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Katya. I named my Mosin-Nagant Ekaterina, but the whole family calls her Katya for short.

Alb has been doing a ton of work and showcasing it all in the Discord. He's driven, he's capable, he's communicative. He has my support, as I'm a big fan of his projects so far.

You have been accepted to SAMPLe as a standard member in the Science Division under the Robotic Engineering Department. Welcome to the league, Dr. Mo'Taki. You have been accepted to SAMPLe as a standard member in the Medical Division under the Virological Research and Development Department. Welcome to the league, Dr. Grant.

It's worth noting one of the random events is that mice are breeding and need to be cleared out. It's not an unreasonable IC assumption that they're pests who just need cleared out on sight.

I'll have to read more about the application itself before I speak on that, and I will get to that when I'm not on mobile/busy BUT I can gladly vouch for Miruka's roleplay abilities, particularly of Nina Arwin. All though I've seen Rune as a wizard before. Nina Arwin is one of my favorite people on the station, and the best roleplayed cripple I've ever seen. She's a doll, and the fact she often rolls antag makes this character quality comical. As far as I've seen, Miruka can roleplay, and I'll add in my assessment of their application itself to this post later when I have time. EDIT: All righty, I've went back and read through the story of Ekaterin. I thought it was great, there's enough there to really make her an outcast to every faction-loyal Tajaran on the station and I think this will generate some really interesting situations for roleplay. My only complaint is that she isn't named Ekaterina instead of Ekaterin. It bugs my Russaboo ways.

I'm all right with this so long as we maintain a repertoire of items that would make no sense to fit in a satchel or backpack. Or would this system only effect containers but not overall carry weight?

So, I agree that the quality of RP has taken a dip lately, but I don't think it's endemic or permanent. As far as I can tell, it fluctuates based on the ratio of new players to old players. As a general trend, newer players often stick out with sore thumbs when it comes to RP quality, unless they are migrants or visitors from other HRP communities. In the United States, we're in summertime, and this means floods of greytide, along with the gradual increase in flooding leading up to summer throughout mid to late spring. Does this mean we should lighten up? Of course not, no. I think Gollee brought up some tangible points in the standards of our roleplay and some confusion existing about the territories of OOC and IC moderation. But, while I think a healthy a productive discussion is called for, I also think it's important that we avoid alarmist and overzealous reactionary behavior. If we crack down too hard out of zealotry, it will just lead to witch-hunting each other and knocking skulls for every little RP slip-up. And if you watch anyone closely enough, they're going to slip up eventually. As far as the community itself goes, though, everyone is new once. I got warned and then later banned on my first day here. People come a long ways with time investment despite their early mistakes. Even though their motor functions, typing skills, and roleplay might be bad, engage new players like you would anyone else. They could become regulars one day, and no one gains anything from barricading them out with cliques. Despite new people coming in and being new to heavy roleplay, this is still an HRP server, and I still frequently enjoy heavy roleplay which I would not find on other servers. Incog brings up a good point on his own about the core of our server being seasoned roleplayers who continue to bring fascinating characters to the table and deliver engaging stories while providing well-crafted dialogue. There is a high enough quality to be above MRP which continues to retain those of us looking for an HRP experience. All in all, so long as we continue to enforce our rules fairly without being too zealous or too weak through this trying summer rush and don't relent to the hordes of newbies, it'll all pan out and our collective average roleplay experience will enhance again in the fall. Don't panic, ahelp and report rule breakers, and role-play on. As a great man once told me when I had problems in my life, "It'll buff out."

The HoP usually doesn't seem to do a huge amount of assignments or reassignments nowadays. Nothing stopping him from letting people who want it to become Cadets have a reassignment is there? Isn't the Head of Security stopping the Head of Personnel because 'We have too many Security. Stap. Stap. Don't do it again without talking to me.'. Possibly. As I'm sure every HoP knows, reassignment forms need the gaining head of staff's signature. Increasing cadet slots might shift he balance against antagonists, but I'm sure we could come up with somethi g to counteract this.

I'm in love with this idea. Sure, it might take the suspense of being an antag and not being sure of who else is an antag of out of the equation, but also it adds the ability of antagonists to spin a narrative for the crew to become invested in. LOOC can also be unreliable in merc when people seem to be unable to sit still and plan out. So long as admins and moderators were willing and able to monitor and moderate for metagaming, as well as possible a constructed guideline for what is and isn't metagaming in AOOC, then I think it'd be great.

I heavily prefer Arrow's blacklist idea. I think the wall of time and experience is a much more telling and reliable wall than one of vouching. And, self-loathing though it may be, I don't trust the average of our current crop of active command staff, myself included, to be able to vet each security officer appropriately. That isn't to say that I think it wouldn't work, I think it's an alternative method of quality control in our security department,but I believe thre blacklist idea to be a more optimal path.

MAMAAAAA OOOOOHOOOOOOOHHHH DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE YOU CRRRRYYY Anywho, it's always sad to see people go (to me) even if they don't leave permanently. While I disagree with the alleged toxicity level of our community, and I think we have a lot of outstanding roleplayers, it's no use trying to force and convince people to stay who want to leave. You seemed awfully nice in the brief discussion we had on Discord, and I wish you the best in your roleplay travels.

Things changed after the forums and hosting changed. We've lost a lot of good people in that time (and some shit ones too) but things became very un-chill. And that's just not how I roll. I don't do well with people remorselessly making discriminatory "jokes" and saying 'lol'/'kek' when someone says "hey can you please not". People coming in fresh don't need to see that either; it sets a bad precedent. If you're referring to the ironic holo-skeptic joke I cracked in OOC, I do genuinely apologize for that. It wasn't funny.

I think I was here for this, or if not, I know for sure my roommate MagnificentMelkior was and I was watching of not playing. It was either in April or May, and I remember my roommate and I getting a good laugh out of the situation, but we thought at the time that he was probably going to get a stern talking to, or banned, being the insane bald psych that he was. So, all in all, Joy's retelling of the events are true to my memory of it.

So, I was here for all of this, and I will discuss my bits of it. I don't know how many shuttle recalls were by madmins, but the very first one at around the 40 minutr mark was recalled for game balance reasons. Essentially, it was way too early and the station wasn't nearly close enough to "everyone bail" yet. An ERT was sent instead. Future shuttle recalls may have been madmins, and I think they were, because the justification for the first was that the emergency shuttle was deployed to the NMV Icarus, presumably for its many drone wing issues. Proceeding to the meat of the matter, now that some clarification has occurred, role-playing distrust of synthetics, especially when given a powerful role like head of staff, is insanely hard. In many situations AIs will be blatantly malfunctional and you have to suddenly start playing abnormally dumb and against your character just to keep the round going. If the AI was PDAing him insulting material, it is very understandable for a character to suspect. All though I was busy researching the new telescience code at the time, it sounded to me like something was up with the AI as well. Does this mean LR roleplayed it properly? No. He did get overzealous with the AI. But he fully recognizes and has humbly admitted his mistake. For the sake of trying to make this thread be productive, i'll give some tips about how to handle Skrell-Head roleplay in malf/compromised/suspicious AI situations. 1. Go into denial. Even if all the obvious IC warning signs are there and all your human co-workers are telling you to shut it down, just go into denial. "The Fourth Incident? This can't br happening. You're all just paranoid!" If I had a dollar for Everytime a human head of staff came into the RD office to "talk" and then immediately started whispering to me once the door closed that they think somethings up with the AI, I could buy a nice footling steak and cheese sub from subway. 2. Play dumb. Easier to do if you're not in the RD role, but specifically if your information technology skill is low. Just act like you have no situational awareness about the AI's state of being with its programming and code. 3. Be overconfident. So many times during blatantly malf rounds when the jig is up, I tell everyone that I've got it 100% under control, and that a law reset board will fix everything potentially wrong with its code. Then I go use the board and shoo everyone away from the core telling them everything is A-okay. It's a nice way to help AIs regain their incognito cover once they've been detected as having something wrong, and a Skrell assuring everyone it's all right and saying they personally handled it should assuage their fears, while still letting the antag continue its plans without doing anything to actually stop them. I think a whitelist strip would make him an example, sure, but I question if it's worth it to crucify his whitelist. Is the Skrell-AI tension situation out of control? Do we really have Skrell blowing the AI at any they get? Is this a rampant issue right now? Would making him a public example be to curb a serious and ongoing problem, or warning to a future audience? Aside from some zealotry on my behalf about two months ago, accompanied with the "much gorillion" shtick against Kaed as Lemon, I've seen human heads of staff be disproportionately more distrusting of AIs than Skrell, with many borderline forcing me into AI upload. There was one time an HoS had me lockdown all the borgs and unscrew the console so the AI couldn't unlock them, and boy did I get bwoinked for that. Every once in awhile i'll even get "so and so borg didn't follow an order, blow them up" over command channel. LR seems to have clearly identified and fessed up to his roleplay faux paux. I think a whitelist strip would be heavy handed, and that some advice for how to balance lore vs. gameplay would be a much better service to correct this issue. EDIT: correcting some autocorrect issues, and adding in anecdotal evidence of being told to blow/lockdown the borgs EDIT2:the studying of telescience code was being done ICly as Shkor during this round. I heard the argument between AI and LR over command channel.

I think it's better than nothing, but more often than not I've noticed that the quality of security officers is... declining. I think that 30 rounds as a cadet might be too long. On average, it would be 60 hours of gameplay assuming 2 hours a round. AND they have to survive for every one of those rounds. I think the price of admittance might be too high there, but I think 20 hours of gameplay is a nice compromise. Assuming someone plays somewhat regularly, this could be knocked out rather quickly and is plenty of time to learn our regulations and procedures rather than joining, waiting an arbitrary days, and then just coming in as a sec officer anyways. Instead of getting situations I got the other day when an officer didn't know any of the station directives and started threatening to arrest me for violating "space law."

Going along the same lines as above, you can change the frequency slightly and have an entire conversation and no one will be any the wiser. Except the AI I think.

I like the suggestion a lot. How would we deal with older people though? Or would we have 30 rounds without a security officer?

I am interested in this, as a lot of my more detailed records got left behind in the old old saves, and also Synnono never successfully got to go back and retrieve theirs, so I know they would be interested in this too.

This may come off strange, critiquing my own reports, but here I go. I have constructed the sinusoidal function which approximates the displacement function related to the elevation. Instead of using a cosine function, I modified a sine function by 90 degrees. Figure 1a A mathematical function modelling the data Additionally, referring back to the second research report, Project Tenement, the results of that research report are no longer applicable aboard the NSS Exodus. Project Tenement II is in progress in order to adjust for the change in observable slime behavior.

I think that this is a pretty novel and interesting suggestion, especially considering slime people already exist and are well-defined in the code. And of the different types of abhumans on station (Hulks and Slime people being the only ones I can think of) I think Slime People would be the preferable of the two to make a fully fledged race. Personally, I wouldn't really advocate it, but I also wouldn't mind it.

So.... there's a few things to note about said incident. 1. The ordered cargo tug sat in the cargo bay for over an hour and ten minutes (The entire round after it was ordered), and the quartermaster refused to hand it out until it "passed customs." Even going so far as to heavily chastise and berate a cargo tech with a thorough chewing out for trying to give it to the Diona. 2. He kept calling the Diona in question a tree while they were waiting for it, repeatedly insulting them and refusing to give them it even though it was sitting right there. 3. The order had been approved and its purpose for emergency medical use stated before it was ordered and accepted They had every reason to expect and feel entitled to receive the cargo tug considering the order was approved all around and it was ordered for them, and sitting in a crate in cargo bay. I felt the need to bring this up because I really would not chalk this up as an incident of Diona being bad, you really did obstruct handing it out in every way. Their multiple attempted break-ins which began at about the 30 minute mark following it arriving at the dock to take what was ordered for them was also perfectly justified in that they were an antagonist.

Reporting Personnel: Tanya Robinson Rank of Reporting Personnel: ??? Personnel Involved: (Name, Rank: Offender/Witness/Other (Ckey)) - Romanus Remus, ???, Offender, ??? - Alex Graves, Head of Security, Witness, UnknownMurder Time of Incident: 31 May 2458 8 PM BST Real time: 31 May 2016 9 PM EST 8 PM Central Location of Incident: NSS Exodus Nature of Incident: []Workplace Hazard []Accident/Injury []Destruction of Property []Neglect of Duty [X]Harassment []Assault [X]Misconduct [X]Other Serious threat of physical violence. (Place an x in the box that applies. If other, replace line and specify.) Overview of the Incident: Did you report it to a Head of Staff or IAA? If so, who?: - Alex Graves, Head of Security Additional notes: This was a complaint filed in round via fax.

Our current regulation is as follows. Slime people as well as people who turn themselves completely into slimes are counted as having died. The resulting entity (either slime person or slime) is property of NanoTrasen and a test subject for its science personnel. Turning yourself into a slime or slime person means you have forfeited being a person entirely, and NT can and very well may have its way with you on an operating table. All though there may be OOC restrictions, ICly it would all be kosher. Furthermore, if you turn someone into a slime or slime person, it counts as murder, so don't do it folks. Personal release forms are for something that might go wrong during a test, not for something that is deliberately going to "kill" someone.