MattAtlas

I don't mind having another Skrell on station. Let's go through your application first. Can you expand on these differences, and the 'little sibling' concept? What makes Skrell stand out for you? Onto the character, I actually like your concept. I haven't seen this before, so it's nice that something new crops up. This doesn't tell us much about what kind of character Wren'Ishii is. What's her attitude like? Her goals? And so on. I'd like to hear more from you about what kind of character you want Wren'Ishii to be.

I think I know what happened here. I'm rather sure it was a miscommunication on both our ends. I'll try to reiterate my logic. The point I was trying to make is how the Captain didn't need to know it was specifically religious texts, my point was that it isn't unreasonable to assume that the book you found earlier in the library could have been the bible you requested, or the religious texts. The second point is that the Captain knows that your religion was involved in what you did to her in the misc testing room - so why would she let you have anything related to your religion? The main reason for the Captain to deny your book is how you've mentioned it is religious, and you've connected the religion to the ritual you've done to the Captain. I'm not saying that you should've refered to it as specifically a book, I was unclear here and I apologize - it is my fault, I meant that you should've lied about the book in a way to make it seem like it wasn't connected to the religion.

Where are the wordplay and semantics? My entire point during the admin PMs was that the Captain denied you your religious texts because you have mentioned that the religious texts gave you your knowledge on the religion which you have admitted to having used to torture her. That's it, that is my entire point that I tried to convey in admin PMs. What I told you is that you could have refered to it as a recreative book and lied to the Captain to get it, but maybe I was unclear on that part, and I apologize if I misled you. You asked the Captain for your religious texts when you were in the cell, so your religious texts had to be in the locker inside the cell. As to why she said she wants to burn them (which she didn't actually do), refer to my previous points. You admitted to doing religious rituals to the Captain. Which would be connected to this religion, which is enough reasoning to not give you the book while you are spending 10 minutes in a cell as a punishment for assaulting the Captain. She didn't search your belongings because it wasn't her who arrested you. It would've been up to the borgs and the other present security staff. When she said "purify the book by fire", she didn't actually do it. Humans can say rash shit sometimes, it happens.

I'm going to put the screenshots of the relevant adminhelps to my following points here. https://imgur.com/a/mY9fr Notice how you said "book" various times here? It's not a tomb. You've specifically said book in these admin PMs, and the captain's reply confirms it. This mention is going to be very important later on. At the start of the round, you tried converting the Captain, which is a very painful experience for the Captain. This is all fine up to this point, the Captain was later escorted out of science and everything was good. After that, let's skip up to the part where you adminhelped. By this point, the Captain knew a few things: 1) You found an ancient tome in an ancient library that revealed you the secrets of the universe. Refer to the imgur album. 2) These secrets of the universe were mentioned before the ritual where you tortured the Captain. Refer to the imgur album. 3) You've openly said that what you've done relates to religion. At this point it is not unreasonable to assume that these secrets of the universe are what granted you the ability to do these rituals and that religious shit is going on - which is why the priest was called. You've also mentioned that what you are doing is related to religion various times to the Captain, and she heard you. About the tome - you've said it revealed you the secrets of the universe, and thus it is tied to the religious shit that is going on. When you asked the Captain for your religious texts (which, for the sake of clarity, let's say it is the tome you refered to earlier on), why would she give them to you? You've basically tortured her, why would she give you your tome? A bible isn't far from a tome. It is a reasonable assumption to make that the bible is, in fact, the tome. The Captain can nullify this right. They're the ultimate authority on the installment, it is not written in stone that you must have your religious trinkets.

So, you've posted an alien whitelist application, and it's time to deliver feedback. Your characters, from all my experiences with them, are really good. I know all of them, and not one of them is the same. They all have backstories, they all have different personalities, and they're all a pleasure to interact with. Rating your roleplay at 6.5/10 is an understatement to be honest. Onto the application itself. I like your answer on how Tajara are different. Mainly - the part about the racial history. I feel like that could be expanded upon, but Sharp already touched on it. The story itself. I actually like it. It's short, but it gets across who the character is very smoothly. It's easy to read, not a block of text, and covers what I wanted to see. I'm all for supporting this application - so, a very big +1 from me. Good luck.

Alright, you've given solid enough reasoning. I'll be lifting the ban on your sister's account, which will include lifting the IP ban- as usual, this comes with the fact that your sister has to read the rules and that further rule violations will be punished accordingly. Locking and archiving.

Right, I'll be taking this unban request. You were banned on 2014, which is a really long time ago. I'll be lifting the ban. Your reasoning also seems solid, considering how much time has passed. I reccomend reading over our rules again, as more of this behaviour will be punished accordingly. Locking and archiving.

Alright, I've let this sit some time now, and I'm afraid I'll have to deny this unban appeal. The main reason is - as Garn has stated- you have a total of thirty eight notes, you have a total of FIFTEEN warnings, you have a total of FIVE bans, one of which is a permaban that you have recently appealed. This shows that you don't change, no matter how many times you have been warned, banned or noted, you haven't changed. We were extremely lenient with you, and this time I'm afraid it's time to move on. We've given you a lot of chances, and you were explicitly told any next offense would be a permaban, and so it was. And as Garn has said, you cannot expect leniency because you "panicked". You had several chances to get out of the conflict, you even had a chance to not be involved in the conflict. But the main reason I am not lifting this ban is because you have too many warnings, notes and bans.

First off, fix the formatting as everything is bolded. Your application is really hard to read.

In total since you came here early this year you've racked up THIRTY EIGHT notes. warnings and bans of varying length. you have FIFTEEN total warnings, notes, bans and even a lifted PERMABAN in the last month alone. You cannot seriously expect leniency with the "i panicked excuse". In my opinion the ban should stay. go and stay go I concur. I also agree with this.

Ah, I'm remembering the wrong incident, my bad. The tesla was released twice this week, apparently.

Happened earlier this week, I believe, @Pratepresidenten as a witness. I, the poor borg at the time, set it up for the first time and was instantly cucked by powernet failure. And I don't understand why I have to say this three times, they don't restart. Every single time I see the event happen when I'm not a borg/engi/ai, I keep checking the time on the APCs, because it gives you a timer, and they reset themselves. Because I've seen the APCs restart by themselves with enough time. I've never had to manually reset every APC in a powernet failure. And I was there, I'm pretty sure that there wasn't a powernet failure at the time, the tesla was just broken.

The tesla doesn't even shut off when the powernet failure event happens. It was a bug, it was fixed in this PR: https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/3902 As for the rest, I don't agree with removing the powernet failure event. It makes for some good atmosphere and allows antags to be stealthy about their kills, or abuse the atmosphere for their gimmicks. It's really not that big of an issue. And they do automatically reboot - it takes 430 seconds or so.

I'll address Izlay's complaint regarding me, ignoring the provokotary comments. About this part, what happened was that he had put someone in command as the AI. I told them they are not able to do this as the AI, and linked them to the AI page. They replied with "The AI can make head-level decisions if their lawset allows for it and there is literally no command" which is true, and I gave them that - but, putting someone in command is a Captain level decision, and a Head level decision is not a Captain level decision. As such, the AI cannot put someone in command. I had never "ignored half of what they said", I addressed all of it, in actuality. The relevant snippet from the station directives: "During standard operation, all Departmental Heads of Staff are equal, under the command of the Captain present onboard the facility. Should a department find itself lacking a Head of Staff, the Captain is able to either assume direct supervision of the department or otherwise appoint a senior member to fill the missing role. "

I do think we need more gamemodes with heist, because heist has the potential to be a great gamemode if mixed with other modes, so I agree with this suggestion.

The Emergency Response Team equipment page is very out of date. Doesn't include most of the available weaponry and equipment, also has some deleted equipment. I can help rewrite it, if needed.

Looking at the #game_status discord channel, I see at least one round of extended daily - if not more. I think the current balance we have is good enough, and satisfies both parties.

This is something you should ahelp about. And no, people lobby sitting or ghosting should not be kicked, they are free to stay around without issues. +1 dismissal So you're saying that a player who has been sitting idle for around two hours, (as in not doing anything at all, not even actively observing or typing) are completely fine? I know it doesn't cause a really serious problem, but still. I don't see what the problem with this is. If they're SSD/AFK, adminhelp it. If they're lobbysitting/observing and AFK, what's the issue?

I make this suggestion return from the dead because I would love this. Far too many times have I tried to roleplay actual pain and being stuck on the ground in pain, but people shake you up nonetheless, because "you're fine". This would definitely cut that issue out.

DasFox is pretty good. I've gotten to play with their characters more lately instead of never interacting with them, and I think they're better than expected. Their RP has been getting better and so has their general play, which is always a good thing to see. With the experience they're currently getting as a head of staff they're improving a lot, and I don't see an issue giving this application a +1. Good luck. Blue merc best merc

I thought it was about time to make one of these threads, since everyone seems to have made one. I'm curious to see what people think of my two most played squids. So, by all means, post feedback if you have any. I have some other characters too, but other than the two previously mentioned ones and my rare mercenary/raider character Blue, nothing else is too notable, really.

Another one to the ranks. Soon, Skrell command will take over. Though I'm not sure about someone having a chance to snipe the HoP slot... Jokes aside. Your roleplay is excellent. It's some of the best roleplay I've seen on the server. Your stories and whitelist applications only reinforce this sentiment - you're a very good writer. I've interacted with a few of your characters and they're all wonderful. Adding to that, your OOC conduct is rather good. Onto the application itself. I like your answers. I don't have any objections to them - and Moros is a good character, though I haven't spoken to him too much. All in all, I'm going to give a +1 to this application. Good luck.

This terrible individual denied me the pleasure of seeing the SOL CUCKS annihilated he must be removed

I completely agree with this.

Calion's a great roleplayer. He's better than many people at it, and that tells a lot. His IC conduct is pretty good, since he doesn't break character and his characters are all fun to interact with, they have different backstories and there's a very clear personality divide between all of them, which speaks well of his ability to make characters. He also plays some of my favourite characters on the station, which tells a lot to me. I can't judge much on the backstory itself, but reading over it, I don't think I see any outstanding issue. I'm giving this app a +1, good luck.