action and decision making as he wasn't the number one persona to capture and kill. CCIA's are still very much a department that requires co-operation and teamwork which honestly would be fucking IMPOSSIBLE to pull off with normal whitelist system.

Honestly I do enjoy a speciestic character, I actually very much unironically enjoy having these violent anti-species character on-board as they provide an interesting anti-thesis to this libral heaven of Aurora and I frankly think that we could use more violent cronies like this as they're a nice spice in extended rounds, like a little personal antag for xenos. Thus I liked Fawkes the few times I encountered him. HOWEVER, if one is to act like this one must also accept the consequences, the amount of suspensions, reports and injuctions your character has received is unbelievable and frankly you should have just suspended him. Now to the actual point. I was present during the time of the round when you got arrested for sexually harassing the warden, I was the AI which I can't remember the name of as I always use a random name as an AI. Frankly the initial shock of security was completely overblown, I see more dirtier shit in security radio channel way more often and I think a small amount of bias might have been floating around, acceptable this is what happens with canon rounds, people actually dislike each other over longer periods of times. Now I remember the conversation went as this: *Spiders and alert is declared, everyone is issued lethal weapons and spiders are cleaned up now* Warden(Reed I believe?): "Could you bring the lethal laser gun on my table?" Fawkes: "I'm lethal, do you want me on your table, wink wink" Now at this point Altai and Katheryn go a bit, apeshit, hollering about sexual harassment and how the warden feels uncomfortable when the warden if I remember didn't even respond to the comment. Now the adult thing would have been to say it was a joke, you know the warden and to apologise and instead you bring up raping two cats. I mean my dude, that is not a human response, someone like that would have not gotten into security in the first place. So yeah, while I think this complaint is well placed, I don't think "He's a specieist" should be brought up as a point, however "He's unrealistically specieistic" is a valid point. mic drop EDIT: Guys the bias comment was meant as IC bias, i.e bias of characters towards other characters not OOC bias of players towards other players please stop ripping my flesh.

Go back to the old design and revert the sublevel, the old design was great. Spacious hallways, all departments relatively easy to access, doors in appropriate hallways, Psych and Examination room removed enough from the main hallway to be properly used as an antag hidey hole. It was gucci.

Application accepted. Welcome back pikl.

Wait so you never even were on the server before? You just attempted to join and got this ban message instantly? Or did you join, fuck around and get banned? Also is your ckey correct? It's not picking up on the bot.

It got tired really quickly, however it's probably one of the most impairing mental traumas since it makes both your character and you as a player annoyed and uncomfortable. Which I guess you could count as a success? I also do agree it distrupts the atmosphere a bit by how often it shows up, outside of nearsigtedness it seems like the mental trauma that just keeps showing up no matter what percentage it has. Right now I don't feel strong one way or the other.

Could I ask what these "Creative Differences" were?

"I am not the person or player that this ban applies to. I have played successfully on Polaris & USCM servers without incident thus far." What exactly do you mean by this? Did you change as a person. Did you get this Ckey from someone else. Was it your brother. Did you steal someone's body. And to further clarify, why have you decided to come to our server when you're successful with Polaris and USMC?

Well then I agree with it, if it's intended to remove these agressive "Beepity Boopity get off my property" assault borgs for more defence centered, protecta-trons/control trons, then yes I do support it.

I do agree it is very eyebrow raising when a reset board and a swipe from two heads can upgrade borgs to a module that is either more or as powerful as the ridiculously expensive 35 TC syndicate cyborg which is also very, very broken as of now. However at the same time I agree that perhaps the combat borg module should not be outright removed but be replaced with a different module more focused on defense rather than offense, to not perpetuate this "Killing the antag is number 1 priority" mindset. I don't see merrit in "It's hard to kill so it shouldn't exist", but I agree with the fact that if it's this hard to kill and this lethal, it should certainly cost more than a 1000 metal and a swiping of ID cards.

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.