MattAtlas

On trial until 31MAR2024.

On trial until 31MAR2024.

Development focus is not considered for suggestions because if we were to work only on what was 100% absolutely needed we would retire two months into becoming a developer. We have our own fun projects we'd like to embark on and these suggestions are usually where they come from. In case there's a very pressing need for something then I assign developers to it, but don't worry about that kind of stuff.

Zombies can aim limbs too yeah but they have no particular incentive for it. I don't think the sewer stuff is in for the event The third is not set in stone atm

Hello everyone. I've now been working on Saturday's non-canon event for a week, putting in about twenty hours of coding and other stuff (also thanks to Dreamy who has done a shitload of mapping, Lancer and Noble Row for sprites), so I hope everyone will enjoy the event firstly. Secondly, I'm making this thread to inform people of a few things that are necessary reading for the event. First of all, the setting is just shore leave on Konyang. Everyone's going there because the SCC gave them mandatory shore leave after the warehouse assault event. You don't know anything is up, and the event setup partly needs people to split up at least a little. It'll definitely be more fun if you guys make up small groups and explore. An apocalypse is no fun if everyone is just sticking together all the time! The gameplay will be pretty different. I'm trying to replicate a condition of both scarcity and lethality. The main thing to underline is that you are expected to make do with what you find. You probably won't find the best tool for the job, so improvised surgery with engineering tools and painkillers is something you should get familiar with before the event, so you at least know what tools work for what surgery. There are some things to "stave off" death so to speak, but you'll see those later. Exploration is really, really important. There's a fuckton of random loot placed all throughout Konyang, in every corner, house, locker, trash pile, and whatever else. Better loot is found in less obvious locations, so there are rewards for rightclicking every suspicious pile. I extremely encourage you to explore (probably in a group!) to find the tools you need to survive. There are new tools added to make your experience better. Barricade kits, for example, can be used by anyone to put up a barricade quickly. Don't feel guilty about using them as a nurse or whatever. Putting up barbed wire on a barricade is also something anyone can do. Splints will also work on the chest and head!! Make sure to remember this, it's really important! Many balance changes were made to give you a "realistic" zombie feeling. For one, all melee weapons were buffed by quite a lot. Even a crowbar is a very viable weapon to kill a zombie with. Guns are rare, but also extremely powerful - ammo will be scarce, so use it carefully. Additionally, it's far easier to aim for limbs. You can now reliably aim for a head or a hand to pop it off. Zombie limbs are also extremely, extremely fragile! Their weak points are limbs, so make sure to use that. There will be a main objective and a crew win condition, so it's possible to win or lose the event. You won't just be surviving for two hours, but you'll probably have to do quite a lot of it. Anyway, we're getting closer to the event. I hope you'll all enjoy it!

All is implemented in https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/18570

we aren't going to run them all the time, we only set the map to konyang yesterday to fill an event hole - the "these will happen on thursday and sunday" is in-universe

If you're going to say "this staff member will remain anonymous" then you should actually hide my ckey in the note you posted from me. I'd actually like to ask the point of putting this in this complaint directly, since you posted that image of the warning I gave you and then never elaborated on it.

The main problem, in my opinion, is the lack of a stable setting that characters live in that resembles a city, or at least something that gives them a shiny variety outside of work. I don't think adding more stuff to the nebulous resdeck fixes that problem for a few reasons: it adds a lot of grey areas (would people be able to headcanon whatever?) and fundamentally I think it's boring. It doesn't have the same excitement or anywhere near the same potential as getting something started in a city. Like you'd be going from "let's get street food in District Six" to "let's go to the metal pool to pretend we're not working". Boring! So, my thought is this: expanding port calls. First of all, people should not feel like tourists - we could add into lore that the Horizon handles visas and stuff for crew, along with shuttling (BCs could do that?). Every Sunday the rounds would announce that the Horizon is going to port at some point for refueling or whatever and that people would be free to go to the planet after their shift. Then you'd have a handy excuse to get off work and a constant anchor ("wanna do something on Sunday?"). What do you guys think?

I'm not the one handling this complaint, I only commented to correct something. The ruling itself is here.

This is not entirely accurate - we've not unbanned anyone with two or more permabans for a long while now (at least one or two years). It was only made an officially visible policy in January though.

Handled; they will be nerfed damage wise but the speed is remaining untouched for now.

Okay. If everything here is resolved, then this thread will be locked in 24 hours. You two really need to talk to eachother about the problems I underlined (make it work even with timezone issues, if Discord doesn't work then make a forum thread) and then bring a combined document about what you decided to me.

Voting for dismissal. Not really interested in bringing back what was basically an exclusively grief role.

Voting for dismissal on the general idea being put forward. Alternative punishment is fine as an idea, but the problem is that it doesn't really fit our server. NJPs don't work here and things like paxazide collars are setting breaking and not something I really want to see in the game in general.

My opinion from reading this complaint and having seen most of the things in this post happen as they happened is that everything stems from fairly basic miscommunications or sometimes rushing ahead without properly consulting everyone (maybe a head developer or maintainer was consulted at that point, but not the rest of the spriters, or someone working on something). I don't personally see any actionable bad faith behaviour, but I do see a few things that need to be worked on. Porting sprites from other servers and when to do it. Revising the spriter guide/palette stuff. @wowzewow @kyres1 Does this sound right?

Accepted.

Trial started on 23JAN2024 and will end on 30JAN2024.

Hi, sorry about the delay - I've been dealing with exams and other shit, and kept forgetting to handle your appeal when I had free time. You should be able to log in now, but you're unfortunately getting caught because of your CID, so the ban will probably be reapplied in case one of them logs in again. If that happens, skip the appeal process and just DM me directly on Discord.

I just removed the whitelisting from matriarch drone; tell me if it works. That said, the ruling on this isn't changing - we don't want people applying for command just to play drone.

Sensors have been added back to all clothes.

Voting for dismissal - this underestimates the fact that hunger and thirst are something that actually drives people to go to the bar or kitchen.

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I talked with some other staff about this situation and I've taken the decision not to unban you. I simply don't believe you, particularly so when you showed up with that name with zero connections to the server.