KingOfThePing

Byond Key: KingOfThePing Character Names: Sei Armas, Natalie Pershing, Dana Zirin Species you are applying to play: Vaurca What colour do you plan on making your first alien character: RGB 55, 0, 120 Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes.... Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph format. One paragraph minimum per question. Why do you wish to play this specific race: Vaurca are so immensly different from humans, it's terrifying. Their hirachy and social constructs are fascinating and they have a great in-depth lore, which I think is interesting to utilize. Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: You feed off a highly lethal, poisonous mushroom-thingy to survive, which is already pretty...interesting. And dangerous. Vaurca are as alien as any of the races can get. The Vaurca are often distrusted, discriminated and just being viewed as cheap labour force. I think it's interesting to play in a, let's call it, disadvantageous social situation, when playing. The upside is, that I don't have to care much about depressurizing and vented areas anymore, or going EVA to avoid a dangerous situation. You also have a cool "telepathy" hivenet ability, which is way cooler than the Skrell's. I am interested to see how it plays to be on the recieving end of xeno-discrimination. Character Name: Ka'Akaix'Ven C'thur Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs: Born to Ta'Akaix'Xetl'jyatk'yatu C'thur, The Voracious Queen in 2458, Ven was raised and grown the same way as every other unbound worker, with half a year of organic development and another half year in VR to train him and form his personality. In the virtual world Ven decided that repairing, maintaining and constructing grand projects would benefit his hive and especially queen, the most. Ven first learned about the theory of structural engineering, electrical wiring, physics and thermodynamics and many more fields before constructing his first project in the virtual world. He is fascinated with the different materials used for construction, studying them in great detail, learning the different advantages and disadvantages and how to use them most efficiently. After that Ven was planning and constructing a multitude of projects, in varying size and complexity. He started with relatively easy projects, like structural sound corridors, bridges and catwalks but soon moved on to more complex topics, like shuttles, whole departments and in the end, his Magnum Opus, a virtual space station, fully functional and designed by himself. He, in his eyes, was the greatest engineer that has ever existed and told himself to use his abilities to bring his hive and his queen to new heights. He regularily shared his work within the construct with his queen and tried to please her and make her as proud as vaurca-ly possible. When leaving the virtual reality world, Ven quickly learned that reality is often disappointing. Unlike his expectations, he wasn't assigend to grand construction projects, as he thought he would be, at least at first. Soon, though, as more and more engineering teams were requested by the Skrell, he also started to help constructing the underwater colony projects within Glorashi, among other things. He felt significant and important again and with every assigend project, he gave his everything to please his queen and represent her, as he was taught. The Skrell he met in Glorashi were accepting him and his hive and that mislead him to thinking it would be like this in the whole universe. He was wrong. When he was sent to Tau Ceti, to work for NanoTrasen it was a hard time for him. Not only does he have to be an engineering apprentice again, since the corporation did not acknowledge him as a fully fledged engineer, but he learned that not everyone is as accepting of him and his brothers as the Skrell were in Glorashi. All that matters little to him, or so he thought, since it has gotten increasingly difficult to remain calm and ignore the discrimination he recieved lately. All that keeps him going is his undying devotion for his hive and especially, his Queen. What do you like about this character? The queen loves her Ka, and this Ven loves his queen above all else. He overcame the disappointments he experienced in his life cycle, because of his devotion to his queen. All he wants it so make his queen proud. Letting her down would be an error he wouldn't forgive himself. Also, his age, with 2 years and a bit is very young. He still learns about the world outside the virtual reality and is still met with everyday challenges. How would you rate your role-playing ability: Rating yourself is presumptuous, but I think my roleplaying is alright. Notes: Any feedback or critique, no matter if positiv or negative would me appreciated.

This time for sure. Good luck.

What's up guys, small penis here, Today I played medical and got approached by a crewmember with empty medical records if I could do a complete physical on them, so I took the standard medical record template (found here: https://wiki.aurorastation.org/index.php?title=Guide_to_Character_Records) and went into the examination room to talk to the patient and fill out the record (so he could put it into his character setup medical record). Then I noticed something. You cannot actually...examine much in the examination room. Sure you can do the grabby-inspecty stuff and fiddle around with the sthetoscope and penlight but not too much else. The third and fourth thing on the records is "Height" and "Weight" and I noticed you have no way to actually determine that as a doctor. So here is my suggestion: Add tape measure and a scale to the examination rooms. It could work like this: When using the tape measure on a person said person gets a prompt to write their desired height into said prompt, which is then seen by the person measuring. Something like "after carefully using the tape measure you could determine that this person is NUMBER UNIT tall." Basically the same with the scale. Someone steps on it, the doctor (or person itself) left clicks on it and a prompt for the person on it pops up. again, what was typed in appears as a message, visible for all nearby. "after a short time the marker on the scale settles down at NUMBER UNIT." As usual I do not know how much work is needed for such a, some would say, mundane suggestion but it would add some RP possibilities on extended rounds and may encourage some medical players to call in more people for physicals. Some developer input here would be appreciated.

I don't think you can say much about Burgers roleplay. I am wondering why he hasn't applied for a command whitelist before. I like Diamond with Flaw and FLAWED very much (Roza is an asshat, though.). +1. Diamond will make a nice CMO. Good luck!

Alright, this looks great and I think is pretty well made. Only complaint: Due to the redesign the freezer in the sublevel containing some O- blood packs was removed (It was the one near the isolation cells) and this leaves medical with only two packs in the ICU locker, when not having a CMO/Doctor. Could the freezer be re-added to a location where all (!) medical personnel has access to it? Main Storage....ICU itself.....anywhere, really.

Isnt the sense of the gasmask also obscuring...your...face?

Since paramedics normally do not have to be in the OR access to it is really not nessecary. And as Resi says, there are 2 O- blood packs in the wall locker in the ICU and another 2 in the freezer near the sublevel isolation cell. All easily accessible for every member of medical.

BYOND key: KingOfThePing Character names: Sei Armas, Natalie Pershing, Julienne Turner How long have you been playing on Aurora?: I first boarded the Aurora in Summer/Fall 2016 if I recall it all correctly. Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: Driving the round's and character's stories alike. As well as exemplary leading the department as I would like to get led by others. Why did you come to Aurora?: LRP and HRP is nothing for me. I came for the HRP and stayed for the people. Have you read the Aurora wiki on the head roles and qualifications you plan on playing?: Of course. Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they? I recieved two minor warnings in my time here. One for being a bad traitor and sabotaging the Supermatter Engine without staff approval near the end of one round and the other one was recieved for misinterpreting a law as the AI and hurting the crew, even if I shouldn't have. Other than that I haven't recieved any administrative actions. Of course I also have some notes to my ckey but they are all very harmless. If interested I can post them, too. Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph each. Give a definition of what you think roleplay is, and should be about: Obviously, the purpose of roleplaying is to be able to be someone who is not you. You have the ability to create a completely different person, with different motives, different principles and a life that went differently than your own. But roleplay also involves others. The way you play your character can affect or influence others, in character and maybe even out of it. You can live another life, meet people you might not meet in the real world and do things you can't (or shouldn't). You can create a whole new universe with the characters you play. You can create stories or situations that are remembered. Maybe you can even create real feels, sometimes. Roleplay shouldn't be solely about yourself or your character but rather the people around you. What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, ingame?: The Head of a Department is supposed to guide, supervise and teach (new) players the ways of the department they play. Guidance by coordination: A department without a head often is slower to respond - slower to react - maybe even limited in their abilities. Supervision by presence: Supervising your department, so the members of said department follow regulations and you keep an overview of your department's actions at all times. Teaching new players: No matter if it's a player new to Aurora, the department or the game itself, a Head of Staff should try to be available for players willing to learn new game mechanics, positions and what is expected of them, when playing in said department. The game can be confusing when being new, a HRP setting even more so. New players should be taken into care, especially as a Head of Staff, if everyone else refuses to do so. What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?: It's not a simple question. One should not forget, that as a whitelisted Command player you are basically considered an exemplary player, especially by players new to the server or the game. You have to handle the balancing act to make rounds interesting, but still deliver good, believable RP. One of the greatest problems you can hear at any give time is, that often interesting situations get shut down by command players. It is important to try to look for ways to make good, interesting and maybe special situations possible, to create possibilities for people to roleplay and try out their ideas, instead of trying to avoid or deny it. Could you give us the gist of what is currently happening in Tau ceti and how it affected your character and their career? Originating from the Republic of Elyra and Tau Ceti being a melting point for many (xeno) cultures Dana was skeptical when taking the opportunity to work for NanoTrasen. But she thinks that NanoTrasen is indeed more powerful than The Liberal Reform Party. She knows that the fight over the elyran Phoron deposits is a slowly losing one. She believes, that if she cannot beat NT, then she should join them. Even though she considers herself temperate, when it comes to political questions the Lii'dra attacks in Tau Ceti this year only gave her the proof she needed to not trust the Vaurca. Dana does not outright dislike or hate xenos in general, like many elyrans tend to do, but she is always vigilant, when being around them. More so if it's a Vaurca. What roles do you plan on playing after the application is accepted? Chief Medical Officer Characters you intend to use for command or have created for command. Include the job they will be taking.: Since my currently played medical character is too young, greatly underqualified and not supposed to be a CMO I created a new character: Dana Zirin as a Chief Medical Officer. How would you rate your own roleplaying?: Rating yourself is presumptuous, but I should do so nonetheless this time: 7/10. I think I play believable characters with ideals and flaws alike but of course, no one is perfect. Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action? Of course. Have you familiarize yourself with the wiki pages for the command roles? Of course. Extra notes: n/a

Bless be, finally ORB got the first place he deserved

Alright, time for "How character records are currently in-game make me want to kill myself: Part II", this time with 100% more examples of what I think is not that good. First of all a picture of how the records look on a) the (medical) laptops (left side) and b) on the PDA (right side) I used my own records, which I did after the example ones that are suggested in the wiki. Now I wil point out what exactly makes me want to kill myself: First problem: The character records are just an empty field you can write in, when you are in Character Setup. Same if you use Web Interface. This causes records to not be uniform, which can make it very, very difficult to read them. Filling out premade fields could solve that, maybe. Second problem: The formatting is off, when it comes to records on the PDA. The formatting is off and makes some records quite literal impossible to read.

I am sorry, I just noticed I should've included some pictures and explained further what I meant. I will do this as soon as I can.

What's up guys, VSauce Micheal here ya boi here, you all know it's shit and I thought it's time to whine about it. The in-game formatting of character records makes me want to gauge out my eyeballs. You know, not when they are being printed out, but when you look at them on laptops. Consoles. Or the PDA. Do not get me wrong, I am no coder, I cannot propose or make a real suggestion how it could look better or how it could be made. But maybe someone who is capable of doing that could explain why the records look the way they are and what could be done about it. So my suggestion is nothing more than to change them to something more pleasing. Please like comment and subscribe feel free to add your thoughts or critique to that topic.

This game was rigged from the start

*hits blunt* bruh

Aww, yes. R a n t T i m e, don't worry it won't be 8 pages long this time but here are my two cents: I played Poison, the notorious, annoying cheap JC Denton knockoff raider with the shitty Cyber RIG who tried to annoy and distract as much people in the most obnoxious way possible (I try to avoid conflict since I am unrobust as feck) in which I succeeded, in my opinion. And reading all this I would say that people getting killed by the bomb was an accepted but a, a) not unreasonable and b) not really forseeable thing. The reason why we bailed so fast in the end was because we heard that an ERT was coming. And even though we knew OOCly that only 1 sad ghost (I think it was Doxx) was ready to rambo up we ICly thought it may have been a ruse, because with such a large raider party onboard NT would send the worst they have so we decided to bail right fucking now. If we would've decided to meta/power/whatever-game and stayed maybe no one would've died since one ERT Trooper vs. eight red-suit bois, who would win? But all this whole thing is worrying to me. The argument that "not only one staff member was involved in this decision" even more so. I would've never dreamed that such an action would result in a permanent ban, in my opinion this is absolutely unreasonable, no matter the notes on his ckey. I am very, very, very sure that BSA did not intend to kill these people, rather trap them or have them circumvent the station to the raider shuttle instead. If the bomb timers are borked - not BSA's fault. He couldn't know that each and every Merc right fucking now decides to bail instanly - not BSA's fault. Yellow Dock is not arrivals/departures - there is just no ground to argue on this. He got permission to bomb the shuttle - no restrictions to this permission was made, again not BSA's fault for an admin to not be clear. It is worrying how it seems like everyone insta smashes F1 when they get killed. Sometimes you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Death drives the round. Stress drives the round. I personally cannot understand how you can be so exceptional salty when getting killed, when it's non-canon anyway. It happens. There are so many ways to still participate in the round, even when dead. In this case the round ended 5 minutes later anyway (excluding the end of round delay) - when you cannot wait 5 minutes until you play again....then I do not know what to say. I got "ganked", too in the past, where I got monologued for 30 seconds and my throat sliced by some arm blades, for example. I was just too curious for my own good in that situation. My own fault. I do not say you can't or should not be salty when you die, but ahelping every. goddamn. death. is childish and has a variety of negative side effects. For example: Discouraging players from playing antag at all, scaring off new players (to the server or the game at all). Everyone can end up on the recieving end from time to time. It. Happens. Especially in non-canon antag rounds. edit1: Also, smashing numbers into a keypad to arm a bomb is really no witchcraft, even the most braindead assisstant could do it, ICly. edit2: Bragging is apparently a punishable offense, too? A permanent ban is.......I am sorry, I don't want to attack someone but the ban is ridiculous, almost silly I would say. A permaban is the hardest punishment available - and all that for detonating a bomb? Disproportional is a gentle way to put it.

Hello, since it got asked in the ahelp: I was the positronic brain. It was funny, I didn't pay attention and should've known that nothing good awaits me in the hands of a Dominian priestess. I had a laugh. He got me there, no salt needed. To the decapitation, that happened shortly after: As far as I remember it from deadchat Wigglesworth wasn't salty about his death and the decapitation drove the story of the round, since nothing at all happened before. With the death of Sholl the round really took off (in a good way). The only thing I see as problematic was that the head was missing and no attempt to clone the body could be made, even though all medical staff would've been present to do so.

You can have your opinion, that's fine, even if I disagree with it, but then I have a question: That complaint did not include you, it didn't mention you, there was no input needed from you, you had simply nothing to do with it. You don't have to like the complaint, or the approach I took, but, please, explain to me why you feel the need to comment on it, if you find it that dumb and unnessecary, especially in such a manner in the public Discord? Strange, that such a stupid thing is apparently important enough for you to give it attention. Bullshit argument and nothing more than a shady give in, because you didnt only "used the wrong words". You used the wrong words twice. You can stop pretending, really. You really made my Monday with this. "Equal opportunity arguer", laughable. Sadly I do not have screenshots to back it of, but here is my memory of said particular converstation: Someone: Lab Assistant requirements are dumb, they should be changed Fowl: Whoever cares about this shit is autistic Me: Just because you do not care doesn't mean everyone else shouldn't Fowl: Shut up no one cares And this is the basic structure how conversations or """"discussions"""" with you go. It is literally not worth one's time to try to have a constructive conversation with you, for the simple reason that you do not allow such a conversation. You are much, but believe me, you are not an "Equal opportunity arguer" - more anything but.

This is not a retreat, only a switchback. See you on the other side, friend.

Fowl is very simple, if you do not agree with him or his views 100% of the time, all the time you can expect a variety of insults directed to you and even if you do you are not safe from his trashtalk. I've never seen someone go ad hominem in such lightning speed as he does, for no reason at all. There is nothing against some banter, but I personally do not think it is. I never had a normal conversation with him, no matter the topic. Maybe I am lucky and still have some screenshots, for example, when he voiced his opinion about the minor wiki changes to Lab Asisstant requirements, it was truly amazing. It is beyond me, how anyone could defend him or his behaviour, given his position as a developer.

I think the reasoning behind this suggestion is pretty solid. I do not play Detective myself, so I can only judge from what I read here, but it seems a change is appropiate.

There are things that just stand the test of time. Related, real life, example: The Colt 1911. Being first produced in 1911 (duh) it is still being manufactured today, being used in official service in over 20 countries (I have to rely on wikipedia for that information) and is just a reliable, all-conditions firearm. Of course there are newer versions of it, but they all follow the same original design. All that today over 100 years after it's first introduction. So it's not impossible to have a weapon being designed and be outstanding in most fields of use and becoming the standard-issued firearm, even for 100....150....whatever years.

I hoped you give your thoughts on this topic. And apparently you agree with me that the Vault is shitty the way it is, then why not remake it? Move it up a level, honestly fuck the elevator and redesign it entirely.

I personally find it a very interesting and unique custom sprite and I think you do a great job playing Arlo. There is no reason to doubt you will do it even better with a bit of personalization. +1

I agree that there should be a way to do it sneaky. But completely negating all security mechanisms by dismantling a wall is pretty lmao, if you ask me. That argument only works if you look at it from an OOC perspective. IC a vault tells me: Valuable shit. And valuable stuff is nice to have for some antags, so this argument can't be applied here, in my opinion. Maybe change up what's actually inside the vault, too, if you really want to use that argument.