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I thought this was bait, but it's actually a historical concept. Interesting, though I'm unsure how it'd work mechanically.

I'd take a vampire-lite of 'lings being able to infect people with some amount of time investment, assuming they have the person alone and cornered - some form of 'infection sting' as it were. The whole deal with the Thing wasn't it replacing people so much as infecting them. I would also prefer it not be tied to killing someone, or limb loss. Though I'm not against 'lings being able to possess their own lost/severed limbs after death.

Isn't this just a new form of the fabled suicide baton rush from the olden days.

Removing normal extended would remove a mode that many prefer. I'm going to have to disagree with that heavily, especially as it encourages the behaviour people mentioned of 'playing like it's secret'.

Removing the vote would indeed solve all issues. If something happens twice in a row, they may scream into the void - and there'd be less people leaving before roundstart because they disliked the vote. For this path to be taken, though, the odds of every mode must be equal. No weighted shit.

Versatility is a virtue in this case. How is the bolded text even remotely related to any of this? Are you placing the value of a human character on their own skin colour? And yet you dismiss human culture whilst shilling for xeno culture, which by all right, would be as virtually irrelevant within the confines of the station and Tau Ceti? To assume people would not uphold their family's old cultures or traditions is folly, as most anyone can attest to by looking at near any modern country. It also makes the assumption (again) that every human character comes from the same stock, roleplayed to the same quality or lack thereof that may be present in any other species. Miraculously, this applies equally well to real cultures if not better due to the aforementioned thousands of years of history. I can draw upon dozens to hundreds of sources learning classic literature, customs and more about the myriad of documented groups. Compared to a rather simple few wiki pages that a whitelistee may need to read before they're accepted. Streamlining is made for tabletops, not for heavy roleplay where you're liable to play a character for weeks, if not months, if not years. 'Customisable blank slates' in the form of humanity are intended to offer both the streamline you desire, as well as a near-infinite ceiling for growth and variety. Your 'streamlined' language is Ceti Basic, it gets the job done in every round without any fuss. Cliques are also a fucking piss-poor excuse, and if you desire to avoid them then we wouldn't have any languages or different species to begin with. Language-based cliques have the funny effect of being the easiest for any player to get into - just create a character whom speaks it, you're in, bravo.

A help/learning channel would be valuable, yes. Greater 'input draw' than ahelp, for better or worse, and much more accessible than the departmental cliques discord servers.

Is this a bad thing? The most fascinating part of humanity is being as diverse within itself as the xenos outside are to it. Multiple languages and further differences within the vastness of humans I think is a brilliant point to add to conflict: Knowing the man next to you doesn't share a language, a culture or possibly even the same loyalties. To see them as a beginner species I also find to be a terrible point of view, as it'd imply you're ever intended to 'progress' onto other species. They're in many ways a 'customisable blank slate', with a bare enough 'start' for new players to settle into and a greater 'ceiling' of depth than any other species due to having thousands of years of real life lore one can draw upon for inspiration. A face doesn't need to be inherently alien to be distinct from the rest.

That sounds like more of a timezone issue, no? I've had similar issues with being unable to find a good time to play on a server that suited my pop/RT preferences, but I had to simply accept that some times of day just don't have many people. If this system were retained I'd only advise doubling minimum pre-transfer round length. As for lowpop extended, it's far preferable to lowpop antag where it's either 'kill or be killed' or just some Wizard AFKing in the bar after stealing the spare ID.

Bad idea for aforementioned reasons. If people don't want a mode, then they should vote based on that. This won't change anything but just make more people who'd have potentially stayed for another round leave because their vote suddenly doesn't matter.

Slow mode doesn't really help it, and at 'best' just makes it into a worse version of forums because a channel only ever really has a singular discussion at a time anyways. Balance and policy are also things you absolutely would never find serious discussion on in Discord, because if you actually gave a shit about either you'd make a suggestion thread instead of screaming into the void of an IM platform.

A channel in a discord does not solve the problem that Discord as a platform inherently possesses. If you want people to be serious, then their posts need to be seen for longer than 30 seconds. The forum requires you to consider what you're going to say, rather than being essentially a dressed-up IM platform.

Wrong. Read my reply again, a channel does not solve posts getting buried within thirty seconds or less on average.

This is more of a discord problem than a channel problem. People tend to be serious on the forums because posts are seen longer than some off-handed comment that gets buried in a sea of off-handed comments.

Only if it were a single spawn per ckey per event, rather than letting one person have access to the full stack of 6-8 pests that come with the event.

I'd only accept that if regulations in regard to pest control were made stricter to account for weird fuckers who take disease ridden pests and treat them like domesticated animals, otherwise it may just encourage more immersion-breaking childish behaviour from crew who go '? aw pet da lizard/rat/etc.' at the first sign of a bio hazard alert.

Then you don't need an AI. Two answers to this: Either port the device that tracks when an AI is watching you, or don't perform actions yourself that escalate to 'submit or die' in plain view of a camera network. The basic measures of stealth apply. Because this is a video game and assuming you're willing to learn how to play the game, then you should find relative success for your efforts in regard to skill. It is not intended to be some form of easy street theatre play where everything goes smoothly without fail. If you do something that necessitates that response, then you must be willing to accept the consequences of your actions and plan around them - something I learned well long ago both playing Antagonist roles and Security (both of which have a fair amount of mechanical crossover that helps you learn to play the other).

Rats have a curious habit of metagaming traps in all forms. Out with them unless they're placed under far stricter rules.

At what point do you simply remove the AI instead of adding a bunch of nonsensical rules? The thing is supposed to be one of the most trustworthy assets on-board, previously beside loyalty-implanted personnel - and now rather alone in that regard. If the AI can see what you're doing, either be faster with it or disguise yourself properly. If a CCTV records you doing a crime with your face and similar perfectly visible, then you'd be just as free to be apprehended - if you're conveniently on-scene when law enforcement or security arrives, you'd also be apprehended. If I were to need to go through a million extra loops because of a different ruling, you'd be damned sure I'd be keeping you held in brig whilst that investigation went underway if you were seen or caught on-location by the AI or anyone.

So long as there's some form of humour, and it's actually funny and not some shitty in-joke of 3 medical mains (i.e., it has to be a joke that a player from another server can readily understand) then I don't see an issue in updating the jokes.

I agreed on a need to improve the articles having outdated mentions of mechanics. For the humour, I don't see a reason to remove it unless it's replaced with more relevant Aurora humour like everyone making IRs because the Janitor looked at them funny or the Bartender didn't refill their drink. Most of Aurora's cultural humour is variations of 'man people bitch a lot in OOC channels', 'Miners keep falling into pits and dying 5 minutes into the round', 'Cargo Techs are either violent Taj terrorists or alcoholic human jailbait'. To regurgitate another meme of the server; 'Replace, don't remove'.

There's nothing wrong with new players getting to learn a bit of the old funnies. A culture of humour is universal, and as noted, none of the educational/important articles such as the ones I linked contained anything out of place or encouraging poor behaviour. They just need a touch-up to no longer reference a few old mechanics. One absolutely shouldn't raise new players in a culture of humourless no-fun - even at it's most 'heavy', the RP in this game has never been excruciatingly serious throughout itself.

If Command can simply edit AI perms, then what would be the point of removing such abilities? They were generally only ever used by crew order in the first place with exemption of malf.

Having gone through this and this page, I don't really see any influence of jokiness within full job articles (of importance). I haven't scoured every single one, but everything so far has seemed within reason past a couple of outdated mechanical references such as loyalty implants. The tone seems perfectly fine, as noted the only issue would seem to be that the wiki understandably doesn't keep up with every PR ever made. There's nothing wrong with sharing in the good humour of other servers, especially if it'll make newer players feel more welcome.

If I'd miss anything it was both the watch tower being both an amazing hiding hole, and tool of surveillance.