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You took the words out of my mouth. They don't need a middleman.

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Leave it up to chance.

Spriters could be based and update the Captain snapback/flatcap to modern colors I would appreciate it. It is currently Last Gen SUPER Blue and BLINDING NEON YELLOW

My apologies, then. I joined the round in the last 5 minutes. I saw a TON of bodies.

The arc to me was good. I had constantly been thinking about it during rounds. Speaking to investigators and possible tajarans involved in the picture. I was not there for much of the final event, but it seemed out of place. The antagonist was portrayed as a serial killer with precision in its victims, and being personal with knife attacks, yet then attacks a large amount of people via bombings?

With the latest tweaks to the pipegun, including its capability to have a magazine, it is effectively no longer a "pipe" gun. While there are some extremely niche cases where someone will call a homemade gun with a pipe a "pipe" gun, the engineering includes taking preexisting bolt carriers and trigger assemblies to create. Pipe guns in game have been simply what they were named- a slamfire pipe that you put one round in at a time. The way these work, both previously in game, and in reality, is that by operating the gun you cause the firing pin to go forward into the primer, setting off the cartridge load, making the bullet a projectile. With the addition of a magazine, as well as having it operate on 5.56- I am not certain if the actual ballistics and description were given any thought by someone familiar with firearms. Pipeguns are not just any gun with a pipe. They're slamfire operated guns consisting of essentially ONLY a pipe, a nail, and something to hold onto. Manufacturing of a gun that can do a full battery, have the bolt move back via gas in chamber, feed another round, and have the firing pin mechanism completely separate from this is very complex machining-wise. Thank you for coming to my gun-related rant.

If that was the guidance, than definitely.

We are in the proper section of the forum for a suggestion, aren't we? I know this thread title is a discussion regarding it, but if the consensus is that this should be made official either now (bringing it back to its former use officially), or implemented as a part of NBT, I would like to suggest that.

Scrolling through, I did not see it.

FCP in this sense goes beyond the star-trek sense of the "FCP". I definitely agree with all the points made, this would be a good directive. In this setting, historically, it has been used for contact with "new" species (usually anomalous, such as changlings, wizards, insane technology, ec.). The way things operate now, we no longer really reference the FCP due to it likely falling out of fashion. Oldguard would remember that we would typically follow FCP and attempt to contain and study the new, often incredibly dangerous and very hostile, creature. It really just assists with some steps in the process. We know that it is a directive of NT/SCC to contain and observe these anomalies/creatures/mutants/whatever, even if it is hostile. This saves Command a fax that will almost assuredly always say "contain it, try to get it prepped for transport, if it is TOO hostile, kill it" etc. etc.

Some good points, but keep in mind that is what Liaison already WAS- at least for NT. Before we had all these contractor workers, we had only the NT Internal Auditor/IA role to act as CCIA's underlings. A lot of the responsibilities from this were pushed up and into the current liaison (NT-only) position. This is reflected with some of the extra fluff in the wiki for the NT-specific liaison. As with any role, they're to generate roleplay and often do. I don't think we need a "New" role for something that the Liaison should be expected to do anyway. At least a good one, that is.

In recent years, I haven't seen this mentioned as much. Searching the wiki, the FCP is not mentioned. I believe, and please correct me if I am wrong- that our protocols for first contact (i.e. alien / anomalous species) was retconned/reworked or deprecated. I think that it should be looked at oncemore, both due to convenience of guidance when dealing with anomalous things that come up (either antag or not), as well as the future NBT possibilities of new races,planets,fauna,flora, etc. If I recall correctly, the FCP was a less-well-known protocol, typically only known by Command, detailing how to handle anomalies. Often it would be what we receive from faxing about them to CC- general guidance for containment, observation, and EOR transportation. In short, can we look at FCP again?

I have always liked Yumi Yotin as a character. They are very kind hearted and will PDA message people they know, and will always try to start interesting conversations. Many bartenders will often just pull drinks and do little else.

The whole asking for validation thing was phased into "meta", correct. I completely agree with you-- despite it being meta and being able to completely negate a Antag's gimmick via writing a fax, it does something more odd, which is to make the liaison-company relationship broken. The proposed solution to this, removing the NT liaison, is odd. They do far more than communicate back to the company to confirm out of place visitors, and as any faction, act as a means of roleplay and exploration of lore. Nanotrasen Liaisons specifically act as interpreters of regulations and standard operating procedure to command. Additionally, they are mind-shield implanted. They have additional responsibilities here that I don't think are being considered. A better solution would be that if an antagonist is going to pull a gimmick that could be broken by fax-to-confirm cliche, then the telecomms should be out/broken for the duration. This brings up other issues, such as when/if the crew discover the "true" nature of a boarding party (if they are playing as posers and not rping legit characters). To the notion we should have a "secretary" role-- that is kind of what the NT-specific liaison often does. Drafting status reports. However, this is hardly (or should be) a fraction of their job. Representing the company, sitting down with people to discuss their satisfaction with NT, discussion of politics, assisting CCIA if needed, helping Commnad interpret sop/regs, and even helping characters in-characterly start the incident report process.

that's exactly what i'm saying.

I prefer the current, above, Devsen posted sprites.

Since all staff are volunteers I would say that my statement was accurate. I wasn't stating that people can just not do things and still remain on staff. I'm just stating that volunteerism is always a one-way street. You either pitch in your abilities or you don't. If you don't you may be asked to leave. Simple as. Why that remark, prefaced with "my opinion" "to me" and "just my 0.02" was taken as factual despite not even disagreeing with anyone, I am not sure. I certainly don't think it deserved such a hostile remark. Either way, this is off-track of the thread topic so I won't be discussing further.