Coalf

Hey there. Loow here...... Now I have to say that while....

Please, I said don't turn this into a smear campaign, this is a legitimate application it's not aimed to destroy jackboots reputation or question the going on behind the wall. At worst this is meant to provoke thought and discussion at best I'll be up there with the stars. Thank you.

How many lore devs.... How would you encourage activity..... How would you respond to loredevs sliding into inactivity?.... How much autonomy are you comfortable giving.... How do you play on improving transparency..... What is your stance on accessbillity vs depth..... I think you're conflating the idea of Aurora.... Wiki development is also very active.....

Addendum: The bug with "Protect X robot" was still patched out yet still events played second fiddle to the normal antagging we see every day, this is not how it should have been.

A very short but perhaps the hardest question here. The main issue I think is that we push things in bulks in these "Antag events." The thing is to a (I dare say) majority of players this doesn't matter, they played with a traitor that had a gimmick yesterday but they should care about this traitor now because someone OOCly said that this weeks he's special? I personaly think we should stop striving for these "Bulks" of massive events and focus on having semi-regular antag/lore events atleast once or twice a month. The fact is not everything is station shattering and not every lore event has to involve the station exploding, I applauded the foreshadowing in the newscasters before but now i'll curse it, we can use this foreshadowing ON THE STATION. Simply arrange yourself an extended round and move in for trade negotiations, if the captain is too much of a dickhead well that will affect the station in the future. It puts weight behind player actions, implies there are consequences and struggle that they're part of, instead of the narrative going to the left while the playerbase wants to go tow the right. For example the last antag contest, you know who won MAJORITY of the actual events? Anti-synths. But pro-synths won anyways, why? Well from the sheer number of normal traitors fulfilling their objectives! This isn't engaging, that's just annoying, everyone who fought, roleplay and stubornly fought in those objectives was outclassed by someone who stood in a lobby with a "Protect X IPC" objective. Additionally the issue is, the station itself isn't important enough, Phoron as a resource is being skimmed over as everyone "having reserves" and there being atleast 2 other reliable sources of phoron making the station itself un-important and thus giving less reasons for antags to do antag stuff in there. With that I'd like to increase the importance of phoron, either by making it simply more scarce which would require price adjustments, making it be only available in the romanovich cloud (which sadly impacts other lore) or simply making the station not be about phoron but about something else although this last one is a bit too drastic and something that I'd only consider as a dream.

These two kinda fall in together so I'll group them up. The answer is cutting excess threads. The forum is full of red herrings, debunked lore or just things that are plain wrong and as you said we have newscasters that are kept alive simply because Jackboot himself is updating them. This circles back to more Lore Writers, more writers means more ideas, more ideas mean more materials and more material means more news to report. For example the Bieselite times was an excellent idea, but it's hard to make someone write minor articles about a city on Biesel when they can't bring themselves to write an article about their own entire species once a month. Now we can say "Well they're just human," correct but if they had someone who they could rely on, who could help them with this it wouldn't be such a problem, thus we come back to increase of loredevs. I don't plan on deleting outdated or un-used newscasters as they can be used later. The wiki itself is in a steady uphill climb, ever since we've had that wonderful wiki team they've taken full reign and started working the wiki into being an actual wiki instead of a labyrinth. But lore writers should be responsible for their own wikies, this is why I wish once again to split power as updating the wiki for ALL the human factions has to be an exhausting task each time the lore shifts.

Yes and if you want to become part of the lore team, there is this forum, which I'm on. To quote myself "It's about trust, if you don't trust me well then I have failed you as a person and maybe in the future I'll fix that, I can't really say anything that would change your mind besides "I swear I'll be good boi"." As I said, I accept your criticism, I accept not everyone here trusts me, I accept not everyone here likes me and I accept this was sudden. It's the nature of the world. Yet it is also extremely petty to respond to criticism with "do it yourself" or "this is silly", he wanted me to do it myself so here I am, trying to do it myself. I accept there is someone more qualified than me with a better plan too, and I sincerely hope that this stirs enough waves for them to apply instead of me so they can try it and see what they can do. In the meantime, I'm here in their stead and maybe with practice I'll become that qualified person.

I've thought about this for quite a while and realized one thing that seriously needs to be done and that's numbers. The fact is only the lore team has not changed since the year 2014, the 2014 where this server got on average about 20 people. This numbers has DOUBLED and the amount of lore we now have has basically tripled. The wiki has for a long time been un-manned, forum is scattered with out-dated or outright false information and lore writers aren't always available to answer questions. Thus I'd hope to create a sort of "Additional Loredev" rank to be implemented, these people will help with whitelists, updating wiki pages specifically aimed at their expertise and helping with debating and creating lore. Everyone on the team most likely has someone a "Plan B", someone they trust and know understands the lore and discuss it with them in private in order to get good, honest opinions. I hope to get these people into the proper places so they can help without stealing the spotlight from the maintainers. Times change and we have to with them. Actual team of adults? No. Neither did you have any tangible idea that I wasn't going to just randomly ban people when I was put into mod-position. Same applies to me being a head whitelister, I can abuse that position very easily, I would assume it would take weeks before someone discovered I was un-whitelisting players randomly or just giving my metabuddies whitelists. It's about trust, if you don't trust me well then I have failed you as a person and maybe in the future I'll fix that, I can't really say anything that would change your mind besides "I swear I'll be good boi". Well now I fell insulted. No I don't plan on deleting the vaurca, frankly I know they aren't drooling retards, I read the lore I actually read the lore after YOUR fanfictions JUST to see what the hell is so great about them, I didn't find it. I don't like Unathi lore that much either and I quite often disagree with Jackboots on things, I also dislike some faucets of human lore again I disagree against those too. I also say glass adhomai, human pride galaxy wide, hail dominia and fuck synths. Doesn't mean I want to delete those. They're a hated minority, they fill their niche purpose better than any unathi or Tajara could, I feel like they're a bit hamfisted into our universe to be relevant but I don't plan on fiddling in that. The only true issue I have is bound and their abuse as basically lawless borgs. But no I don't plan on changing vaurca in any way as ByGoneHero seems to be gripping the reigns firmly and reducing the amount of chucklefucking to minimum.

Ckey/BYOND Username:Coalf Position Being Applied For (coder, mapper, spriter): Head Lore Manager Past Experiences/Knowledge: I've been moderating this server for longer than I've been a player at this point, I've dealt with plenty of ahelps regarding lore issues, character development and such details. Alongside that I used to mentor on BestRP which also required a staunchable role experience along with species knowledge. Lastly I'm part of the crew that manages head whitelists, thus I already have experience with it. Examples of Past Work: The fanfiction forum, while underused, is originaly an idea born of my head for people who want to leak their creative potential but don't want to be choked by lore restraints. I can count myself to one of the proud members who helped bring Fred104's Dominia into not only official lore but creating a major faction out of it as the original idea of a tribunal, mindwashed populus and "tolerate our enemies beyond our borders" came from a brainstorming session we've had. I've also provided feedback on many applications wherever I could and working as a Head Whitelister gave me additional experience in how to truly judge people. Preferred Mode of Communication (Skype, Steam, etc.): Discord, BYOND pager, Forums are the best Additional Comments: Yes, this is a serious application, yes I wish to replace Jackboots, no I don't want to turn this into a smear campaign against JB so please stay on topic. And to people asking why I'm doing this. Because yes, I do think I can do a better job.

Alright, appeal accepted.

Alright, you spoke on discord already and I see you're not just making excuses. But the issue isn't only the slot blockage, the bigger issue here was you were the AI a role that can literally make or break any round, we don't have issue with the AI ahelping "Going away for 10 minutes for food" making a "Going into maintenance" announcement and AFKIng for 10-15 minutes, because players know the AI is gone, we know the AI is gone and we can plan around that, same applies to heads. If you feel like you're going to be AFK for longer than 20 minutes, please wipe core or cryo yourself. Furthermore I need you to understand that even as this is getting appealed that if we see you AFKing and SSDing in the middle of the round without going cryo we're going to be escalating the ban and future appeals will only be harder.

https://pastebin.com/G2KAPzTj The interview.

Now we all remember when we got our first spam message on that little PDA, doctor MaxMan, WetSkrell, Russian brides or even Foreign prince, those are things we love, hate and remember. Yet, eventually it gets tiring to see the same spam again and again. Also more representation. Thus I proudly suggests such spams as.W Stand-in's for Wetskrell BadKitty ScalesNStuff OiledNReady BuzzBois Actual Spam "Click here to receive your new iFrame 7" "If you don't forward this message to 8 more crewmembers your head will die in their sleep." "This crewmember is making mad credits and basically, you're fucking stupid. Click here to find out how to make easy creds. "Thizzz izz the NT bank, we need your pazzzword, plzzz click here." "Hi [insert PDA name here]! Remember me from high-school? Well I have this great business deal proposition...." "We know who you are, expect us." Plus people can suggest more in this thread. They're one-off jokes that tend to get a giggle out of people and I think having a variety in them won't hurt. Edited the name since people were confused, I don't want more FREQUENT spam I just want more variety.

As expected.

If I observed discord correctly and as I frequently post there I noticed one thing, you have a tendency of playing here for about a month, maybe two and then dissapearing for three or even four. While this job is completely voluntary and we know that IRL > Space men, playtime and the ability to stick with the server is also concerned while being a moderator as it can sap a LOT of free time.

Application accepted.

Going off of Alberyk here Premature postjaculation aside, I should have worded it as "not a thing" instead of "removed" but it should stay "not a thing"

I agree on one thing said above and that is tourettes. It serves no purpose besides being absolutely fucking annoying to both the person playing and everyone around them and while these things are supposed to be annoying, this is annoying on a whole new level as all it does is spam everyones chatbox. It was removed for a good reason and should stay removed.

I admit I read the words "Degree, phD and graduation" and assumed, assumptions of assumping assumense. The question still stood, Captain's in particular are extra known for stealing peoples jobs, manily the job of other heads by directly taking command of their departments (security) for not reason at all. But I'll stop talking now before I make a bigger idiot of myself.

An enjoyable player that managed to get themselves into NTWA as their president no less just through the votes of majority. I've personally played quite a lot with them in robotics and I can attest they're capable of leading, commanding and taking charge but at the same time taking charge can be an issue. You see most of your characters seem the "Bang on wall until it falls down" kind of characters, taking charge, going first, kicking down doors and taking names. BUT admirable as it is this can be an issue, doubly so regarding an RD and that issue is stealing jobs. RD researchers are supposed to both manage staff, what exactly is being researched and how it is suppposed to be utilized, but at the same time fall into the trap of doing everything themselves because it's simply easier and they have the abillity to do it. So my question is, how exactly do you imagine these "adventures" and the general idea of how you hope to manage your department? Otherwise I have no issue with the player, their playstyle and enjoy their presence in the game, +1

These are my gripes. Bear in mind I'm not a super artist and this thing is still very nicely done for someone who basically draws in bouts of boredom and not daily or professionaly. Edit: Yes I know I'm retarded and literally contradicted myself regarding the ears, look at the cat picture not the comments.

Much better, a bit of artistic fragrance really adds to something and you provided more interesting conflict in there too. So yeah definitely support this now.

Alright, one thing I never thought I'd say about an application and that is it's over-detailed. You put in a lot of minor things that would have been fine coming out during the actual on-station RP instead of putting it as important parts of his backstory, like what he smokes and the throat, but in itself this has nothing to do with what the app is here for. What it is here for is the familiarity of the species and well I think you captured that, while I find it a bit radical and satirical that they'd execute someone over missing ammo cartridges instead of sending him to prison or just limiting his income of foodstamps, it's still within the realm of possibilities I guess? Otherwise I have no issue with the player or the application I think everything I covered is basically nitpicking. I approve.

First off, the whole backstory leading up to enrollment is good, you cover his life from start to finish and the simple description of events tells us what kind of character he's growing into, you cover the basic Tajara lore, show your knowledge about the nobles and their downfall and the charcaters backstory reflects it, very nice. But the issue is since the story is well done and connected, the bad ending becomes very noticable. For being what is technically one of the most important parts of his life it's extremely short, flavorless and bland. The thing is why would they accept someone who smuggled himself out when they have plenty of legally background clean and cheap tajara? How did he know about NT what led him to it? Wouldn't he be actually quite angry with NT since they were one of the reasons of the rebelion? The rest is well done but the ending is a bit of a slap in the face, actual RP experience is as others said mediocre to excellent depending on the mood, time of day, cycle of the moon and your menopause. So yes while I adressed my only issue I don't have a problem with giving a +1 even before that ending is patched since it has nothing to do with how you understand the species but with how your character got there. So yeah I support this