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DanseMacabre

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  1. I like this idea but I feel that the responses are proof enough that it's just one of those things that people are too skeptical of to completely accept, even if in practice I think the concerns being raised are extremely unlikely to ever come to pass. There are certain ideas on HRP servers that people seemingly can never stomach: canonicity where characters exist beyond just existing is one of them. The fact of the matter is that despite Aurora placing such a focus on canonicity, people are deeply concerned with the idea of characters ever being recognized in any way, and more than that people really do not like it if characters are given any form of treatment that isn't negative or the exact same form of attention being given to every other character. How often do you see people bragging about IC accomplishments of their characters in OOC, or even IC for that matter? How often do you actually see people bragging about how their characters died in events? Because to be frank, most people I see who lose characters in events are upset or completely happy to move on. Player and especially character turnover on Aurora is huge: characters simply do not last more than a few months typically, which means that there's very few people developing a strong enough attachment to their character in the first place to treat them as this OOC achievement to be paraded around. And here's the fact of the matter: if this seems exclusionary and intimidating to new players, the whole server will seem that way. If people are being turned off of Aurora because there's a rock somewhere with some names on it because of event arcs, they're going to be turned off by the fact there's hundreds of thousands of words on the wiki that they have to read to know about these arcs and the lore as a whole and that we have these event arcs constantly. Is the expectation that we're going to hide Aurora's past arcs and things from new players in order to not scare them off? Because if that's what we have to resort to, we have a serious problem, lol. I'd actually like to make the argument that showing a new player that their character *could* matter and that things that happen to their character *could* matter would be a huge draw for people. Anyway, it might seem like I'm trying to target a specific argument or someone's specific arguments, but at the end of the day I've been seeing this same sort of apprehension for as long as I've been playing HRP (It was so strong on Bay that they avoided canonicity completely in general for many many years). I think this is just how a lot of people naturally feel about this sort of thing, and too many people feel this way for it to ever be accepted on the server. For what it's worth, I think in practice nobody would actually care much. There might be a few rounds after event arcs where people go RP with the rock, but I think in the long term it'll just be a half-forgotten decoration, like Patience would be if it wasn't in your face 24/7. And that aside, I think concerns about a tonal shift are unfounded. There's a whole lot of things that are going to shift our tone before *that* does. Let me close with this: Not many people seem to remember this, but the Aurora had IC memorials to dead crew as a result of the serial killer arc. It included their names and how they were murdered by a serial killer. There were multiple memorials around the station. Do you know how often these memorials existing caused problems? Well, I can't be sure they didn't cause issues at any point as I only started playing here in 2019, but I can say that I never saw anything, and I haven't heard of anything happening either. And last Christmas we had an event where some characters were ICly given medals and high honors from the SCC, because of their actions during the Dreary Futures 2 finale event. This is supposedly the exact sort of situation everyone is worried about - characters getting recognized above other characters for their actions. And yet? I don't even think any of those characters still exist, a bit more than a year later, and when they did exist I sure never saw any problematic behavior like people worry about, IC or OOC.
  2. Hi, I was just wondering about how active you are on Aurora? You don't appear to be active in the discords or here on the forums. I haven't been on the server often recently myself so this could absolutely be a me problem, but I don't recognize any of your characters either. When would you say that you started participating in the community again and how much have you played since then? It also seems like the last time you were active was four years ago, please correct me if I'm wrong.
  3. Employee Name: Sohei Employee Rank: Investigator Date of Interaction: 2/3/2466 INTERACTION A: Airborne Purpose Synthetic, Unknown Designation INTERACTION B: Bipedal Purpose Synthetic, Unknown Designation
  4. https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/18235
  5. Ten thousand years of bad luck

    1. goolie

      goolie

      NOOOOO! STOP!

  6. The nature of the complaint is as I explained. You lied in a complaint about something that happened between us, insulted my personal character, and are misrepresenting a situation for your friend's benefit. I do not want what you posted to go unaddressed for obvious reasons with all of that in mind, and I was told the way to properly address your claims and provide my side of the story would be to make a player complaint. Ultimately, my point is this: your post is inappropriate for a staff complaint and I would like for that issue to be fixed.
  7. BYOND Key: DanseMacabre Game ID: N/A Player Byond Key/Character name: niennab Staff involved: Roostercat Reason for complaint: Niennab has made a post in a complaint about another community member, largely concerning an interpersonal conflict between myself and Nienna that the other community member was involved in. This post includes both insults levelled against me and lies misrepresenting our relationship and the situation that occurred. When I posted in that thread to provide my side of the story, my post was hidden while Nienna's was not, in spite of its highly subjective nature. As complaints are public, highly visible, and are archived when they're finally handled, I feel that it is important that I address Nienna's claims, and to do so I've made this player complaint. The following is the post I made in the aforementioned thread. Did you attempt to adminhelp the issue at the time? If so, what was the known action taken by administration/moderation?: Roostercat hid my post and told me to pursue a player complaint instead. Approximate Date/Time: 6PM EST 12/8/2023 A link to Nienna's post:
  8. You are a deputy loremaster. I am a player. This staff complaint isn't about me. You have both passively-aggressively and outright aggressively fired shots at me multiple times in the past and until recently you had me blocked, for reasons unclear to me - I don't know what you're trying to accomplish with this specific reply, but you're misrepresenting our relationship and you know it. Me congratulating you on getting deputy loremaster was out of politeness, and bears no relevancy to this complaint. I was very quick to make this complaint because this is a serious problem the server faces.
  9. BYOND Key: DanseMacabre Staff BYOND Key: Not sure, but the staffmember in question is Lavillastrangiato Game ID: N/A Reason for complaint: It was recently revealed in this thread that LVS, current deputy loremaster, created and owns a clique discord where certain Aurora players (and, though it hasn't been verified, potentially staffmembers) engage in toxic discourse in the same vein as many other clique discords Aurora has dealt with in the past. This complaint is levelled specifically against LVS and potentially any staffmember active in this discord. These private discords are a plague on Aurora and are a significant problem for this community, and for a member of the staff team to be responsible for this discord existing and operating as it does is utterly unacceptable. Evidence/logs/etc: Additional remarks: None
  10. I’m a big fan of Campin’s app and of Campin as an applicant (and community member, for that matter), and I’m going to just say that he’s getting my +1 straight off the rip. I may drop back in with some questions later, but here’s one for now: What are some of your favorite planets and least favorite planets in human lore? Why, and what would you do to improve the ones you dislike?
  11. I am going to open by quoting my post from the thread already linked here. In your case, your conduct is many, many times worse than that of the person this is referring to. You are by far one of the most toxic members of "The Based Department". I at first thought that I ought to post all of the nasty shit that you've said about the staff team, and other players, but then I realized that I would need to link quite literally many dozens or even hundreds of screenshots to do that. Instead, I've decided to compile some of your most choice remarks - but one thing in particular I wanted to do is get every time you directly insulted the human lore team. Not even whenever you insulted it by responding to your similarly toxic and vindictive friends, not even when you insult the lore team as a whole or other teams in particular, just the insults that you levelled against the very team you're trying to join. Unfortunately these are all quite old, but the "good" news is that the human lore team has been largely consistent in composition over the years. That means the very people you were insulting are still the people on that team. Like I said, if I was to post every single hateful, spiteful, vindictive thing you've said in these logs, I'd have to take a week to sift through them and it'd need multiple posts in this thread just to get it all down in an organized manner. I also have no doubts that I missed a whole lot, seeing as I only took an hour or so to look. The point is that you hate the people that you're trying to join up with. You call them fascists, you denigrate their intelligence and their writing ability, and yet YOU want to be on the human lore team? I can't even imagine why, except that I suspect bad faith has a big part to play here. You are the opposite of what this server needs, let alone what the staff or lore team needs. If you said these things in an official discord, you would have been permanently and unappealably banned from the server by now - I have no doubts about that. I can only imagine what you said in DMs or in whatever clique discord you're in now. I expect nothing good. I'd tell you to try and grow and change as a person for the better, but I expect that'll fall on deaf ears here. You seem very comfortable with how you act and very set on your worldview, unfortunately.
  12. Melariara will be running the manifest going forward
  13. I think the version without the clasp absolutely looks better
  14. It seems like this PR doesn't change the armor values of everything to compensate. This means armor will be functionally useless.
  15. A lot of people don't treat Goolies entirely seriously, but I think that's a mistake and I mean this wholly unironically and without even an ounce of jest: Goolies is absolutely one of Aurora's best roleplayers. He's in a league of his own and I think very few people are on his level. I have no doubts that he'll play a Vaurca well.
  16. Your involvement in the discord - either solely in the past or continuing into the present (regrettably, I no longer have access to it) - known as "The Based Department", which was and potentially still is a toxic, vindictive cesspool of embittered players and ex-players, where you and your friends behind the backs of the server as a whole mocked staff, mocked players, and mocked characters you didn't like totally precludes your suitability as a prospective member of the staff team, let alone as a server moderator. You have no place on the moderation team - not only because of your hostile attitudes towards both the server's players and against even members of staff you're supposed to be working with, but because being a moderator would allow you to act upon and target the individuals you mocked in private. The following screenshots are from just a few days' worth of logs. Mocking players: Mocking characters: Mocking staff: As a bonus, metagaming: Unfortunately, all of these are several months old. But I feel they're recent enough and substantial enough that it should prove you do not have the right mindset or the right personality to be a server moderator. Also, again, this is just a few days' worth of messages. You have thousands more in there. I cannot even be sure that you have not said or done things much, much worse than this, because I only picked out the most recent messages over the course of a thirty minute period. I am sure that if I kept looking, I could find a lot of stuff. And there is almost certainly a lot more I don't have access to, if this discord still exists and you are still a member. All I'll say is that I hope you don't have an ulterior motive for applying for moderator, but I don't think either way you can be trusted with the position. I recommend you evaluate your actions, reconsider how you interact with Aurora and the community as a whole, and most of all? Look at the people you hang out with (Hello! I know you guys are looking at this too.), and really examine the people in your clique. Finally, a disclaimer:
  17. We could use the Solarian cruiser @WickedCybs mapped for Dreary Futures 2. I plan on making it into an away site as well, but it can be used for these events too.
  18. It's pretty straightforward. Once a month at the most, we should have a canon event that takes place in virtual reality, wherein the Horizon is pitted up against a hostile ship. It would be relatively easy to run (you only need 3~ volunteers to play the enemy crew, though more makes it easier), and it would allow the playerbase to actually get an understanding for how ship-to-ship combat works. The fact of the matter is that ship-to-ship combat, for better or worse, is largely relegated to canon events, extremely infrequent scuffles between the Horizon and a third party ship, or still infrequent fights between non-Horizon ships. This means that very few people actually have a feel for ship-to-ship combat, which creates a problem when ship to ship combat is actually used for an event or it comes up naturally ingame. The few times where ship to ship combat has occurred, the Horizon has struggled to be effective, largely due to inexperience. This is essentially the only way to increase the frequency of ship to ship combat that I am aware of. I have been told that a hostile third party ship will not be allowed until the dynamic gamemode is implemented, and it seems like dynamic is still a long ways off, if it isn't shelved for the time being, and that an overmap-capable mercenary shuttle isn't something that's guaranteed to be added at all, even if PR'd.
  19. Lain/TheBurninSherman would be an excellent addition to the moderation team. On top of being a great roleplayer with a great variety of well-developed characters, I think they've proven to be a level-headed and capable staffer in the first place based off of my interactions with them as a member of the lore team. They have my whole-hearted +1.
  20. No. Antagonists are not there to antagonize each other, they are there to antagonize the crew and drive the narrative in an interesting direction/tell an interesting story. I would much rather we outright remove Tower Defense (which I do not want us to do, mind you) than gimp it by turning into an antag vs. antag gamemode. The crew has won tower defense rounds before, even with all the antagonists against them. It's not impossible.
  21. I am pretty late to the party here, but I wanted to throw my hat in the ring and say that I think Faye's the candidate I think is best suited for the synthetic deputy slot at present. They have the tools for the job and the passion to match. My only real reservation is that I think the Trinary Perfection doesn't really need much attention right now, and in fact I'm not too hot on how it is written fundamentally at present - but ultimately that's a personal preference, and doesn't reflect negatively on Faye as a candidate. I am hopeful that Faye ends up being picked for the slot.
  22. Lore Impact (Small/Medium/Large): Very Small Species: Human, Synth Short Description: Konyang is a planet with three principal national origin points: Korea, China, and Japan. The cities on Konyang reflect this for the two former countries, but not the latter: No city on Konyang has a Japanese name. While this isn't ultimately a big deal, I do nonetheless think it's odd that Konyang has a city with an English name while lacking a city with a Japanese name. This suggestion seeks to rectify this by renaming Point Verdant to "Shinryoku", a word that google assures me is similar to "Verdant" in English. To prevent confusion, "Point Verdant" will remain as an alternate name for the city. How will this be reflected on-station?: The city of Point Verdant on Konyang will instead be known as Shinryoku Does this addition do anything not achieved by what already exists?: Yes. Do you understand that the project may change over time in ways you may not foresee once it is handed over to the Lore Team?: Yes. Long Description: Here is what I would recommend changing the entry on the wiki for Point Verdant to:
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