Carver

You're murdering the only person capable of reliably figuring out who a murderer is. The Detective is the biggest threat to anyone attempting to be stealthy; why ruin the fun for him by killing him instead of challenging his investigative prowess? If there's a risk involved of dying, then you're dissuaded from murdering someone. The radio thing isn't a risk, most people either won't notice or they will and will never figure out what happened to him. The station's biggest non-Command target shouldn't be an easy kill.

I have no feedback until something tangible is shown.

If your cybernetic limb comes off easy as a limb in Toy Story, then it's especially poorly designed - these aren't modern prosthetics that can be yoinked off, they're cybernetics fully integrated with their owner. I do like the idea of the HUD integrations, though.

Would they be able to select a specific person for this role? Per pAIs, ghost spawners are utterly unreliable and it generally might make more sense for characters to have specific personal assistants rather than 'random joe from dsay'... To which, now that I ponder it, it'd probably be better to just have someone come on as a visitor and be your assistant/bodyguard rather than having a weird spawn system for it.

#2 or #3 would be fine. #1 can go far, far away and never be considered again - it'd make medical Aut'akh one of the most powerful sub-races in combat against pretty much anything but IPCs.

If IPCs were mentally affected by Ion Storms they'd be banned from working on the station. Some temporary physical hiccups would be fine.

I somewhat wish announcements just linked to a full form, equivalent to writing on a piece of paper. Less chat screen bloat, more freedom for writing.

I'm not a fan of objectives, harkening back to the days of being parapen+e-sworded out of the blue because RNG decided I was someone's kill target - it led to a rather unbreakable habit of IC social distancing for me. I'd sincerely hope the murder objectives go in the trash and are replaced with thematic, faction-based objectives or some such focused on espionage and corporate sabotage. As memory goes, either way, objectives never really helped 'antag quality' (on RP servers). It just gave people an excuse to play worse because 'muh greentext' and made the game overall more competitive. If competitive is the way you want, go for it, it'll generate a lot of funny threads to read.

This is going to look really awkward if Visitors remain tied to NT Assistants, as far character set-up goes.

Flash is useless. Rubbers are just ranged punches. The point of it is to make him an unappealing murder target, if it's being abused I'd say it's a player issue. Giving him a taser is also basically just asking to make the Detective trivially easy to kill.

Will we ever see the Visitor role unlocked for the contractor corps, assuming it's possible to remove the assistant sub-title?

To reply in brief; "How does this person look?" is, per my earlier statement, already covered via flavour text.

Unless you're wearing a voidsuit you're not gonna be indiscernible, and voidsuits and similar already change the examine to they/them.

I already covered this, to an extent: Whether or not my character is able to discern your sex is on my character. You can have flavour text explaining they may look a particular way, but that shouldn't disregard that people have differing perceptive abilities and may be able to identify regardless of such. I noted Aut'akh as an exception because they've had near-all identifying physiological features stripped away, and Skrell because it may be argued that at particular ages it may be difficult to tell them apart due to head-tail length. To say that my character lacks the perception to tell the difference isn't on you.

Would it be recorded, in that case? I can't make any lessons and I'd rather someone else be present.

If there's a written version of the lectures after the matter, I'd be interesting in seeing those for the sake of reference in self-learning.

Sure why not. I wouldn't use it as I shed no tears for xenoarchs and their death waves, but it sounds harmless enough.

It'd have to break the pipes and potentially destroy the electrical cables. If you're willing to have that, why not, it gives people a more valid IC justification to hate the dumbasses driving tanks inside a space station.

Doesn't flavour text already cover this? In the cases for individuals that aren't like - Aut'akh or Skrell, it's on a per-character observer's basis whether or not they'd be able to discern your sex.

Two reasons against this: I can tell who's readying for the job I want, this is undoubtedly cause people to get mad at each other even more OOCly for 'slot hogging' or just plain not getting the slot they want than they already do. It'll make it even more trivially easy to tell if it's an off-station antagonist at roundstart by looking at the crew manifest. I get why you'd want it, but unless I have a way to obscure my selection from everyone else, then I can't agree with this addition.

The gun is there so he's not easy to kill. Stun weapons are so trivially useless that they wouldn't work, you need a genuine deterrent against murdering the only person who can properly catch a stealth antag.

Rubber treads on asphalt roads are one thing. This is a station with somewhat flimsy, easy-to-remove tiling that's covering sensitive piping and cables.

Remove all departments if you're gonna do it. Kill the tribalism at it's core.

Per the above size mention, there's also that tank treads are absolutely notorious for fucking up infrastructure; with station floor tiles no doubt being notably weaker than any standard road. I'd expect tiles ripped up, crushed in or otherwise destroyed in some manner if a tank were to drive over them.

Maybe the antag should pick less of a dumb gimmick. If you're going to say 'Oh the Odin is fucked up', you'd better have the resources behind you to send a fucking Syndicate strike team to the Odin, instead of assuming every wannabe Corporate Spy can take down such a major NT locale. As for Red, there's also an argument to made for not waking crew from cryo as well during Code Red for their own safety. If it's dangerous enough to exclude shuttles, it's dangerous enough to keep people under ice.