MattAtlas

Alright. Locking and archiving.

I looked into this with @Faris's help and we came to a resolution. First of all, Voigt ghosting like he did was an issue, and it was handled fine. The administrative action he was given follows the escalation procedure we usually have. It's not really appropriate to ghost right after something like that happens, because by playing secret you're still consenting to potentially putting your character in these situations. Adminhelping for permission is fine, but you should wait for an admin to reply first. Secondly: This is not really entirely correct. When something like that happens, we should try to make up for it because our job is also to put ourselves in others' shoes. The vampire did just spend like 500 blood on a thrall that instantly ghosted, that's a massive amount and severely handicaps them against security. You should have called for an administrator to fix their blood. Thirdly, the issue of Voight fighting back. We think this is not a problem: like Rooster said, vampire blood sucking's effect on people was severely nerfed in this PR: https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/7884. Vampire blood sucking only removes five units of blood per tick, as opposed to 25 units before, and a human has about 560u of blood in their body. We can't really tell how much you drained exactly from logs, but it's extremely unlikely that you drained enough to incapacitate Voigt in any reasonable way. It takes something like below 50% blood oxygenation to incapacitate a human, and before that you don't really get any bad messages that could form the basis for a pain RP claim. The most you get with severe blood loss is "You feel extremely woozy/dizzy" and some blackening of your vision, and that's assuming that you sucked them for long enough to get to that point, which is again very unlikely. That makes him fighting back a fair endeavor, in my eyes, since you specifically chose not to use your other tools at your disposal (like your screech, or glare, or a gun, or simply setting your blood sucking to 'forget') to incapacitate him: Voigt didn't really have any indicators that would indicate how weak he is, but it's possible to create a suggestion thread or a PR to change this.

I like it! Accepted.

The feedback here is a bit lacking. How often have you been playing, and have you been advertising your app at all?

Apologies for the really late reply, some discussions plus life happened. Accepted.

I quite like this. Accepted.

Oh, the accessories are fine, it's just the labcoat that we think is a bit "contrasting".

I spoke to the skrell lore team about this item - it's really cool, but some of them believe that the color layout on the purple/white coat is very close to the Zeng-Hu colours (of the labcoat too). Is it possible that the two colors could be inverted, or the purple could be made darker?

Give it a try, the sprites aren't half bad.

Alrighty then! Am I good to move this into the archive?

See, here's the issue: normal custom items can and are often character-specific items, or items with a character-specific twist to it: at the very least, you can make a compelling enough argument to go "yeah, not many people would have this" and leave it at that. This isn't really applicable to AI displays is the problem: they're not really character-specific and can't really be. I guess this is fine.

I think my only concerns about these are: a) whether implementing custom AI displays is even possible, which I don't think it is at the moment, but I may be wrong; b) why this is a Borealis-specific thing and why these shouldn't just be added as AI displays for everyone.

See the second part of the post: it's intentional that you don't have to step down as a species lore dev if you become the deputy loremaster, so it doesn't make sense to -1 someone for it.

Being the loremaster and a maintainer of a species is impossible, as it says in the lore doc that you must step down as the maintainer of a species if you get selected as the lore master, but this doesn't apply for loremaster deputies, since they're still under someone's eye (the lore master).

i was just following orders

I will unban you, but if you do anything even remotely in the same way, the ban will be reapplied and probably not lifted. Ban lifted.

Denied.

While I don't personally think that the service manager is worth it mechanically, I think it's worth giving it a shot at the very least. I think there are some cool character concepts that could utilize some of the less-used lore (Silversun, for example) that may make things more interesting.

I think it is about time we add more human languages and open the shores up a bit more for everyone, to say the least, so I support this. However, TCB should remain obligatory for everyone.

You didn't put Sil Aclipsa's name here. Why did you make Aclipsa a CMO without changing your application or notifying me?

Denied. Not enough feedback.

Denied. You should try again in a month or two, after you've fixed the problems outlined here. Getting some more feedback would be advantageous too.

When I PM'd you about this, you did not take anything I said seriously. You are still not taking this seriously. Why should I unban you?

Voting for dismissal, because this does not fit thematically.

Technologically, I'd say Jargon, Elyra and then Biesel. Militarily, Sol, Jargon, Elyra. Economically, Biesel, Elyra and then Sol. I don't think it's fair to say the CoC has a strong economy when it's basically Xanu and a bunch of allies with sparse populations. Sol is much more centralized, owns Earth (which is extremely densely populated and iirc home to quite a few megacorps), New Hai Phong and has the ECF as a soft protectorate. The ECF isn't a superpower in my opinion. They can't do fuck all in the grand scheme of things.