WaterPumpJohnny

Ah, alright- even if it was pessimistic, I'd be unoffended.

Thanks! It is hard to play a CONSISTENT character while also balancing another thousand things.

Thanks- the autopsy thing was kind of contextual, playing Dominian HoS really IS a fine line between just ruining the round for your synthetic sec and playing dominian just for the cape. Appreciate the feedback. I've seen a lot of the time that I miss/ignore certain messages or don't provide enough locational data, so I'll definitely work on that.

As some have pointed out and as I have deduced, I think a large majority of my criticism is sourced around the fact that I am playing HoS during my trial: quite frankly, I don't think most of the qualms are with my RP, but more that I'm still adjusting to HoS as a role- I understand the criticism and I'm prepared to learn from it, but I think this should be taken into consideration.

Hi, I'm gonna say that the >Going off alone, Your HoS tended to do things alot just by themselves, they ran into maints with nothing but a disruptor chasing after Ninja's, with no backup, they negotiated without telling anyone what was happening, and in a merc round I had with you, you essentially completed ignore the gimmick and tried to do your own thing. It can get incredibly frustrating as a subordinate to command when they're off doing things but won't tell you what, or won't involve you.< is completely wrong... I did not "completely ignore" the gimmick. And I did not "chase the ninja with no backup," it was more a panic thing (the disruptor) because literally I shit you not in the lobby they grabbed the prisoner (who they were trying to rescue, at the time I thought kidnap) from the hands of the other 2 officers as the officers kind of just stood there and watched. Idk. I understand what you're saying but I feel like you've misjudged it a lot here. ALSO. I had the bluespace inhibitor turned on and had barriers setup at the maint airlocks. (RP-wise it'd make sense that an inhibitor would work, no?) my character is also a dominian noble associated with House Strelitz, which is in part why he gave a bit of leeway to the Zavodski liason, and why he was so foolhardy with the IPCs. I understand what you're saying and think your feedback is valid, but I do have to disagree with part of it. Besides, I think it's very boring to have security characters be *perfect* and constantly do the exact correct approach. I could do that, I assure you, but I think it'd make the rounds and character a lot more flat. Part of it is giving antags leeway, as I appreciate you acknowledging. ++, security is ALWAYS the most staffed department, and command constantly get on your ass if you don't constantly update them: this, and security should have some self-sufficiency. I feel like it'd be nice to have some leeway in that regards in terms of ooc whitelist consideration. It's a LOT harder than, say, being the Chief Medical Officer- it isn't like you're constantly expected to report everyone who comes in for triage, not to say CMO isn't hell in its own regard. LAST THING- I made it very clear why we were holding the scientist before. You also have to understand, again, that I have to repeat EVERYTHING over command channel or I get shat on for it. It was because we suspected him of busting into the vault and also because two, y'know, cloaked IPCs were chasing after him. I know this is long winded lmao

Hi can I have some examples of this? + it isn't easy to gain "operational and leadership knowledge" if you cannot play the role, thus, I feel it is a little bit unfair to judge ENTIRELY based off of that- I do get what you're saying but still

I was here for this Ling round, was hilarious to watch and I took Dayo's side in wanting to destroy the ling seeing it kill a surgeon and come back from the dead- gotta say, nice to finally have an RD who does not senselessly point at everything and go "IT COULD BE STUDIED" (though I'll say that he also didn't go full validhunt mode). Overall, seems like a good character to my interactions. +1

-1 Shirin Abbasi overpowered +1, Faye seems fine oocly and I enjoy interacting with them ingame. Pretty sure this mirrors most other feedbacks anyway, but hey.

This is terrifyingly elaborate

This is wrong on nearly every account. 1. I did not sign over the station. I think what you're saying here is, "You did not arrest/kill the antagonist, thus you failed." I had secured both the hostages, and had no other choice but to leave him for transfer- he was secured well and the round was coming to an end. 2. We had MANY antagonists, including a rogue security IPC, some whacko teleporting around and hiding said AA ids around while also strolling around in a mech 3. Janitor traitor lubing every hallway and leading us on a goose chase 4. Said hostage taker had previously murdered an assistant, and was clearly very willing to execute the hostages. On an IC basis, was I in the wrong? Surely, for prioritizing two miners over the station's security. But no I did not "sign over the station" and he was stranded there by all means, so I informed odin-sec about him, and asked for faxes to be written several times. Considering all this, I think you are being needlessly harsh on an ooc level on how I handled several utterly insane situations. I informed you of the hostage situation with every update. You were the Chief Medical Officer and thus had no real firsthand account of what happened that round from a security perspective. I believe this feedback holds no weight on me as a player or a head of staff.

On this note, I very much understand that: I've played bay head of staff which was infinitely more annoying, and I like leadership roles in ss13

I think I've misspoken- well, mistyped, whatever. I DO NOT believe that antagonizing is limited to fire and brimstone nor is it good antagonizing. I try not to kill people and instead engage them in roleplay, and if I do I make it a spectacle. I feel like I often get villainized for this stuff. I don't mind if people kill me myself and maybe I impose that onto others, I understand that. An example of the > I've seen good antags that were both working with the station and against it.> was during the bug hunt round like, 2 weeks ago, I came up with a gimmick of religious inquisitors (basically) who used slightly foolish methods but still knew what they are, but did ridiculous stuff like forcing crew to jump to test if they had their motor functions, and we gave the borers a better chance by saying bodyscans were ineffective- it even escalated to conflict with security and my suicide as the leader because we attempted to kill a borer'd crew member near end of round. I heard no complaints about that gimmick or round except from one person who was hesitant at first but I think warmed up to it, and another who didn't like the human only nature (we were solarians, kind of an independent agency if that makes sense) but he gave up merc and there was no problems there. Anyway I should really sleep now I'm a dipshit

That WAS NOT me, you've clearly mistaken me for someone else- I've only had two merc rounds, bughunt mercs and zavodski mercs, and I don't think either fit in here

Again: Where is ANY example? It's just a bandwagon

Uh hey that's a really brazen statement with a lot of venom mixed in there. Can I have a few examples? And I don't need to be "accustomed to HRP", I've played it for years. And I don't remember "memey villainy" either. Antagonists are meant to antagonize.

Update: Back on PC

For the record: I won't be at my pc or playing aurora for like, the next week. I can still respond to the forums and discord tho.

Bump

I will defend my behavior during the merc round: First, I wasn't 100% acquainted with merc, and I just turned on my antag prefs by force of habit- now, I do admit this was a blunder- but my character was also to counter (what I assume was) yours, the Specialist, who was deadset on negotiating peace even after it was clearly not an option. Mercenaries are meant to create conflict. We had stalled for over an hour trying to come up with a gimmick. The ending wouldn't have happened if I played a generic character. I was also not entirely a bloodthirsty maniac: I never made the first move, unless you count threatening statements in response to less threatening statements as attack. I interacted with many crew members, and even spared the investigator after he refused to surrender (he surrendered after I beat him up with my nerf sword/esword) taking him to medbay. I think that round NEEDED some action on that scale. However, I'll take your criticism- some of it's valid in my eyes, some of it's debatable. Thanks regardless.

Easy +1, though I'm sure my opinion is worthless here. From my limited interactions with him, spanning from a few rounds, he's been a great player who's indulged my Tribunal priest roleplay as a Dominian seccie while also having a unique and believable character. I don't know what else to add.

Not denying it.

There's a noble Dominian cloak, contrary to my original assumption: so I'm going to just retract this, idiocy on my part lol

I understand where you're coming from, but my counterargument is that that wasn't really me playing here seriously- it was more me a year ago joining with the intent to join with a joke character and get banned. It wasn't really reflective of how I actually play the game- besides, imo nothing will change over a long period of time- if I was a shitter, I'd just be a shitter as warden or sec officer or whatever rather than writing a serious application to be a shitter as a head of staff role. And if I am, in fact, a shitter (I don't really consider myself to be but that's a matter of personal opinion I guess) then the whitelist can be revoked just as quickly as it was granted.

It turns out I might be stupid- it seems like such cloaks do already exist, but I don't know if they're actually attachments worn on a uniform or outerwear. Gonna leave this up until someone with more braincells can clarify.