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10/10. The "what the fuck is wrong with you people" made it for me.

I wish there was more plasma research for R&D to do since, ya know, the purpose of the station and all that.

M8 the Cossacks where massively anticommunist. It'd be like calling a black rights group the KKK. I'd change it if I were you, otherwise cool.

Surely just calling them a 'tree' would be an insult?

I'm with Fowl. At worst Ove will just fail in his duty OOC and have their whitelist stripped with no garm done and at best we're looking at an interesting and enjoyable RP experience. +1, why not.

I can see no reason not to just trial him at least? Edit: Spell checked and +1 added.

RPed with Fritz on numerous occasions and he seems to have his head square on his shoulders. +1 from me.

Yeah don't forget that the ERT can also be called in the case of an engineering emergency (engines not online and there's no engineers station-side) or medical emergencies (mass injury/infections with no medical staff). Having them arrive with no gear sort of defeats the object of even having them.

It's cool that you're making IAA do stuff, but be aware that you account for probably less than 5% of all situations. Turning IAA into super-hop without the job oversight duties is cool and all, but it doesn't address the foundation of my suggestion. (Also that being the HoP job is neither here nor there until I get the job guide done) IAA are civilians, and there is the very weird stonewalling from security where everybody assumes they're exceeding official powers when they ask "hey why are you beating that guy fam haha". Because there's no expectation that IAA would be allowed to advocate for prisoners. We have the entire Western legal thought and our own 3 year history to back up this claim. Even the Warden can't do this. People who think "this is the Warden's job." will shut down the argument have an extremely ignorant view of the security machine. At the very basic level, the Warden has no expectation to be on your side when you're brigged. His superior is the HoS; if he argues in your favor, the HoS can shitcan him. The foundation of my goal is to have someone outside of security be on the side of the brigged. This eliminates most of the immediate bias or pressure that would otherwise be placed on them. I've spent a long time arguing on reworking IAA. Yesterday I spent awhile arguing that Public Defender should be an alternate job title for the IAA slot. They would be given the blue suit, briefcase, and the guidelines that I listed in my OP. But apparently this was so unreasonable and inconsistent with our setting, so this is an alternative suggestion to actually give IAA both a coherent duty, while also expanding them into where they would best fit game balance and fairness. I mean at the least we could have this as an alternate job slot. And I mean fine since they're from NT they can be loyalty implanted. I just want a legal character without the implant. It's more consistent to be someone that is 'watching over' the station to not answer to.... Another mind-controlled bureaucrat. I'm very ok with this being an alternate title with the normal IAA's being more of a 'corporate watchdog' (making sure the station is running and making the credits) and this title being a more lawyer like role.

This is actually a pet pet peeve of mine. If you want to hop departments, make a new character for said departments imo.

I agree there. I was hoping they'd be more of a corporate overseer making sure everyone is doing their jobs (including security), this is sort of turning them into lawyers.

Fuck yeah ninja turts

I guess folks could just report it to an admin if it go super bad?

I dunno, that OOC log looks like pure #bants and I can't really see the issue there unless there was more?

Daash up in this.

I'm going to play devils advocate here and ask these two questions: What do you consider to be immersion breaking sillyness? Could you give examples(real or hypothetical)? What do you consider to be non-immersion breaking sillyness? Could you give examples(real or hypothetical)?

This. Lets not forget that during the civil war no one was saying "take two shots of whisky whilst I saw open your rib cage, cut out your heart and replace it."

Electrochemical m8. Different ball game.

Not sure how feasible this is, but what about a messaging system (possible linked to the forums) that would allow offline players to send PDA messages in character to players currently in the round and visa versa? What say you folks?

This guy! XD But yeah, they ain't biomechanical augs.

The only prosthetics that would have EMP protection would likely be military grade which no one on the Aurora could jutsify owning really (nuke ops though...).

You'd be surprised. Computer systems and machines aren't necessarily that robust.

Surely by the time an antag has been subdued enough for them to be implanted they've already "lost"? At least with this they'd be back in the game and not perm'ed for the rest of the round? Still gonna need grabbintent though.

Might be worth throwing in an alternate "class" to IAA like Auditor perhaps? Some one who monitors the station to ensure it's actually working to turn a profit but with no real powers on station like IAA's.

Thanks for the answers guys. Would it be fair to say that IAAs would be monitoring the station to ensure it's actually adding value (producing use able raw materials and shipping them off to central at the very least, creating new technologies and shipping them off to central at best)? As it stands the station which largely be a drain on NT what with nothing going on followed by a retooling of the station due to shenanigans. Most departments actually have a way to add value but no one seems to do it. Food stuffs could be produced, raw/processed materials from mining, medical research/products, technologies, weapons etc. All these could be produced and shipped off to central for the mega-credz. I just feel that NT would have more of a "that's great but when do we see the money" attitude with the station with the HoP and Captain getting the brunt of that pressure.