Arbiter_Ambrose

Batra and their character Eliza are always great to interact with! I think they are very suited for the whitelist!

That is the point, evil purposes, yes. It is a alleyway for antags to do evil things, or more rarely, brillant good ideas like a grenade that gives healing chemicals to your lungs.

The destructive analyser needs to be closer to the main science stuff, since it connects to the console I believe, not that it wouldn't work, I just think it might work out a bit better.. is this all of science you have touched?

Because both chemistry areas have this, I don't personally see any reason to remove it, they are occasionally useful I assume.

I believe the removal of it is both planetary fires, and realism which is essentially lore yea as after all it is a bit silly to have Chlorine-Tritium-heilium-3 atmospheres, and maybe a bit of balance though that is more a issue of how it works, I personally would be really open to this, as it opens yet another type of place for awaysites and resource extraction, perhaps very very minimal phoron atmospheres could be added to these on a very very rare chance too though on that end, lore likely prevents it. In terms of ground mapping, a dedicated turf could be created, it would likely need to be a fairly dangerous place, maybe lattice could be used but not as expansively as in space? could be a bit too difficult to code limits there though. I'm not batra who made the PR though, so don't quote me on those reasons for removal.

Agreed, the intercom amount is already kind of horrible.. AI players shouldn't need to suffer to prevent stacked announcements.

Hello, I had a few questions regarding your application, I hope you will not mind! What is Bright Thought's opinion on the young fledgling republic of biesel? How do they feel about the political climate? You note that Bright Thoughts worked from 2405 to 2460 within the eternal gardens and the eternal temple, but it was not founded yet, how do the other sects of the Eternal feel to the gestalt? How does Bright Thoughts feel about the Xrimic dionae in the federation and their conflict? Admonition of Temporal Transgressions is a Rueltab Survivour and current Champion of The Primal Echoes of The Void Before Time, how does Bright Thoughts feel about them and their views? Feel free to contact us if you need clarification on these questions.

BYOND key: Arbiter Ambrose Discord name/id: master_ambrose Borg / AI names: AMPC Have you read the Aurora wiki page about the AI?: Yes. Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: Because I quite enjoy silicon gameplay so far, aswell as I feel it is a good chance to have a more responsible role gameplay-wise as a build up to a future command whitelist that will give me the sufficient perspective and knowledge to properly detach myself from situations, though I understand these are expectations for AI by default, it is mainly to put this fully in action. Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they? I have had a fair share of administrative actions, though thankfully no actual bans, my main punishments are warnings and antag bans, two of the latter. I have five offical warnings, one of which says final warning, over the course of last year since 27th of January to November 11th. Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action? I understand.

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This sounds like a excellent idea, I would enjoy having it as a option.

I would be very excited to see Pictish expand into command and especially as a Ta consular or rep, from my experiences with them both OOC and IC it has always been fun or atleast doing the best to make it so and I have enjoyed my roleplay with his characters, I have no doubt that he would understand how to utilise his role in a command position to effectively achieve the responsibilities he believes that they need to do. Big plus 1 for me!

Is it possible you could elaborate more on this? I feel like it is a bit short.

I have considered this, I do not have a response I believe you would be appeased by unfortunately, and I am aware of the standing policy, though I was under the impression it was 2 weeks.

I like the prospect of three, it seems a good balance, xenobiology takes too long which is what I was worried this might be akin to.

I greatly miss the old sprites, and I think the new ones do not fit the aurora vibe at all or their inhand sprites, they just feel detached compared to the old ones, and I don't like them, I appreciate the effort that went into procuring them or making them, I assume the former based on what I recall but if not, sorry, but yea. This suggestion is about reverting back to old sprites, does anyone else agree with these opinions? I understand if other people enjoy them.

This is generally the case for all IPCs, as of now, damage has been heavily nerfed.

Doesn't this just sound like EMPs but before the update and in bullet form now? I think it is a interesting concept but it should be made sure that we don't repeat both the mistakes made in the rework and before the rework, where now EMPs are useless, and before EMPs just killed IPCs and their fun in totality. Also, which round? I do agree it feels like if a IPC gets downed, in alot of cases the chassis dies and doom is ensued rather than the proposed, easy to down, hard to kill motto, but this is kind of irrelevant to the ballistics starting gun change, I have noted that security has alot more ballistically, I assume that operations has noticed it with them asking for tons of ammo with the increased need for it, but I am not sure, it definitely feels there is not really any mid lane for any species though.. I just kind of play, though, unless it is blatant I haven't noticed tooo hard the changes that came from it outside windows being less of a issue..? to hide behind.

Idk, it should be fine, unlike command whitelists I don't think we really take them off people, good luck waiting if you want to do that, IPC recently got a rework so there is alot of stuff.

I believe you will have to contact the current loremaster of the species on our discord, or here if you want to wait a bit longer, NM specifically is his name, you might have to reapply but I wouldn't think so, depends on how long ago it was.

I agree with Evandorf, I do not think Borers should really be limited, as a person who has played them your powers are limited fairly well, ignoring them chemicals, and the chance you get like 20 ghosts willing to play them is also slim, it is a existing issue, I do agree however with pricing them like a assault rilfe or something, since they can be a main-ish, weapon in the hands of mercs or a traitor.

Correct from what I can see from archival work.

Lordnesh, I get where you are coming from here, I get you like treating people, I probably would too if I got into med, but, going SSD to avoid that roleplay is uh, not a rules-legal way to go about it either. I agree mainly with meep and evandorf, though I personally am willing to go through other methods to die than succumbing since I never knew it existed until like, 3 rounds ago? Revenant also makes a very strong point, it does suck if your teammate just dies without confirming anything with you and you wanted to free them, when they COULD have survived.

I think Union would be a great candidate for the diona whitelist, he is capable of roleplaying other species excellently and I have no doubt he would continue to do it with diona, he also showed great interest while we talked in creating his character. Over all a big +1.

EMPs do not do enough damage, Forbearance a HOS took 5 of the EMP grenades with no clear damage at all, with the point of the rework being to make IPCs easy to disable, hard to kill, I feel like even if EMPs were very bad to experience before, this is a bit far in the other direction and against the intent, they are a shell for context, I also agree with what cash says below, organs have never had any effect on my IPC performance, it is normally the limbs being destroyed that impact me.

A1. It is a quite a difficult choice, I have rather close affection to both voidic dionae, the Underhive, and Xrim, but if I had to pick one I would be most excited to help working on? It would probably be Xrim given it shows some of diona's more negative regions and what they are willing to do when differences are unreconcilable, a more direct oppression that is on a wider scale than the narrows, and a history that can be explored regarding that allowing a fairly large wealth of ideas. Also them worshipping glorsh is just somewhat humorous on first thought, not to imply that is my only thought about it, though that is more of a eternal subject, which I also have interest in but not as much as the above. A2. Hm, while I do not think I currently have the creative direction capacity to fulfil such a role if I am frank, perhaps it in future could improve, diona lore probably would go further into voidic dionae though I enjoy the current direction of industrialism so, it would possibly stay fairly same if I understand the current direction. I think I would also look to focus on cultural cues for all the different factions as the narrows with it's different phrases for some things is nice but not as obtrusive as Eridani's, though I am thinking more so in a non-verbal communication sense, since that has been rather interesting to me. I would maybe establish a few COC gestalt groups, however they would probably not be a major each gets their own page thing, just something to establish diona presence in the region connected to the planets rather than the star map region, given skrell and unathi have a similar problem of not a established group or two, even if this would slightly step on the toes of Voidtamer Confluence, I feel it would be helpful as a resource for COC dionae that don't want to be part of that but still want a basis. I hope these answers are satisfactory!