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As said by ShameOnTurtles: We have the possibility to ship in items of various manufacturers. So why not use that to order the special frames from the other manufacturers. I would even go so far and remove the customization options from the robotics machine and only allow the standard unbranded limbs to be manufactured. The rest could easily be shipped in via cargo (If you want to have something special)

Generally you should use the reactions available on github if you want to provide a quick feedback. As mentioned by LordFowl we usually shut down Feedback that is not related to the technical implementation rather quickly. If features are controversial, the developer of the PR should put up a Feedback Topic on the forums and edit the PR Description to include the link. Starting with the April Update we are going to use ingame polling to collect feedback.

I am growing increasingly annoyed with you. YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN REGARDLESS As I said multiple times by now. Yes, I made the huge mistake of asking you for a link to the company in a final attempt to keep your gimmick alive. I ahelped in an attempt to keep your gimmick alive. I asked you in looc in an attempt to keep your gimmick alive. All of that, before I rendered my final verdict. You didnt take any of these chances

Make them actually throw foam ? Because CO2 extinguishers wouldnt make a lot of sense in a enclosed environment.

Right, I´ll quote you a thing from the Tau Ceti Wiki Page: That means, if you claim that you are working for the biggest exporter in Tau Ceti, they would need to be bigger than NT. And then, they would have a lore page. And they would be mentioned somewhere on our "reference database" (which is a common ingame term for the wiki or the forums). Knowing that NT is a Company that operates out of Tau Ceti is absolute basic lore knowledge. (And yes, they export things out of Tau Ceti) As I have said many times by now: If you would have claimed its a startup, a small company or something else, then we wouldnt have that discussion. If you try to play a char that works for a corp that is bigger than NT, then you will be dealt with like any other person that has records issues. And again, even if you didnt claim you were from the largest exporter of Tau Ceti, you would have been prevented from speaking to engineering/research/security.

Now, as I explained quite a few times already. It wasn't the link that made me believe you are a corporate spy. The crew reports, your attempts at social engineering, they all did that. Yes, by the time I got to the link, there wasnt much you could do to convince me otherwise. You already put enough nails into the coffin yourself. As I explained in my first post. It would have helped if didn't try to claim that you are from the biggest exporter of Tau Ceti. It would have helped if you would have introduced yourself before I am alerted by the crew about a possibly spy. Oh, but I did inform you over LOOC that I couldnt find anything. And I did ask you to send me a link in looc. But you didn't. Also, I did ahelp about that company, to see if I should know about it and if your claim that they are the biggest exporter is correct. We both know how that ahelp ended: They are not the biggest exporter and I do not need to know about them ICly. And to again address the notion that "I shut down your gimmick": I only prohibited you from talking to security, research and engineering. And I explicitly allowed you to talk to Civilian, Supply and Medical. If I wanted to shut it down for good, I would have charged you with corporate espionage and put you in a cell in the brig until transfer.

Regarding the claim that I tried to oocly end it: That is definitly wrong. By the time we were at the "link" I had more than enough reason to shut this down icly (as explained above) and prevent you from talking to engineering/security/research. The link was just my final attempt to reach out to you, so you can provide me ICly with any page where they are listed as something. You decided not to take that chance.

The situation would have been entirely different if you didnt attempt to be bigger and more important than you were. Of course I expected a OOC link to that lore page of the company that is according to you the biggest exporter of Tau Ceti. It is after all to prevent me from making the same mistake again in the future. If you wouldn't have claimed that this company is the biggest exporter of Tau Ceti, I would have never had a reason to request a link to its web page (which as I said multiple times I expected to be a lore page that explains the company) However, the outcome would be the same regardless. In the end, the link didnt have that much influence as I outlined above. I would have still ordered you not to speak with security / research / engineering. Yes, I can see how I might have been able to handle the "link" a bit better, but as I said the end result would have been the same. Now, regarding your "memory loss" it seems to come and go as it suits you. I never claimed that. When we were talking to Zelmana in LOOC, they said that "they (Gilthari Exports) are definitely not the highest exporter in Tau Ceti. To which you responded with: "I have never said that". I am sure that the logs can give us a definite answer and would help us resolve that "memeory loss" of yours.

Oh, and in case you try to claim that you never said that Gilthari Exports is the biggest exporter of Tau Ceti like you did in LOOC. Here is the screenshot to refresh your memories

First of all, I would like to mention a few things: It´s always nice to only post very specific parts of a conversation The possibility of spies on the station has been established by the lore and is a very real one. (We even have paperwork on how to identify a spy in our forms system) Well, sometime towards the two hour mark, I have received a PDA message from our roboticist, about a suspicious person that is asking questions about their workplace. I inquired who that person might be and they replied that it is James Turner and mention that they might be a corporate spy. So I head there and indeed notice them standing in front of robotics and questioning them. I inquire regarding their employer and their reason for questioning the robotics staff. They mention a company (Gilthari Exports) and the Corporate Safety Act 2455 both of which I have never heard of OOCly. During the conversation they mentioned that their employer is the biggest exporter of Tau Ceti. So I check the forums and the wiki, both came up empty. If Gilthari Exports is the biggest exporter of Tau Ceti (and not NT) then I am sure there would be a single mention of them somewhere on the wiki or the forums. For good measure I ask the HoS that came by if he knew about that company or the Corporate Safety Act, he didnt know about that aswell Now I ask the HoP, again nothing. Then I ahelp and ask if that is something I should know about. Now, after every single head of staff told me that they didnt know about the company that is supposedly the biggest exporter of Tau Ceti I was intrigued and confused. How is it possible that not a single person on command staff knows about "the biggest exporter of Tau Ceti". During the conversation they repeatedly tried to use standard social engineering tactics: Pressuring the other party. Trying to scare them by threatening them with their superiors. Trying to make the matter time sensitive. All these are basic social engineering tactics that are used to pressure someone into doing something that they shouldn't. Given the very real possibility of spies within our lore it is reasonable that command staff and especially the captain is trained in recognizing these tactics. Now I was almost certain that I have a corporate spy infront of me. They have been reported as inquiring into sensitive areas They used "the biggest exporter of Tau Ceti" as reference and not a single one of my heads of staff knew about it They attempted to use basic social engineering tactics. So as a last attempt I inquired if they have a website where I can verify their claims (I expected a link to the wiki, or the forums as the biggest exporter of Tau Ceti would surely be mentioned somewhere) All I got, was a made up link. So yes. I shut it down. I had enough reason to believe that they are a corporate spy. And Zelmana informed me that they are not the biggest exporter of Tau Ceti and that I do not have to know about this company. Therefore I prohibited them from interviewing personnel from the security, engineering or research department and let them off. I explicitly told them that they may interview personnel from the service, supply and the medical department. With all these clues that they are a corporate spy, I could have easily thrown them into security and have the detective question them and ask security to question any person they have talked with to determine what intelligence they might have extracted from them, I didnt. I merely warned them not to question engineering, security and research about their workplace. Now as a final note: If you want to play a visitor that questions people regarding their workplace, then please do the following things: Do not claim that you are from the biggest exporter of Tau Ceti, when you are not Do not try to use social engineering tactics on the captain of the station Maybe introduce yourself at the start of the shift to the captain, so he is aware of your presence and he can tell the departments that "Yeah, that visitor is alright." If you dont inform command of your presence, question people regarding their departments, provide false references and use social engineering tactics then you have to expect to be treated as a corporate spy. Edit: I might have mixed up the chain of events a bit, but it was about 2am in the morning

Reporting Personnel: Paul Jonson Rank of Reporting Personnel: Captain Game ID: bTy-cXUm Personnel Involved: (Name, Rank: Offender/Witness/Other (Ckey)) - Winoa Summers - Alexander Farson (Offender) - Khaled Al-Bastaki (Witness to the RDs statement) Time of Incident: Real time: 22:30 GMT+1 Location of Incident: Medical Nature of Incident: []Workplace Hazard []Accident/Injury []Destruction of Property [x]Neglect of Duty []Harassment []Assault [x]Misconduct [x]Other: Malpractive Overview of the Incident: RD Summers died due to a incident with a shocked vending machine. The crew member responsible has been charged with murder. After they have been cloned Mr. Farson treated RD Summers. On the transfer shuttle I asked RD Summers if they were alright and they reported that: * They have been placed next to their corpse by Mr. Farson * Mr. Farson´s cane was covered in blood * They have been yelled at by Mr. Farson to leave the medical bay. As the transfer shuttle was departing, I did not have enough time to investigate these incidents. A arrest warrant has been filed to detain and question Mr. Farson regarding these allegations, however he was nowhere to be found on the shuttle. Did you report it to a Head of Department or IAA? If so, who?: Incident has been reported to me upon transfer Actions taken: Arrest Warrant filed. Mr. Farson could not be located. Additional Notes: I have adviced the RD to file a IR herself, however I am unsure if she was able to do so.

Went out of his way to help me answer a lore question regarding a company named Gilthari Exports. There was no info about it on the forums or the wiki. They finally found out that its a minor corporation that is mentioned in the char preferences

I completely agree with that. Wearing the suit in a retracted state isnt the problem. The problem is people running around with it enabled, without any cause and using the suits leg actuators to leap around inside of the station. However, adding another timer to deploy the parts, after the initial deployment is highly inconvenient and another major incentive not to use the rig. You already need to wait quite a while for it to deploy initially and can put on a voidsuit instantly. Players that use the rig inside of the station should be dealt with using administrative actions not by implementing code restrictions that inconvenience all players.

I definitely support this idea. It´s no longer cheap and easy to bring back a IPC and it adds real consequences to dieing for them. Which is something that they are lacking at the moment. There are no brain traumas that need to be cured. There is no CMD that needs to be dealt with. There is no counselling they need to go through. And I like the idea that you don't get back into your original body but you have to adapt to a new body. While the new body is slightly weaker and a generic one, it still allows them to come back. And it´s only for the current round. Enabling cargo to ship in custom parts / premade shells is a very nice idea. It would allow the IPC Player to get back into a somewhat customized body while preventing that from occurring too often as there is a heavy price tag associated with the new, custom body.

I like that idea. But then you will see people filling their backpack with tea and go for a spacewalk without a suit and only internals

Well, I have thought a bit about this. I only really noticed it when I saw all these names next to eachother. Regarding that: If you work for a company then generally all the ideas and concepts you produce are owned by that company. Even if you work on something in your freetime it would be very difficult to not get into legal trouble as the company can always argue that you have used knowledge gained from your work to produce these patents (Especially if you work in the same field at the company). Therefore I find it somewhat questionable if SUKH is anything more than just a naming convention of the devices produced. (Or don't you think that NT would sue you into the ground to claim these "patents and "intellectual properties" for themselves, especially when you were employed with them when you made them) I generally do not conciser the AI (or borgs) synthetic for command applications as they do not show how a player works as part of the crew. However, I am somewhat interested in seeing how your RD is going to turn out. So I am cautiously looking forward to it.

I really like the idea of a trading hub. However that would require major remaps as the current layout isn't that suitable for a trading hub.

To address a few points mentioned: Original Reason for the nerf Back in 2016 (I think) we had the issue of telescience being regularly used to pinpoint teleport people into N2O filled chambers and then convert them as cult. Thats why the equations have been reworked to prevent pin-point teleporting with existing calculators. As far as I know there are still no prebuilt calculators available. However, with a bit of research and math it is possible to make one yourself. The point that there is "no progression" Telescience is limited by the number of bluespace crystals installed. Since can upgrade Telescience, if they research the crystals produce them and insert them into the console. In addition: you can figure out roughly the area that you are going to land in, if you guestimate the values. You can always fine-tune the position by teleporting them back again and readjusting. Once you have figured out how the three settings effect that, the next step is to start working on the equations. So if you invest some time you can master these skills up to pin-point teleportation. It follows the general principle of easy to learn and (relatively) hard to master. Current misuse I currently do not see misuse of telescience. Most of the people operating it, use it responsibly and usually in a interesting fashion. There were a few incidents with a specific telescientist, but they have been dealt with. It is by far not as bad as in 2016 when we nerfed it the last time. Random Damage / Equation Changes Randomness in the equations is not a good solution. It would be similar to randomizing the engine setup each shift and will lead to even less use of telescience. One option that would be worth looking into is tieing it more heavily to the bluespace crystals and reducing the number tsc starts with. Or even tie it to meta-research once that is implemented

Do you name all your chars after Russian Avionics Engineers / Leaders of Russian Experimental Design Bureaus ? Sukhoi = Company that produces (amongst others) the Russian Su Aircraft (OKB-51) Mikulin = Well known engine designer (OKB-24) Viktor Lavochkin = OKB-301 Ilya Mikoyan = OKB-155 Kimi Myasishchev = OKB-23 / OKB-482 Nikita Yakovlev = OKB-47 I do not like the idea of naming crew members after persons that have made significant contributions in the same field. I might be able to overlook that if it was a janitor, but not if they are a scientist or a engineer. It is like creating a engineer Char who´s named after Prosche Or a Head of Security who is named after Rommel In addition Sukhoi is well known for being a troublemaker. I do not see how NT would allow a RD to work at the same time into his own pockets. (If you were to make Sukhoi a RD) (I dont see how they allow that with a scientist either, but thats something for another discussion) A huge -1 until the names are changed and are not those of relevant persons in the same field and until you definitely say that you wont have a RD with his own little side-company +1 for your AI, but thats not the topic here.

I dont think that the raiders have access to the mg right now. So there could be a usecase for a mg-light that has less damage output and less ammo than the normal mg but can still serve as a area denial weapon due to its multiple shots, spread and rather large magazine

You cant get /everything/ done in a round / short-term. Certain items will be behind the non-persistent research and others will be behind the persistent research

This is a different issue and you should ahelp this behavior.

Supporting the vote for dismissal. Local Faxing is already possible with request consoles.

There are a few decent wardens. He´s one of them. So definitly a no, since we cant loose another warden that knows what he´s doing. Overall I had some nice experiences with them. Def. whitelist material

And that is where you are wrong. At my workplace, you have different days off depending on your religion. So the employer needs to know what your religion is.