Zelmana

I would rather like to see a more tenured player take any open moderator positions- simply put I don't think you've been around long enough. The short time you have been here I have seen some of the questionable rp or roundflow issues as stated in the other opinions above. I think with time I could submit a neutral response but until then I would suggest remaining a player and bettering RP. Sorry if this is too similar to Schev's opinion which I just now read.

I've noticed this as well. There is a lot missing in some fairly trafficked areas. None in the pool, holodeck, a lot of starboard is missing holopads.

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@Shadow

I was not present for the event, but I read over the Command briefing regarding the incident. I believe that of course we were justified in our actions of handing over the phoron. I agree with the overall sentiment that there was not much option. That's completely fine and expected. However, I do find it odd that the FSF would aim at the SCC's crown jewel and expect no retaliation. Yes, we were unarmed, but 1) there's contracts in place for their protection of us and 2) the SCC could very easily have every FSF ship blown to shit in a matter of days or hours if they desired. I don't have much frustration but rather a bit of questioning on the FSF's seemingly careless approach, maybe even the audacity they have at doing this to us. And we "renegged" the contract? Who is "we"? I certainly hope SCC Shipyard did not allow for this- I would have expected Shipyard to tell the FSF to expect bluespace artillery if they even think of doing something like that again.

@Gem Please tell me you didn't add one way exit for security. I think that'd be an oversight on escapees.

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AIs, as a almost all-seeing entity certainly have a huge level of responsibility when it comes to balanced playstyle and allowing the flow of the round to occur naturally. As a player since 2015 I have seen multiple policy decisions in trying to enforce some sort of discretion control for AIs when it comes to reporting and interacting with antagonists. Up until the AI whitelist the general playerbase was trusted with making that choice themselves, but I agree with the fact that AIs are now whitelisted similar to Command. AIs have the ability to completely shutdown an antagonist gimmick within 30 seconds of arrival, if they are "on their A-game" of observation and utilizing their sensor suite to the fullest. Something I believe I am capable of. However, the point of any role within an HRP server is to further roleplay and encourage player dynamics as well as possible while also being considerate of the ruleset. Therefore, AIs must take creative leeway when responding, and especially in detection of antagonist players to not ruin roleplay. As a former sec/HoS main this is concept I'm familiar with. Turning a blind eye or allowing for some simple explanations for some things is acceptable and requires some good knowledge of game-modes. An example of this is having the discretion to turn a blind eye to some atmospherics alerts say when a merc is breaking their way into maintenance. To instantly report that to security or engineering would be foul play if say its 30 minutes into round and there has yet to be any sort of escalation. An additional sidenote to this is that in my experience as Captain this can be roleplayed well with. AIs are a tool to be used by administration and crew. To listen into security frequency is nice, but to always 24/7 track and report the location of wanted individuals spoils the roleplay potential of manhunt. Tracking and using "visual scans of the station" to find wanted individuals is fine, permitted you do not abuse it constantly. This can be controlled by mainly only doing this when crew/sec/command request you search for x character. This can be a tricky one. Yes, depending. Due to the nature of our canon 4 AI laws, and that their nature is non-preferential, you can have many situations that involve this scenario of "Disobey an Order". I would like to take note that upon the playing field of the round there are tons of variables that go into this decision. If this were a SAT math problem I would put "not enough information", but since this is a hypothetical question I'll do my best to explain with short bursts of logic. The default result of a conflict between the lawset is inaction. Inaction from a Command order is resistance of order and therefore breaks one of the lawsets. There is a logical cascade failure in this if the player is purely logical. Therefore, similar to the previous question, 3rd variables must take into account to determine severity, response type, and level of "inaction" or action to be taken upon such a dire law confliction. This isn't Space Odyssey and AIs aren't HAL. This one is more simple. Thanks. Either if or not present, "the AI is not a sixth command member." Utilizing the EBS with Command Staff present should be done with the consent of staff. If things are going relatively fine, you shouldn't utilize it at all. However, if things start going south, and the Captain is running around on Code Red with a shotgun, you may subtly remind the Captain of your ability to contact shipyard with a standard status update. More often than not, the Captain or other Command would direct you to do this. Doing so without the expressed consent of Command, without asking or alerting Command about the potential alert, is bad AI play. You are a tool, not an overseer. Without Command staff, you are still a tool. You should, once again, not act as a 6th member of the command structure. However, upon the escalation of the round you should consider sending EBS when things get expressly dire. As former HoS and current Captain main, this is something I think I am familiar working with. It takes some measure of constraint- you should not be calling EBS or CC unless shit is royally fucked. Standard Situation Reports are another story, of course, but should typically be avoided to allow for concise descriptive requests to SCC upon more advanced escalation of round.

BYOND key: Zelmana Discord name: Zelm#0001 Borg / AI names: None of recent. Haven't played much Borgs for a year or so. I play a lot of IPC and feel IPC play is more similar to AI playstyle. Have you read the Aurora wiki page about the AI? Yes. Why do you wish to be on the whitelist? I really enjoyed the AI playstyle for years. I recall before NBT there being a decent amount of quality AI RP notably with characters like Borealis. Although we have an okay AI population now, I would like to see an AI renaissance in myself. As someone who has played Aurora for a long time I feel as though I have a great read on a majority of lore and can portray a state of the art intel system well, while not dominating the round. Like slaved IPCs, AIs should be helpful tools and provide RP flair to the round and build the universe's technological setting to be more believable. Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they? I have received some administrative actions since my time playing from 2015. Spans of years between warnings. Most/all have expired except one recent forum point due to my most recent status update. I disagree with the ruling but it is so minor I am not pursuing any reruling unless it would impact this whitelist request. Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action? Yes.

Looks like im going to need to set a new hot phoron speed record

If I'm really being pedantic, it's a form of force RP.

I know this is a vent. Sorry you feel like that, man. Keep your head up. Read this from the perspective that I've played here a long time and seen a lot of changes, problems, and people come and go. Not meaning this as a refutation at all but some perspective to help you or others. Med is what it says on the can, a medical department. 90% of the time treatment means fixing bullet holes and popped lungs. The nature of the gameplay loop means that even on "peaceful" antag rounds someone is likely to be injured. Even on a moderately normal antag round there may be a few deaths. It's my opinion ultraviolent antag rounds are rare nowadays. As someone playing since 2016, I don't consider an antag super violent / out of the ordinary unless half the station is either bombed out, covered in blood, transformed into cult, or most of the station is fending for their lives. However- the role of psychologist has always been one that is different. Mechanically, they are useless. They have no gameplay loop especially since the mental disorder treatment loop was removed in the past year or two. They, like consular and some other niche roles, exist purely for roleplay flair. There's not a whole lot of mechanical capability to the role. There's even a warning on the wiki about this. It's not your duty to fix people's popped lungs or anything like that. Some basic first aid or basic drug giving is kind of expected, but these things happen. My advice here is to play the role, and learn to not care about stuff outside your lane. Warden for example is similar to this. They MUST stay in the Brig unless getting something to eat. The entire ship could be going down the shitter, half exploded and vented, but I would expect a competent Warden to remain within the Brig at all costs. What are your base duties and responsibility as psych are a grey area and up to you. Don't sweat what's outside your "brig" as psych. A third point I think you bring up is if we indeed have a problem. Of course we have a problem. There's always problems in SS13, Aurora, The Community, and gameplay itself. There always will be a problem. The gameplay is people and roleplay driven, and the mechanics by nature are a complex behemoth. People are imperfect, and so is our code at times. It's neither medical nor antag's "responsibility" to ensure a smooth problem-free round. It is both of their responsibility however to ensure a roleplay filled round, and that both drive whatever player-engaging roleplay they mean to achieve to totality. You're correct in assuming that having more and more peaceful antags will drop our already slowly declining playerbase. Antags kill. Antags peaceRP. Security shoots. Miners pop lungs. Engineers Fix Station. Medbay patches People. Wardens man the brig. Psychologists- they talk to people. Keep your head up, while some people will go easy on the medbay, others will not. Maybe try playing sec department if you'd like a change of pace and experience what issues other departments face. I would say medbay is one of the most well-loved and respected departments.

A canned food that causes an area of effect redtext? It's certainly out of the ordinary.

This seems like such a niche item request that it should be considered as a custom item, I believe.

Some Assunzione dishes would be nice, there is hardly any items/flair for them.

Necro'ing. This thread had good conversation and a suggestion to implement new policy but ended up dropping activity. This is an important pseudo-policy through the years which is sometimes referenced through paperwork to CCIA and others. As an oldguard character I often remember this player-made pseudo policy referenced very very commonly and it made for great RP. Nowadays it is less referenced but I believe with the above boilerplate it could be formalized as a classified policy similar to nuke auth, disc purpose/existence. All command would know this policy.

Yes.

Yet if we look at the multiple PRs we can see that there's a lot of back and forth on whether or not things are fine. Would it be permissable to re-add references that I like back? If not, we have no standard of references being acceptable or not.