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Camera bugs exist already in TG, as well, I think. So not entirely impractical

The idea of the knife presumably is that it would effectively gib a person, like a cult sacrifice does, reducing them to a greasy bloody spot that can be cleaned with space cleaner or a mop or whatever, and limbs that can be stuffed in a bag to be more easily disposed of.

I like the garrote or something similar as a nonlethal option. Especially if it could double as makeshift handcuffs, which would make sense. As for some of the other items. Drone: I don't know how feasible something like this would be, coding-wise. But it could be interesting. Especially if it's disguised, maybe as a mouse, but if you examine it, you'll see it's not a real one. Suicide Vest: I like some of the RP options here, for discouraging security's usual idiotic blind use of lethal force. But I generally don't like bombs very much. In the spirit of this, though, an implant for nuke ops that triggers an explosive suicide injection after an emote would be pretty neat. Cardboard Box: As a joke item, like the balloon, I like it. I think that's what you meant it for? Cleaner's Knife: Bodies don't really need to be disposed of that badly, because it's pretty rare someone gets busted because a body they intended to hide got found. I think this opens up too much gankiness. Brass Knuckles: I like it! Actually I like it so much I think it shouldn't be a traitor item. Make it an illegal autolathe or protolathe item! Increase damage from punches and increased chance of knockdown, maybe?

If they actually say "lelbomb" in adminhelp and don't show any remorse for it, it's generally grounds for a perma. Anyway, I think the OP needs to explain more on the aspect of treating bombings like atmos grief. Because that's what it is, ultimately. It sucks the atmosphere out of large chunks of the station, and is actually far more dire than anything but maybe a plasma fire. Small, targeted bombings aren't bad. But small, targeted bombings almost never happen. Max yield "hue hue blow up the hall between the bar and medbay bombings" exist plenty. And yes, I think power sinks need changes. There's not really any way to detect them, that I'm aware of and the fact that they're a huge bomb after they fuck everything up just adds insult to injury.

I'd say it does, really. You escalated to lethal force first. She didn't have much reason to suspect you wouldn't kill her too.

After today's nuke round +1 for showing even with crap ganky situation you can keep RP up.

I see mass bombings by antags ~all the time~ and they're never really addressed. It's why I end up almost always voting against antag rounds because antags can't really be trusted to make the game fun when they can just blow things up.

I agree with this mostly . While I think Gunplay shouldn't be an important part of the game, since it's not all that often that guns are used by one armed person against another armed person, I think this would also counter the bad RP of dumbasses rushing a person with a gun thinking they can shove them down before they get their head blown off. I think the way to balance this is to make aim matter. The 'hostage' mechanic should increase your accuracy since you're clearly aiming at the person, compared to 'hip firing' without it.

No but in the same way antags can't atmos grief across large portions of the station, mass bombings of major hallways shouldn't be allowed either. They lag the server, and don't really add much to RP. They're just a cheap way of bad antagging.

Fairly self Explanatory. Blowing up a huge chunk of the station is worse than using atmos to vent it all. It's harder to fix and lags EVERYTHING. I think the same rules should apply.

Morale, the same reason there's a bar. Of course it never turned out that way. And as for the cult limit on writing, I think 10 might be a bit high. 10 people is enough to end the round, ultimately. Sure we get 50+ people during the day but how often do you get that, plus a decent cult, plus security not metagaming and putting all the cultists in jail for having books?

Nehma Ga'dan is actually gay and married to a Chief Engineer from another system. Crystal Brookes actually got her start in medicine as a chemist, studying chemistry as an extension of bartending, her first Nanotrasen job. She went on to write a book about medicine and a book about surgery. Stephanos Remes came into existence because of the lack of legitimately friendly, pleasant heads of staff. He's inspired by Braum from League of Legends, in many ways. He's a defector from Russian controlled space. Vortivask's birth name is Chef Vortivask, but Nanotrasen forced him to change it due to potential confusion if he were to work in other civilian positions. As protest, he changes his name as frequently as legally possible. Most recently his name was Oregano Vortivask. OOCly he was originally conceived as a surly Unathi chef who refused to cook anything without meat in it, on another server. Artie Dilligence was never meant to exist on the station. His name was Art I Dilligence, a pun on Artificial Intelligence. I made him specifically for starting rounds as a borg or AI. I was forced to RP him when all those were taken. On the spot, I came up with the story of him being a victim of medical experiments using inferior artificial parts. It led to some intense, emotional RP, so I kept with it. Though because every round, just about, ends with him as a cyborg, I can't keep canon.

It's two sides of the same coin. Antags are ganky because people are dumb and rush antags. People rush antags because bad antags just kill people for laughs. Unfortunately I don't think there's a real solution except hoping people get a clue.

It's not a rare occurence either. Good RP seems to stop, for most people, when the shuttle leaves the station. This means sometimes dragging a dying person to cryo on Centcom or treating them on the shuttle leads to getting shoved around like you're a schoolgirl on the Japanese train system. I'd say move the medical section to the other door and either do away with the cargo room entirely or move it to the other side. We could say change SOP to let medical off first but it'll go ignored and unenforced, honestly. This is a concrete change and one that makes legitimate sense. ESPECIALLY if you consider that it's possible the shuttle could be called during a quarantine situation and this way you could get sickies on board without exposing them to the crew.

My suggestion then, is to rework the escape shuttle a little. Rather than having that cargo door which is never used for anything besides a second door, and for idiots who INSIST on bringing their Ripley onto the shuttle, make that second door the medical entrance to the shuttle.

In response to a mechanic being abused, we shouldn't go "destroy the mechanic!" Just make/enforce a rule about it. Ghost writing should be treated as In-Character, so anyone who does stupid immersion breaking shit should be punished.

For now, as a stopgap, can we start treating griefer geneticists the way we'd treat any other griefer? When a hulk starts punching down walls just because they can, they should be treated the same as any other chucklefuck. Swiftly. Genetic research (superpowers) are the domain of the RD, not the CMO. The CMOs business is the cloning side of genetics. It's a shared department.

-1 for all the reasons already stated. Sue is ABSURDLY hostile, just about all the time. It does not take much for her to lose her temper to a ridiculous extreme, as anyone who's been on TS with her or disagreed with her in the past could likely tell you. A big part of what makes this server so great is that there is always good levelheaded staff around who handle situations fairly and coolheadedly. I don't think Sue can do that.

Up until the grenade most of that just sounds like the natural course of roleplay. Extended doesn't mean do nothing. The grenade... well, that's a bit much. But even then is a bit understandable if she was defending someone's life, or avenging someone's life, I think. Where's the complaint thread for you executing someone out of spite?

I don't know much about Skrell but I know Demon, and demon is a great RPer and this is well written. +1

There was no cryo message, you were still on the manifest, and you disappeared after surgery performed by someone who was later revealed to be a changeling. So sorry about my confusion there. The point still stands that it's pretty damn suspect to have two separate characters in one round with an interest in the same guy, with minimal IC foundation.

-1 My only experience with you was during a changeling round, in which you metagamed along with one of your friends who was playing the chef. You were killed by a changeling as your Bartender character Viktor, then respawned as a scientist who suddenly had no motivation other than talking to your friend, the chef, who I think IC you hadn't even met yet after you respawned (could be wrong about that part). It was pretty transparent you were going after a friend you met OOCly, and I picked up on it immediately. Seeing your whitelist app listing both Krompf and Faustin just confirmed it.

[[Oh, Right I get it. It's not for helping traitors (though in theory I could see it used that way) but is used to provide 'bounties' for non murder objectives? Makes a lot of sense actually. It's the same as the bounty board. Would be harder to coordinate if it requires multiple traitors, but I could certainly understand the use. ]]

The borg wasn't released because of the argument. The borg was able to successfully run around and bolt and electrify all possible avenues of dealing with it, and obtaining weapons because of the argument. If you hadn't argued, the armory could've been accessed before he got there or weapons could've been ordered via cargo. So Sarah's reasoning is that the two people who the Borg shot repeatedly, and also captured the borg in the first place, must have been the ones responsible for releasing it? Makes total sense. Really consciously or not, this kind of play is just stemmed from the metagamey thought process: "there MUST be an antag, so I need to arrest them so I can WIN" Which I don't think is healthy for anyone who's going to be whitelisted, but especially someone who almost exclusively plays security.

Withdrawing my +1, but not changing to -1. After events in a game tonight in which a rampaging borg got free reign of the station because I, as acting captain, had to argue with Sarah about releasing someone who was arrested with zero evidence of any wrongdoing, and she directly disobeyed orders (repeatedly because I might be a 'collaborator' was the later justification given). I could write an essay on why the whole thing was bad, but it makes me doubt Sarah or Konfliqt are ready for a head position,