GreenBoi

This seems like it'd be hard to effectively balance. What if someone wants to play a character, but don't like all the micro-management/thinking that comes with their normal job so they go visitor? Assistant won't always be optional, because then you'd get weird things like Captain who is also an assistant. A lot of people would probably prefer how it currently is, because there's no obligation.

Sounds cool and good, antagpop should scale with serverpop anyways- to alleviate pressure from one person to several/a group.

If I saw this in the past, I would've agreed, but I think I'm kinda leading on no now? Raiders lets you do and show off resourcefulness in a gamemode where you don't get much help past rng. Stresses you to do stuff and be ready on the spot, while Mercs just get everything handed to them and then told "go play"

Ok, I just thought of a real question. Sorry for the back-to-back, but uhh- what does Zoor think of/would treat Skrell and Jargon as a whole? C'thur are a variant citizen of the Federation and to keep that going strong- the entire hive has to be nice to the squids, at least externally, so they can live nicely. It'd be nice to see how they act vs. what they actually think.

Flip the bolding and have only the questions bolded bls my eyes hurt Nice app. Haven't seen your characters that recently, but I've seen them a while in the past to know you'd use this species in a good light. I like the mindset of using the most alien species to challenge yourself and force growth in style; I did something similar and it's gradually helped me- mainly with displaying obvious character motifs and hiding true ones. I can't think of any questions to ask this app hasn't really answered other than something like "How would Zoor treat transubstantiation if they were to attain it" (though that itself is largely irrelevant, so no need to answer if you don't want to)

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Crowbars can no longer instantly open your hatch and takes time to do. Fine with a harm-intent click damaging the borg chassis, but everything probably isn't needed.

Human Aut'akh are still a form of Aut'akh, although rare. Maimed victims usually aren't missing their entire chest and head. This is basically the same as having all four limbs as prosthetic (most organs that matter are in the torso anyways). For the people who want FBPs, you can just go back to any of my previous statements. Those people would definitely exist, but they wouldn't be enough to make it widespread. It's like the field of current-day cryogenics, but more horrific.

There is a massive difference between purposefully maiming and replacing yourself with metal for a spiritual, cult-like reasoning and doing it just to survive. People of the cult will always give good accounts on what they experience and all that stuff because they believe in it spiritually and it's the lifestyle they see as correct. Normal people may hate and regret this decision, and present this opinion publically. It's a lot harder for something to gain traction when those most obviously under it don't like it or aren't giving great feedback about it. Aut'akh have more 'validity' to their reasoning because they are very extremist with what they do; comparing a literal zealot to your average guy at walmart just won't work- there are different reasonings. FBPs, if anything, would be a marketing strategy.

Small side-thing on this. Not enough vaurcae players for this to become an issue, and there are several other ways to take them down non-lethally, such as using normal pain. You DON'T want to flash them, it will just hurt their eyes and icly make them fucking pissed and non-compliant because the eye-damage doesn't go away like pain. Now, for the thread as a whole. I agree with Cnaym's statements, and I also think that if a borg gets flashed while being normal tater- they'd deserve it. It's quite easy to hide your true intentions and if you see anyone you know typically has a flash, ergo sec and command, you should already expect them to maybe use it if you've been acting out- otherwise people don't have a reason to suddenly flash a borg. You can easily avoid suspicion- AIs automatically pass by you without caring because they assume you're fine and normal PLUS you get basically all-access. At this point, a borg is a supertraitor and their only weakness are ions and flash. If people gang up on them- that requires them making the initiative and moving to the borg: at which point the borg could bolt them away. Your strength is the fact you are assumed to not be malfunctioning or have any law problems, using this and acting slightly out of line when no one is looking is key to making yourself not be flash-worthy since people, otherwise, don't care about the borg's feelings icly.

I like it- given that you can no longer queue up pickaxes to do the glorious 3x3 clear, using them is pretty detrimental- it was a nice compromise between KAs. KAs had range and could be upgraded to be great in late-rounds while pickaxes could clear at insane speeds in the early-round. KAs nowadays feel annoying in the early given you now need to manually pump and wield it, which makes it take a lot more time than before and coupled with the facts pickaxes were not as efficient, early-mining is an actual chore.

As a small bump and to bring to light some interesting things: Janitors have lost their maintenance access while Chaplains still have theirs. It is a very strange and uneven balancing, and even if this thread won't (which it probably won't) revert the PR, some roles do need maintenance access- like janitors, for cleaning. EDIT: Chaplains don't have maint access- false positive.

Thanks to a small port months ago, key sprites already exist.

Aut'akh made the prosthetic 'outsides/skin' themselves, while Eridani only "supplied" the augments through the crashed shuttle. The concept of FBPs existing overall isn't problematic, the issue is just them becoming widespread and marketed. If a person is extreme enough to do that, then that's them and their extremist beliefs; I could totally see a crazy dreg trying to do it and most dregs also not because it barrs them from drugs and shit. I think it'd be too outlandish to be an option for station characters to be them. Aut'akh themselves are a cult, and they have religious "backing" on their things at least- a normal FBP's backing would just be "this is a sure-alternative to cloning" where people can go back and forth in circles talking about if it's really worth living life in a robotic shell where you can't feel naything.

The Malfnuke is infact the SAT because you can stop it if you go to the physical SAT as Captain. Past that, though, I don't see how the nukes are that bad. Mercs usually NEVER use it period- Malf is the only one people have to worry about potentially using it oocly, but the class malf nuke doesn't happen all the time and is moreso a side-effect of bad planning or uncreative planning. You can do generally interesting things with this mechanic, and the realization (even though it's cheesy since everyone knows oocly) that there's effectively a bomb on your station that could have rigged to blow whenever, without your knowledge is a lot better than just "Oh, NanoTrasen has BIG secrets" "Well duh, it's a fucking mega-corporation, these things don't exactly have souls." Sidenote, combat cyborgs were removed because of how OP they were for crew to have and how easily they could be unlocked if command staff talked together for half a minute. I don't think anyone is going to put them back in because they're really not for crew-usage and are better suited as a tool for the lesser-equipped antags to use as defense/offense.

Already stated in post- not my argument, it's an argument to a potential arguent. Most people would rather kid themselves and think their consciousness will somehow transfer to the clone than get rid of practically everything human about them. It's not as simple as "cannot bleed", you are literally living in another body with NONE of the shit you could do before.

As long as it makes pulling cult swords also hit you with the effect.

This won't be the case soon, once Alb's PR is done. I'm personally not a fan of FBPs because people often do play them like robots, or they play them like humans who have no sense of fear because all-metal, hardly any nerves. FBPs also don't need to exist as a widespread thing in-lore; in a universe where cloning is possible- why would you decide the best way to circumvent death would be to lock yourself in an emotion-less metal shell where you can't do even half of the shit you could when alive. You can no longer eat, smell, drink or even take drugs; it's a pointless last stand and we can't forget about the fact that you'd need to consistently keep your chassis repaired and up-kept unlike a human body which does so by itself until your much longer, natural "limit." With the reasons specified above, why the fuck would more than a small amount of people prefer FBPs over cloning? You can assume cloning is advertised as a really helpful 'second-chance' procedure that sucks at the beginning, but gets better after a year of treatments. There is nothing engaging to a human being about being stuck in a metal chassis- unable to eat or drink or engage in any of the ecstasies in life you could engage in before; something like this would not be widespread. If you want to argue "weeell, just because it's not widespread doesn't mean it can't be a mechanical option", then I'll just let you know the second something is an option- people will pick it. Regardless of the lore or not, it will ultimately be an OOC trend that decides whether or not x is popular. If people decide "BRAIN-SHELLS ARE COOL! LET ME PLAY ONE AND JOIN THE CULTURE", it will start to be seen as a common thing even if the lore dictates it's not and that's when the band-aid fix is no longer a fix.

Warriors could decap with a few headbites on an armorless person before, but I think it's stupidly hard now so I'd rather have that back. For ripping off limbs in general? I'd say no, I can see this easily being abused by both sides, though with Unathi more as they have a larger playerbase and thus- you'd be able to see abuse from there more.

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I was going to say no, but this could work. So long as there is a text that tells the ghost they don't remember everything or exactly what killed them so we can prevent memes like nymphs screaming "HALP I WAS KILLED BY CULT IN MAINT!!" I would be willing to experiment with these and see what concepts it allows to be brought into fruition and that small section of wikilore that everyone's forgotten about to maybe see the light of day on the server in anything past the incredibly rare medical record or smalltalk.

Calm down, Unathi only have 20% brute resistance. That's decent, but I don't think it's enough to make them completely incapable of taking in bicaridine. I understand the intentions behind this, but I don't think we need it. You can still easily damage them or just switch to lasers.

I say no to this. The only species that can outlast them in stamina are Vaurcae Workers, by 4 seconds- but they regen their stamina back slower and can only safely do it really through k'ois. All other species are either fast w/ medium stamina or lightning quick w/ short stamina. I think a buff like this would actually just make them last too fast. Reminder that they can run for 24 seconds (which means Workers are 28 seconds), a 1.5 buff would mean 32 seconds of prolonged running; that is scary in combination with Hyperzine or stimms.

Bumping this because it shouldn't be forgotten and I really do believe there's a population bloot.

For the why cloning was removed from Aurora icly thing, I personally just headcanon that it's a lot easier and less dangerous to clone and tend to clones on a dedicated hospital/cloning center than in a random-ass medbay.