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why didn't you like, break a window and escape from the other side? hell you could shoot down a wall or smack an airlock open. Self defense is only valid as long as you have no route of escape, you had already disengaged and chose to go through that one maintenance airlock you opened that would purposefully put the valids between you and escape, as an engineer you could've easily exited via atleast 3 other airlocks. hell all you need is a crowbar and fire extinguisher from the walls to exist through any unbolted airlock.

I believe that's a fine counter to keep everyone from readying up for merchant.

You're supposed to make a character slot with "return to lobby" option for rolling merchant. the merchant has a cryodorm to sleep, so he can be replaced, that is why it's coded as a job instead of an antag role. Being a merchant means you're self employed, and I believe there are pro-corporate laws on Biesel that prevent you from double jobbing with another corporate, not sure if it extends to be self owned businesses, but if you're a merchant you're not going to work a wage slave job on another station. the only change I would support would be a chance increase till the novelty wears off, maybe 40% or so? logic wise we're not hitting 20% of all rounds having merchants with a low number of attempts.

Hello, the banning staff member has retired, I will be taking over your appeal. this is the full ban reason, do note that the disconnecting on PM part is likely what lead to a permanent ban. I'm willing to lift the ban, but you will have to read the rules fully and consider your self on thin ice regarding basic rule violations, anything like chucklefucking, self antagging etc will result in the permaban being re-applied, I don't expect you to not break any rule at all, but some basic understanding of the play style we want should be achieved.

I agree with this, but the merchant should be able to withdraw specific amounts from the console so they have something similar in functionality. Otherwise its "all of your money" or "none of your money." click money stack in hand, withdraw amount needed, shove the rest in, I disagree with this suggestion, unless NT doubles as a banking firm, there's no reason why the merchant should be effected by whatever happens to NT's servers, now I wouldn't mind if he got an empty account he can access on station, the HoP can already do this as far as I know, but his money should start as hard cash

Alright I'll try to make my reply short. I mostly take issue with this, I am not partial to non security butting into arrests, especially when they're not trained or have any experience with combat and fights, and the officer didn't really ask for help either. The murderer had to deal with a screaming victim and an over-equipped officer and somehow managed to beat them, I don't believe they cranked the difficulty up to have everyone in sight with a weapon target them too. The weapon is also another minor issue, its damage is enough to break bones or cut off limbs in one hit, no matter where you hit it's game over for the antag, as the RD I'm sure you have access to a flash, which would've been better IMO. Though I admit I did not take into account the station being on code delta and murders happening everywhere(due to having to wrap the issue up in delayed end time) I'll discuss it with other staff but as I said I won't be the one handling this.

Abobo went from Bob Cool tier characters to well thought and developed characters like his captain Raymond Hawkins. But making interesting character's isn't the best trait about aboshehab; He always has the round's best interest in mind, he will either give some leeway or be more strict depending on what benefits the round's narrative. I also like the character's story, although you made the farmer fucking around sound more scientific than it probably was, and the dionae's personality is pretty vague, all they showed was gratitude, will this be a main theme for the character? I like the idea of simple peasant dionae, but I think the character story is a bit lacking, maybe add more in their recruitment process, and when did they get the qualifications to work? I doubt being a farm boy is enough to get you hired, some official qualification course and how it went for them could be an interesting addition. Tl;Dr he is ok I guess 9/10 +1

It's not just courtesy, staff shouldn't need to intervene every time someone is too lazy to put their equipment where it belongs. in case there's an emergency you can shoot an ahelp but you're expected to be able to play the whole round or cryo successfully most of the time. if in the worst case scenario your internet is completely shut off, you can PM an admin/mod when you get a connection about the time you disconnected and they can check if there was any note/warning about the incident and edit/remove it. Considering this resolved, locking and archiving.

I think the best option would be giving the aim mode a button that completely turns off reflex shooting, and when you make a reflex shot, it's toggled off and you have to wait 3 seconds to toggle it back on, this will have the same effect as the current system but keeps the crosshairs on the target

I will be handling this complaint, though we have already discussed this issue as a group before hand. We agreed there's two points in this complaint, firstly: The punishment: We have agreed that the punishment is just and fitting, you have a yet active warning about going SSD Putting the hardsuit rig there allows anyone to grab it, stuff it in a personal locker and no one will ever find a way to get it again, not even staff could find it easily if at all, while not the same as taking it with you into cryo, it still puts the equipment at risk of being lost with no IC way of recovering it. If you can't put it back in time, simply ahelp with it still on your body, at least that way we can tell who stripped it off, and we can either get an admin to do it, or instruct someone nearby to handle the return of the equipment and putting you in cryo. Secondly, the way the incident was handled: We don't call people over discord to tell them to come back, if someone cryo'd then they have irl reasons to leave, the most you can do is notify them of the issue with a "please put your equipment in your office" if you note it down, or simply warn them, as they can see it when they login next, but in your case a ban was justified, calling you over and having you fix your mistake and then still banning you wasn't. So I've asked to have your ban removed, and replaced with a severe warning instead, and as of this writing, no one disagreed so I'm going ahead with it anyway. Our trial handling admin Catnip will be discussing this with sonic. So next time PLEASE ahelp, shoot a discord PM to a mod or admin in the worst case scenario that you must leave and have no time to cryo yourself if you can't find the time to put your equipment back in your locker, another incident like this will result in another job ban atleast. I will leave this open for 24 hours in case anyone has anything else to say.

a Head of Security has 10 years of experience in the field, he isn't some mall security manager, if Olivia has no idea how to deal with armed intruders then they're still too inexperienced to commandeer the ISD. That aside, your replies to my and other people's criticism is more than enough for me to +1 this app, though I still strongly recommend playing more in security before going as a full head of security, try to become interim HoS during eventful rounds, and get more experience with the management side of security. Security entered via the AI, they could've asked in the worse case scenario for the AI to open so they can go get geared up, even if it meant marooning the captain with the mercs, I understand that they wanted to back their captain up, but even when they stayed they could neither protect you nor escape. now I understand this is mostly your fault*, but security should also consider the situation and if command is taking them on a suicide mission, disengage and reassess the situation. The reason I partially blame Olivia is because they were a warden, not an officer. their duties revolve around the brig, prisoners and weapon hand out, and responding to issues is secondary, and this case they should've paid more attention to their role and how their death could mean security can't access the weapons, duties which a HoS should worry about too. a HoS that arms themselves and rush into an incident and die while their officers are ill equiped/lacking instructions is bad. you should be prepared for this before taking on the job. *: Tl;Dr: +1 but I suggest playing more as an interim HoS as both you and Olivia are still too inexperienced with security to lead it.

Olivia is still a green horn, and I've recently seen a pretty red flag. That round was a mercenary round or crossfire round, there were 4 or so armed individuals who broke into the bridge, all of security, including warden olivia was on scene, but all of them, besides the captain were in standard gear which is not even close to enough to deal with the assault rifles and energy carbines the individuals have, instead of retreating to gear the officers, they stayed, I guess this part can be partially blamed on the captain, but then when the fight started they were EMP'd, and their laser pistol was emptied, they failed to notice their weapon was out of charge, and instead of attempting a retreat, stayed in the area and along with the rest of security, all perished. heads of staff are expected to lead with competence, if this is your strategy to handling armed intruders rounds under your command will be terrible. I'm going to have to go against this whitelist for now. -1

I'm withdrawing my app because I believe Bygone can put in more effort, as they already have some very good and fleshed out ideas of what they want to do.

Not a fan of dionae setting themselves on fire, I wouldn't mind if it would last till the fuel spilled on them is depleted, but being on fire right now means your flesh is burnt, and I doubt any amount of energy is enough to mend wounds. I believe until recently, dionae would set themselves on fire and use the fire as a light source. It doesn't make any sense, why not just stuff lots of dionae into a TEG loop and use them as a power supply? there's a few issues with dionae currently, and I don't like the fact that they can produce more power than they take, I doubt these 80Watt light bulbs are emitting enough energy to move a gestalt that is IIRC heavier than a human. Dionae are currently walking stars, they produce more energy than they take in. How do you plan to address this?

clearly the solution would be issueing lawgivers as standard equipment

Haha, cheers mate, glad you took it like a champ. While it's good to accept dying, don't forget that it's important to ahelp if the death is a rule violation, this goes for you too hive, you should've ahelped the heroes in medical even if you've killed them, if we don't talk to them they'll keep trying till they get lucky and secure valids.

VR is nice on paper, but when you're left to make vaurcae character you're hardpressed to involve a large portion of it to being in either VR or with humans, another point is that VR is a new(relative term) concept to vaurcae, they had operated as a hivemind before and can do with out it. The goal of every vaurcae would be the survival and thriving of their hive, it's a goal that can lead to more than one direction, be it isolationism, imperialism etc. vaurcae would be an ultra-nationalist species, and where that takes each unbound would be up to their player. on the other hand, having a utopia in a box that everyone can't get enough of means the bugs would rather play with their 3d waifus than actually get anything done in the physical world for the hive's benefit, it would be bad design for a hive that has all of it's member's loyalty guaranteed. It's also connected to the next point. I think I failed to word that part properly, what I meant was the history of individual vaurcae, their experiences outside of VR and before being sent to work with humans. there was a point in time where every vaurcae whitelist app was a variation of "enjoyed doing X in VR, got popped out to work has depression but keeps going for his queen/the hive" compared to almost any other species, there is no place for conflict and character development in their own habitat. the main issue with it is that with current numbers of vaurcae workers, it makes no sense how their labor costs equalize with the potential phoron they can could be selling. my current plan would be adding a new gas, a compound that includes phoron in it, but extracting it would not be cost effective compared to mining it. as a gas it would be similar to phoron but more toxic and less combustive (not non-combustive) those changes would be lore friendly, and would only require a few amendment instead of complete retcons. mechanics wise this would make the issue even more harsh for vaurcae, so I was thinking of making the consequences crippling but not round ending for vaurcae. so instead of suffocating to death they would for example have capped oxyloss, waves of pain, seizures, randomly drop things etc, consequences that would force them to drop whatever they're doing to get kois, but not take them out of the round completely.

As it appears knightroid has left the community before the complaint's resolution was reached, there's nothing much left here. Locking and archiving.

Just popping in to clarify some things. Is in the rules, but so is So all the shit you pull sans getting yourself and/or others killed is canon if no antags are related to the incident.

That's what I've been trying to do, asking what they thought about some certain parts of the lore that I want to change and asking them what they thought about it, I've also talked with bygone and shared my ideas to see what he thought of them and possibly inspire them if they get the spot instead. our ideas turned out to be very similar but his ideas were fleshed out more.

Ok, spizzy did leave somethings out of the complaint, but that only helped you save face. Let's start with the first part Not even 5 minutes in, you asked for access, informing the AI you were simply going to raise the alarm, though I believe the AI can do this themselves, either way you proceeded to promote yourself to interim HoS, which as mandy told you ICly, is breaking multiple regulations, you don't break regulations like this over some murders, if you can't operate without a head of security over a murder and """"reported"""" aliens then you really need to work on improving. what followed later was you going on a hunt over the cyborg yourself, as the interim HoS, instead of deligating, most of your messages were one or two word replies, not only did you fail to become a HoS legally, you failed to perform the HoS's duties. then it seems you ran into someone with an agent ID card. later you're questioned about your promotion to I-HoS and you say the following: which is a lie, and even if it was true, an AI has less authority than an assistant, it can not allow people to be promoted. after that you were confronted, in medical I assume, where you were asked to drop your weapons twice, you had responded you had to deal with a rogue borg and ran off, which prompted the batoning (if you had communicated with the department, they may have believed the rogue cyborg issue), later in processing, you did not argue anything in favor of your actual crimes, which were infiltration and exceeding official authority by promoting yourself, all you had mentioned were things that did not really require such drastic measures and breaking of regulations and directives. but promoting one doesn't need any command.. at all... ? Now this part is a bonus, it's not really related to the complaint but It's interesting nonetheless this is at best, saying "I've been against the west" in modern political terms, and at worst, involving the syndicate in your backstory to metagame antags, which from this part of the same round, leaves me to believe the second The last part did not have much bearing on the outcome of this complaint, but I liked to point this out to you, Knightroid. Involving the syndicate must be done vaguely, and not like this. So to conclude, I and other staff members agreed to a permanent security job ban, this is very close to self antagging, breaking and twisting regulations this much at the frequency that is shown in your notes, no. this is not acceptable security play, I decided to not ban you from the cadet job so you can take the opportunity to improve your security play. Any attempts to bypass this by asking for promotions to officer will mean a full security ban along with at least a 3 day server ban, if you believe the situation is very dire then you can ahelp to get permission. I will leave this open for 24 hours if there's anything else anyone might wish to add or object to.

I will be taking care of this complaint. This would've been an IC issue had this been an isolated incident, but as stated, in their notes and other people's feedback on the player's whitelist app, this appears to be the norm. I will wait for other people's input on this issue, mainly: [mention]Knightroid[/mention] and I would also like [mention]Munks[/mention] 's side on the attempted arrest, and if you have any other witnesses please point them to this complaint.

IAA may not have much power on station, but they are regarded higher than any other head of staff barring the captain. robots don't deserve this, not like this is a serious question.

I can attest that Bygone has improved on his attitude, the last time I saw him "blow up" was personal insults free and they just vented in deadchat before logging, and they've been cooperative and understanding when PM'd, compared to the first time we met.

I had an idea like this, but it would be cross rounds now that we have semi permanent character slots, I think it may be feasible (maybe even get to name them whatever you want to, though that could be abused.)