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Ah- Just after writing this I went to r/ss13 and searched "Aurora" to find discussions about the server and the state of HRP. I found an interesting thread. Skull showed our statistics page. https://ss13stats.skullnet.me/server/6bef2e4c8112f4a20e726baf0153ff377a247d902843216197f8e7f31cf11e62 @Skull132 Is this R? Could we maybe draw this out over the past year? Either way, good data for the conversation.

Maintaining them is just as important. Why have most of our more active playerbase left the server in recent years? It's not that hard to see, they usually tell us why, or at least someone else makes a statement on why x or y person is no longer here. The SS13 playerbase is narrowing, and if you drive away foundational members your playbase will start to slip. I am not sure if this is a thing we do anymore- but we used to release some statistics. Seeing ban dates / drama ragequits of prominent players overlaid a graph of total player population would be interesting. That's another point, but I think it feeds into our player retention capability.

@Marlon P. Logically, more players.

Perhaps the solution is to mitigate lowpop.

Great character development here. It only makes sense.

My 00.02, the lore is Anarcho capitalist in many ways, not just freebase capitalism. Given the fact that everyone and their mother smokes a pack or two a shift is reflective of the dystopia. More dystopian is always preferred. Of course with the NBT this wouldn't be much of an issue anymore as things will be a hyper-local economy. I could picture having to swipe your ID to charge for the shuttle on the way out being a thing, however.

+1 Good Wiki-er, no brainer. If they stepped away from management due to management stress, this is the best role for them.

Alb, thanks a ton for addressing this. I trust that you can and have written good lore. This relaxes some of my thoughts, with the observation you know that the issues I pointed were already problematic. The restating that this is a daunting task does not satiate a lot of the points people have made- multiple roles. My two-cents here, I think you can do well in this role but only if you withdraw from some of your other duties to focus on this more. Good luck!

I'm not going to write a novel to explain my frustration with how you're being slighted here. Your work in the past is great, and more importantly COHESIVE. At the moment, all of the developer applicants recognize that the lore is messy at best and has no overarching direction. Applicants all agree that a big cleanup effort is needed. Before I read this applicant's post, I read another applicant discuss cleaning up lore. I posed a question specifying my interest in the human lore direction and some of the issues I see here. A lot of foundation lore preceding the KoTW arc has been messed with, retconned, made more complex, ignored, or otherwise just been poorly managed. I think that most of the applicants can develop good lore with faithful intentions. However, I trust Marlon moreso in terms of what I find most lacking in our lore team- overall ORCHESTRATION of lore.

How do you foresee lore-collection and idea gathering? It seems a majority of our lore is think-tanking from an exclusive club of users that focus on a few siloed topics. You mentioned 'ironing out the basics' of our lore. Will this include Sol-human lore? I feel that Sol lore is embarrassingly neglected, ever since Mars (and I feel like that being such a huge event, we would have had additional lore being developed on this). Comparatively, Dominion lore to Martian lore for example, to get a good idea of my issues on this. I also hold some of the same feelings regarding power centralization.

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.