Lady_of_Ravens

Yes please! Not that my character ever drinks, but I remember how annoying the drinking code is (same with the eating code that makes you fat on a couple of bites of pizza). As for tolerance levels... why should that cost anything any more than prosthetic limbs or having red hair? It's just an RP detail.

I'm all for this. Let the bullying commence.

Given the amount of griping I hear from miners about that airlock, it should probably be fixed. It's bad enough those poor wretches have to use pickaxes half the time...

This.

I really. Really. Really like this idea. We need a bit more accountability for people who play the same wackjob characters over and over. Then, just don't save citations for characters who're antags (or, probably for anyone during certain rounds, like mutiny, rp-rev, and 'ling). However, on account of cannon being such a flexible thing, perhaps players ought to be able to delete citations from more than a month ago. That gives it a lasting effect without being, like, permanent. Positive citations should be a thing, too. Let being awesome have some rewards.

Yeah, the maintenance tunnels would be too much. And I see the point about the incinerator... but that still leaves plenty of places that ought to have cameras. Here's my revised list: 1) The doors at escape. There's a blindspot covering two of the three doors, making interacting with them impossible. 2) The corridor in front of the kitchen. It's very annoying when tracking/interacting with people in that area and they disappear off camera. And it's kinda an important location, being both in the path to escape and right outside the morgue. 3) The little room between research and genetics. Without a camera there it's impossible to access the doors to the maintenance corridors to let people through. 4) Drone Maintenance. It makes sense to have a camera there, and it's occasionally useful to see what's going on. 5) The chapel. It's a public place (and a favorite hangout of miscreants), but has a very annoying blind spot in the top right corner. Needs a holopad, too. 6) The engineering external access airlock, over by the engineering shuttle, cannot be operated by the AI and should probably have a camera in it. 7) The mining outpost bridge. There's an inaccessible door there, which can be a pain if you're letting someone through. I'd be all for this. I'd much rather be sending engineers out to repair damaged cameras than having to have them install new ones. I'm inclined to think things ought to fail a bit more in the course of the game, anyway, just so the engineers have stuff to do without people needing to break shit.

Don't forget to post your character name along with your twisted fantasies requests for RP, otherwise people might not know who you're talking about. I certainly don't have everyone's characters memorized. Well, what am I going to say? Emp's a computer, and she acts like one as best as I'm able to RP it. She has little in the way of ego and sees insults as inaccurate input which generally can be disregarded. And while she doesn't have the sort of emotions that can be appealed to or otherwise used to manipulate her, she's adept enough at interacting with organics to know that they do... and to take advantage of that when needed. I'm surprised this hasn't happened before. Tehehehe... I think probably 'cause people get the impression EmPrESS is kinda unapproachable. Which she isn't. People have involved her in all sorts of RP, from chair racing/jousing to mouse funerals to refereeing games and (many times) to discussions of philosophy or other weighty matters. But no pervs yet. Not exactly what I had in mind... but sure, why not? Tehehe... how am I supposed to pretend not to notice getting kidnapped? Better to just upload a law to co-opt EmPrESS and help her escape the station rather than having to drag her off while she's resisting. Unless it's one of those horrible dead-hour nuke rounds where the crew can't properly resist the operatives... then you could drag away a screaming EmPrESS and spend the rest of the round listening to my attempts to manipulate and insult the nuke ops. XD Yes you do. And if you want to be really clever, get EmPrESS involved in planning your heist of, like, whatever it is you're stealing. And don't forget the AI can add or remove people from the crew roster and help guide you around the crew... just imagine a nuke round where noone even knows they're being robbed until after it's done. XD

You know how some days you wish you were kidnapped by a rakish gang of space pirates syndicate opperatives and carried off to their shuttle to be ravished brutally beaten with crowbars and ransomed back to your crew? But, of course, those dashing buccaneers killhappy bombfuckers always pick someone else for their daring and flawlessly executed brutal and inept kidnappings. It's so sad... post what horrible things you want antags and/or those scum at centcom event admins to do to your characters. I'll start off... I play EmPrESS, the beloved and somewhat sociopathic AI, and I want... To be harassed by cyberphiliacs (or whatever you call people who perv out on AIs). Seriously, this would be fucking hilarious, and something to do when I play during dead-hour. Not that Emp would be interested, but... like I said, hilarious. To be kidnapped. I don't care if you drag my core, card me... hell, you can co-opt me first so I'm part of your sick pirate gang mercenary team... just kidnap me when it's all over. Just remember, if you drag the core onto a non-simulated tile (like a shuttle of any kind) I lose power and die horribly (but not irrecoverably... I think). To be co-opted by antags (I'm looking at you, nuke agents) and actually involved in their planning process. No, seriously, ICly you've got a sentient supercomputer on your side, OOCly you've got a player who has waaay too much experience playing AI. Take advantage of that. It'll be way more fun that having me just bolt down sec and command staff. If you can slip into a room with a holopad so we can have a private meeting, all the better. To be subject to rampantly paranoia legitimately suspicions on the part of crewmembers who are concerned about having an ESS system onboard (see the EmPrESS technical brief http://aurorastation.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=853&p=8062 for more details) and want it removed from the station. Or whatever. Just hate me, publicly and violently civilly. To be given secret orders from centcom as part of, like, a mutiny event... or, perhaps, the alien specimen must be preserved at all cost. Crew expendable. Or whatever. I'm useful for events. To be subject to an AI psych eval. You heard me, you filthy overeducated headshrinkers station psychologists, I wanna have my positronic brain shrunk. Also, attempts at conversion by insane religious maniacs station chaplains are always welcome. So, in short, gimme some RP. EmPrESS may not be the sort of character who seeks out interaction, but if you take the time to involve her, she can be both interesting and hilarious. What do you want people to do to your characters?

I started playing on BestRP after a couple of friends pestered me to and I spent, like, a week figuring out how to get BYOND to run on linux. One of my friends helped me get started as a geneticist (he likes medical stuff, so usually played CMO), brought me space drugs, and showed me where to go to evacuate when the time came. I survived many rounds hiding in genetics (or, later, R&D and chemistry), keeping my head down, and avoiding clowns, and getting high. When I was confident enough with the game, I started playing AI... which I learned mostly meant my job was to track and bolt the clown. Also other miscreants, but usually the clown. I was "Red Queen" or "SAL9000" at first, later I came up with "EmPrESS", which is awesome. After a while I got a little sick of the Total Fucking Madhouse that BestRP is (or was, I don't think it's around anymore), so I started playing on high-RP servers. Aurora and Hypatia mostly. And I settled on Aurora 'cause the AI laws on hypatia are weird. Also, I like the head whitelist. And so, here I've remained, playing EmPrESS, bolting clowns, and occasionally being forced to release the singularity. But really, that's only been 2 or 3 times... you know, that I can think of.

Oh, give those poor, murderous, bomb-happy bastards a medical facility with proper tools.

Oooh... cameras in maintenance corridors. I'd have to pass on that... at least, not in all of them. A few spots would be nice, I'll admit, but antags ought to have at least some spots to hide too. I'd be happier with cameras in the aux storage locations (which I'm mostly clueless about) and other spots like that, and leave the maintenance corridors for hiding. As for the incinerator, not much really happens there. I can't say I'd be sad if cameras weren't added there, but I also don't think it'd hurt. And on the ocassion when the incinerator is used, it's probably not a bad idea to have AI oversight. Thinking about it, I would like to add another location for a camera: The airlock to the engineering shuttle. The AI can't let people in through this airlock, a problem I've encountered at least a couple of times (once when said people were rushing to get to the transfer shuttle).

It's been a couple of months and no new cameras have shown up, so I thought I'd give this thread a little bump in case it's been forgotten about.

A "join as cat" option when you're ghosting. XD Hands for borgs. Disconnecting the AI's ability to control machines from it's ability to see them on cameras.

But... but... then we couldn't have wheelchair jousting! And I love wheelchair jousting... everyone looses. XD

WTF is a greaser?

You also get fat if you eat a slice of pizza when you're not hungry. Lets have no more weird hyper mechanics.

Where does he get the ape hair?

Dear god man, this is the internet! You can't let yourself be convinced by rational arguments presented without allcaps or personal attacks... what are you thinking?!?

Have it select from a list of standard colors, simple enough. Probably the same for hairstyles... some of them are far from practical, after all.

Our awesome elitism and totally unfriendly attitude toward those filthy balds has been a hot topic lately, and I have a 100% easy code-based solution: new characters get random hairstyles. It won't solve everything by any stretch but at least new players won't have to go around with "SCUM" tattooed on their gleaming heads.

While a 10 second delay probably wouldn't hurt anything, changing votes is a good thing. It lets people pile onto the runner-up if they don't like the one that looks like it's going to win. And it makes it feasible to select an unlikely round type at the start of the vote, and if it's not going to win, switch to a second or third favorite as needed. Yeah, people jumping back and fourth to be annoying is a little silly, but I don't see as it harms the process that much.

Odd... I'd have thought that people giving AIs too distracting, or human, a personality would be more of a thing than people giving their AIs too little personality. Certainly I work hard at making EmPrESS cold and logical, with a computery personality, rather than my own rather whimsical and capricious one... but then, that's why I'm asking this, to find out where other people who play the AI go wrong as I don't see it often myself. Would you say that what you're describing, with the personality and involvement, is a product of the way some people seem to play the AI to have a "comms round" while simultaneously doing something else?

Tehehehehe... Awesome!

Ahh, the balds... while there are plenty of horrible ones, I've often been puzzled by the ones who appear to be perfectly normal new players who're willing to follow the rules when told. Like, a few days ago I was playing the AI and was tasked with keeping an eye on two 30-year-old balds in genetics. And I did, confident that at any moment I'd see evidence of self-testing (or similar foolishness). Instead, I monitored reports from one of them about discovering the cold-resistance "gene" and asking how to proceed since they couldn't self-test. This puzzled me greatly... yes, people do occasionally have the bald hairstyle on purpose, but it's rare enough for men and one of the geneticists in question was a woman. Eventually I came to the conclusion that their defect, if it can be said to be such, was that they didn't have the aesthetic sensibilities to bother setting hairstyles while trying out a new server. I'm a little embarrassed that I didn't figure this out sooner, but I have a rather over-developed sense of aesthetics so this wasn't exactly an easy concept for me. What I learned from this, aside from the fact that balds aren't necessarily there to be horrible, is that new players often don't realize the disadvantage they're putting themselves at when they show up as hairless 30-year-olds. And it's probably something worth mentioning if you come across a bald who seems interested in learning rather than griefing.