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Personally as a sec main I'm largely unopposed to the changes as they were laid out here. I don't have any strong feelings one way or the other. I will say that I am very disappointed that a cadet is being removed in order to keep the manpower status quo - I think we'd be better off nixing the general officer. Alternatively, merging GO and warden - though that might run us into situations where the GO arms themselves. As it is, warden is a bit of a gimp role. Anyway, I view GO as a slot that adds nothing to the game except being a manpower buff to sec (An officer will always be better armed and regarded than a cadet, pure numbers aside.), and as a slot for the antisocial.

I call this one "attack of the clones"

An interesting statistic, but I'm not sure how accurate it is. What percentage of those rounds take place during our dead hours?

As the head of the Pro-Extended Agenda, I heavily support any initiative to increase how common it is

Fair enough.

I heavily feel like the above is a matter of taste. I think the new terminal sprites are fantastic. The teal aspect of it is cool and refreshing, and the consistent visual style between each type of terminal is good. Old terminals were dull and easily missed, these grab your attention and look good while they do it. As far as "It looks like a military ship and not a corporate vessel", I don't see the point of this argument. Why should corporate research stations look bright? Why should military vessels be dark? Furthermore, pound for pound the Aurora is more industrial than it is not. Supply, sec, engineering, etc all exist, after all. Furthermore, I don't understand the "bland" thing. They have more detail than the previous sprites by a long shot.

All in all I think this is pretty much perfect as is, with the exception of white and green tiles - which look too weird. The whites need to be brighter and more white, and the greens paler and more pastel. Atm green is a somewhat desaturated olive. 300% improvement over what we had before, but we can still make things better and replace other sprites to fix the new art style.

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At first I was skeptical but after evaluating your post and what we know about The Old Guy from The Outer Worlds, I can't help but think you're right. The Aurorastation-Obsidian conspiracy needs to be uncovered and made aware to the public at large, to prevent Obsidian from stealing any characters from Aurorastation ever again. I suspect the headmins may be funneling character information directly to Obsidian, and they must be on their payroll. Stay woke.

Virology doesn't currently bring much to the table, and either needs a complete rework or to be nuked completely. It feels like it exists to send three people to medbay for them to AFK in quarantine every once in a while.

I support this as the stun baton is a blatant half life reference and I refuse to tolerate its continued existence

hard concur

I fail to see what people mean by potential. Could someone describe to me what wizard actually brings to the table? I have never, in my six years of playing SS13, experienced a wizard round where I walked away feeling like I didn't waste 2+ hours of my life. First off, wizard's tone is abominably unfitting. Someone will say "But we have other magical gamemodes!", and my counterpoint is that our other magical gamemodes are a lot darker in tone. Cult, vampire, whatever - they're not jovial blue men in robes. Do you compare Vampire: The Masquerade or Darkest Dungeon to Wizard 101 or Harry Potter? The best example of how out of place wizard feels is to bring up The Wizard Federation, which is an entity some wizards love to reference. I don't know why wizards have a nation-state, but apparently they do. As far as gamemode and gimmick variety is concerned - All you have are your spells. You could do some gimmick involving recruiting people to be wizards as well, but if anything this is just another example of how wizard is an LRP gamemode - Who aboard our high-tech research station, in their right mind, would sign a magical contract and start gallivanting around in bright blue robes while declaring themselves apprentices of the Great and Powerful Jhon Jhonson The Black? Furthermore, if wizards DO have some fascinating RP-stimulating potential I'm incapable of seeing, it still means nothing. You know why? Because nobody ever uses it. Having "potential" that is just wasted by every single wizard player is not enough of a reason to keep a nonsense gamemode in. As far as I'm concerned, having wasted potential is a reason to remove it in the first place - it's wasted for a reason, typically. Wizard is a gamemode that is only fun for the person playing wizard, the vast majority of the time. I understand people are afraid of losing variety, but let me give you an analogy: You're in elementary school again, and the school rotates five different meals for lunch. Four of these meals are good. The fifth is a pile of literal dogshit. Would we be depriving the school lunch menu of variety by removing the dogshit from the menu? Yes, we would.

Why does the vent spinning matter?

Necroing this because it recently happened to me. I was ERT lead and sent a message at the CC z-level, only to end up thinking it didn't go through at all.

Gonna have to agree with Geeves here. The current holopad looks strangely out of place - it has odd shading compared to the other things we see on the floor. The vent being the wrong way is very ??? to me - Don't know why it was necessary to point that out. Scrubbers are better, again, shading fits in better. Regarding the walls - I don't at all see what you mean, they use the same perspective as our current walls. All in all, this PR brings Aurora something that it is lacking quite badly at the moment - a consistent, unique visual style.

I prefer Wezzy's sprite

As my archnemesis Geeves apparently approves of the sprites I found, I am afraid to say that I must close the PR and recommend these sprites be deleted from the repos I acquired them from. I apologize for this, but it's for the greater good.

Extremely good, I predict that this will be one of the best PRs to come out for Aurora this year

For future reference, you can see the diffs in the PR itself. Current soda machine: New soda machine: Current grille: New grille: Current stool: New stool:

https://wiki.aurorastation.org/index.php?title=Nanotrasen_Corporation#Stations.2C_Merchant_Fleet_and_the_Fleet_Security_Force The purpose of this thread is to point out an irregularity/oversight in NanoTrasen's lore. While I have no issue with NanoTrasen having a private military, the issue comes from how it's being presented. Notice how NanoTrasen's Asset Protection - a force that's probably more capable that Biesel's own military - is called "Asset Protection" and not the "NanoTrasen Marine Corps"? There's a certain style that comes with corporate private militaries, and PMCs in general. Corpspeak extends to them, the militaristic side of things blending with corporate terminology. PMCs don't call themselves "The Martian Light Infantry Unit" or "The Biesel Mechanized Infantry Division" - they call themselves "Ringspire Inc." or "Academi". So why is NanoTrasen's private fleet called the "NanoTrasen Navy"? Why is their ship designation for security vessels "NMV"? It's incongruent with the rest of the setting. Corporations are powerful in this setting - but the focus is on soft power, influence as opposed to outright action. There's a reason why Tau Ceti is run by the Republic of Biesel, and not the NanoTrasen Colonial Organization. Anyway. All I'm saying is that this section of the article needs a rework. Change the name of the NT fleet arm to something more PMC, less "We, the Megacorporation, are sending the McNavy".

https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/8422 Swaps out some ancient/ugly sprites for some nicer/less ancient sprites.

Massive improvement over what we have currently