Scheveningen

I have read it, but if venting makes you feel better, then okay. OOCly speaking I believe the xenomorph said in LOOC they accidentally choked you to death without meaning to. So if anything they were trying to pin you down and evidently no other method of force was working, so they sicced the fruits of your own creations upon you, I figure. Bit of an "oops"? Nothing worth bwoinking about as these situations happen and I don't expect people to be reprimanded over them. There are way worse things. I should correct you before you go onto another tangent again: You were booted from the server for abusing adminhelps and telling a staff member to "shut up" after having been told to not abuse adminhelps barring important issues or reports. Your attitude was rude and unbecoming before I had to tell you to not abuse adminhelps and after you told me to shut up. And I didn't get a "slap on the wrist", for it, in fact, nor did any staff member take issue with me temporarily kicking you from the server. You may want to check your facts. The staff member that you likely spoke to told you to take it to the forums because staff decisions on the server are final when relating to roleplay decisions being valid or not, until appealed. They effectively told you that if you wanted to see anything done about it you could try your luck at a complaint on the forums. Alternatively, you could have just gotten over it. Everyone has bad rounds and gets terribly unlucky and/or has an unrobust moment. It's not limited to anyone, and you shouldn't have a fit because you got killed by other individuals in a 2d spaceman game due to the tried and true butterfly effect. It happens. It's part of the game. It's not as if I let a massive rule violation slide or something because you think I'm carrying a grudge against you. Might it be that it's pure coincidence that I'm usually the one around whenever you mess up, suppose it's pure luck. Still, let me know how the idea that I'm persecuting you works out in your head.

Correct me if I'm wrong but you didn't shoot an adminhelp a single time. You only really spoke in dsay and AOOC the entire time relating to those issues and we've no obligation to assist until you shoot an official adminhelp. In relation to that round, the only case of note I dealt with was one of the parrots baiting other crewmembers into using the staff of change, and that was because I was watching and saw them do that twice. We cannot stop people from prematurely "doing dumb". They have to actually do something wrong to catch our attention. Because you would've definitely done that when asked, although your behavior as an extremely aggressive antagonist has shown that course of action would show to be really uncharacteristic of your playstyle, right? You do know the staff of change is not a weapon and rather a form of utility, typically in the context of this server as being an interesting tool to generate roleplay with? Shouldn't expect much when you zap folks around you over mild inconveniences. You irreversibly change them into monsters, Coolbc. How would you like it if someone turned you into a parrot and had no intention of turning you back for the rest of the round? This is an ironic statement in multiple facets, so consider: You are literally writing a staff complaint, I am trial staff until my time period ends and I'm re-evaluated for whether I should stay on, and if I end up wanting to stay on, in the end. I hold the right to defend my case. Unlike some people I won't say I'm sorry unless I have real reason to and I mean it. And keep in mind no punishment was handed out directly to you as a result of your behavior, because it was all resolved justifiably in IC and I saw no need to meddle in current affairs up until one of the parrots were transform-baiting to create more parrots. They were warned, told to stop, so on, that was all I needed to do for a first-time violation case. You'll probably note the only time I have to ban someone is when a regular who should know the rules "just doesn't get it", or in the case of a griefer or ban evader doing something that heavily violates the rules in a manner that a regular wouldn't dare be caught doing without a good excuse. And let me issue a piece of advice. Rather than filing a staff complaint that is liable to go nowhere because it has little foundation to form a basis off of, you should have either a.) adminhelped for staff involvement to officially voice you took issue with their actions rather than... not... doing so, or 2.) posted a player complaint to do more or less the same thing after-the-fact, if you did not like how staff made their final decision on-server.

It shares style similarities with the Goonstation UI, which, in this state, looks less appealing than it does on the classic ss13 station. It is not worth making changes to support it.

So because I didn't immediately permaban non-wizards who used the wizard staff with its own attached mechanical consequences, you wrote a vitriolic complaint up to contest the decision I made in permitting things to stay IC? Because the individual(s) that baited other players to use the staff of change were spoken to and dealt with. I won't detail much on that further because that's no one's business and it was properly dealt with in a fashion that they won't do it again. To my understanding. You stole from the general armory. Security chases you. You zap a security person because they were chasing you. You do this a second time and turn them into a xeno, and then they end up killing you to stop this. You definitely had an unjust end coming. It is not as if the security force took you out of the round just because you showed up. You carried out a multitude of aggressive delinquent actions that resulted in you polymorphing crewmembers into an irreversible state. To which they took the opportunity to make their position have some degree of benefit by enacting equivalent justice on your person. Fair was fair. Act like a terrible wizard, inflict terribleness onto the crew, and security is going to inflict terrible to you in kind. You have a right to complain about it but it doesn't make security wrong for responding according to how they're trained to deal with evil-doing antags.

That would be pretty situational to become such a problem. As mentioned, crew transfer shouldn't be a "I dead please restart" button. If you get killed, that sucks, to be sure, but you have to deal with the cards being dealt to you.

Shucks.

Both, I should've made that clear in my post, apologies.

As the title says. Also includes being able to participate in the vote if you're in the lobby or a ghost. The reasoning behind my suggestion is to further discourage the ability to call a crew transfer from being either a "this round looks boring I want to restart it" button or a "I'm dead please restart" button. The purpose of an observer is to do just that, observe. They have no business judging whether the round should end in the next 15 minutes, that's not up to them to decide. This has the adverse benefit of also preventing people who recently died due to in-game events from being able to influence the round ending because they died. If the crew transfer function is meant to exist in a manner that says "I've been in this round for awhile and I want it to end", then it should be reflected that way in only permitting those who are in-game and playing as any role to choose in trying to end the round the CT way, because for them the round isn't interesting enough for them to want them to continue for that round. As another caveat, if you're a latejoiner who hops into the round late just to take your chances at starting a vote, you have to be playing for 10 minutes in the round before you can do so, more than ample time to decide if you want to call a vote to prematurely end the round.

There's a cult power that allows you to talk to the dead. I agree with Alberyk, you should not have used an OOC channel to dictate and guide IC actions. Especially given how incessant you were in hollering at others in AOOC to get back into their bodies. It wouldn't have been an issue if you told them once or twice but you were actively abusing AOOC's purpose. You also afked in the middle of the cult round as a cultist just to write this complaint up. A warning is not a punishment, by the way. It is a step towards actually carrying it out. Want my advice? Don't do it again and there won't be issues, and the warning will expire in time.

That'd be a good point, but: It's already been part of the existing game mechanics to be able to do for a long time now. How's it suddenly poor sportsmanship out of the blue, and what mandated this invisible policy change that hasn't been mentioned once on the forums prior to this thread? In addition, the CT vote that went last round was an exact 2:1 draw ruling where RNG decided to transfer. Not quite over 2/3rd majority. But there was a significant amount of people who still wanted to stay. Let's take into account observers and people who died. CT shouldn't be treated as a "I ded restart" button, yet for most it is. I've a general idea on how to amend the latter detail but it's for another time. Code will likely be written in the near future completely disabling recalling CTs sans an admin/malf AI being able to do it. I will not support a rule being written in banning malf AIs from recalling the shuttle as is their right to do so in their mechanical abilities, because otherwise, why is it even coded in? Pun not intended. It's also unproductive and even more of a hassle to have to require staff to further add unnecessary crutches to organic antagonist play. Calling the shuttle super early for no good reason is one thing. Recalling it as an antagonist AI, specifically, returns the crew's attention at recognizing something going on with station systems and they need to resolve it before they can even consider leaving.

Or if you have some sense as a chemist, having a sink added would just be an infinite source of water and you use the dispenser to get rid of unwanted chems. Win-win.

For the record it wasn't considered valid. There was a brief discussion in msay where everyone but myself thought it wasn't fair. The merc who again recalled the shuttle was spoken to. I've played rampant AI several times where I cancelled both shuttle types without requiring permission from an administrator or moderator, or even having to be spoken to about it. If this is recent policy because people whined enough and can't get over the differing game mechanics each antagonist type has, in combination with the fact that it makes more sense for a malf AI to interrupt crew transfer procedures than it does for anyone else... then it's pretty dumb in my opinion. There is no need for staff to be shoehorned into the role of babysitting the round any more than it already does. Longer rounds are a good thing, it permits people who are still invested to continue the round to keep playing. If nobody else likes it they can cryo and observe instead of being a poor sport and wanting to transfer at the 2hr mark because they didn't get a chance to be an antagonist or they don't want to keep playing and must absolutely restart the round. These kinds of attitudes suck the fun out of SS13. To my understanding, though, this is going to be fixed code-wise rather than ratified as a singular arbitrary guideline.

because plumbing and h2o synthesis

You're going to wipe that famous synthetics page off the wiki, right? Not that it's the only thing I care about but my detail hasn't been mentioned yet and I hate to be redundant or echo what others say.

You only feel this way because I called bats ugly and you disagreed. I apologize for stepping over the line but I don't take back any of what I said.

>bats are cute >aren't they adorable >seriously tho >fucking >EWWW

My only concern is when we're getting bat-men ported over, I hope it's next weekend because I sure would love another arbitrary species choice with no set roleplay differences or significant depth introduced to our community. But taking into very serious consideration, how many new species should we introduce on our server before the community's satisfied, exactly? One? Two? Five? Nevermind the amount of effort required to pull yet another human copy-paste with the only differences being magboots-but-you-can't-move (because somehow an animal can do that with their bare claws), reverse darksight mechanics, echolocation BS that permits you to have actual NVGs, being able to vox leap but you suffer a dumb-ass arbitrary stun and look like a dumb-ass doing it, the moment you get shot with a gun you're fucking deaf and you're a squishy worthless piece of shit that can't do dick in combat. Your survival rate is placed immediately below anyone else simply on the basis of existing as a bat-man, and you're like the sore thumb that sticks out except you look like you belong in a Final Fantasy game where your only purpose is to be genocided for laughs. Why the fuck would NanoTrasen hire anything like this on their stations? They are markedly useless, clumsy and if this is lore then the only reason they lived for so long is not because of intelligence and innovation prolonging their existence but they offset their annual death toll for being so functionally useless that they fornicated so much to produce so many offspring to die more embarassing deaths than their parents did. Bats aren't even cute. They're fucking HORRIFYING (please see next post I am a cute doctor with a degree from an accredited institution). NT would be doing this pitiful race a favor by prematurely issuing them their own Darwin award and glassing their home planet. I'm sorry for being mean but there has to be better things one can suggest than this

There are no black surgical caps in the loadout. In the past, gloves were 1 point each. They are 2 as it stands. Please make them 1 point. I am fairly certain some shoes are also 2 points. Outfits are FUN as a civilian, but they're massively limited when gloves + shoes end up taking 4 points away.

I understand you didn't make it the last rotation around for moderator applications, and that must be unfortunate, but there's no need to backseat moderate and tell staff what they should've been doing in response to a case that happened on the server that you yourself were not present for. Staff decisions are final on the server until appealed. This doesn't seem to be getting appealed, and it expires tomorrow. He was asked to adjust and tone down behavior before. The second time, he had to be told, and when he refused to be compliant in both and seemed more intent on continuing on the path to powergame, the ban was issued to create a wake-up call. I'd be more than happy to discuss with him when the ban wears off how to avoid getting bwoinked again for similar behavior.

Sean Richter is a character of CommanderXor, just for clarification's sake.

Which is absolutely fine, Sierra, you were even the one who innovated the records system in the first place and we used that as a standard for a very long time. In the event your character had multiple ranges of skills you needed degrees to tell off of employment records what your character was competent at. The bar we typically set is no further than a low-point exceptional character, and even that is pushing it. The skill tree, as I know Sierra knows, tells us who is attempting to justify powergaming or not. Simply saying this for anyone else who is confused about this. Now, Surrealistik, the rest is pointed towards you. This isn't the first time someone had to be talked to or even been banned based off of ridiculous skill levels, though. The OP was a rather exceptional case in that they have outright refused to listen to anyone else's logic save for their own and have been dismissive of any criticism. We will not be making exceptions for you. Permitting you to play a genius-level one in a million-type character would not be fair to anyone else that plays to the character limitations we have set to keep an even playing field, avoid cross-class skill drama, and issues where one person completely takes over the job of another simply because they've shoehorned themselves into a role where they can counterplay any situation without any consideration for the people who play specifically to be able to do their job without it being hijacked by another not even in the same role. It would set a terrible precedent, not unlike the bar of awful powergaming you seem to have reset. You will rebalance your character, you will cut out the powergaming and you will improve your attitude when you log onto the server next. Is this much clear?

I'd suggest unpinning this from global announcements as it's not accurate given the apps are now closed.

I never said spaceacillin. I said inaprovaline. But it's fine, it was a mistake in reading, I figure. What you think is reasonable or not is irrelevant. When compared to the entire staff team that was online at the time electing unanimously in msay to have you banned for three days due to your attitude and consistent powergaming behavior, though? That's pretty ridiculous. And in response to any of the other situations you had warnings or notes over, why didn't you use those excuses in talking to staff who questioned you about those situations? If it's clear-cut as you say it is then you'd be guilty of nothing as far as your history goes and these issues wouldn't keep popping up. But the notes tell a different story.

yes but you didn't address the point above by sierra, if the ban reason was for powergaming medical equipment i'd understand that, but it seems to be over his skillset? if you take off the bit from engineering it becomes what you expect from a CMO most of the time. his score is 26, which isn't that bad, I'm sure if he aged the character up and set the records properly they'd be a few centimeters away from the snowflake line. there seems to be another incident as for spreading the virus, i understand the hate for it, but part of virology is to develop viruses, as long as they went through the proper channels with command and made it only transferable through blood i don't know why you wouldn't be allowed to test viruses, as long as you don't abuse it yourself. you didn't even give us insight on the incident and how it went, I'm not sure why you're getting so riled up and passive aggressive over this. They didn't, they infected themselves with it at the start of the round and hadn't spoken to command once in relation to "testing". As it stands there are only two-to-three beneficial virus stages that are worthy of putting into a virus. I gave myself telepathy before and it turned into an amusing round. However, I had command approval to infect myself and I stayed in viro for most of the round until I vaccinated myself. The ban reason, if you read it, is over a long history of powergaming in combination with other history of rule violations. The skills are part of it. The attitude is part of it. The powergaming is part of it. You being ex-staff would know that people are not merely only banned for a single reason in every case.

https://aurorastation.org/wiki/index.php?title=NanoTrasen_Occupation_Qualifications Where are your records with the equivalent degrees that permit you to have these skills, exactly? Because for the fields you filled in, Amateur would be a 2 year associates, Trained would be the range between 4-6 years for either the Bachelor's or the Master's, and Professional would be the 8+ year equivalent of a Doctorate. Your character is only 30 years old. We have no problem with "genius" characters but absolutely not to this extent of powergaming you've done with, frankly, an unoriginal reference to a character from a sub-par American sitcom. You had the absolutely wonderful opportunity since you joined onto the server last month to take a good look at the rules and divulge in reading the resources provided and absorbing the helpful information provided by the server rule page for reading material. This, of course, did not stop you from... - Bludgeoning crew prisoners in the brig with a fire extinguisher as a cyborg to pacify them. - Using lethal force as a cyborg to pacify a cultist in spite of the fact they still counted as a crewmember. - Sedating a hostage taker as a cyborg with little to no actual engagement or warning on the matter. - Sedating someone in custody of security and also overdosed them, effectively acting in the stead of security as a medical cyborg. - Sedating someone AGAIN because they broke regulations whilst security were on scene and available to do detaining if that was their intention. Wordlessly sedated someone to the same threshold. - Joining as Mantis Toboggan. Always Sunny in Philadelphia reference, in case anyone else has no idea what that is. - Injecting yourself near to the OD point each with inaprovaline, spaceacillin and et cetera for every round prior to having a discussion with you. - Getting banned (finally) for the culminaton of pressuring the chemist to give you inaprovaline, hyperzine in addition to using virology to self-engineer an infinite adrenaline virus to sprint forever in the halls with no repercussions or drawback whatsoever. In addition to all of your history leading up to this point. Plus you did a lot of complaining on discord in the middle of the night for close to 2 hours (from 12AM to 2AM) on this subject. Neither Spess nor complaining should dominate your life. I honestly don't believe you've brought anything worthwhile or good to the server since you've rejoined, taking into consideration the amount of trouble you've created since the 8th of February. You are actually one step closer, upon your next offense, from being permanently removed from the server on the next related offense. So please stop. Especially with the shitty humblebragging over discord. You're not cool for powergaming, you win no awards or admiration for partaking in what an average /tg/Sybil fellow does for breakfast. After the ban wears off this is your actual last chance to get your shit into gear, unless you want to win a perma. Because you don't get to constantly break the rules of the server without pushback from staff.