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BYOND Key: ParadoxSpace Character Names: a whole lotta vaurca Species you are applying to play: snek What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): prolly green Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: ye Snek's name: slith Snek's role: engineer What does your snek man do: hiss, chase mice, sample the air, occasionally do wrench stuff

I'm alright with this, it hits the bases well. +1

Remember when we asked for feedback on hivenet that didn't rely exclusively on hypothetical scenarios?

The AI is the one logging it and keeping track of it. And there are expectations for it. They have a relay in Tau Ceti, and it's bounced through our tcomms. Yes it is a matter of if the players are trusted with it. We've done pretty well so far. Contribute well to what? What's so powerful about it, in practice? No hypotheticals. Even though I don't like this attitude, can't you just shoot or arrest vaurca? Does hivenet just render us immune to bullets now? How is character knowledge of it relevant?

Well considering we have neural sockets jammed in our head exclusively for the purpose of hivenet, and a relay on Tau Ceti, it'd make sense. It isn't even that big of an advantage, it's no worse than a headset. We don't even really use it to 'ruin antag plans' or anything, mostly just banter.

What's the status of the K'lax? It's said on the wiki their hiveship is malfunctioning, but I don't see it referenced elsewhere

On a serious note, will there be any other hives arriving at all?

It's not like traitors and lings go out of their way to fight sec. Sec goes out of their way to fight them.

Besides, what if they get in my kitchen and start eating my food?

Mice shouldn't even be able to understand humans.

Because tactical armor has stats of armor = list(melee = 60, bullet = 60, laser = 60, energy = 40, bomb = 40, bio = 0, rad = 0) That better than ERT armor, just 20 melee short of the death squad swat suit, better than the merc voidsuits, comparable to the combat RIGsuit, nearly all other antag armors pale in comparison, and it spawns roundstart in the armory. Because of this armor, there's literally no purpose to ever take other armors. Security does not need a catch-all suit of armor that has high defense stats in every threat short of space. The proposed combat armor would have much less stupid stats of (melee = 50, bullet = 50, laser = 50, energy = 30, bomb = 30, bio = 0, rad = 0)

Or: Fuck Tactical Armor Basically, Bulletproof vest renamed bullet resistant vest •Adds helmet variants for ablative and bullet resistant armor. • Adds new armor type, called combat armor, which is better than the security vest but worse than tactical armor. ◦Combat armor stats are 50 melee/50 bullet/50 laser/30 bomb. Compare to tactical, which is 70/65/65/40 (including the tac jumpsuit). • Adds two new pieces of armor, arm guards and leg guards, which protect the arms and legs against harm, at the cost of some slowdown. ◦Arm/leg guards are available for riot, bullet resistant, ablative, and combat. ◦Arm and leg guards go on your hands and feet, respectively. ◦Clothing which would have covered what the arm/leg guards cover cannot be worn at the same time, and vise versa, meaning you cannot wear a spacesuit and arm or leg guards at the same time and receive massive protection. •Tactical armory has been removed. Tactical armor can still be obtained at cargo, for a premium. •Riot suit split into riot vest, riot arm guards, and riot leg guards. • Riot shields can now attempt to block projectiles, as they once did previously. However, piercing projectiles are able to go through the shield, still resulting in a hit but for reduced damage. ◦Pistol-tier ammo will not pierce a shield. ◦Rifle-tier ammo will go through and do half damage. ◦All lasers go through and do half damage. ◦Crazy armor-pen projectiles go through and do full damage (sniper bullets, xray) •Armor sets (ablative, bullet-resistant, riot, combat) can now be individually ordered at cargo. ◦Crates which previously provided armor (e.g. LWAP crate providing ablative) no longer provide armor. ◦Tactical Armor crate increased in cost to 60 points. •Adds new uplink category for armor. ◦Moves armor vest to the new category. ◦Adds a set of combat armor to the uplink, in the armor category. •Starting helmet and vest for security's bullet protection increased. Laser and melee protection decreased, to equal 40/30/30 •Heavy vest is now 50/40/40. • Armory and Secure Armory remodeled to accommodate the increase of armor available. •Flashers now available in the Armory instead of the Secure Armory. •Experimental energy gear crate renamed because e-guns are hardly experimental and it was misleading. •Experimental armor crate removed, as you can order armor individually now, also misleading. tl;dr cut tactical armor, replace with weaker overall armor, give sec full sets of bulletproof and ablative suits

shy people and lesbay are character cliches though

i too have the ability to be intentionally vague without listing what specific problems I have with something

daily reminder that it's not the race, it's the whitelisted players

Something something boil someone's blood I'll get back to this a bit later

I think people's dislike is a combination of IC hate poorly leaking into OOC hate, and general cries of 'a vaurca robusted me once they must all be terrible.'

Yeah, if you can do it to things you can see within range. Perhaps give it the ability to pretty much force choke people but you can't do anything else?

Perhaps telekinesis as a vampire blood power?

Perhaps sucking from another vamp gives you some kind of endgame powers? And perhaps control over their thralls when you do it. Edit Would thralling need any special grabs? Perhaps enhanced regeneration could up your passive regeneration, and by default draining blood could make you healthier?

Can any lore devs weigh in here?

With that attitude, definitely. Believe in the Peleng that believe in you.

I'm alright with it, personally.

Yet humanoid bodies are so practical! Plus, so code supported. YJGO has a good point, and a good way to put them in IMO.

This is literally the greatest race concept I've seen so far. when will this be playable