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Hi. I'm on the custom item app team. My main question is why is a consular for Xanu carrying around a book that effectively trashtalks the CoC's government? It makes sense for radical ideals to be present to an extent, but I'm not sure it makes much sense for someone representating a nation to be permitted to carry around a book that shit-talks the government.

Hi. Given your tone and the fact you politely asked me about it on the discord, I think I'm willing to give you another chance. Do note that you are still on thin ice due to the sheer amount of notes and warnings you have. If you ever have doubts about the rules, be sure to ahelp!

Bear is one of those people that anyone who's been on the server for a while almost certainly knows, and he's also someone that rarely ever has any issues regarding the rules or general behavior, and I also consider him a friend and fellow shitposter. For the good of the impending Garfield ethnostate, I give a good ol' +1

Hi. I have returned with a verdict. While some of the things Cowboy does can be seen as distasteful, IE the rejoining the round and rolling antagonist again, nothing on this complaint is actionable in the context of the rules. It is not against the rules to re-roll antag or rejoin the round, and they are things that are mechanically supported. I would suggest pushing for getting these changed mechanically if you are unhappy with them. As for their roleplay conduct, we can not punish people for having, in your opinion, sub-par roleplay skills. It would effectively be seen as a sort of roleplay elitism gatekeeping, as it were, and is simply not actionable via the rules. Generally, when we punish people for LRP conduct, it's when attempts to roleplay are not even made to begin with or when things are extremely out of the ordinary I.E. some assistant begging for meth from the pharmacist or something. Cowboy is still attempting roleplay, so this is not punishable. As for the claim that they jobhop to assistant, I don't really have evidence for this so the best thing I can say is to ahelp it when it happens so staff can deal with it. Overall, I won't be taking any action against Cowboy, and this complaint will be closed tomorrow unless anyone has anything more to say.

Your conduct over the past year in particular has painted a picture that you do everything in your power to act combative toward staff in virtually every ticket you are in. This goes so far that almost every single ticket involving you (that you did not make) ends up being a staff complaint because you are that resistant to somebody telling you you are wrong, even if the ticket doesn't result in punishment. This is not the kind of behavior that ends well with someone on the staff team. Your reaction towards the first and until then only -1 on your complaint was to immediately accuse Read of metagrudging and then go dredging up logs. This only further shows your attitude towards people saying anything about you that isn't strictly supportive. Bottom line, you take everything as a personal attack, and that is a bad quality for a staff team member. Someone giving a negative opinion on your application, which they are perfectly allowed to do as the point of an application is partially to garner feedback, is not metagrudging or a 'personal attack'. This does not have any bearing on what you could do in the future. A week and a half is not a very long time. I think this is very untruthful. If you did not take it as a joke, you would not have sent a joking reply, simple as. You are twisting this into the metagrudging angle you've fabricated to make Read look bad. Read has never been known to do this kind of stuff outside of a strictly joking context. Overall, I find your attitude to be unbecoming of a staff member. Your response to any conflict/negative feedback to your decisions, gameplay or otherwise, is to take it as a personal attack and try your hardest to paint the other person as some kind of harassing metagrudger. We are volunteers who do what we do for the sake of the server we enjoy. We do not have the time nor the care to go around personally attacking people because we felt like it at the time. Hard -1

Personally, I've found it a little goofy just how overtly hostile Sol is most of the time. They seem to make irrational decisions all the time for the sake of conflict, and the endless tide of Sol antag gimmicks doesn't help that feeling. I think Sol consular would alleviate this as it grounds them a bit more and also gives the endless Sol gimmicks something to at least play off of. I also feel its been long enough since the invasion and wildlands wars to allow them back in some capacity.

Hi. I'll be handling this complaint. As with most every complaint I handle, I will throw out a reminder to only post if DIRECTLY involved. Which in this case is pretty much just Lavilla and Cowboy. DM me if you want to post something and are not sure if it counts as involved. (On discord, not forums, I won't see it)

Going to also throw out to keep this thread on topic. The staff team is not interested in whatever other players are dragged into this complaint. We care explicitly about Sycmos and the people directly involved in the complainted actions.

Hi gang. I know there's quite a few longstanding community members involved in this complaint, but keep in mind that complaint forums are meant to show evidence and for the person being complainted to defend themselves. There is no room for namecalling or blatant insults here. Chill out. This also covers accusations and veiled insults as well. Act like adults.

You are not able to use headcanoned degrees to circumvent rules on metagaming.

Also, I was referring to you not knowing the rules on canonicity.

how exactly do you claim the engine was not sabotaged before an explosion even happens

Hi. Metagaming is using OOC information in any context to influence your decisions ICly. In this case, you used what you know about INDRA explosions to justify jumping the gun and siccing security onto the case of what was, in actuality, just a mishap from an engineer/apprentice that caused the explosion. This significantly hampered the antagonist's gimmick with very little reasoning behind it. Your XO certainly wouldn't be able to tell the engine was deliberately sabotaged just by looking at it either, as it is not their expertise as an XO. I find this deflecting of blame onto the AI very flimsy when 90 percent of the ticket was you trying to tell me why you thought it was definitely sabotage from an IC perspective and only bringing the Captain and AI into it after I pointed out your reasoning was not sound. This tells me you came to your own conclusion anyway regardless of what the AI would or would not have said. IIRC Command backpedaling was because some of them had ahelped it as engine griefing and then backed down once they were made aware of what happened so as to not further jump onto the antags, though I don't remember perfectly. You have been here for literal years. Nearly as long as me. There is no reason you should not know this by now. Especially not to the point of using it to double down hard on sabotage. Overall, you took what was an engineering mishap and blew it up into a hunt for saboteurs and used your own OOC knowledge to justify this to me in the ahelp, making it metagaming. Incorrect metagaming. That hindered an antag's gimmick severely. I stand by the warning.

Hi. I'm willing to lift this. Make sure you reread the rules on escalation and antagging.

Hi. Sorry this took so long, quite simply forgot about it. Anyway, there really isn't a world in which any of this doesn't look terrible. I'm not really sure how we went this long without anyone seeing or doing anything about this, but that's going to change. This is going to be a discord ban until appeal, which you can do in a month. I don't think there needs to be much explanation as to why. This stuff ain't okay. If there's nothing else, this will be closed tomorrow.

I'll be taking this complaint. Give me a day or so to look things through.

Alright, I HAVE seen you playing some rounds as a non-antag, so I'll give you a second chance. Don't be afraid to ahelp with questions if something confusing crops up.

this will unfortunately be more or less the same thing, as removing sensors and removing an accessory are the same amount of button clicks in the same UI

Personally I was against the removal as I'm part of the crowd that thinks more station death isn't really a good thing (similar to what ImmortalRedshirt said) but at the same time I cannot really contest the fact that the sensors pretty often fuck over antags the absolute moment they try something. It's just a solid fact. For that reason, I think whatever is brought up should at LEAST get a testmerge, as we really don't know how this is going to affect the game since we've not had to deal with it yet, so we may as well give it a try to see if its good for the game or not. I also very much dislike the talk about medical as a whole being toxic, as simply put the truth is that its a select few people that are the issue and SHOULD BE AHELPED if they are talking shit to new players or in general, as it is clearly casting a bad view on the entire department. I still think it is unfair to say the entirety of medical's playerbase is toxic just for voicing opinions on PRs they do not enjoy (though the people throwing out insults are very much toxic and need to be talked to). It is fine to have the opinion that less death is preferable. That is why it is an OPINION. People are not toxic just for thinking otherwise. (Though this only applies to the people who actually do it civilly and not the bad actors who decide to start hurling insults).

While talking to some people in VC, we discussed random events and new ones that could be fun. The one we came up with first was simple, its just like the Ionospheric Anomalies event, but instead of turning comms off, it just grants everyone access to every channel temporarily. So everyone now has sec radio, command radio, med radio etc for like a few minutes. ...thats basically the entire suggestion lmao

I am willing to unban you here, but you need to understand that you will probably receive an unappealable one if this becomes a problem again. Your history is riddled with going AFK and most of the time as a limited slot role. We really can only give so much benefit of the doubt here.

So, one of medical's big problems, at least for me, is the fact that EVERYTHING is entirely reliant on either surgery or drugs. Broken lung? Pneumalin or surgery. Broken heart? Api or surgery (though Asystole has the defib now). It creates the assembly line effect and in general, gets pretty repetitive. I think the way to get around this is to start adding other ways to treat the same thing that physicians can do, both because it actually gives physicians something to do and because variety is the spice of life, especially if the new thing is actually more effective and pneumalin is now the backup. Thus, my suggestion. I think we should add a chest pump machine to Aurora. In real life, these are used to remove air from the space outside your lungs so that they are able to expand again and is a common treatment for Pneumo/hemothorax. Since this is a video game, we can just say it also repairs damage to the lung while it is at it, or maybe differentiate between pneumothorax from no oxygen and pneumothorax from a bullet. Overall I think it would be neat to have an alternative, physician-friendly way to treat one of the most common injuries we have. Hell, I could probably even have a go at spriting it and commissioning a coder since I have no idea how it would work, but I want to gauge people's impression of it first.

This is how it used to work before it was changed, and it was changed because it ended up as fifty people being in medical within 15 minutes and the vampires getting gigaexecuted almost instantly as a result.

The counterplay did basically nothing since every single engagement was avoided via veil walking until Shaw died which was purely because he just happened to not veil walk at the time when he probably could have. Something with no counter isn't really something to be rewarded.