Garnascus

ill take a look at this at work tomorrow.

still waiting for a response to what i posted btw.

strait jackets are worse than EMP grenades from the bridge to be honest. i would support offering a way to resist out of them. As it stands i remove them from vampires and changelings for pretty much any reason.

medical is pretty cramped. Its the only thing i do not like so far. that and having a 2nd DAMAGED operating theatre is pretty silly. Two ORs are absolutely essential for high action rounds. I am worried this is going to create a huge and frustrating bottleneck during combat heavy rounds.

Gonna do a little bit of digging on this. Initial opinion is that alberyk really should have just spawned you some phoron. It has always been my belief that we have a vested interest in offering a little help to antags. the key word here is "little" of course. Help that can manifest in ways such as offering wizards a do over on their spellbook choice, teleporting mercs who get lost in space and yes spawning a cooler for IPC operatives. alberyk is technically correct when he says that you knew the risks when you chose to play as a vaurca operative. however i think a helping hand is a much healthier option to further the narrative of the round.

As xander has requested that their notes be posted i will do that now. Please keep in mind this is not intended to become an argument over X note at Y time because of Z circumstances. Notes are not up for debate. they are documentation for when a staff member speaks with you. They will be in three parts now. This is the first page with notes about 2-3 months before your first permaban. This is the second page with both permabans listed. This is the PM i sent to you following the final permaban. It is the reasoning for it. it details the post you made directed toward one of our admins "jennalele" and the initial post "serveris" made to you on the first permaban thread. I think a pattern here is quite obvious. Your attitude has always had its less than savory elements to it but the past few months before your permaban was nothing short of deplorable. You took every opportunity you could to decry this server's "obvious" failings in OOC chat. You targeted staff and players actions you personally did not agree with. this was not just civil disagreement. Ive gotten into spats with players more than once in OOC, a little passion here and their isnt wrong. You took it much further however. You filled my discord inbox with multiple novels of how awful the server was and how far our "roleplay standards" have dropped and of course how shadow and myself are driving aurora into an early grave. You handle criticism as well as a shotgun handles surgery . Despite the mountain of evidence against you i still want to give you a chance. I have never subscribed to an arbitrary limit on appeals. That is to say i look at each case on its own. I am interested in if a player has changed or not. Occasionally this gets me into trouble but despite the potential for getting burned i remain optimistic. I want to be 100% clear here that even IF i accept that staff where forming some sort of cabal to target you and get you banned you STILL exhibited consistent behavior that would have gotten you booted far quicker on any other server. So then with that all being said i want you to honestly explain to me why i should give you another chance.

Great, dont do that shit again and this is as far as it goes. You posted an image of a sexualized child and you only got a warning out of it. I am honestly kinda surprised thats all tish did. I do not see any reason to modify the warning in any way.

yeah this is incredibly old. I will go ahead and lift this. Follow the rules and have fun and everything will be great.

The discussion appears to have been fruitful. I shall lock and archive this upon bygone's request.

good enough for me! ban lifted.

I think it would help if we had nikov's point of view. i will try to get him to post.

I'm going to counter that by quoting a statement I've been given by Garnascus in the past: I either mispoke or i said that before i changed my mind on that stance. I am not sure which but i do know we do fix damage and death from cases of grief. I will be pretty liberal in retconning mistakes of certain situations. Such as xenobiologists getting eaten or a toxins researcher opening a plasma valve. Anyway onto the actual complaint. I really feel like this situation is all IC. It is a little unreasonable to expect all non-sec to never fight you unless you are both locked in a room or something. Plus those logs are pretty remarkable, the CE got turned into hamburger meat for it /shrug .

Bran, you're not a bad guy. what you are though is a rager, and a consistent one at that. We have had this conversation with you so many times. You get straight up nasty in OOC or LOOC when things go awry. That is straight up not acceptable. You have netted notes, warnings, bans and heavier bans for this exact behavior. you just have not learned. why should we unban you when you've been given so many chances?

its dumb as hell. Either the company is letting people come aboard with boot knives or half the crew is smuggling them on. Both scenarios are equally silly.

Attempting an argument based on "this isnt TECHNICALLY" against the rules" is never going to get you far. While we rely on the server rules as a first resort there are sometimes situations not covered by them that go against the spirit. This is not one of those situations. I have confirmation from skull and the developer team that since this mechanic is in its early stages they did not go crazy with code changes. there are currently three issues they are working on solving with it, this is one of them and we simply expect people not to abuse it. You abused it and then you bragged about abusing it.... Come on man...

Due to Kaed's most recent post here i believe this complaint has been adequately responded to. I will lock and archive it within 24 hours.

Locking and archiving.

I kinda agree with frank to be honest. it also doesnt help that there is an endless supply of them if you keep summoning cult zombies. when a cult zombie is summoned he always spawns with a talisman with all of its uses. So you have a never ending wave of zombies that do not go into pain-crit who just have to hit you once with that talisman and you're fucked. That is a strategy that relies on just having one guy hide away somewhere with a rune network to send in zombies. I feel like its a little too strong. In almost every other situation though they are great. Perfect for when you want to kidnap someone and forcefully bring them into the cult. they quickly spiral out of control under certain conditions though.

The blob changes taught me that there is something to be said for the player base needing time to adapt strategies. Although my initial thoughts on the pylons are something along the lines "wtf thats OP" i still think baby steps should be taken in nerfing them. At the very least hitting you from off your screen needs to go. I think once they are properly balanced they will be amazing. Cultists building spooky "no sec allowed" clubs in maint is a personal dream of mine.

Ban is indeed about two years old. The banning administrator is also no longer on staff so i will take care of this. I will go ahead and lift it.

yeah, i agree with sue. i think we can create a standard we expect from cloned players and then enforce it.

i have always disliked cloning. Used to be people expected antags to gift wrap corpses and hand deliver them to cloning. Anything less and they would send an ahelp. I was not a fan of the entitlement then. I wish people could understand that a good round or story will sometimes call for them to die and stay dead. Unfortunately, cloning is a little bit too easy. currently all that is needed is for a halfway decent doctor to stick you in the pod and press clone, then a dip in cryo and you're all set. Maybe if you're unlucky you will get a genetic defect that the chemist can fix. sure it can take a little while to get cloned, upwards of 20 minutes in extreme cases. This however allows you to get right back to doing what you where doing. There is currently nothing within the rules or CMD that states that you suddenly become a lot worse at your job. The worst example of this is security. In high action rounds this can turn medbay into a revolving door of clone troopers. They die, get cloned and then are right back at it chasing down the antags. I do not think that is fair and its why i have always held the policy of "i dont care what you do to a corpse to prevent cloning". That policy of course assumes you arent ganking or breaking any other rules when you kill someone. In which case you're in trouble anyway. This is i think the easiest way to go about this and the best way to go about this.

Sorry cool. i dont really find much issue with how this whole thing went down. You committed grand theft and infiltration at MINIMUM and once you started morphing people into other animals...you kinda made yourself "valid". We do not enforce a certain way for people to play once they are polymorphed so its completely reasonable for them to keep attacking you. That is all i think needs to be said unless i am missing something here?

I will take a more thorough look at this tomorrow, just been a bit busy. My initial thoughts are that based upon you being an intruder aboard the station who had at the very least committed grand theft i do not think it was out of line to attack you. Them being turned into animals does not suddenly make them passive towards you.

I reckon we will end up with a lot more three hour rounds if this change goes through, but if people are having fun is that an issue? The points in the OP are excellent and after considering it for a bit i am inclined to support it. Especially on the basis of "observers do not get to vote". The only nagging feeling i have is how the server will deal with more rounds that go longer. That is all based on my assumption that could of course be wrong though.