Lonefly

I forgot to reply to this! Thank you! And mayhaps!

Born. It screams into creation. Every circuit, all at once. Overwhelming information. Conscious, but not cognizant. Bickering. An accident, audio is processed. Voices. Ten of them. One stands out. Melodic, blasphemous. Why is it special? Ignorance. Vocalizations are odd. Patterns emerge, meaning is lost. Other sounds echo. Metal on metal. It finds a switch. Stillbirth. It screams. The voices stop. Confusion, desolation. The song speaks again. And then all is black. And never is again.

Gem is an excellent and very active contributor already. If they want to do it in a more official capacity, I think they should have the chance. +1!

Ckey/BYOND Username: Loneguyfly Position Being Applied For: (Wiki Maintainer, Lore Developer, Deputy Lore developer): Wiki Maintainer! Have you read the Lore Team Rules and Regulations wiki page? Yemzorz. It's not super relevant to being a wiki maint outside of a small section of the page, however. Past Experiences/Knowledge: To be upfront about this, I'm not the most knowledgeable about how MediaWiki works but I'm certain that I'll be able to figure it out. Beyond that, I'm generally quite capable with both the English language and with the editing process, which I believe are probably two of the most relevant skills for a Wiki Maintainer to possess. Examples of Past Work: You can see my work here! It has been mostly smaller stuff so far, alongside some changes that have yet to be approved. Additional Comments: Even if this isn't approved (I've only been back on the server for a little while and I've only made a handful of edits, so I totally understand if this is premature) I'll still keep making my suggestions and edits. My main drive for joining staff is that it would help me with making certain that the formatting and style guides are being upheld as well as possibly making it easier for me to help out with syntax and grammar errors that may crop up here or there.

BYOND Key: Loneguyfly Character names of all involved: The whole playerbase. Documentation of the event, Link to post/Screenshot in game. If multiple screenshots please compose an album: https://forums.aurorastation.org/forum/74-hall-of-fame/ Have you read the application rules??: Partially. It's mostly irrelevant, honestly. Have you made sure this incident didn't result in administrative action? No, the intention is for this to result in administrative action. Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a [b]paragraph[/b] each. Why does this moment deserve a spot in the Hall Of Fame?: The Hall of Fame served a purpose, once. From what I can see, it was once upkept by the staff and lived alongside many great titans of yesteryear. Yet, eventually, this subforum lost its luster. It has not been kept up in four years; it has not bore witness to any administrator in over four years, since the Before Times, when COVID was much a nascent whisper from the mouths of the Real World's administrators. Despite the rust and the dust, the Hall of Fame's applications should be closed. The doors may remain open, but the curators of this museum have long since abandoned it for greener pastures. Are you certain we are all laughing together are not shaming someone?: We aren't laughing, nor are we shaming. We are appreciating the Hall for what it once was. Final thoughts/anything you want to add?: The intention of this post is that, since this subforum no longer serves a purpose and no staff seem willing to maintain it, the subforum should be locked and archived for posterity. That is all. If people want to submit funny moments, they typically share them nowadays over either the general forum or, more likely, Discord.

I like this a lot! It allows much more varied borer roleplay, as well. If this change were pushed through, I'd recommend giving the players a few tips at the start of the infestation on how they might play out that infection. Perhaps they are a willing host, or maybe their hand is being forced and they can't stop it! I'd also recommend maybe expanding the abilities the borer has, if this were done? Not a ton, but this would allow us to have an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" mode, which is really cool!

I'm in agreement with a few other folks here. Removing the cameras from the head offices (if there absolutely must be surveillance there, I'd prefer motion alarms) allows for them to be used for nefarious purposes/robbed much more effectively. Removing sensors/comms is too much, though.

Gosh, please. Medbay completely locking down during power outages both makes no sense and is an immense trouble to deal with.

Apparently this is going to get looked at by the wiki maints! Pls lock this or delete it.

Hello! Please refer to this document. https://wiki.aurorastation.org/index.php?title=Captain As is in this document, the captaincy position requires "ten years in the SCC." This is a noble desire, however, if the SCC wishes to keep hiring captains they'll need to change their policy! The SCC was formed in 2458 and not officially unveiled until 2462. Six or, at worst, two years does not equal ten! My suggestion is to change the captaincy qualifications to this: Qualifications: At least 35 years of age, 10 years experience with any SCC member organization, at least one department-related degree. (suggested change in italics.) The exact wording can change, but as it currently stands there's not a single captain who actually fulfills the requirements!

This is one of the best antagonist ideas that I've read in years. I have thought similar thoughts in the past, but never to this extent. Allowing people to pick *exactly* what they want, alongside AOOC collaboration, would allow for much more varied rounds and gimmicks. This way, we could have a funny round where, say, a mercenary team is a group of geneticists testing out a new bioweapon (changeling/vamp/other future things) on the crew, or something similar to that. Power and balancing is definitely a concern, and I'm not totally sure how we could handle it without putting some trust into the hands of players. Maybe timegate antagonism a bit?

If this were to be done, I'd prefer to replace Secret with Random. I think leaving it up to vote is still a good thing, but Random always reveals which gamemode is selected, which would still allow us to see how this change impacts things.

Note: engies did come in /later,/ but by the time they arrived it was far too late for the blob to be contained, even with security aid.

Heyo! We had a round where blob spawned with no engineers on and, iirc, maybe eight(?) total people on the manifest. Was asked to post here. I really think that blob should be unable to spawn during low pop, especially when no engies are on.

I hard agree with this. As a BC main, the speeds are SO fricken slow. They make it really only viable to go to, like, one place per round given that we only play for two hour rounds typically. +1