Skull132

It's powered by a SMES which has infinite storage. There's nothing weird about it, it's a hack. And yes, it can still be fucked with, but that wasn't my point. My point was, it's not as risky as setting up your own grid, or even moving around the station. The AI drains a decent lot of power. It is very easy to conduct a move when you have an infinite supply, at max output from 2 SMES, available to you. A lot less riskier.

Telecomms array is infinitely powered. Unless EMPs or stupidity are involved, the station has very few ways to determine an AI is there. And it requires nearly 0 setup in terms of the infrastructure. The satellite is really not meant to be an AI base, due to the magic SMES that power it. I will say, though, that there does exist a precedence for it being let pass. A few months ago, when I was still head admin, myself and a few other staff dismissed a parallel case because it was the first time we had seen something like that, and because the round was actually relatively decent. We did, however, agree that this should become punishable if it becomes standard meta. It does seem to fall under exploit of mechanics, due to the magic SMES. Were the SMES normal, like on the engineering output (I wonder why no AIs go there.... Oh right, because it takes actual effort to set up there), then it'd be completely fine. As there's nothing hackey there.

The unfortunate matter is. AbandonedScholar's playstyle lends itself to this sort of conduct. He plays for roughly a day or two, fucks around while borderline breaking the rules, and then fucks off. The only thing that stopped him was him going a little too full retard last time, and landing himself a permanent ban. The only reasonable appeal from an individual whose actions are as childish and unapologetic as that is a full admission of guilt and failure to adhere to the rules. And even then, he'd end up on probation at most. The brother excuse in general is a shitty one. Doubly so in this case, when it looks like AS has tried to register an account with the name of Burbun in an attempt to bypass. But, not my ban and I'm no longer an admin primarily. I was simply fishing out the details. Alberyk or an Admin can now make the final decision. Also. If this is a freak accident. Do not, ever, permit other people to access your accounts on anything.

Well okay, here's the deal. Your ckey is tied to AbandonedScholar's in our notes and connection logs. Specifically, both your ckey and Scholar's have been used from two different IPs, and two different computers over the past two years. More specifically, AbandonedScholar even claimed ownership of the account here (incident took place on 10APR2016): There's also another account two accounts tied via IP to you and AbandonedScholar: burbun and gazan. The former ckey was used two hours after the ckey of AbandonedScholar was denied entry by our ban mirroring system: https://puu.sh/rEYOU/f9a6a56896.png The timing is oddly coincidental. And as far as I'm able to tell. You have not moved. Your IP address is the same as it was on 27MAR2016. Which makes this statement questionable: So, either you're being completely dishonest in this appeal. Or you let AbandonedScholar use your ckey as well as your computer. At which point, there is no way to verify what you're saying is true. And right now, every bit of looking up that I'm doing is saying me, "Yeah, these two ckeys are used by the same end user."

The plasma fire honestly doesn't ring any bells. I lived with a couple of roommates until recently, and I was recommended to play the game by them. Perhaps the incident involved one of them. Wasn't quite what I was looking for, I suppose I'll rephrase. No one has played on our server from your computer, yes? If you've lived with roommates, did you let them play spessmens on your PC, or generally do stuff on your PC? One more request. Are you able to try connecting again (two attempts would be fine) and seeing if it changes anything? It'd help me check one more thing.

Have you played here before on other ckeys, or are you holding that you didn't do the shenanigans in question?

Okay, well. This vote has run its course. If all goes well, shenanigans will be up and running by the end of this week. Stay tuned for more nose!

A dishonest way to look at this poll. The intent of this poll is 100% to figure out if the players are interested in time compression that applies to all IC events as standard. It should not be treated as a, "It only applies here and there." Not yet, anyways. The implementation should be treated as the standard to meet by all players. Plus, how much of a weird discord would it create if, characters that are played in real time need to keep up with superspeed news events? It'd be a way bigger issue than the [potential] suspension of disbelief required to understand brig timers being counted in minutes, and not hours. The one thing I'll say is. If the vote passes with a majority, "Yes", there'll be another one which will determine the actual pace of the speed. Jackboot wants to run things fast, my alternative will be a slower deal. Kinda like, 1 IRL day = 2 to 3 IC days. But, that's if people are actually interested in the idea. I guess the best way to look at this poll is: Are you interested in official and standardized time compression, or not?

We already have custom items. But not all get accepted No group of the community is given the ability to bypass the established application procedures. Even admins, whitelist managers, whoever; need to apply for their whitelists, just like every other player. Thus, everyone has the risk of getting their application denied. I do not see any legitimate need to make an exception to this core policy. "A donation is an act of charity, and should not be considered payment for a service or product."

The article in question requires proof that the tech read them. So basically, he needs to be stupid about it, and, for example, read them out in public. If he just sees them as medical records, and then has plausible deniability on reading them, he's fine.

Staff complaint or talk to the moderator's superior instead. Chain of command exists for a reason, and there may be circumstances you're not aware of.

Your English started taking a mahoosive dip at the towards the latter half your post. Which makes understanding your question difficult. But I think I get the gist of it. General point, as Sierra said, escalating to permabrig like that is extremely bad form. Get creative, try injuctions, discussions, etcetera. Maybe stab him a little if you're a traitor. Or just report him to CCIAA. Basically, think non-judicial punishment.

Easy enough to make 1 tier with the minimum amount to whatever. "Get name on wall". Little need for anything more.

For the sake of clarity and the record. These all have received a clear and unanimous, "No" from staff and players alike. Higher management (myself, Garn, and Shadow), are all very directly opposed to any tangible perks to donations. A donation is an act of charity, and should never be seen as payment for goods or services. The only thing that'll be instituted is a "wall", onto which the names of all who have donated will be placed. For the sake of recognizing their contribution, much like we do for retired admins.

As was specified in the meeting minutes, at the moment, it is about 300 dollars per year. If the swapping of hosts does become a thing, this is obviously subject to change (probably going to end up being somewhat more expensive, due to Windows). But, I'm not going to twaddle on that before seeing what our budget ends up being.

Please read everything here, before committing to a vote and/or a reply. This is important. General clarification: At the moment, opening donations does not mean that the server will be 100% dependent on them. I still have the financial capacity to cover any gap for at least 1.5 years. The main intent is to make the community less dependent on me, as the time, energy, and money I have to contribute to this project are slowly tanking. In accordance with this thread, we are closing in on the time where we should open donations. However, an issue has arisen. The original plan was to use the donate-to-host service provided by NFO, our server host. However, with the recent downgrade of our server's CPU, and other annoyances regarding their MO when it comes to maintenance, I am becoming doubtful if this is the best way to go. With the present plan, it would lock us into using NFO for a year, or (if we do need to move) force us to discard all donations received, as they are not transferable. The benefit, however, is that transparency is easier to ensure in: the money transferred to NFO can only be used on the Aurora account, for the services which we are renting from them. The risk of mismanagement is minimal. This has made me propose to the staff an alternative. Using Patreon and PayPal. The benefits of this is the fact that they do not lock us in with NFO. We are free to, with relatively good speed and way smaller losses, get a new host, should that ever be required. The main issue with this system, is ensuring in complete transparency of the process. I do, however, have a plan on how to do the best we can in that regard: Every Patreon cycle, post transfer logs (preferably both docs and photographic evidence) of the donations moving from Patreon to the PayPal. Post transaction logs confirming the payment from the Paypal to the hosting service provider. Make note of funds left over on the PayPal, if there are any. Keep a tally of this, with publicly posted evidence, to ensure that it is indeed still there. Obviously, if anyone has any better ideas about the above, please let me know. This is mocked up from a system that another community I was in, and has, thus far, been the most transparent execution of donations that I have seen. Regarding Patreon: if set up, it will not be a "Per month" account, but rather a "Per thing" account. Where each "thing" is a billing cycle. No more regularly than quarterly. With that said. This is the poll's question: Are you willing to trust our management to properly use Patreon in combination with PayPal to manage donations? Options and what they mean: Yes - You are fine with the second plan outlined above, whereby a Patreon and PayPal account will be set up to handle community donations, under the condition that, at minimum, the transparency measures I outlined above will be executed by staff. No - You do not agree with the second plan outlined above, and prefer the originally laid out plan, whereby the donations are handed straight to the current server host, NFO. Any questions, feel free to post and ask. Or catch me over discord if necessary.

And ban lifted. If you still cannot log in, let me know via PMs and make sure to send me the ckey you're now using.

Oh really? Can an admin (or mod) post and confirm what you said? Why is leaving the shield on all shift powergaming? It would be something I would do in case there was nobody to turn the shield on when the inevitable meteor storm came. Keep in mind it doesn't have to be central, it's just optimal, it could be in the bar if people wanted to. So if there's no one to turn it on that is capable, then there shouldn't have been a person capable of installing it. There was a public warning about this on the MotD a few weeks ago. It was up for about a month, made by Garn. It's considered bad gameplay at the very least, because it stops everyone from going in and out of the station. So, please turn it off when you don't need it. It's not that hard, and you're given plenty of warning when a storm does hit.

No other notes or warnings. Unless anyone objects, I'll lift this tomorrow.

I've wanted to give malfs the ability to intercept faxes and emergency messages for the longest time. Basically, give the malf AI 120 seconds to review a sent message and make a decision. If he decides to block it, there's a high chance the message won't reach CC.

How did you acquire this video of me? I'm filing a copyleft claim!

Good idea, let's make incapacitating captains/HoSs a one-shot deal for all wardens and most antags. That'll work wonders for game balance. EMPs aren't common. Further, in order to actually reap any major benefit from it, you'd need to be within the considerable blast radius of one.

I think having them melt/short circuit, with a user message of, "You feel your brain boiling up inside your skull!" would be the best. And obviously rendering it defunct after that.

Don't they already simply melt in the brain when EMP-d? With a great message to the user?

Two or more Nar'sies is basically a bug. I pushed a fix ages ago, which made it so that Nar'sie can be summoned only once via the rune. I have no fucking clue as to why it's not working, reee. As for spam protection, we've actually discussed the idea of making it so that manifested ghosts don't count towards Nar'sie. It would force cultists to actually put in an effort, and would stop 90% of the rushes towards Nar'sie. Specifically, it'd stop a rush of, "We have 5 dudes. That's enough for us, let's go blow this joint with manifest ghost!"