Bokaza

(Would like to know more about culture before I join this. Does it have any established lore? Species you can play? Classes? Snowflake index?)

Misdirection. If you do something bad, don't leave no evidence, plant it instead. You will actually involve other people regardless if they want it or not. To help you figure out what's incriminating and what is not, try playing command for a while. You will start to see behavior patterns. Then just avoid those patterns to avoid getting cought. Most common one is antags being non-responsive to orders and rolecalls. They think if no one thinks they exist no one will bother them, when all the heads need to do is make a head-count of their department to see who is absent and not SSD. Then you become an OOC suspect, making your work much harder. One time I dressed as an assistant, changed my ID then robbed the vault. It took security surprisingly long to figure it out and I was sloppy as hell. Interestingly enough, the assistant was another traitor so I accidentally blamed another traitor for it.

It's the definition that WAS used by Aurora. I didn't take it from Paradise, I took it from Aurora loredev's mouth. I am actually saying it's somewhat dumb.

Well... you may have a point.

+1 I love the idea. I know Admins already fill this role, but it would likely help remove strain from Admins and besides, it's one of the reasons people want to be admins in the first place.

I don't actually have a problem with beastlike behavior, just because it reminds people of furries. After all, humans generally have a stick so far up their ass they forget a some of their behavior is present in other primates. Obviously, with the lack of specifically defined animal ancestors, we can take that 'beastlike' behavior of Unathi and Tajaran is closest to their IRL counterparts, felines and comodos. To note, though, that does not mean I don't have pet peeves with specific behaviors.

I love you, people. Wish I wasn't sad, I could hug you all.

Maybe I do, I don't really know. But a (small) change is always nice, ya? Ohh, I understand you, brother. I too would like a bit of a change. I was actually looking forward to the new ground based map, it would've been a gamechanger.

Nostalgic post is nostalgic. What you really want is a restart, to remove all you know, because you've been playing this game so long you've completely run out of ideas and inspiration.

I'm a pretty shit heavy RPer by under the standards posted by the OP. It's mostly due to my lack of attachment to my characters. What's more, when I do make an effort to care, I am met by deafening quiet of characters whose personalities and responses make my boring real 8 hour job seem like a funfair. Then I ask myself why I play at all. Suddenly, everyone's character, including mine takes a bland gray color, which usually results in me quietly going to cryo and logging off. We really one need of two things. Either new bloods who will inspire new ideas and overturn the stale conventions, or get the old fags back, who a good deal of us have been playing with for more than two years and are sure to get the RP kicking again.

I'm really lazy to check it out in detail, but from what I understand, the data and processes are stored in a bluespace pocket as energy. Then the IPC access that pocket to get whatever it needs. How that's done without actual hardware or if there is hardware in there is beyond me. What I do now is that it doesn't make much sense regardless because, firstly, Bluespace is like WH 40K on steriods sparkled with good old grim-darkcides to make it less perilous. And secondly, it seems far too advanced for someone that isn't even post-scarcity. I mean, holy shit, humanity's developed almost 3 wildly different methods of FTL travel, a power source that's more efficient than the dirt cheap fusion and space industry that turned platinum into a primary steel alloy metal, BUT we cannot handle poverty.

Well, you can't have the cake and eat it too. This is easily solved by making the eariler IPC versions age faster, because they were less advanced and these effects weren't known. But science marches on, new IPCs can last for much longer.

This actually goes well into my headcanon. Jet lag can be a source of fatigue, but it's usually not enough to down people instantly and doesn't explain why its tied specifically to space. So, here's my headcanon. Bluespace. Yes, it's the most common handwave, but it makes sense. It's literally another dimension, containing exotic particles and radiation of literally unnatural properties. When bluespace is used, some of it slips into our dimension and takes various properties. Those can effect brainwaves and body in wierd fashion, but are mostly harmless. Loss of consciousness and insanity can be explain as some ridiculous technobabble like a combination brainwave disruption and jet lag, plus other randomness. As bluespace tech is mostly used in space, it explains why it's localized and the scale of the sympthoms. Thankfully, the scientists have studied the effects in length so they have medication and other methods to counteract the worst of its effect.

If you don't have all DLC by now you are doing it wrong. I won't play, though, these tend to take a while and getting everyone together is a fucking pain. Cross-continent is a no-no.

I've actually went over my laziness and read the posts again. Now, I believe in artistic principles and wouldn't step out of it to call anything written as objectively shit. You know that is true because my opinion has been ignored so many times and I've swallowed the fact and accepted it just as many. However, I think you are wrong in that post, Jackboot, on several points. A criticism you always ignore and will likely ignore it even now until the day you aren't a loremaster anymore. While I can't claim to have done the same, I do not think the effects of some of the lore events you've listed are having the effect you think they are. Regardless of the actual opinions or interests of players, the stuff you've listed was actively being imposed by the game itself. You could push a million things like that and say people are being engaged then pat yourself on the back then give us platitudes. It does not mean anything other than that you are willing to push stuff without consulting or listening to the rest of your team. That brings me to the next point. Antags being engaging and lore friendly. Well, are they? Can I canonize meeting a wizard round? Can I canonize spending the entire shift fighting the lings or terrorists? Can I canonize a cultist round, and give my character a backstory that makes them a loose member of the Nar'sie cult? The answer to all of these is no. Absolutely no outside the freak canon event round, such as the ambassadors you mentioned. Even then you've had open conflict with rest of the staff for trying to push them through. As a result, I state that antags being part of our lore is almost a blatant lie. The average player still plays an average person that is not effected in the slightest by vast majority of things you've listed on that page. Which brings me to the last point. Consistency and realism. I like how you always invoke the Hard Sci-fi as the bogeyman when people criticize the current quality of the lore, as if removal equates to actual merit of adding something to the lore. It does not. I don't even know many people that argue that things have to be extremely realistic and even then I disagree. If we went the hard sci-fi route we would still be earthbound and NSS Aurora would be a station in Sol. Taking the softer route, you have more leeway to implement handwaves and unobtainium to explain the scientific problems. It's unrealistic, it's not grounded in reality. Consistency is a different thing. It requires that the universe is truthful to whatever it states about itself and remains uncompromising with a goal to establish predictability. A lack of predictability makes players constantly challenge what they know about the universe, not in the sense that they are discovering something new, but that the established lore does not invalidate itself constantly. It sets a premise of what is realistic within the bounds of the universe. My argument about the 'Super dreadnought' wasn't that it was impossible to build, but that a bunch of backwards assholes living in ruined cities and mud huts, developed required infrastructure almost over night. It is not realistic if we take into account that Taj have just recently started to develop FTL travel, while being in better state than Unathi. I argue that this is not consistent. Hell, maybe I'm wrong, and they've always been capable of it, and I'm just an ass that didn't educate myself on the topic. But whose failing it is that me and most of the playerbase seem to have the wrong notion of how developed Unathi really are? On the brigther side, the Unathi stuff is engaging, but part of me feels it's because you've been excessively focused on Unathi lore and events. To detriment of everything else.

We have that, it was used for a while, but then suddenly everyone stopped, because we dindu nothin.

If you could point me to a sci-fi setting that wasn't filled with large errors or inconsistencies I'd be very impressed. Outdated wiki pages and inconsistencies can be issues, and my only real defense there is that we are a small team of developers and our wiki is rather large. And the lore arcs unraveling rapidly is also something I hear, but I also hear people giving the criticism that news is slow to unfold or not updated enough. It will be interesting to see how to try and find the middle ground in that issue. The errors and inconsistances in larger, older universes isn't because of lack of canon and constant reworkes, it's because of holes in the knowledge of the people editing it. Our wiki isn't open to everyone's use and loredevs suck at the role of editing and keeping it up to date. Besides, it's not that big, it's just a fucking mess. I'm not sure what meme paint is. Even assuming that "meme" has become interchangeable with "joke" the statement is difficult for me to wrap my head around. I don't know which lore updates have focused around jokes except the theft of rare pepes from the mendell city museum and that was months ago, and I did that because I thought it was funny to imagine archaeologists in the 25th century being very serious and interested in ancient relics that were shit when they were made. Like we have entire websites and archaeologists dedicated to cataloguing ancient roman graffiti. There are ancient roman dicks scribbled on walls meticulously preserved in museums. You can go to a museum and look at a crudely drawn penis someone drew thousands of years ago. I lost my shit just thinking about it again to write this. sentence.http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/05/turns-out-romans-were-obsessed-with-drawing-penises-who-knew-5602007/ Freezing all development is impossible and not really necessary. You couldn't say to the coders to stop all updates until we fixed all the bugs. I'll still communicate with my staff and try to find ways to discover how I can improve my management of the team and what paths of development I can have them go on/encourage to have everyone be more satisfied and productive. This is a volunteer duty, after all. I am also aware that my nature of being loremaster and thus their boss means even passing comments from me can be interpreted as orders from the emperor, so I actively try to acknowledge this and it's one of the biggest reasons that I try to be so hands-off. But I'm also plagued with memory issues and i'm really impatient so I imagine working under me can be quite a wild ride. But failing is how we learn if we work on improving, and communication is important in doing better for next time. I will try to open more dialogue with my team and try to figure out where I can improve in management. I don't mean the Meme Museum. That was cringy, but that was just my opinion. I still joined the lore team after the fact. My problem is with the unrealistic events and actions of various factions just for cool effect. Such as the whole Unathi debacle. The entire faction got a facelift just so they could build a death star. 'Meme paint' was more of a comical term, let's just call it a 'fresh layer of paint', or a 'facelift' every faction in game tends to go through every half a year. And by 'freeze', I mean stop slapping new bricks onto the pile until they've been sorted out. You could still do stuff, but making sure that it's actually upgrading or clearing things up would be a priority. Besides, the fucking wiki would help with your memory issues.

I've had this account for 5 hours and I'm already involved in drama. Sigh. As one of the people tearing your guts out, I feel obligated to respond, so I will. Before I start, let me make a few things from my standpoint clear. The best things I wrote were during my periods of extreme inspiration, a feeling of energy and clarity that makes me unable to sit down and shut up unless I'm focused on something. It can last for minutes, hours or days. It stops me from sleeping and makes me abandon self-preservation instinct. One time it happened and I actually focused it on something creative, I ended up writing a shitty Skyrim fan-fiction novel for 5 days straight, ignoring my classes, physical needs and shower, only really stopping when asleep. Now, imagine all of that energy being focused on something bad. Because honestly, I am a salty asshole. Things get to me easily, be it real or imaginary slights, which makes me read and overread between the lines. I get angry and can't think clearly. A fact that causes emotion to bubble up even further. So why don't you, instead, ask why I'm angry? I'll tell you anyway. It's mainly your style of management, not the lore you write. The fact you pull new people out of the blue, for roles that can be filled by existing members. The fact you don't rely on, or involve your team in almost anything. Or you do, and I just didn't seem to get invited, despite the obvious indication that I might want to. You once made a statement that you want us to do what we like. Well, it doesn't seem that way to me. To me, it demonstrates a lack of vision for the lore. Because while you are off doing meme lore, our actual lore has large errors, inconsistent facts, outdated wiki pages and lore arcs unraveling so rapidly and unreasonably that it would put your average hippie round to shame. And what happens when there is an actual conflict with some the existing lore? It's changed over and over like it's no one's business. Our lore is not a castle, where every brick fits perfectly next to each other, creating a logical, thought out and beautiful world. No, Jackboot, our lore is a giant fucking heap of smashed bricks. Almost every new loredev just throws a new brick right into the fucking pile, smashing the whole thing to dust even further. I tried to fix it, did some of it, but no one cares. Yes, not even you, Jackboot. You of all people DO NOT seem to give a fuck the most. You are the grand architect that just puts a new brick on the top, slaps a new coat of meme paint and calls it a lore update. So please, excuse my anger. My disillusionment with my former role arrived on day 2 of me being it. So excuse for being sceptical with my your ability to be the loremaster. So, let me answer your questions. 1. Stop the memes. Stop changing the lore. Stop adding new coats of useless paint. Fix the wiki and actually try to lead and utilize my team of creative and talented individuals, instead of treating them like kiddies in a sandbox. 2. Freeze the whole thing from further development until someone actually has any idea where the lore is going. Not rework anything, not even the ridiculous Unathi Spring events. 3. Make it the actual fucking source of Canon it's suppose to be, so I don't have to pull shit from my asshole. 4. This is the tricky part. With all above said, if you can actually prove within margins of acceptable doubt, that you actually know what the fuck you're doing. I wouldn't change anything. I wouldn't ask anything to be changed. I wouldn't care. But all evidence indicates this is not so. So I disagree with a lot of things you are doing.

Xander made me. I need to post in the campaign thread.

Hello, I'm new here. As a chick, I was forced to do nasty things with the local alpha male. Please forgive me for being sad. I love you. Owl.