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I'd say that would make the most sense, as having a comically large chess set somewhere in maintenance is still kind of weird, and by putting it on the holodeck, it wouldn't be as out of place.

Yeah, I phrased that poorly. Wasn't suggesting you couldn't respawn as another character, just that I personally think the 20 minutes is longer than needed, but that is highly subjective of course.

I have never played a golem, but have walked into them a few times. The 'no lore' part is the biggest problem for me, as I feel that would warrant for everyone to freak out whenever they saw such an unexpected creature. I do however think that fun roles for people that died are very interesting. Leaving the golem for the Techno is not an example of that though, as the techno has a much more interesting apprentice character they can spawn in (if I understood the mechanics correctly). If it was up to me, I honestly feel that with proper roleplay and while adhering to the rules, the 'respawn' delay timer could be lowered. If someone dies, they can just respawn as a different character, which would have about as much influence on the round as when a different player had joined at that point in time.

I can't say I quite know how I would interpret the rules for a stationbound, so I can't say anything about the validity of this ban. What I can do is say that as a player coming back to the game, I have asked for FROST's help quite a few times, and I have never felt like they overstayed their welcome. As a clumsy engineer, sometimes the only engineer on shift, having FROST be available and willing to help (if they aren't busy doing something else) has been a lifesaver. On a few occasions they were in fact busy in their own department (when they weren't assigned to engineering) and in those cases they behaved as one would expect, and informed me they were unavailable. FROST never stood out in a bad way among the stationbounds, which I think I would have noticed, seeing as how my character is more comfortable around humans. Edit: I am very interested in seeing how this affects the rules, as I agree with both MattAtlas and AnselmKonrad that this rule might have to be clarified to prevent this problem in the future.

Just had a shift as my engineer with Vasiliy Trapeznikov as the HOP (who was the only command personnel). They managed to run into me right as I woke up, and instructed me to get to the reactor as the station was out of power. Later we had a good talk and I was given the needed permissions for my studies. All in all I would have assumed Vasiliy Trapeznikov had been an HOP for years already, so the trial surprised me. Definitely a +1 from me!