SierraKomodo

Gonna be too early on my end (West coast, mornings are typically a no go because work has me up late)

That was the plan for it, yes. Any activity that would result in increased stress, or increased heart rate in general, such as having to run around a lot, being scared shitless about something, getting shot by a taser/stunned by a baton (I can refrain from triggering it in this case if people get worried about the potential of abusing that to avoid security), etc etc. Regarding the origins, I left it somewhat vague, but described as a rare Tajaran genetic disease that affects the heart and tends to be passed on from parent to child. Her mother passed away from heart failure due to the genetic defect.

That's also why I'm suggesting only about 5 points of damage per use. I certainly don't plan on spamming this, or using it all willy nilly for woe-is-me RP, but it /is/ a defective heart and something that should have some effect on RP with this particular character. For those doctors who don't want to actually RP with this? That's fine, an inaprovaline injection or w/e will set her right on her way, and it's far less awkward ICly and OOCly than walking in ,'Her hearts acting up' ,-scan- You're fine get out.

I've ahelped for minor heart damage in relation to this in the past and admins have done so without any problems, and in those situations medbay /did/ go through the motions of checking on why Ziva has suffocation damage, asking about it, and treating it, as opposed to scanning her once, saying 'you're fine', then going back to the sensors console. I've been told by admins that I've shown this thread to that I can just ahelp for this whenever it would make sense for Ziva's heart to start acting up, but setting up this custom verb/item/what-have-you would make things a bit easier, and let me handle these situations when there's no admins available.

BYOND Key: SierraKomodo Character name: Ziva Ta'kim Item name: Technically not an 'item', but an RP based verb that will cause a small amount of heart damage per use Why is your character carrying said item to work? Ziva has a genetic heart defect that runs in her family on her mother's side, which has been slowly degrading her heart as she grows up. As a result, high-stress or high-excitement situations tend to cause her to have heart problems. Up til now I've just been RPing out these effects, with medbay typically completely ignoring me and saying there's absolutely nothing wrong because there's nothing wrong mechanically and refusing to cooperate with an RP situation. She has had a surgical procedure that repaired some of the damage to her heart, but the operation to fully cure the disease is far too expensive (And before anyone says anything about cloning, consider the fact a /genetic/ issue would be copied by cloning). Item function(s): Verb causes ~5 damage to the heart per use. I've thought of a couple ways this could be implemented, though I'm not certain how limitations of byond/ss13 code would effect this: 1: A verb created that is only usable by my ckey when playing a character named Ziva Ta'kim 2: An implanter that I'm given at round start like any other custom item that, when implanted, gives access to that particular verb. Since implants show up on medbay scans, it can be labelled as something non-assuming like 'Heart Monitor,' which would make since given her condition. Item description: N/A Item appearance: N/A How will you use this to better interact with crew and/or stimulate RP? As high-stress and high-excitement situations cause issues for Ziva as her heart struggles to keep up, this will provide an extra mechanical layer to how these situations are played out. Specifically, this will provide something for medbay to actually work on mechanics wise instead of waving it off as 'Stop trying to RP things that dont exist'. Additional comments: As a side note, I'm not going to spam this thing to kill/nearly kill me - I'd expect it to be something that's easily fixable with an injection of inaprovaline or paroxatine when she goes into medbay. The main reason I'm requesting this is for that interaction with medbay instead of it being sent to a crashing halt by players that don't want to cooperate with a purely-RP situation.

It feels like people threw in a lot of one-off characters that nobody's seen/heard of before

Reporting Personnel: Amos McBell Rank of Reporting Personnel: Internal Affairs Agent Personnel Involved: (Name, Rank: Offender/Witness/Other (Ckey)) - Sofia Pennington, Xenobotanist: Offender (Absynth) - Aito Kusanagi, Research Director: Witness (Superballs) - Ikrad Yam'hir, Chief Engineer: Witness (House_Of_Synth) - Valorallen Vitellia, Head of Personnel: Witness (YouJustGotOwened) Time of Incident: 14:40 Real time: 13:24 PST, Sep 2, 2016 Location of Incident: Garden/Hydroponics Nature of Incident: []Workplace Hazard []Accident/Injury []Destruction of Property [X]Neglect of Duty []Harassment []Assault []Misconduct []Other _____ (Place an x in the box that applies. If other, replace line and specify.) Overview of the Incident: I was informed over the command channel by Yam'hir that Pennington was allowing experimental plants from xenobotany to grow in the garden. Upon arriving to the location to see for myself, I was greeted with the entire room being filled with what were apprently modified apple trees. Based upon what was said between Pennington and Kusanagi, whom was present at the garden prior to my arrival, these were planted without command staff approval and without any form of paperwork. When asked about the plant life, including if proper procedure had been followed to ensure the plants actually were safe, Pennington refused to answer any questions and only insisted that the plants are safe and were 'more efficient', without providing any form of documented evidence to verify these claims. When Pennington was instructed by Kusanagi to remove the plants from the garden, she appears to have only removed the growing trunks, and left behind piles of modified fruits and vegetables on the floor. I was also informed by Vitellia that spreading experimental plantlife across the station without proper paperwork or authorization is a common occurence with Pennington and has happened over the course of several shifts in the past. Did you report it to a Head of Staff or IAA? If so, who?: - Additional notes: (If there are none simply leave it blank)

As the IAA that late-joined into the middle of this, I'm just going to mention most of this following the initial torture incident was a massive cluster fuck of communication failures between command staff and security, and a failure on security's part to obey the chain of command, and a failure on the CE's part to follow the chain of command. If it weren't for antag involvement I'd expect everyone involved to at the least been reprimanded by CCIA.

Byond key: SierraKomodo Character names: Amos McBell, Ariana Eshlian, Azaela Nejem, D'ar'rhe Mia'asika'zar, E.C.O.M., Miraj Zi'Ad, Katana Silvers, Rasine Ha'kim, Kylan Lo'Rah, Johnathan Rase, Saite Kesra, Samantha Black, Siiead Kesra, Sarah Wolfe, Jack Wolfe, Sean Zelios, Sairis Helosi, Zakiya Ahmad, Ziva Ta'kim, Tali Mi'hil, Titus Young II, Kunai, Zakiya Ahmad What times are you available? In GMT: Varying. My work doesn't have a set schedule. Typically 6PM GMT to 6AM GMT Do you have any experience with Moderating? Or similar. Yes; I also have experience as CCIA and forum moderating on Aurora; I left last time because I spread myself way too thin between custom item stuff, the aurora web interface, forum moderating, CCIA, personal projects, and my job. Why do you want to be a Duty Officer? I'd like to get back into helping get through these incident reports, handling in game faxxes, and doing a few things here and there to help spice up rounds every now and then like I had before as a duty officer. Also, they keep asking me when I'm coming back. How well can you handle stress? I'm honestly not sure if this is the best way to handle things, but I tend to take a break for awhile if things get really bad - On aurora, that usually involves going SSD for about half an hour, or skipping a round that I otherwise would have joined in on. There are times where I'll throw a message out there I shouldn't have sent before leaving, acting without thinking, but that isn't as common now (Been working on it). What does it mean to be a Duty Officer? It's a position of responsibility and some power, and means that we're the ones that ICly handle IC issues, particularly those from repeat offenders that are reported in the incident reports threads. The point of this being not to flex our power or focus on punishments, but to provide IC incentive and consequences for character's actions. Also, to fuck bitches and talk about Tajaran penises in dosay. How active on the forums and server are you? I'm on every day, although I'm more of a forum lurker than a forum poster these days. Anything else to add? I won't be returning Jonathan Rase; He's permanently retired. I'll either bring on Sarah Wolfe, or come up with a new CCIA.

Since this is apparently intended behaviour and not a 'bug', as per https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/issues/844 The whole point of an extended round being voted for is that people want a 100% canon round that focuses on RP, without antags being thrown into the mix. When this RNG event occurs that creates antags in an extended round, it causes confusion on 'Are there antags or are people being shits? Did the admins start an event? Is any of this canon?' and also creates frustration for people that voted and joined an extended round expecting a certain kind of round and getting something entirely different. The server lasted for a very long time without an RNG event randomly adding antags to an extended round; Why is this now suddenly a thing that's intended without the playerbase even being told about it?

But every command player has the ability to create a captain on a whim. I've seen whitelisted players join as a one-off captain character on mutiny and rev rounds and spend the whole round being complete and utter idiots. I don't trust those people with the ability to provide extended punishments outside of the current round.

Yeah, I think Skull's pretty much hit the nail on the head here. The only form of communication I've seen was that PM and these forum posts Hive's been putting up that certainly don't sound like my characters are in the clear.

I think Nebula covered quite a bit of my own thoughts on this. But, I just want to add that I'm one of those people who's basically stopped playing my Tajara except on rare occasions because I'm, quite frankly, concerned of either A: Being told my character's been permanently shipped off to the gulag, or B: Having my whitelist revoked. Every single one of my characters has at least one of the traits you consistantly name as being bad. Ziva's supposed to be a light-hearted, friendly, open-minded sort of character. Rasine's supposed to be a moody, self-sufficient, crippled loner that angers easily but has been undergoing anger management (with some difficulties). She even has a history/backstory that tells /why/ she's like this. Sai'da's supposed to be a character raised on Biesel, in the Little Adhomai district where it's basically been described as Space Detroit, and is supposed to have an attitude as a result. I had to leave a round while playing Ziva last night because I couldn't comfortably portray her friendliness or open-mindedness without being worried about getting a PM from Hive. I've outright stopped playing Rasine, Sai'da, and D'ar'rhe because of similar concerns. Miraj, Azaela, and Mimirkra I've stopped playing because the lore's changed so much regarding inter-Tajara racism that their backstories from Adhomai just don't seem to fit anymore. I'm basically at a point here where I'm not comfortable playing any of my tajara characters, even the one that I'd been developing for over a year on Aurora, who was my whitelist character and everyone enjoyed interacting with. Hell, I had to completely retcon and changedefining traits about Rasine's past and personality just to be able to play her again, and now things have gotten more strict. Couple that with the fact you're, quite literally, coming on station ICly just to stalk tajara players and find IC reasons to ship those characters off to the mines doesn't help matters much. P.S.: Going to add in here that while yes, I am a furry, that has little influence in any of my characters. The closest thing to a 'self insert/personafied' character I played was a human, Sairis Helosi.

I'm just going to come right up and say No. Fuck no. There are several people who while I'm fine with them having a command whitelist, there is no way in hell I would ever trust giving them this level of power. Additionally, why would you be punishing a player for the /next/ round for events that occurred in the previous round - Particularly when things may have been antag related. If you're going to give the argument of consistent trouble makers, there's a sub forum for character complaints where you can bring that issue up to admins to be dealt with, a sub forum for incident reports to deal with it ICly, or you can even send in an ahelp/in round fax about them.

And note that a moderator announced a one-day ban for anyone calling additional votes /before/ you called yours, and this after several warnings from various staff to stop calling the votes.

You know.. This entire time I thought it said interfere, not interact. I've been breaking that law /alot/ then.

See, here's something that I think better fits what the hall of fame is supposed to be - It's showcasing an excellent moment of roleplaying as oppose to 'Heres a funny thing that happened have a chuckle'. (Even if there's some questioning of certain details being canon/snowflakey)

That and one EMP in or near the AI core will hit the entire central ring and kill/cripple any synths or mechanical-implanted folk unlucky enough to be in that central ring; That range is ridiculous.

I 'spose, I actually want to get taken away by the kitty police as a result of someone else seeing me pulling treasonous shit at some point though. Just not the same if the character doesn't show up one day because I arbitrarily decided someone found out, s'not the same at all. You could probably work that out with CCIA/Hive.

https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/749

You're comparing apples with oranges, that's not fair or meaningful. We already have the one you linked there This is my usual red security uniform Also black is neither here nor there, this is blue vs red. And did you see how much black was in those voidsuits? If large amounts of black bother you, i don't see why you'd support this change I think the point he was trying to make was the lack of detail in the black uniform - Specifically that the sprite is a mass of the same RGB code, whereas those void suit sprites have detail in the way of shading and such, without being a mass of a single RGB code.

I have no issues with exploding drones when they leave a station z-level. However, I do think they should be allowed to go to the outposts and telecomms without exploding, and possibly the construction site.

Bluesec was one of the things that made Aurora just a bit more different from the other servers back in old code. I'm all for bringing it back.

Yeah, it was never randomly displayed by any algorithm, rather CCIAAs randomly pick one from the template list. Hmm, you're right though. We could just as easily keep a thread up in the head of staff section or maybe even the NT personnel database. I didn't know that everyone could look at it on the WI, I missed your post earlier. So there is one place which for sure has them all that is public access. We do already have a thread up for this. Nobody bothers to read it. Back when I was CCIA, I made this thread for this exact purpose and it was mostly ignored by the playerbase: https://forums.aurorastation.org/viewtopic.php?f=95&t=5539