greenjoe

So this was talked about on Discord, what would be useful would be a command whitelist only relay channel for command staff to use ICly, and a command whitelist only OOC channel for discussing confidential things, such as these

This has been implemented in https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/18279

It was more then one Canon borging, but yes they are rare

Does the toggle Job clothing button not work?

I believe it can be made so languages can't be spoken by certain species Could sinta'unathi be made unspeakable by humans so the idea of a load out book for it could then work?

engineers have access to the leviathan, which is another super sensitive piece of equipment with all sorts of waivers and NDAs and stuff.

I wonder if sol consulars did return, if they would be more heavily scrutinzed and watched icly at first, with more restrictions Maybe forbidden from carrying a weapon unlike other consular as one thing

There's a system on CM for moving up/down those platforms, perhaps that can be ported

The left consular office also seems to lack a disposals, while the right one has one

perhaps move the firelocks to the bottom of the stairs, to allow the windows to be moved over one tile, so they match with the office on the other side either that, OR move these windows to the left by one, which would also make it match.

Sadly may not always be command around In which case no sensors for you, person can't be found

I wonder if that is even intentional, it says about having a limited battery life but it randomly shutting off seems like a bug.

So the carpeted end of one consular office is at the opposite side of the room compared the the other

Perhaps mirror the layout of one consular office like how the liason offices are mirrored?

this may be able to be done if nebula's system of them was ported, that apprantly has the sensors as a physical item, and that could be only given to some jobs

agreed, this being merged without a feedback thread is not good, should be changed back. either that or generalcamo said of a system nebula has, which makes suit sensors into an item that can be attached to any clothing.

Another month has passed, is there news on this?

maybe some sort of... assembly hall? stage for captain or whoever to make speeches from, area with seating

Seems pretty cool! one idea I have is putting a railing along here to make the XO line into more of a lining up area. the other idea was for two corp reps as well as consulars, though I don't know where the second office could go, unless the corpreps shared, which is more feasable then consulars sharing. Perhaps curtains to close off the halves if needed?

Hepth being the only option for tajara means that anti-hept tajara, kinda just... can't be in engineering without betrayal Himean tajara for example, just can't be in engineering without being marked for treason Operations had the same issue during the planning of the NBT, prior to Orion being added

So there have been issues in the past of never-seen captains sometimes showing in events before, blocking out a better known captain character who is actually active from showing up. Reserved important roles for events would help solve this. When the event is announced, there would also be a way to contact event staff to reserve the role, likely also with a check to see if the character in question is actually a command member who has been seen before and nor just a "event only" one, as they are sometimes known as. With aurora having a command whitelist. This would be a good incentive against going against the reserved role and trying to join anyway, as the whitelist holder could lose it for such a thing. I'm unsure how much outside of the command roles would be reservable, consular and liason too perhaps?

So there was an idea on the Discord for tractor beams, I thought I'd write up a bit of an idea on the things they could do. Collect crates/cargo launched by a mass driver from another ship. This launched cargo would show on the overmap, allowing it to be intercepted (AKA, stolen) by another vessel with a tractor beam. Drag in small asteroids to be mined. These would of course have far less to harvest from compared to the large asteroids shuttles can fly to, but would be safer. Drag in parts of wrecks to be salvaged. This would be similar to asteroids, but it would pull in a random wrecked shuttle/chunk of ship map wreck, which could then be salvaged from. Slow down other ships. This could be used to stop ships that are adrift. It could easily be overpowered by a ship that is still being controlled, but for one that is not piloted and is flying out of control, could be brought to a halt that way. It could also be used to bring ships with their thrusters destroyed to a halt for a boarding party to attack. I imagine the tractor beam on the Horizon would be controlled by Operations, bringing any pulled in asteroids/salvage/cargo onto a special pad. This could then be mined/salvaged/the cargo brought off the pad, before the rest is jettisoned, and removed from the game (with things in place similar to the cargo shuttle to stop living mobs getting deleted) The way it could work could be that there are the small asteroids/wrecks on the overmap, which are targeted by the tractor beam console, similar to ship weapons, and pulled in.