Zelmana

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.

Recently there has been an endless campaign against references inside of the game, yet the line where this is seems so strange. It seems that almost at random, or at complete opinion of developers, certain reference items are being removed yet others remain. Even references with similar "theming" or sharing the same reference schema if you will do not follow logic. For example, RnD Rootbeer was changed to Getmore Rootbeer. RnD Rootbeer was a reference to A&W (AnW since we can't do & in titles). I can see why someone might see this and remove it for reference to RnD- Research and Development, a role inside of the game. However, Mr. Gibb (faux Dr. Pepper, referencing in-game meta 'gibb'), and Changling Sting (ref'ing Changling gamemode) were untouched. Why are the choices of what we revert or change in game to "sanitize" so loosely defined? If we want a standard why is it so gray, it almost seems as if a few Devs are ruling based off of opinion of "i like this reference" or "i don't like this reference". Who is to stop anyone from undoing the PR work of a reference change PR? At that point it is a battle of "i don't like this reference" vs. a reverting PR of "i do"

As an avid gun-enjoyer IRL and in game, I think we have a pretty good representation. Now, we don't have swiss mauser tier 8mm type rounds, but a lot of our gun options are direct representations with the accurate calibers being used. A round of merc might see use of a 10mm bullpup, a 9mm concealed carry, and a gimmicky rpg-type weapon like the material "rifle". Beyond niche surplus weapons we have a fairly wide array. A part of selecting a limited "ammo pallete" allows RP to flow better.e

To me it's less so about appealing to reddit and moreso about appealing to the seeking player. Who will go to Reddit for advice on what server to join. https://www.reddit.com/r/SS13/search?sort=new&restrict_sr=on&q=flair%3ALooking%2Bfor%2BServer You can find some references to Aurora in the past month. So we're not entirely obsolete.

I believe you're misreading me. What I'm saying when I refer to "degeneracy" is that we're the best HRP server there is, period. I'm not implying we are degen or anything like that, but rather that we're quite different from some of the other HRP servers. Other servers permit ERP and dangerous 18+ scenarios that we all know cause drama and legal issues. As for not caring what is said on reddit or other places, you should. Low Whitelist pop is a subissue / symptom of Low GenPop. It's better to remediate the actual root of the problem which is low genpop. A user who watches a few Nurse or Sseth or whatever videos on youtube will google "best ss13 servers" the first results would be reddit followed by 4chan and other servers. In general life, it's quite a meme that if you want good generic advice adding the suffix "reddit" to your search will often bring you to a good discussion page about things. It's not very hard to imagine that a majority of players seeking a server, and not just randomly selecting one in the hub, will likely go to the main community nexus of ss13, which most definitely is r/ss13 or some /v/ threads (but those are more rare). Type "Aurora" into the searchfield limiting it to r/ss13 and you will notice we are hardly spoken of, and when there are the rare threads of "what do you think of Aurora" it is a neutral light of the greatest place to HRP yet many bad experiences even from long-term players who fell into the path of judgement. As I've said before and will always, SS13 is a small community and those interested are small as well. The learning curve wall for entry is deterrent, so the overall SS13 playerpool is rotating with very rare surges of fresh players, (this is a self proving concept known as 'greytide'). If we want to continue for the next 6 years we may wish to take our PR into risk management discussions, and what can be done not to just counteract negative experiences but correct past grievances people may have had.

For this to be true the inverse must also be true, no? When pop was good did we have more lax policy? Not necessarily. The overall reduction of Command is proportional to the overall reduction of the entire population. I remember times where we'd have very good pop, a consistent 40-60 players most nights not just hitting low 40s on the weekend, and almost all Command slots were filled or being roleplayed. I've said this before, but the SS13 community is small, and they remember things. Aurora has in recent years fallen off slightly. Not that this should be a good measure- but we are rarely, if ever, mentioned on the subreddits or other forums, and if we are it is often in an undesirable light. What brings new players to Aurora? Often only randomly joining grays from the hub. In my opinion we should be more willing to readily establish ourselves as the creme de le creme non-ERP focused (degeneracy) HRP server. Addressing some of the points people make on r/ss13 may help with that.

My main issue is the disruptor sprite, the normal one, not even the miniature one, has a barrel length that is only a few inches past the grip. It feels odd I can't stuff this into a trenchcoat pocket similar to a revolver. Maybe that's my only grief. I'm fine with a full 45 not fitting.

A majority of the pistols in game are subcompact pistols which are in realistically able to be fit into pants pockets, jacket pockets, and smaller boxes.

Great self reflection, I remember feeling the same way. You're assuredly going to craft memorable command moments. Mistakes happen and in HoS and Captaincy roles evenmoreso, there is often never a "right" decision but only grey ones. Always drive roleplay and never seek to people please.

Clem has very well developed characters and their roleplay quality is comparable or exceeds current Command whitelisted playerbase. If they wish to join Command I give them a great recommendation. +1

Mars needs more presence, the flag pin we have in game is Sol-shit. We lack actual flags, posters, anything for a planet. As a Mars main I support any action that gives us more flavor items.

Teatime has a well developed character here with Drast that is pleasant to interact with. I've seen them recently stepping in more to help interns. They vibe well with Command when present and I could see them orchestrating command level items if given the opportunity. +1

And if a mapper is in the above area the Captain locker needs a holster badly. Tired of stealing from others.

As long as they don't get access to the Intrepid. The intrepid is a high value target & escape option for Antags, and is also in use by Xenoarch now. There's plenty of scenario where Command wants to send an official "Away team" via the intrepid and if 2 shaft miners have taken it at the start of the shift that is a big problem.