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this is intended, damage to the power core affects your charging multiplier

Also live for next round: Fixed an ancient problem where machine torsos counted as encased (having ribs), thus reducing the chance of hitting an organ to a whopping TWENTY PERCENT of the original chance. Fixed a bug with the roboticist chair sometimes not properly clearing up its cable.

Live for next round: Fixed a bug when taking internal organ damage. The 50/50 in damaging wires or electronics could land on a component that's already dead, thus practically voiding the damage dealt. Experimental: actual organ damage dealt now factors into integrity damage, meaning you will have to fix the organs themselves too.

Live for next round: Temperature gain is capped to species heat levels in some places (mainly cooling unit temperature gain) Fixed plating damage reduction not working properly Fixed hardsuit cooling units not working correctly (for some reason they had totally separate code from voidsuit cooling units)

A few things from my end: It is not a vaguepost. I was very clear with what is happening and I avoided dropping names in public on purpose because I do not want to embroil more people in public further. Nonetheless I thought it necessary to set the record straight on what is happening. You can notice that I gave Lily the very same way out you gave her in the first version of my first post, where I asked her if she really did mean to make a complaint against me, because from my point of view all I did was stop a peanut gallery. Where I got pissed off was the reaction after the complaint was closed. I want to make it clear that I did not make any demands to remove any player or anything, because in this complaint I expect to be judged like any player would be, and I would never suggest to the handling admins any sort of course of actions as that would be beyond a gross overstep. Me telling Lily to "not speak to me again" is a personal action because I came to the conclusion that I was lied to. When I made my post, I forwarded the evidence to Mel because that way she can verify that I am not making things up (because I would never, ever do such a thing). Instead of the complaint being closed, she can look into the evidence and what I brought forward as the most neutral party I can imagine, either her or Arrow. If there was a misunderstanding then that would be the best way to find it. As for you, personally did not think you were even involved much less had any part. I figured you may have talked to Lily over the complaint but that is it. As far as I am concerned I personally do not have any issue with you nor did I have any before. I did not mention a "shadowy LGBT cabal" anywhere. My issue is with the behaviour of specific people. I said group, because I have been playing SS13 since 2017 and I recognize that it is normal for people to become friends and stick around together. I do it too. To me it becomes a problem when you start abusing that position.

I have always believed that a server lives and dies by how it treats its new players. Especially if they are well intentioned and clearly trying their best, they should always be treated with the most leniency possible because that's how you foster a good, welcoming environment. What purpose is there in being excessively harsh with a new player? What use is it to be draconian with the slightest rule infraction? What reason do I have to doubt a new player's intentions and immediately assume the worst? All you get as a result is that the player in question will leave, tell their friends to not come, and Aurora will suffer from a critical lack of new players as it has for a long time now, and high roleplay servers are already a dying breed. With that out of the way, I'm going to tell you that you have been doing nothing but lying in this complaint. You are lying about not having any malicious intent, you are lying about being sorry for what you and your friends have done to me, and you are lying by claiming that you had no ill intentions towards this new player. This morning at 6 AM I woke up for my exam and the first thing I found in my DMs was a friend telling me that one of your group went to them to rant about this complaint. Generally I do not care about these things. You would be surprised at how many people come to me telling them that I did something draconian again. This does not matter to me usually, because I do not pretend that Aurora is an utopia where everyone gets along. Head staff will always make decisions that are hard, and I'm aware that I can be something of a hot-head sometimes and I take strong measures to protect this environment's friendliness to new players, whether that's moderating certain kinds of discussions (like what happened a few days ago) or others. I don't care if people disagree, I don't pretend to be end-all be-all administrator of SS13. Where I draw the line is your group accusing me of being a homophobe outright to my friends in order to isolate me and cut me off from the people I know. I am not going to tolerate this sort of disgusting behaviour anymore. This isn't the first time you or your people have hinted to it, and you are all complicit. Unluckily for your group, I have the names of everyone involved, and I'm going to forward them as well. You are all complicit because, willingly or not, you've managed to blow up a new player's mistake out of proportion by transforming it into an accusation of transphobia, and when things didn't go your way you then went to rile up support in other people's private messages. You tried to bully a new player out of the server as an organized group because you didn't like something that they were doing, when in reality it was nothing but a mistake that they were extremely apologetic for. For all the talk that you and your group put out about being "empathetic" or "welcoming" or "tolerant" none of you ever even considered the possibility that you were talking to a new player and that they were making a mistake in a good faith. Not a single time did you stop to think about what you were doing. Not a single thought in your head thought that perhaps a public complaint on a new player while publicly accusing them of transphobia was a bad idea. Did you even think that you could talk to the new player in LOOC to tell them that you were comfortable? The truth is that no, you didn't, because you are not showing a single hint of regret over FALSELY accusing a new player of being a transphobe. Is your discomfort worth more than others'? Do you have more of a right to feeling discomfort than others? Have you forgotten that this is a public space and not your private playground? Did you stop even once to think about the fact that you were going to irrepairably damage someone's reputation when they made a mistake that they apologized profusely for? The answer is no, because you did this maliciously. You know that you can get away with it, but I'm not going to let you do it anymore, and it's about time that everyone knows the kinds of games you've been playing. And I'm not going to pretend that you have no idea what you were doing. You sicced your friends on me (just one example, that is a player who has not played for years now - I wonder why they suddenly popped up!), several of which have been calling me a homophobe to my friends. Luckily I do not need to prove anything to anyone, and the people who know me know that I am not who you want to desperately believe that I am to justify your actions. The person who reported all of this to me has chosen to remain anonymous for their own safety -- yes, because your people are a group to hide from, considering your penchant for slandering people -- so I have forwarded the relevant proof to the headmins ahead of time. You tried apologising in my DMs with a fake apology when I know you have been complaining privately about my decision on the complaint (what decision? I wasn't involved in the final decision, all I did was protect a new player from people guessing that they were a racist or homophobe). You lied again when you said you were in no group (although I should say, in the context of this response I mean "group" less like an organized discord server and more of a vague group of people that talk to eachother). You and your friends asked me for help time and time again, putting up a friendly façade while at the same time telling others that I am a heinous person. Another note on what you brought up about staff telling you to make this a complaint, I criticized the handling staff in moderator chat and told them that they should not have told you to make a public complaint because it would have irrepairably damaged the player's reputation on the server even if the accusations were found to be false - something that I was right in suspecting, considering that you have all now taken to calling me and Campin horrid things over a complete non-issue. I was going to make an announcement to staff to tell them to not tell adminhelpers to make a complaint if the subject of the complaint would be potentially reputation-ruining, because of this exact problem. If anyone wonders why complaints aren't private in the first place, it is because of the limitations that come with the forum system we use. I have always, always, always been open to anyone DMing me for any decision. All one of you had to do was talk to me, or talk to anyone in private to figure out the reasons between the reasoning behind the decisions we make. Everything we did was to protect a new player's time on the server. But I will not accept this sort of behaviour. Not now, not ever. It is not possible that I have to handle these things because you all will start shadow witch hunts using your status as a shield. And I will not stay silent about what it is that you do anymore.

Did you actually intend to make this complaint against me? Because I didn't have any say in the final decision. If you did actually intend to add me to the complaint, then you are taking specific issue with what I wrote in the post I made before locking the thread. I've gotten information that you are not only actually making this complaint against me, you are ALSO acting maliciously against me along with your friends. People can disagree with our decisions, we can talk about it maturely, but I draw a line at you trying to slander me in private and I'm going to expose everything you all have been doing when I get home, because I will not tolerate this anymore.

I'm locking this thread because this does not need to become any more of a peanut gallery or a public trial. None of you would like to have your bad laundry exposed in public, neither would you like to be publicly trialed for something you've done that may have been a misunderstanding in the first place, so stop trying to implicitly or explicitly ascribe potentially permanent labels to people you don't know. If you have anything to add, bring it to the handling admins and provide proof of what happened AND proof of your involvement.

BREAKING: Crown Princess Announces Imperial-Solarian-Zavodskoi Fleet Modernization Partnership NOVA LUXEMBOURG, MOROZ (GST) – After scheduling an exceptional address to the people of Nova Luxembourg today at 19:00 GST, Crown Princess Priscilla has announced, on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor Boleslaw Keeser, a groundbreaking military and research partnership agreed upon between the Solarian Alliance and the Empire. “Loyal citizens of the Empire, today, we finally claim our righteous place as part of the galactic community, once and for all!” These are the first words spoken by Crown Princess Priscilla on the balcony of the Imperial Residence, to a large roar and applause from the crowd. “We have always contented ourselves with our corner of the galaxy, spreading the good word of the Goddess where we could, but in doing so, we have remained isolated for far too long. We will no longer bear this solitude. No longer will we remain voiceless in galactic matters. No longer will we let our good name be slandered. No longer will we deny our destiny!” After another applause from the crowd, the Crown Princess continues. “On behalf of His Imperial Majesty, I hereby announce that we have signed an official agreement with the Solarian Alliance to modernize and upgrade the Imperial Fleet. Through the help of Zavodskoi Industries, the finest engineers of both the Empire and the Alliance will be integrating our ships with the best Solarian technology available to better defend our Empire against any and all external threats. Furthermore, House Volvalaad and the Solarian megacorporation, Einstein Engines, will officially begin joint research ventures on naval armaments and biotechnology.” “Today, our Empire takes its first step into its future!. Today, we mark our first step towards cooperation with the Solarian Alliance! Today, we choose to spread our wings and reach towards our destiny! May our Goddess and the kindly Giovanna light the path of our Empire forevermore!” The end of the Crown Princess’ announcement was met with yet more jubilation from the crowd in front of the Imperial Residence. House Volvalaad representatives have spoken of the agreement as unprecedented for the Empire as it has had to manufacture a supermajority of its naval technology locally, and this treaty allows it access to far more advanced components than it could otherwise obtain. An official House Keeser spokeswoman has explained the Emperor’s absence as caused by an illness – may the Goddess help his recovery. The Imperial News Network has obtained the statement of a Solarian senator, miss Eirlys Llewellyn, who was seen leaving the Imperial Residence shortly after Crown Princess Priscilla’s speech. “This is just the first step,” she said, before getting into a Solarian government shuttle. The Imperial News Network was unable to get an official statement from any Coalition or Elyran spokespeople.

To clarify, I didn't want the body guard to be an alternate title because that would require handing the gun over to them to be a weird OOC gentleman's agreement-style rule, and I don't want any of that in the game if I can help it.

On trial until 17SEP2025.

New update going live next round: Cooling unit power draw calculations should finally be completely fixed. Going to a low thermostat should have a much higher impact on both temperature and power usage. There is now a machinist surgery to remove the extraneous reagents in the bio-reactor. Performed with a reagent container on the chest, which must be fully open. It extracts said reagents to the reagent container you're holding. Solar power should be fixed now. Keep in mind that it makes power depending on the light value of the turf you're on, so turfs that have more light will make more power!

When did you last try the suit? I saw your github report and fixed all of the no pressure/suit cooling problems yesterday, but the fix was only going to be on the server on the round after the one following your report.

Power consumption should be better now, please try it out and tell me if that's the case.

Hello, Please comment your feedback or thoughts on the IPC rework here if you have any. This is not a thread for bugs. Report those bugs to the GitHub. This thread is strictly for balance and feel concerns.

most if not all of the vampire/ling mechanics cannot interact with IPCs at all due to them lacking the mechanical basis for it, this is not possible without a super extensive rewrite. it's not just an if(ipc) return

I don't personally like those sorts of hardcoded restrictions because they can be very arbitrary on the best of days, and downright dysfunctional on the worst (what if the situation demands it but the code can't be raised to red for whatever reason, like all of command being dead?).

Cloning is never being brought back as a gameplay or lore element. Too many lore and atmosphere issues involved. Dismissal.

Icon scaling is gone for backend reasons, not just because we want it to be gone (including the fact that it's deprecated functionality on BYOND after 516). It can't happen. At best you can have workarounds like CM does.

I do not like information like this being available to people as it is just too much information. You already have the contextual clues that you should roleplay around (messages about your brain hurting). The core philosophy of brainmed on Aurora is that we never want any sort of number visible to the patient because it quickly leads to people walking into medical and going "Help I'm at 20% brain damage" or whatever else. The method we have right now is what prevents people from doing that. Dismissal.

It could be trialed but I think this is a far bigger change than it might seem.

Mechs are in need of a few dire code tweaks, but it is sort of hard to do because they are in that awkward conceptual spot where they should reasonably be extremely strong at certain things, like handling basic mobs. It would feel awful if your mech was easily torn up by carps, after all. At the same time, they have some code issues that can be easily fixed. Chief among them is that I don't think simple mob armour penetration is calculated at all when doing damage to them, hence why they can just shit on ling horror forms. I suspect that mech armour is generally too powerful out of it and could probably either use a reduction, or some sort of more complex work to make it ablative (and thus be damaged permanently overtime). I would personally like to see some IC regulations on mech armaments regardless.

I do not think your post is offensive and I think you have behaved well over the past few months on the server, no need to take the post down or anything. I only wanted to specify that we can't consider feedback from people who are not active in the community (otherwise, you could get a bunch of buddies that don't play to +1 an app, and we'd have to consider it as real feedback). Your application will be evaluated as normal, obviously.

Two things: Feedback needs to come from active community members. I don't really care if a friend from 10 years ago comments with zero playtime in the last five years. How would you know someone's behaviour on the server when you don't even play the game? If I had a shot of whiskey for every single time I heard "aurora founder" in the past 3 months I would be in an ethilic coma. Enough of that. It's 2025 and what counts is now, not what happened 11 years ago.

A lot of separate problems are being bundled up into one in this thread, when it's not really the case. First of all, tear gas and stinger grenades are a completely different problem, reason being that they will stack your pain to incredible thresholds (over 250+ just for standing in a tear gas grenade for too long). The reason this isn't fixed is because capping pain brings with it some pretty big problems itself. The reason for this is that pain is stored individually on each limb, and it is uncapped. I tried capping per-limb pain a long time ago specifically to solve this problem and what would happen is that capping pain on the limbs essentially makes officers unable to stun people, since each limb will be capped at, say, 50 to 75 pain damage or something, so if you keep stun batonning someone while aiming for chest, it will never surpass the limb's maximum pain damage threshold, and thus never get to the required 200 to stun someone. As for the rest, you could theoretically up the threshold for the heart to stop. // If fibrillation, then it can be PULSE_THREADY var/fibrillation = oxy <= BLOOD_VOLUME_SURVIVE || (prob(30) && owner.shock_stage > 120) if(pulse && fibrillation) //I SAID MOAR OXYGEN pulse = PULSE_THREADY For reference, shock is the sum of pain and painkiller effects. You could up the shock_stage threshold here and I guess it'd be a good thing to try out.