MattAtlas

After asking the other head of staff whitelist managers, we don't think you have the playtime or experience with the community to properly play a head of staff. I reccomend you get more involved in OOC channels as well as IC and re-apply in a month or so.

https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/11366

It isn't intended to be this way, no. I'll fix it.

I don't feel like your responses are satisfactory. To keep it short, I don't think this application is up to par, and I have to give it a -1. The character you described is essentially formless; in fact, from most of your backstory, it seems like you intentionally skipped the most important part of basically every Tajara's backstory (the war, specifically), you wrote a backstory that intentionally skipped the things that would tie them into Adhomai (religion, family), one of which you intentionally didn't elaborate on on an application for the species you're playing, when you very well know that religion is a core-concept of ANY Tajaran character. I'm inclined to believe, based on your answers, that the character you submitted is only an excuse to play a PRA drone rather than an actual Tajara. The inclusion of the last part of your application regarding homosexuality is honestly bizzarre too. I honestly don't get why you included something like that but not religion? You wrote a character that lost everything to the PRA and has no ties whatsoever to Adhomai beyond a single good (one could argue not even good, honestly, but the bare minimum) act by the government and this was enough to radicalize your character into leaving Adhomai and being an unparalleled shill for said government with absolutely no remorse? While it's true that hate radicalizes you have given some really, really poor reasons. In fact, those reasons I would say are still insufficient. I'm also of the opinion that you should know as a lore developer that your writing should be explicit in an application. You're exposing the character you want to play and showing your understanding of the lore; how are you supposed to do this when you intentionally hide story important details?

The screenshots you posted are an unfair comparison. The former one is full size, while the bottom one is stretched due to your screen being on stretch to fit. Here's a better representation:

Good stuff! I look forward to seeing this character and you have my endorsement.

You're describing a character who lost basically everything to the PRA (all their siblings, their entire home and all their limbs) but they're still a party shill. Why is this? Surely this feeling of absolute party loyalty can't come out of nowhere. While it is true that in the end the PRA was partly responsible for giving her her limbs back, your character is an ardent party supporter throughout the entire backstory. There is no point at which she questions her loyalty to the party nor do you ever elaborate on why she's actually this loyal, which is a problem, as all character feelings should naturally be reconducible to something. Again, why is it her duty? This backstory puts forward a lot of concepts but never actually dwells on the why. What does your character think about religion? This is another thing you haven't touched upon, despite religion being an important concept for nearly all Tajara. Similarly, what does your character think about the rest of the factions?

How religious is your character? You mentioned that they even thought about joining the Parivara. That surely takes some dedication to worship, does it not? What're your character's unbridled views on their own nation, the NKA? Do they feel guilt about leaving and why?

Like Alberyk said, it was a very big mistake for the previous administration to not capitalize on the Relay, as it were. It's a very very big part of the server at this point, and one that should become official, in my opinion, as it'd allow us to do a lot of cool things such as events or arc side-shows (like one that's running right now). It could be said that this can happen currently because it is, and it's true, however it becomes a little iffy when moderation is done by two parallel groups with no appeal or complaint process. This also creates situations in which it's awkward to enforce the rules (and was the main reason why moderators didn't really enforce rules prior to the creation of relay mods; they were accountable to someone not in their staff structure, firstly, and secondly there was no inherent punishment structures unlike Borealis' strike system). It's bound to be a problem is the thing. Letting evident holes persist because they haven't leaked water yet isn't a good idea, especially when they may get in the way of further integration. People also seem to be assuming moderators and administrators are disinterested. I'm not sure where this comes from other than experience with moderation teams that no longer exist (the administration and moderation teams have changed dramatically since 2017, including their stances on these things) or from claims made by dubious people.

That was a lot longer than 24 hours, but, archived.

So, after checking the logs, there were 3 instances of using floor tiles, which we don't see as abuse considering how little people were hit overall (the amount of damage is not something someone can reasonably expect without seeing TK as it's OP and expressly not in the normal gamemode rotation for a reason). After that, Read did make an effort to not use them and chose a throwing weapon that would deal way less damage-- steel sheets. Telekinesis is an ability that's meant to be used for offensive purposes so we don't fault her for continuing to use steel sheets, as they're just about the option that does the least damage. However, admins will be warned to not give TK out without restrictions, or at all. This complaint will be archived in 24 hours.

That's not a floor tile. That's a steel sheet.

I'm a fan of all the new ones.

@WickedCybs We've looked at the logs and the only people wounded by floor tiles were Rosa Alice, your character and then Tau'ha'nor. This is wrong. As far as we can tell from the logs you used tiles against 3 different people. The first one was Rosa, then Radic, then Tau'ha'nor. If there were any intentional misses they seem a bit weird because you hit Tau'ha'nor with the floor tiles 3 different times. It should have been very obvious at that point, or even before that the floor tiles did way too much damage with TK. Why did you only stop then, and not before?

What mostly concerns me is that CCIA is a position where people burn out quickly and developer/maintainer positions require a big bit of effort and timesinking in irregular bursts, just like CCIA. You won't have trouble with splitting up your time between the two servers?

see you in a month or two

@BoryaTheSlayer and I will take this complaint.

Better late than never. Accepted!

@Flamingo and I will handle this complaint. Give us a few days to look over the evidence.

This is a fuckton of work, for reference. This is probably going to need a lot of personal willpower or a commission because it also requires the conversion of armor to datums and the rebalancing of armor in general as our values are different from Bay's, in addition to most likely also porting modular armor & adding/editing the sprites for it.

How? This feature can be disabled by the player, the post-game antag list couldn't. The post-game antag list was a definite "X was played by Y", whereas this feature simply says you're playing a role, which is only ever absolute in the cases of single slot roles.

On trial until 22JAN2021.

Most people won't. The "majority" you're seeing here is a very tiny subsection of people who browse the forums and particularly dislike this idea.

This would be pretty hard to do and far beyond the bounds of this suggestion due to how prefs work.

It'd be a preference toggle that's on by default, though. You can just toggle it off.