Nikov

Well, this will address that unreliability.

Makes kidnapping easier rather then tossing people into a soft suit. This is also an advantage.

1. Cost. A rescue ball is easily ten or twenty times cheaper than a voidsuit, consisting only of three layers of fabric and few manufactured components. It is about as difficult to make as a sleeping bag with a few details, like straps for pulling and the oxygen generator and pressure-sealed adhesive zipper flap. Additionally a rescue ball requires minimal maintenance as it is disposable, unlike a softsuit. 2. Portability. A rescue ball can fit in your backpack. This will make it the only space survival device able to be carried around. 3. Training. A rescue ball requires no training to speak of in order to operate. It is ideal for civilian self-use. 4. Pressurized. A rescue ball pressurizes its internal air with a breathable level of oxygen, rather than rely on an internals rig. This is tremendously useful for quickly getting injured persons into a pressure where they may be able to breathe on their own. It also does not require applying and setting internals. 5. Fast. A rescue ball is deployed in one or two clicks. Internals + EVA suit requires setting five things in the agonizingly slow "other person" inventory menu. 5. Medical removal. A rescue ball can be removed easily by anyone, including medics. Might not apply to emergency suits, but still handy. Not being able to see out of the ball is optional; the real prototypes were opaque because a window was considered an engineering hassle. Since you can't move, there's nothing to see for. Just zip up and start rocking yourself in crying jags from your claustrophobia as rescuers swear and shove floating corpses out of the way trying to reach you. The other reason why you can't see is because these balls are mechanically identical to throwing your hands up and screaming "don't shoot". The ball means you've surrendered to the big black. Sit still and beg for mercy over the radio. It seems odd to me that we'd have complete space suits stuffed in lockers for any random assistant to suit up and fuckoff-to-space with, anyhow. Basically, these are lifesaving devices. Life jackets. You aren't expected to swim in them, but you are expected to bob in the water waiting for rescue. Seeing how many people die of depressurization who could be saved for 1/20th the cost of an emergency softsuit (its a fabric bag with a zipper and a chemical oxygen generator), Nanotrasen would surely cut their cloning expenses with these rescue balls.

Now I'm afraid I'm digging trenches and putting up barbed wire. It is acceptable if the lore is fleshed out in a believable way, but do not require anything of it. I would rather have Pizzatologists than every chaplain be rendered generic.

That's the gist of it. Give one person a legitimate position to help coordinate the workings of a department, rather than each round having an ad-hoc position.

You.. CAN feed without killing the victim, but it's not exactly prudent. Once you let them go, they are liable to run off screaming to security that you bit them, and you will spend the rest of the round in a cell or being chased by security. Again, the ideal is that people will cooperate with your roleplay when you make an effort, but the SS13 community is in general a bunch of validhunting fucktards who want to be the hero or at involved in stopping the bad guy. Good roleplayers are the exception, not the rule. There is nothing more satisfying in Vampire than pouring out purple-prose flattery like some shameless Anne Rice wannabe and getting all the goth chicks following you like ducklings. Takes me back, man. And seriously. Maybe you should try some wine, some candles... I think you're not setting the mood.

The problem with being educated in all religions and able to serve anyone is that you will be implicitly lying to most of them. I play a serious chaplain from time to time as an alternative job, as a future Protestant brand. Its largely because nobody else will do it otherwise. Whoo, pizzatology.

For the love of God: The electrical and atmospheric systems need to be loops feeding off of loops, not bus topologies. By adopting a loop, you have to cut it in two places to stop power or air from reaching the opposite side of the loop. With other loops feeding into the first loop, these breaks can be bypassed creating a more robust system. I've seen a number of rounds where wirecutters in the halls cut power for the entire station, because we have a bus topology for these things.

I get kinda creepy. I agree with Nana. I also think enthralled mobs should give double the blood points, so enthralling and keeping "livestock" gives a solid reward for not draining and killing outright. Because lets face it, nobody likes dying to an antag, and Vampire is one of those rounds where you won't have to.

Well, of course you could approach a injured and incapacitated person, lay the ball under them, and zip it up from the outside. How else would we rescue people who didn't bring a ball? But really, ideally, it would be something people had in their backpacks for when they know they're fucked by space and just want to live. Also space wind will blow them around a bit. Maybe out the hole.

I would not standardize human religions, but I would start putting some guard rails on what kind of crap the Chaplain can practice.

If the head of the round doesn't like you enough to make you the senior, then either work to improve your relationships with your superiors, or wait for the next round. Furthermore the head might like you, but there's someone they think is better for the job. So its a matter of whitelisted players giving a pat on the head for good subordinates, or putting other whistelisted players in as seconds-in-command.

It works for me. Maybe you should take her to dinner first?

Three men are dead from last round because they had no rescue ball. They could have lived. They could have lived.

Sure, but those are Security Officers. Its a police title. I'd prefer Security Agent... but cop job titles aren't the subject of discussion. Generally, I don't want five more officers on the manifest. A 1:5 ratio is bad enough.

I don't see you enough to take issue, but that isn't enough to recommend. It isn't enough to meet expectations. You need to excel. You also need to be ready for a higher level of adversity than you may be accustomed to; the BO / CCIA / CentComm RP has become my own personal definition of hell. Although I could be a nice guy and +1, I'm going to have to favor goodness over a good name. With condolences, -1. These things are worth more through adversity.

My solution has always been to feed on only weak, meek, impressionable women after sequestering them away. No matter what, your biggest adversary is the AI and suit sensors and there isn't much you can do to defeat it, only insist to Security that you were necking (wait don't say that) and its none of their damn business. Thought; warm, hot, delicious blood from a sweet, quivering young creature who trembles so delici... ahem... should be worth more blood points that disgusting half-frozen instant meals. Reward risk.

Telling good roleplay from bad is like telling art from pornography. You know it when you see it.

I know nothing about Genetics (it is to me what Atmos is to you), but having been transformed into a bugger by a wizard, and having no way to be restored to my glorious human body, I sorely missed Genetics.

At least its not a holocaust joke. I had a grandfather who died in Dachau. You can trust a Jewish carpenter with your soul, but not to build your guard tower.

+1 to an Unbound Travels veteran like me who, by all accounts, is a capable player.

I've just got to come out and say no in response to all the "officer" titles. Officers go to the bridge. Officers get white-listed. This isn't an Officer position.

I'm glad you like my CE. This particular moment, it means a fair bit to me.

I was present. The damage to the shuttle consisted of one window destroyed by gunfire. This window was sealed by an inflatable barrier within ten seconds. To my understanding there was no additional damage by gunfire. Following this, pressure in the shuttle equalized with the arrivals bay through the open airlock. Pressure was, as I left, not low enough to cause damage with internals. I was not on the shuttle for its flight back and cannot comment on its final state. If mass casualties occurred, I am unaware. It is my understanding that grief implies a degree of malice or forethought, and that accidental grief is an oxymoron. These are my two cents.

My question is if the double-OR was considered in the discussion. A deconstructed OR at round start sounds like an Engineering chore less than a feature, to be completely frank.