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Which we've done in lore and events, and even approve of characters doing shady criminal things. It's already.... a known fact Aurora has a bit of a seedy side. It's why the joke that "Upsilon is higher class" exists.

It's not metagaming if they know it is consistent every shift they work. Telling them to not canon something as mundane and basic as this really puts a damper on what we can and can't canon. As stated before, security details always search the place before they open it to the public. Security at hotels do use the "tunnels" of the facility to get from point a to point b faster, and without causing alarm or panic to the customers. It makes no sense for Security to not check these places.

I questioned whether I should weigh in here. I was the HoP that was antag verb spammed that round, and wound up getting a dominate that just said "Attack the Captain. Do it now!" Xanders Captain got beat by me, shot by me, stunned by an officer, fed on by a vampire (which he wouldn't remember, but I was screaming she had bit him.), and had another vampire flash his eyes. The Captain was, rightfully, thinking the crew was trying to over-throw him and take over with some kind of biological, mechanical advantage. I never saw the riot gear as a problem. Honestly, the Loyalty Implant keeps you loyal to the company, and replacing a Captain would cost them so much money. That's years of dedication lost. Years of training gone. Crew morale out the window. Bad PR for the company if the mutiny succeeded. The LI'd have triggered him into protecting himself. Locking the Bridge down doesn't work. There's a back entrance, from the bunker, that my HoP knows very well. It doesn't lock down when the Bridge's lockdown goes down. He wasn't safe anywhere with a HoP that could easily gain all access. He had to protect himself, and there was nowhere to run.

It gives them something to do. And I don't honestly care if it "draws attention and can backfire." That's the beauty of interacting with the crew, as an antag. We have way to many antags that try to be 100% "no contact, full frontal assault.". Security sweeping that stuff up just makes you seek out the shadier people. Use their exploitable against them. Threaten them. Be an actual antag instead of "cause chaos and be destructive." Interact with the crew. Don't rely on maintenance tunnels to fulfill. As for tools, the tool storage area is accessible, and if you have a good reason ICly, the HoP may grant you access to other areas. (Like Nawfal's excuse to get into EVA.)

Ignore this quote, I can't figure out how to get rid of it lmao On the flipside to this, plenty of security teams search the buildings they "secure" before opening them for work. Even regular store openers sweep the store before opening the doors to the public. You could argue "well we need to give a little lead-way RPly in order for antags to get the upper hand" but I can't honestly say anything I've found in maint gives me an upper hand as a traitor or as a vamp. Everything in those tunnels is just-- low-tier garbage you can get for pennies of TC, or literally ask a department for. (Hey, Cargo, can you get me a gas mask? I'm afraid the vents might start spewing garbage out, as they're prone to do.) So keeping sec from searching those tunnels doesn't do anything but keep them from having something to do at round start, like every other department, and it goes against "heavy roleplay" standards. I'd also like to say that I, as a HoP, search tunnels for all the stuff and have a Yard Sale at the holodeck. It's fun, gives RP and would be cut pretty short if I was found "snooping tunnels for everything". So don't cut RP for the sake of antags when antags can get that stuff with their TC, or get it from interacting with crew better.

Can we discuss how his name is literally Satan? Or rather, a Demon that takes the form of the Devil. Don't ask me to go into folk lore. I'll make paragraphs about it. It's my thing. It's VERY hard to immerse myself when my chaplain is named "KINGDOM HEARTS X SATAN DEVIL MAN"

"Roboticists aren't Scientists" Actually, they are. Robotics is.... more or less applied Science to Engineering. Let's talk degrees and how they work. So we, typically, take quite a few classes that simply "aren't required" for our degree. My Psych degree came with six, yes SIX, history classes due to how it all panned out. Do I need six history classes under my belt? Not at all. Six history classes made it where I could have duel degree'd in political science had the college let me. Which brings me to the even more hilarious point that some degrees are actual carbon copies of the others, save maybe one or two differences in math or language arts. Is it highly possible a Roboticists/biomechanical/mechatronic engineer has taken the required science classes to get RND to SOME form of level to make themselves useful? Absolutely. I can teach you World and U.S History if gave the time to plan the class properly, yet MY degree is in neither of those. It's ridiculous to tell me a Science department character has not taken classes (in their course of college) that would benefit RND. I'm not saying they'll do it perfectly, optimize it, or get the levels high. But it is FEASIBLE that they'd be able to run the lab at a "meh" level. So, telling a Roboticists "no, you don't know Science at all" just doesn't make sense when it comes to how college courses work.

He's been called out on it in round before, by me. I was unaware it wasn't sanctioned by an admin (because it seemed like it was an ONGOING thing for the character. I jut assumed he had approval.) But Saint-Yves asked him how the hell he got through college and such for all of his degrees in a short period of time. There wasn't really an excuse other than "Finally found a job I liked doing." Now-- you could ARGUE that's the "character", but given the job hopping, the incompetency and various other things... I'm willing to bet this Kirsi isn't actually a CHARACTER, but the player themselves just skidding by on a hRP server.

Just pay a bit more attention to your surroundings. Jade comes off as "you WILL do as I say because I'm the boss" when... shit's hit the fan and half her department is scattered due to antags/hostiles. And I think that's more of you not being aware of the situation as Command, and less of a character decision. HoP will be railroaded in a HEART BEAT. Stand up for yourself, start demanding information about the situation that's going on. You won't know your gardener is a vampire unless you get Command to respect that you are in charge of your department. It's a learning process, so I can't fault you for this at all. Everything else seems to be going great! Love her so far.

Yep, MOST Roboticists that I know do these changes in game, not because "We like it pretty" but because we do need the space. Theoretically, your mech assembly line would be larger, because you're building mechs large enough to carry a person and a several others (Sleepers and pass compartments.) Honestly, the whole space needs a remap, and something creative needs to be done with the mech assembly line.

Actually, large corporations would rather hire out of house than hire in house. For example: My spouse works for a company that is close to becoming the largest supplier of childrens clothing. They run their warehouses on an 80-20 ration, 80% of the workers are "temp" workers or "other company workers". There's a lot of reasons for this, from insurance to pay rate, to liability concerns. It would save NT quite a lot of money in insurance/liability costs if they out-sourced their employees. So no, this change makes no sense at all. As someone who has recently started playing a contracted employee (a Hep Engineer, which aren't as common as Necro Sec but still...), the RP's pretty fun to do. You can easily say "Oh well I'm with Hep here to help the Aurora with X. It's suppose to be a temporary placement." and it's up to you to write out the basis for your contract. Perhaps you get paid more but your insurance is shit. Maybe insurance is great but the pay is... ehhhh. Maybe you find out you like Aurora and have to go through the NT liason process of being hired on. They add a lot of RP.

He literally picked the Unathi up and grabbing them aggressive and put him on a table. The word AGGRESSIVE is in that for a reason. Yes, the Skrell came after a seven foot tall Unathi and grabbed them aggressively, then put them onto the kitchen bar table. You can't get around the fact that they picked a fight with someone twice their size, over a goat they left in a crate the entire shift. Starting a fight isn't just "let me punch this dude". It also involves grabbing people, pushing them, and invading personal space. So this complaint is about an Unathi eating a goat, when the Skrell themselves decided to pick a fight with a dude twice their height and weight.. over a goat.... Let me say this: It's not out of character for an Unathi to eat a goat. It's pretty damn weird to imagine a skrell (who isn't security, and see's a massive Unathi in their path) pick up said Unathi and table them over a goat.

I was there for that.. you touched him first. As a short, non-security skrell, you went after a big seven foot plus tall Unathi to keep him from a goat that was gave to him at near round start by the Captain. He was unaware it was your pet. It was easy to get confused in chat among the logs and text that was going by. It's possible he missed the line saying "that's my pet." Unathi eat animals whole, all the time. I see it quite often. You're so determined that this Unathi was in the wrong, you fail to realize how bad it looks for your skrell to go up to an unathi eating a goat, an unathi in a breacher rig with a spear, and push/shove him over it. Shadow never once threw a punch this entire time. If anything, your RP comes into question here more than an Unathi not even FIGHTING. He ate a goat after being promised a goat by the Captain. You came up, grabbed a full giant Unathi ina breacher rig, and yeeted him on a table. No fear RP with his weapon. No self-perservation from you. You PICKED UP A FULL GROWN UNATHI AND THREW HIM ON A TABLE WITHOUT A WORD. AS A SKRELL.

My biggest concern is how often you AFK during a round for IRL things. (which is fine, life happens.). I worry you'll do the same thing, but as a moderator. AFK on server. This could lead to people thinking we have an active mod, when reality is.. you aren't there. Will you curb this if gave moderator status? It can be frustrating to Command with you when you fail to communicate during stressful situations that require Captain approval. This sort of.... "reliance" will only get worse when you become a mod.

Wait, wat.

I love Crono. I think they're done great and adapt to situations well. 10/10 would sign avowal again.

In my personal opinion, one of the best characters we have on Aurora is Topaz. Topaz is the proof that Kyro has the ability to crack down and really immerse themselves in our lore our setting and our rounds. It's honestly impressive to see how well he RP's that character. Castralo's meme-ery has toned down quite a lot as well. I no longer want to disposals him. I'd be willing to see Kyro gave a command trial. +1

Not by me. I wasn't involved in the weirdo shit the HoP did with Jarvis's ID.

No, I said if he continued to be the way he was, then you could arrest him. I was honestly unaware he was arrested. But both Spider and I talked over Command about the QM's inability to a)do the order, or b)at least mention why he wasn't going to do said order. It still felt very OOCly charged on Paradox's behalf. He didn't bring it up to his heads that he had an issue. He didn't even tell Spider why he had an issue with it ICly (to my knowledge). In regards to Cargo orders, orders can be made by the departments respectable head, and they shouldn't be questioned ICly, as that head knows best for his department. Restocking the armory with slugs at round start can be seen in bad light (but it isn't wrote down anywhere that you shouldn't do it), however... Paradox's just... OOC response ICly is an actual problem here.

This is due to the wiki contradicting itself, and I have contacted Kyres on resolving this issue.

In response to the above complaint: Armstrong did warn the person that if they didn't stop, he'd Ion them. They did break the cable cuffs he had placed on them. HOWEVER, he DID beat them while they were knocked down and Ion'd. Hope those help when looking into the situation.

and yes, Alb, I'm fully aware of what mods See. Funny enough, I've modded for Aurora, and several other servers as well. You still investigate something properly.

Note me. Lock this. Next time, properly investigate an issue. It would have taken a second longer to see mine right below that. It does look like you're choosing favorites when you note one person guilty, but not the other. Had I been noted, I wouldn't have bothered with the complaint. It was unfair to Nikov.

The POINT is, if you're going to permanently note a player for something, at least investigate the issue properly. If you're having issues to where you can't do it properly, have someone else do it. Because it looks BAD to note a player for something, and not do it for the other person directly involved in the situation.

he said it BEFORE me. You still would have seen it. It'd have been on the same screen!