Susan

It isn't run by asylum inmates. In lore, NanoTrasen isn't fucking retarded, but we're stuck with players that like this kind of shit to be the norm so there's a suspension of disbelief. Now, let's think for a second here. What person sat down and decided they wanted to create one of the most useless, clunky, all-around awful weapons ever to be designed? What sort of weapons specialist went to his drawing board and decided 'woah hey guys i have an idea how about we design weapons that can't be reloaded despite having reloadable firearms since the dawn of gunpowder weapons!'. There are a thousand more effective ways to go about the 'civilian weapon' argument, including high-powered electrode guns or stun bolts. Yet they've provided us with fully lethal weapons when it is in their capacity to produce stun projectiles capable of knocking you flat on your ass. The entire concept of a 'civilian' weapon is ridiculous. Do you know what kind of weapons civilians have? Hunting rifles. Shotguns. Semi automatic pistols. Hell, my uncle has a Remington he uses for hunting and that piece of shit from now is x100 more effective than the 'civilian' weapons we have in the future because you can actually reload the goddamn clip. What idiot sat down and decided to make them non-rechargable? Wouldn't the more intelligent choice be to defuse the laser beam so it causes less trauma and shock if you want to go the 'civilian' route? Removing the utility of being able to reload the damn thing on the fly is a decision only an idiot would make; I fail to see any justification for it. In any engagement lasting more than a minute, it is useless. Against more than like three space carp, it is useless. And, for the record, Barney carried a magnum revolver. I don't really think you're going to be 'incapacitating' with that.

That doesn't address my concern at all. The Aurora is in fact a high security research station so, as you said in real life security guards carry rifles or sub machine weapons, is presumably why they have an armory with as many weapons as they do. However. There is minimal difference between an assault rifle and, say, MP5 in this consideration. Yes, range, round size, damage, all these are important - but we're not talking about that. We're talking about the ability to reload. Do you know why security guards and SWAT members carry weapons that can reload? So they don't run out of goddamn bullets. I do not see a scenario ever where someone develops an energy weapon that is only capable of being recharged as specific stations because that would be completely and utterly useless in ANY combat scenario, including the ones you listed. Especially the ones you listed. And a gun that fucking reloads isn't even good technology; it should be the standard. Every single firearm attainable by a human being possesses the ability to reload. Why in the fuck would you design a weapon that CAN'T reload? Further, how in the hell is an antique pistol capable of regenerating rounds (the captain's pistol, like 200 years old) less advanced than a /replacable battery/. It's like trying to say a gun you manually reload is worse than a gun that generates it's own goddamn bullets. It makes no sense.

I can support this. It's sort of the idea of the station security force having the civilian/not full-auto version of weapons, while ERT has high-grade gear. I don't think this makes sense at all. Security guards in our current day and age can carry weapons from handguns to submachine guns capable of automatic fire; to say that suddenly in the future corporate security is provided with weapons so monumentally useless (energy weapons that don't recharge or can't be reloaded - srsly) is ridiculous. A weapon that is capable of being reloaded isn't something I'd considered 'high-grade'. It's what I'd consider 'normal'.

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Looks good enough to me; consider it approved, comrade cat.

Consider the application accepted. Have fun playing glorious kommunist kats.

Looks good to me; consider it accepted. Have a relic from the Great War.

Ana Issek alternatively,

I don't agree. Yes, you can compare Nar-Sie to Satanism but you forget that Satanists still use some of the same texts as Christians and Catholics do; and as such even though their perception is different the religion itself is still the root. Worshipping Nar-Sie might not make you want to bathe in blood but as a deity Nar-sie ostensibly has a religion - many, sure, but all that matters is at one point there was only one following before it branched. Branches of modern day Christianity still use a lot of rites and texts that their root religion does; this would be the same for Nar-Sie. It means this person would undoubtedly have knowledge of blood runes and sacrifices, which in turn provides them with illegitimate information about cult, and is against the rules. Blood runes and sacrifices are to Nar-Sie what Communion is to Christianity. Almost all offshoots of Christianity still adhere to Mass. The rites may be different, but their root is the same. Further, I'm of the opinion that allowing this will enable people to do dumb things. First we let non-cultists worship Nar-Sie, then we allow people to be permanatags without being antagonists; I don't think these are things that are okay or should be supported. This behavior should be punished on principle; it's a slippery slope. If you're going to make a rule, enforce it, don't go around it entirely by making crude exceptions to allow the worship of a blood god or the singularity or something equally dumb. Cult is a round like wizard. It is filled with magic and nonsensical shit that should not be validated in the IC universe; this is what you are attempting to do. Give substance and credibility to a round type that requires a heavy suspension of disbelief and insert it into normal lore, which I am wholeheartedly against.

I'm just going to say that progression in of itself isn't a good thing. Yes, going hidden might lead to less new players joining, but then you have to ask yourself the question do we /want/ every new player that joins? Baystation turned into the place it was today because of 'progression', wherein the population slowly weaned away from heavy RP as bad RPers and powergamers joined, driving away the people dedicated towards heavy RP. The admin staff were so afraid of your 'stagnation' that they bent over backwards to accommodate these new players and so the quality of the server and staff plummeted, turning it into the craphole it is today. Progression isn't inherently good. New people aren't inherently good. If stagnation means remaining heavy roleplay with a modicum of quality, I'd rather have stagnation than progression towards something less desirable.

You were banned because you continued to argue and rant in adminhelps even after being instructed at least three times to drop the issue. The barman was an off-duty security officer. You walked into an area with 3 weapons trained individuals; the barman aimed his weapon at you. You responded by firing at him with the intent to kill. This prompted the rest of security to pull their guns and shoot at you. And now rather than realize where you were wrong you come here to continue to argue about the situation that was quite clearly handled ICly; you went so far as to ghost almost immediately after the alteraction. I'm of the opinion this ban should stick.

It is literally realism for the sake of realism. It adds nothing but a few extra clicks and unwanted time in surgery and in medical; it will also rarely ever be a thing because of the frequency with which explosions happen; either it's a tiny ass blast and nothing happens or it vents the whole place and if you're close enough to get hurt you're going to die.

Realism for the sake of realism. No thanks.

Translation: 'People's Manifesto' All across the land, those who fight the fake government look to Adhomai's youth to use our strategic position in the midst of it all to join forces in the destruction of corporate greed. We know the lines have been drawn and glorious revolution has touched all of our lives. Our fathers knew that marches and protests would not accomplish anything; revolutionary violence was the only way. General Sash'tar taught us that revolutionaries move like hunters in the snow. The contempt and alienation that the new generation has for this government has created the snow for this revolution. The hundreds of thousands of young people who died fighting to free us from our masters grew to nigh uncountable numbers following the government's forced starvation of our populace. The insanity of 'post war' politics has added to its list of atrocities every male and female to die in the Highlands. We will stand for it no more. In fourteen days we will attack a symbol or institution of Adhomai's so-called 'freedom'. In this way we celebrate the efforts of those who came before and the way they've inspired us. There has been no question for a long time now—we will never go back.

Chameleon jumpsuit represents a significant security breach as rank is denoted and easily identifiable by uniform. Prancing about in the captain's jumpsuit or a CC suit is technically a crime akin to impersonating a police officer.

Medical talk aside, 230 is a ridiculously stupid, unbelievable number; you have to figure how this life span factors into daily life. If people live two centuries, then ostensibly education time and other things are upgraded to compensate; overall I simply find the notion ridiculous irregardless of how much medical hearsay you can drum up or throw at me. One fifty is far more reasonable.

Right, now that I actually have the power to wield the Staff of Cats, you can consider this application approved. Have a Tajaran.

I don't have the logs of PMs from the server, but from what I recall you said that the player had agitated you out of character and so you beheaded him. The problem here lies in the fact that you killed another player; this in of itself is unacceptable. Even if there is a roleplay reason, it is still against the rules. What a lot of people fail to realize - speaking in general - is that while you may have an RP reason to kill so and so or break whoever out of prison or blow whoever's head off with your pistol, that RP reason does not justify it. Had you adminhelped to tell us that your character wanted to kill this person, we may or may not have given you permission to do it. But you did so out of your own free will and seem to not find an issue with this behavior. Rather than try to apologize for it or see where you went wrong, you're trying to argue that you're in the right. It was only a day ban. As the banning staff, I'm of the opinion that it sticks entirely because the player shows no effort in trying to understand why they were wrong.

Only positive experiences from Kiwi thus far (especially with his Diona character, who is pretty funny when he tries to french lightbulbs), and while the character's backstory is a little snowflakey to me I won't hesitate to give this my seal of approval as Kitty Commander. +1 indeed.

With that in mind, your ban has been lifted. Thank you for coming to the forums to open dialogue, and have fun playing on the server again.

Please use the proper unban appeal format when making appeals. As far as the ban goes, you were part of a large brawl on the escape shuttle; the rules normally state that any sort of end-round fighting is bannable without warning. However, all parties were warned twice in OOC. I'd like to ask you to reread the rules again. So long as you realize that you made a mistake and that under no circumstances should you continue fighting on the shuttle (instead, adminhelp it and we'll deal with the players responsible) I don't have an issue with the ban being released.

There is a rule that states there should be no antagonistic actions as a non-antag. This does not cover small to medium crimes such as felony possession or distribution of narcotics but it does cover high crimes that do include basically everything that Lucy Sparks did in that scenario. Whether or not there was roleplay is irrelevant. Whether or not it was built up to is irrelevant. There is a line that should not be crossed. Don't cross it.

...We don't have... Avikskree. Further: As current Tajaran lore handler I am of the opinion that you have not demonstrated to me any knowledge whatsoever about the Tajaran species and I am extremely hesitant to support this application as a result; moreover, the recent behavior I've seen from you in OOC makes me question if I actually want to, and so this is where I stand. I do not want someone who cannot take the time to legitimately apply to have whitelist to Tajaran. Banking on what you've put here isn't enough for me.