Killerhurtz

In all seriousness though, janitors should have the option to be called custodians as well.

There's also the issue of having 'security' experts. Mods and admins take care of command whitelists because most of them are whitelisted, and command whitelistees are (in my eyes, at least) the lowest rung of server moderation. Lorewriters take care of race applications because they know it and wrote a good bunch of it. Who would pick up the mantle of security applications?

Yes - but it doesn't need to be pressurized with breathable air, only gas to avoid major eye and skin problems. Such a suit's helmet would be pressurized with the out-breathing of the person. For reference (I could be completely wrong, but this is how I see it - any loreperson feel free to correct me), this would be the cycle taken by air in a voidsuit: Tank>mask>lungs>helmet>vacuum Because remember, it's not a suit air recycler - there's a net input of gas, from the tank, and a net output of breathed air through controlled vents. It's easier to have a mouthpiece pressurized (at 24kPa, reminder) than a whole helmet. And last, mechanical pressure suits last I checked were NOT abandoned - MIT is still actively researching the Biosuit - the latest revisions have not a difficulty with comfort (which is less of an issue because gas-pressurized suits are HEAVY and unwieldy - I'm 90% certain they cannot use a normal screwdriver with one on) - it's maintaining proper pressure and the complex joints like the hands (which for now use a slightly larger, gas-inflated gloves that are still nothing like the suit tech that, I remind you, has been first designed in the 50s - they are still a lot thinner. In 2015. Since it is a lot lighter and a lot more agile, I can see it becoming the viable space suit of 2457. But I'm going to pull out of this thread. If you're going to antagonize me with such petty comments, I see no reason to stay. I still completely disapprove of this idea.

Meh - I see no discernible advantage to this. I don't know how easy it would be to implement, but for me, 95% of miner interaction with these titles will fall under one of these: -None because you're always down at the asteroid and so no one will really bother talking to you -"Mining Technician/Drill Technician/Shaft Technician? That sounds fancy. What do you do?" "I mine things and maintain the equipment to mine things." "So... you're a shaft miner?" "No, I'm X" "But it sounds just like a shaft miner, what ELSE do you do?" And so on. It's not like it's a technical field - for engineering, each field would require years' worth of study to completely master - electrical engineering is nothing like knowing the engine inside out, which is nothing like knowing how to maintain a space station which is nothing like knowing to build and maintain a station's atmospheric loop WHICH is nothing like a space station engineer who repairs major structural damage to a space station or expands one with the space given). Same goes for science - each field is it's own studies, and unless they're a RD most scientists would specialize in one branch. With a shaft miner, you need to know three things: how to wield a pickaxe (which isn't particularly hard), how to handle mining equipment (which I could see being done in a 24-week training seminar like modern heavy equipment, and knowing how to handle a mining exosuit which could be done in another seminar - it's not rocket science, there's no big underlying study. You don't need to understand thoroughly how your gear works - that's the job of engineers, roboticists and scientists. You just need to know how to use it.

Even then - there's three departments that I know can use Mining, and only one of them (provided they didn't build themselves an autolathe for convenience) can't provide cells. There's Science, the motherlode of all power cell productions. There's Engineering, which may or may not prove your point. And there's Cargo that can churn out basic power cells over and over - sure they run out twice as fast, but who cares when you got a dozen of them while the high-capacity one recharges? Plus if memory serves right, a high-capacity power cell lasts long enough to completely hollow two dig sites.

...I didn't even know that you could modify prosthetics, it's been a while. It makes it even less worthwhile, to me, to implement branded prosthetics - because no one will be able to tell at a glance, especially since a lot of them (and I've seen them, I know what you're talking about - the Hepaestus Industries one IS pretty nice) are very similar to what could be done with paint and such.

Also, you're sorta wrong. Miners use pickaxes all the time, because they're cheap and effective. Shaft machinists backed by multi-million companies don't use pickaxe - because they use strip-mining mega-drills - even larger than a Ripley would be. No real miner uses a hand-held drill.

To be honest, how often do you see prosthetics anyway? I'm fairly sure that of all the garments possible, there's only 2 which show the arm. So unless it's an easy, clean job, I'm against this.

Because as it happens, voidsuits are meant to keep pressure only. The way I see it, the only suit which should allow that is the actual space suit - otherwise, the way I understand it, the voidsuits (both softsuits and hardsuits) keep positive pressure not by gas, but by actual construction methods (like the NASA is trying to do). So it's not an inflated suit - it's a body-right reinforced garment. And that would be why the mask is necessary.

Scientists rare on Aurora? How long have you been playing for?

Eh - if you're drilling it's usually because Science is there, and if Science is there they can print you new power cells no problem.

On the flipside, if every sec officer behaved like Jim it would have been awesome - he was nice to all refugees, and hell he even extracted my character from the gassed room and told it to run and hide before the borg came and beat people up.

Yeah no, personally I blame 95% of the blame on the synthetics. The law strictly said control the flow of information - and from what I got, the team of synthetics understood it as "keep them either unconscious or dead". The other 5% I blame on the ERT because that shit was cray yo.

Yeah - there's three major 'orders' from Drones: infestation messages from Central, repairs/improvements done by scanning/knowing the station (wiring solars is a big one) and requests from the Drone console. Problem is that there's only a single place to request it from... Maybe if we added that option to the Requests panel?

I know that, Carver. But what I mean is that you're describing a base - a reference has the specifics we need - and Star Trek is not consistent across the series. So unless we are willing to settle on a single series which shows consistency, Star Trek is a base, not a reference.

>TFW people have no idea about Derringer

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I approve of this character and player. JBoy is one of the better players I've seen on. Love O'Harron.

I'm with Garnascus here, I didn't know you weren't whitelisted. SOMEONE GIVE THIS PERSON THE WHITELIST.

Because you are the main reason WHY it went wrong. I don't BLAME you, but I acknowledge that without your actions it would have went differently.

I love this. Plus it opens so many roleplay possibilities - while the official lore is that wizards are a group with highly advanced tech, I've seen people roleplay so many different things, from a retired captain from the future trying to help Aurora by selling wares until he gets pissed off, to a lost wanderer, to a trickster demigod, to an unemployed ex-birthday-entertainer that got lost on the way to the bar because they tried teleporting there. With actual clothing, we could go beyond that and say that they're from different stations which focus on different kind of research, or from different worlds in the multiverse and the shuttle got lost during bluespace transfer, and so on. I NEED THIS.

If you ask me, Star Trek is not a reference for sci-fi things. It's too inconsistent - and that's because, first things first, it's not a sci-fi show - it's an exploration slash diplomatic show. Most of you (and me) don't watch Star Trek to learn how everything works - we watch it because the characters are awesome and they're often in awesome situations. So far, the game that features technology the closest to Aurora, I'd say, is Mass Effect - replace Element Zero with plasma and replace the properties of element zero with bluespace, and I'm 90% sure that we have Aurora. The faxes/communications to Central use quantum relay IIRC, which is expensive - and so most comms are still radio-based (just like in Mass Effect). Only difference is that Aurora has viable laser weaponry (which was most likely just not developed in Mass Effect because element zero made it easy to have extremely potent ballistics). And so, it would make sense that the Holodeck followed the rules of Mass Effect holography - it's semi-tangible because of a holographic shell (see Pinnacle Station and Armax Arena) and can DEFINITELY kill because of that shell (like the final simulation of Pinnacle Station and the glitched sim of Armax Arena, where despite being in a visible holosimulation, when you die it's for real instead of the simulation shutting down when you're critical) - but erroneous data show as video fizz (I think the space carp already show that) and holographic projections literally cannot go past their projector because they'd disappear (just like putting a program window past the edge of a screen on PC). There's also intangible holograms if desired, and there's a third type of hologram that work only with specialized gloves or hand implants because they use magnetic resonance feedback. Thoughts?

OH GOD MY SIDES. It's just so relevant that NT would choose something as cheap as Hanes socks. But yeah - especially if they're department-flavored, I'm all for socks.

Shucks. Oh well. I'm going to assume that unless someone steps up to code, from scratch, a text entry box that doesn't invoke the basic Byond one it's out of the question then.