geeves

hee ha ha

nice

The potential is there, but the chance of them ruining the round is far higher than making it engaging. I don't really care, most of our antags are just different flavours of traitor anyway. You get weapons and tools to mess with the crew. Still a high risk venture. I remember in the past, we had an epidemic of HoP traitors where the only difference between them and a cargo tech was that they gave themselves all-access at roundstart rather than stealing the spare.

In an ideal world, I would agree with this. Unfortunately, we do not live in an ideal world. A lot of command players generally have no idea how to antagonize well. The time period where they could spawn as antagonists was terrible, and the only fond memories held is there because the memories of the boring or bad ones faded away. Command players don't need an antagonist role to make the round interesting. If you do, I'm not entirely sure why you're playing command. If you need weapons, you can fax for them. I have in the past single-handedly turned the tide of the round by requesting gear for the station, rather than just asking for an ERT. Personally, command antags is much the same as malf. Giving a small set of players way too much power over the round. -1

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Damn, I haven't looked at the application in a while. I think the aesthetic is more important to consider than the actual procedure. It's human nature to not want to do the same thing again, especially if the reason you have to do it is inactivity rather than punishment. From a psychology perspective, I think people would receive it better if the application seemed easier, not as harsh, fair, etc.

I agree with the idea, and I think the intent is to prevent command players who don't have an idea what's going on from hotdropping into a canon lore event, which I always think is rude and silly. The main problem is stripping it comes at the same penalty as losing it if you get banned or whatever, you have to do the entire rigamarole again. If there was a shorter "reapplication" style application which doesn't have a massive trial and the need to give a character's backstory, possibly just detailing recent lore events that's relevant to command members, that'd be great. Regardless, even without the reapplication style application, I would still be for this.

BYOND key: Geeves Discord name/id: Geeves#8863 Borg / AI names: (Borg: Rovumbo), (AI: Voltimac) Have you read the Aurora wiki page about the AI?: Ye Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: I've been vocal about my dislike of AIs as a concept, yes. But I would like to give it a shot, to see how the nerfs have affected it, and to see if there are ways to improve it further. Additionally, some days I have no desire to play a character I have to constantly move, and would like to observe and interact from a more relaxed position. That, or someone takes the role I wanted to play and I want to plasma flood them, then light a match. Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they?: Not in recent time, as far as I'm aware. I've had a few regarding validhunting in the far past, one about ghosting after being stunned by stupid disruptors in the nearer-far past, and one where I used my dev perms to ask where the spare is while I was in-game as a golem. The last one was probably the worst, but it's been a year since, if I remember correctly? I have mellowed out since then. Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action?: Yes. (I am willing to bribe Prate to get it back)

this PR of mine gave it enough charge to last 3-ish hours (don't remember exactly) https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/12230, it was nerfed later https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/12477

having the setting be dark but the gameplay be alright-ish is just to not make players depressed. if everything was doom and gloom all the time, it wouldn't be fun to play

jesse what the fuck are you talking about

+1

In my mind, Matriarchs are more like CEs than they are AI. I picture the AI whitelist more like "we can trust you not to ruin a round because you're powerful", while command is like "we can trust you to be a good boss for the other players, and also not to ruin the round, because there will be consequences". Also, I have the Command whitelist and not the AI one.

stupid ass poopy shitty fuckin dingus website forum application hoster api idiot i wanna add that i'm not the authority on this (yet), staff, especially @Pratepresidenten (who i usually ask about laws im confused about), can chime in if i'm wrong

I found this old ass defunct wiki page on maintenance drones some time ago while I was working on the Matriarch Drone, https://wiki.aurorastation.org/index.php?title=Maintenance_Drone Please note that the Law 3 interpretation is debatable in terms of specific scenarios and circumstances. However, the following clarifications have been made: - You cannot help with a task that the crew are handling, except in cases wherein your help will have no chance of negatively interfering, such as in a breach repair. If in doubt, AHelp. - You are allowed to undertake significant tasks provided no crew are handling it and it does not violate Laws 1 or 2, such as setting up the engine (it is possible as a drone). - You are able to understand the crew and use information you gain from them. - You do not take direct commands from the crew, but you are still allowed to do the task you are ordered to do so long as you would have done it without being told to. Essentially, my thoughts on it as the Official Maintenance Drone Man (not really) is that the AI onboard the drone is good enough to be able to process and interpret crew commands. The drones aren't stupid, they're just not as good as androids/cyborgs, and they are lawed against humanoid interaction. In my opinion, this is especially true for the Matriarch drone, who would have a bit of a smarter brain, but nothing's set in stone for that yet. So, you're can speak to drones and tell them "fix that light" or "fix that airlock", and they would be smart enough to go, 'shit, that's a good idea bro'.

stop being a pussy and apply already dork

Please keep commentary relevant to the PR in question.

Nope, this only applies to station jobs.

If you've posted on feedback on Github, please repost here, by the way.

A feedback thread for a simple enough PR: https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/12547 - Players who have played a role the previous round will now be the last in line for candidates chosen for the same role in the current round. You only count as having played a role if you join it before one hour has elapsed. Discuss below.

i hate goolies

not being allowed to say dumb shit on the relay would probably kill it, i've been against CCIA moderating it for pretty much ever, and will be forever. extreme cases like death threats already have punishment from the IC Bubble source, but nothing has been outstanding enough to be passed onto the CCIA.