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Flyers would be sedition, not mutiny (Also distributing anti corporate flyers on the SCC’s flagship is impossibly stupid). Assault of a Head of Staff does not result in cyborgification, and if it does either the Captain is breaking the rules or you’re being disingenuous and did something else alongside it. If you’re popping off shots to the extent of gaining an attempted murder charge, you’re not merely ‘running from sec and trying to ward them off’. Espionage is what it is, don’t expect to be treated nicely as an overt corporate saboteur on the SCC’s flagship. If you’re often getting cyborgified, then either you’re running into a very curious recurring Captain or Command roster, or perhaps you need to self-reflect on your antagonistic style. If you’re getting caught fully red handed after committing a Cyborgification-worthy charge, then I’d say you deserved it - you either put minimal effort into obscuring your activities, or the Detective is well and truly competent and followed a trail (this is rarer than you think if you actually try to obfuscate said trail). Ultimately, I want good stories. I don’t want people trying to murder willy nilly; popping off gunshots like they’re going out of style, and assuming murder is often an interesting story (it very, very rarely is). Mutiny is the only case where the antagonist was usually doing something truly interesting, and then said cyborgification becomes a wonderful vehicle to instigate response from other revolutionaries; if it doesn’t, well, you didn’t really get people’s interest to begin with. I want traitors who exercise a degree of subtlety, revolutionaries who truly provoke me into wanting to pick a side and so forth. Considering that, the apathy from the crew is often something you earned just as much as the cyborgification.

If they’re your bread and butter as an antagonist, then you’re taking an extremely aggressive approach that’s likely attempting to remove people from the round more than tell a story. Why should you be treated with kid gloves at that point? All of the high tier charges are there for a reason, they’re violent beyond anything else. If you employ violent means, don’t be surprised when you reach a violent end.

Cyborgification is a tool that feels most sensible where appropriate; consequences for canon actions, and extreme regulation breaks (Mutiny, [Attempted] Murder, etc.) I’d say if it’s being used for less than such extreme cases, then it’s being misused. I don’t mind marooning since it can be quite interesting in certain sectors (Adhomai was wonderful for this), and I’ve never been bothered by it so long as Security are following procedure and not deliberately under-equipping marooned crew. In any case, these are fine tools so long as they’re not being misused. What is the point I’m getting at? Both of these are great, both of these should stay, and that if you suspect they’re being used in an inappropriate situation then you should be reporting the command players (Generally the Captain foremost) in question via adminhelps or other appropriate avenues. These tools give some actual bite to the setting being a dystopia, and we’d be worse off without them.

A cooldown might certainly be a sensible adjustment that doesn't butcher it's unique identity. Prevent one from weaponizing it excessively, while not eliminating the ability to use it (on one activation) for as long as you have blood to maintain it. Might also help to give it some sort of feature so you don't immediately deactivate it on a spam click and get fucked over with it on cooldown after doing effectively nothing.

A dedicated and passionate writer, he puts quite a bit more thought into his characters than what is often expected of a server regular. +1

I’m entirely against this, I play Aurora precisely because of the relaxed and thoughtful pacing where I don’t need to stress about reaction time and fine aiming or worry about people walking off at lightning speeds while I’m trying to say something.

This shouldn’t in any way affect checking character age via view variables, at least in theory. Ideally it would be something that exists predominantly in character setup, and I suppose a lazier and safe implementation would be inputting birthday and it only calculating age (against the server’s date) on that initial input whilst saving the input for you to recalculate it at any time you desire - a softer reminder that doesn’t stress the server with repeated calculation on every round.

I don't think shuttle thrusters should be an instant kill (maybe a really heavy burn amount up to 75-80, without destroying all your blood ideally) but the Horizon's thrusters should absolutely be something you avoid like you'd avoid the singularity's containment field in the past.

If we must have security for the residential deck, I’d merely suggest something automated such as cameras and turrets - or perhaps the old securitrons (i.e. Officer Beepsky). The sort of things that you could never go “why aren’t they coming up to help” like you could with security cyborgs or similar.

Echoing that the hook hands/peg legs should only be craftable in round and available to raiders/third parties. But the non-robotic/variant prosthetics should certainly be available to any and all crew. As for balancing the non robotic prosthetics so they are not merely better than robotic ones, I propose to consider them having notably lower durability overall. Instead of malfunctioning, they might simply risk breaking entirely at similar damage thresholds. This way they come cheap and are replaced just as readily.

Even furless I don't want anything that'd climb on the bar and get near my drink. Animals on the countertop are horridly unhygienic.

I'm against any shortening of rounds whatsoever. While I'm neutral on the consolidation of timers (the last 2 minutes are important for winding down and OOC conversation, and the 3 minutes before that are a serviceable last minute warning that more or less everything of note will stop when the 2 minute timer begins) I abhor the idea of shaving even two precious minutes off of any round - especially given the important of those two minutes for server staff, players wrapping up their RP and very rarely semi-important in-round matters.

I'm in support of no residential 'heroics' in general, security or otherwise (since you often have EMTs and Engineers claiming similar feats). There's no value in allowing people to assign their characters medals of heroism over nothing that happened, merely because they said something first. Unless the ship goes down entirely, I'd prefer residential to remain (mostly) unaffected by events. No boarders, minimal damage (certainly no breaches or fires), just a bit of rocking and shaking so that nobody can claim this or that act of great heroism with zero consent from staff, writers or their fellow players.

This led me to a thought, why not have a lizard for the bar? Unintrusive, won’t get hair everywhere, no other department has one, all while still being a fairly domesticated animal. Has sprites and serviceable AI too since it’s a passive vermin animal used in custodial events. Bonus points for the obvious Lounge Lizard joke.

I would not go to any bar where there’s the risk of cat hair in a drink.

The rework hasn’t done anything to address my core issues with this mode, doubly after the follow-up PR that made horror form require you to remove 3 people from the round again. Can we get this garbage out of secret?

I’m not sure I would trust a 22 year old to maintain the Horizon’s engines, shields, power network and general structure. As someone else said earlier, it’d just be better to raise the overall human/similar age minimum and discourage unrealistically young characters in positions they’d never be suited for.

After some experiences where I couldn't find something (headphone selection) because the search bar didn't work and the tags applied to it were only the most generic 'no restriction(x3)', I really hate this new system. Even excluding the obvious bugged one, it takes significantly longer to find anything I'm looking for and I'm constantly clearing tags to try and see what I have. I feel that it requires even more tags, if anything, yet this only further compounds the amount of additional clicks to circumvent search bar usage.

As someone who rather despises the Bayification presented by 2IC, I’d quite like this. Though I’m rather torn on handing service to the OM given that overseeing the bridge by itself doesn’t offer too much, I’d personally like the return of Service Manager instead, but if that’s unfeasible then this route is perfectly fine. Flight Chief is a fine title.

If an additional role was added, it'd make more sense to be a separate role rather than an alt-title. Mostly as I'm uncertain if alt-titles can be set to have substantially lower pay, and in this case potentially lower access.

Beginning with the positive: The Chapel looks absolutely stellar; same with the Bar, Kitchen and Library. I love the flooring throughout these areas. The north-facing machines are generally more visible than I expected, without intruding too much onto the tiles. Though the Newscaster and Request Console look somewhat cut off sprite-wise, but I suppose there isn't much to be done from that angle. I highly appreciate that this attempts to be unique and distinct from other servers. Onto the more critical: Some of these railings really look off, as if the bottom railings were misplaced by half a tile southward. Some of the floors feel a bit too bright when contrasting with the walls, perhaps due to their highlights? Comparatively, the following floors look very good due to having inherently darker tiles and subtler highlights The vertical sprites on these doors don't mesh with the surrounding walls very nicely. Perhaps this could be solved with some edge darkening/outlines against those walls (in place of the current lightening on those edges, which is rather odd), as present in the horizontal sprites? Examples of both vertical and horizontal included to show what I mean. Final and very small bit of critique, the way that these side rails 'end' makes them look as though they're merely a floor-liner in some places. If end-posts were possible such as where railing corners connect, it would help alleviate this. Overall, I like the changes for the most part (especially in Service), a few touch-ups would solve all of my present complaints.

Stellar individual, consistent roleplayer and dependable when the need arises. I do echo the sentiment to be wary of burnout if you should promote a character you especially enjoy playing at the moment. +1

In the past, we had alt-titles such as Maintenance Technician and Electrician for such, but they were removed because they tended toward a reasonable line of thought: "If I'm not an Engineer, then the Engine isn't my problem" To that effect, I would rather see a separate lower-tier and lower-pay role introduced than further encouragement to have unrealistically young characters within the department.

I would heavily disagree because blobs and appendicitis can often be horrid round-enders (for the entire crew, and for individuals respectively) without the appropriate roles to answer them. I would simply leave a round in many cases if these occurred unchecked and no one could do a thing.

I don’t have much to add because others have made some great points so far so I’ll keep my thoughts brief. Events are great, they’re often quite interesting and can be a big draw for players, yet also they often breach into the realm of absurdity (Sept. 18) or leave a character in doubts as to whether it’s even worth working there anymore (Cold Dawn). Both of these can be quite harmful in attempting to retain a character who, quite understandably, would struggle to find any reason to continue working whether due to loss of close friends or uncertainty in the direction of the Horizon’s mission. I have seen many characters departing over these events, whether temporarily or more often permanently. Perhaps if these were dialed down to some degree, and the chaotic nature of them reigned in further, it would help with the retention of otherwise long term characters? As for my personal approach, I tend to have trouble making a character who sticks firm in my head. As a result I tend to shotgun a bunch of ideas and discard most of them until something feels right to me. Otherwise I can’t force myself to stick to something of which I don’t feel any passion in regard to writing for.