Skull132

16 mirrors + 22 extra bans by Adminbot that I needed to lift. Please stick to one ckey. And let me know if I missed one.

Application accepted into trial as of 28DEC2016.

Application denied - 28DEC2016 Unfortunately, at present, we have no tasks for mappers to work on. Majority of the mapping work on the new map is completed, and until April 2017, there is no plan to mess with the present map. Applicant has been informed of this decision. Locking and archiving.

Maybe Diona, but none of the others that I can think of. Diona I Think are supposed to change their name each time they split, but I can understand why that would be a PAIN to actually do, either way. At that point, it'd kinda be a new character anyways. Plus, what happens at runtime and who gets renamed what during gameplay doesn't affect what's written in the database.

Can something be setup where staff can flag a specific character to allow unrestricted name changes? I do still have that IPC slot for the Sydney line of IPCs, where there's thousands of models, each with a different numeric designation, alongside a greek letter indicating assigned department. Mhm. Easiest method would be to implement it as a new whitelist (mechanically). How the admins want to handle distributing them, we're gonna find out Soon. As in, by the time the update goes live.

As a note. Since I'm rewriting SQL saves to work with Baymerge, I'll be incorporating this into the code as well. There'll be a time period of 5 days since saving a character wherein you can edit a character's name without any extra trouble, after that, it'll be locked. You can, as stated before, delete the character normally, make new ones, etcetera. And if you have a good reason to change a name, you can contact staff and they can get it done for you. I will also be removing the always random button. Maybe replacing it with a randomize appearance button when you're editing an unsaved character.

Can't beat the instance when someone accidentally spaced an active device via toxins testing, didn't realize that the toxins test field was gone, had the bomb loop around Z levels back to arrivals, and then pressed the button to detonate it. Stuff happens, it's what SS13 is about.

https://forums.aurorastation.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=5631&p=56228&hilit=species#p56228 My stance on the general issue of adding new species remains. Further more, the given reason for adding a species does not befit our server. Our species are not implemented to "show some love" towards a fandom that we are not involved with. Any species added should be added because it befits our community, not yours.

wtf is this meme. no. die. Also, I read your name as Thundy and got confused real quick. So yup.

My two cents. Basically going to echo what Incog said. The few weeks where you were on Discord, one of the main things you did was fling around old shit at older community members. Literally digging up graves to have something to gawk/joke at. Specifically in the manner where you end up putting someone else, or their conduct, down. It's basically acting like an abrasive dick for no reason other than, either: an extremely poor sense of humour, or amazing self-entitlement. I do not know if this is what you mean by "meme-ing", but notice how no else on Discord does this. And before the, "Oh noes protecting members of the admin clique!" argument, or any fantastic iteration of it is even considered. I would absoloutely not care if it was banter based on current/relevant events. But the fact is: you went for events a year or even two years old. You know, things that a mature member of the community would have put past themselves by now. I did tell you to simmer the fuck down on that count a week ago. And following that, I've not had time to track Discord, so you may have taken it to heart and improved. Or not. If someone who's been active over the past week and managed to keep track of you could comment on this, that'd be nice.

Poked Jenna about this, should be reviewed ricky-tick. Apologies about the delay.

Imma shove it in here. Shield room will most likely be added once the shields are made to require more management. Basically, the way I see it, there should be a mechanical need to shut them off after a long amount of time.

So, in the past week and a bit, the connection pipeline to our server has crashed twice. This is, unfortunately, not something we can do much about directly, as it's the hosting service provider's hardware that's failing. Namely, one of their network switches keeps requiring a restart. And they do not have have any redundancies in place for this specific switch, nor do they have a second one ready to go. They've been aware of the issue since around September, and still have no firm date as to when the replacement will be installed/acquired. All in all, this means that you may experience connection issues over the coming few weeks. In light of this annoyance, and a few other issues, myself and the Head Admins have been slowly planning to switch to a new hosting service. Right now, it's planned to be done somewhere around Christmas, before the exam session proper starts. So, stay tuned for that! Otherwise, we apologize for the downtime and the inconvenience these outages can cause, but there's very little we can do about them right meow. As always, any questions, lemme know or post'em below! Otherwise, enjoy the game.

Also, application will also have to be denied on the count that Vox aren't actually birds. I was educated on this a year ago: https://puu.sh/sABKO/a0e173115d.png Plz read lore.

Unfortunately, due to strict regulations on quality, you must at least qualify pi/10 to play Vox. The staff has determined that players with a roleplay rating any lower are an affront to the high standards that we enforce.

That would almost certainly do it. Anyways, glad it's solved! Enjoy the game.

Application accepted 27NOV2016, following an interview and a short trial.

Well, you have a common as heck CID apparently, and someone with that CID updated our web of bans lately. Which meant you were snagged. I've edited the mirrors in question so that you should no longer be blocked. Please reply ASAP on whether or not you're able to get in.

You... You cook? If you call boiling potatoes with the skins still on them and burning them cooking > Actually. Potatoes done right with their skin are great.

I've done it over TeamViewer.

Heyo. Head Developer Skull132 here. I'll be in uni for most of today, so we might be able to talk in the evening. Otherwise, tomorrow or the weekend might be easier to coordinate on. If you could add Skull132#1984 as a friend on discord, then we can figure this out more easily. In the mean time, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to post'em here or contact me via forum PMs/Discord PMs.

For reference. There exists a precedence for admins clown-griefing a set of spessmens who were naked, on a table, but had absoloutely no emotes or says going for a good few minutes. That precedence pretty much reinforces what Shadow said and offered up as a "solution".

Right now, the limit is that command staff must authorize their use (it's separate from code red). Has this not had a tangible effect on their deployment?

My main question is. Without introducing amazingly severe failures, are the rounds long enough for such subtle things to have an effect?

Will get it done. Either into master or into this dev cycle, we'll see as things develop.