Erik Tiber

I'd just like everyone to note that this is literally everything Cassie ever said put into a topic.

Seems like an idea with huge potential, and great to hear that it's probably possible to implement on the code side. Expand the service sector and give it a larger role to accommodate if you need to. There's obvious challenges associated with rolling out something of such complexity and a number of quite important problems you'd need to address to ensure that money actually stays valuable. Maybe some-such about medical care or augment maintenance/software upgrades or whatever. You can figure it out yourself. Personal advice, do some research on what people spend money on IRL, try to see why people on Aurora might behave differently or similarly and how the incentives and environment they face are different. Would seriously advise including some IRL costs alongside sci-fi costs. Try to make it a bit exciting or whatever rather than boring and mundane. Point is, this has the potential to be big. I'm interested to see how it goes down. If it falls flat, you can revise it, or attempt to partially salvage it at the least. I'd say it's definitely worth a try. I've heard the idea floated around before, and it'd be nice to finally see a serious attempt at putting it into action to get some idea of whether or not this is really possible.

Actually, let me clarify. This is posted at the request Inverted Rectum/Haruspex, because he believed that you are misrepresenting him. He is not posting it himself because he requested that his account be deleted. This post is intended purely for the purposes of clarification so as to end any confusion which may result from these misconceptions; any further replies on the subject can be taken to PM and will not be replied to by me in this thread. The forum rules were referenced during the writing of this post, so as to ensure that it does not violate the rules. If this post is too off-topic, I would request that it be moved to its own thread, so that this entire matter can be conclusively put to rest. Haruspex left over a significant disagreement with Doomberg. It centered on Doomberg's official capacity and relevance, and there was signficant personal animosity. The particular event leading to him leaving involves an administration decision to which Doomberg was party (I will not go into detail in this thread). He left because of this decision primarily. There was a personal reason, not quite a misunderstanding, and the conflict involved significant personal animosity. He then moved on from SS13 with significant hard feelings. Now that this tangent is completely clarified, it can now be concluded with no further discussion in this thread. I will not reply to anyone further talking about this in this thread. I would request that everyone politely conclude this discussion, and take any such discussion to PM's.

Maybe people should try to like, make the game fun for everyone. Including antags. Since it's a game. Antags ain't hired to do this shit, yo. And Jackboot, stop making me like your posts. I'm supposed to hate you.

Actually, College results in a very good return on investment and the return in terms of increase in wages per year of education actually increase the longer you attend. The wage gap between people with and without degrees has been growing since the 1970's, and a lack of higher education is the primary reason for the stagnation of wages and increase in income inequality over the past few decades, due to labor now having a lower return relative to capital due to a shortage of high-skilled workers. This is why high skilled workers are seeing their wages rise higher and higher relative to unskilled labor. I know all this because of my college macroeconomics course. Alternatively, going to a technical school has good return.

Please don't, I don't want a premature lock to compromise the integrity of my statistics. I've already updated my chart

Well, to gauge the performance of these various threads over time, I've taken the liberty of creating a graph. As you can see, there's a clear spike in activity around May. Allow me to explain why that is not indicative of a larger trend. Now, I've been taking a stats course. Delta has only made six threads so far regarding either a leave of absence or plans/indications thereof, so I don't have too many data points to work with. But, I can determine that the thread from may was a likely outlier in the trend. To explain, let's do some statistical analysis. Sample: 3, 5, 12, 15, 15, 73 Q1=5 Median: 13.5 Q3=15 Interquartile range = 10 Now, determining the outlier from the interquartile range, any values lower than -1.5 or higher than 28.5 would be considered outliers. The value of the standard deviation would likely yield similar results. From this, we can now clean up our sample to more accurately gauge the amount of attention a hypothetical "Delta leaves" thread would receive at a given point in time. Looking at it this way, there appears to be a gradual increase around the first half of the year, before stagnating at 15. Although the value for this thread is 12 now, this is likely to rise. This would give us a clear but steady increase over the course of the year. By this time next year, you can expect each thread to be yielding somewhere around 25 posts a pop. Pretty anemic growth, but it's still a feat to sustain that growth over such a long period of time. Whether we'll actually see this come to fruition, however, depends on whether the outcome of this thread will resemble the outcome of the past five. In all seriousness; actions speak louder than words. BREAKING NEWS: I have just been informed that I missed one of the data points. This really overturns my previous hypothesis. Now, the trend is far more irregular, the growth much more gradual.

Well, to gauge the performance of these various threads over time, I've taken the liberty of creating a graph. As you can see, there's a clear spike in activity around May. Allow me to explain why that is not indicative of a larger trend. Now, I've been taking a stats course. Delta has only made six threads so far regarding either a leave of absence or plans/indications thereof, so I don't have too many data points to work with. But, I can determine that the thread from may was a likely outlier in the trend. To explain, let's do some statistical analysis. Sample: 3, 5, 12, 15, 15, 73 Q1=5 Median: 13.5 Q3=15 Interquartile range = 10 Now, determining the outlier from the interquartile range, any values lower than -1.5 or higher than 28.5 would be considered outliers. The value of the standard deviation would likely yield similar results. From this, we can now clean up our sample to more accurately gauge the amount of attention a hypothetical "Delta leaves" thread would receive at a given point in time. Looking at it this way, there appears to be a gradual increase around the first half of the year, before stagnating at 15. Although the value for this thread is 12 now, this is likely to rise. This would give us a clear but steady increase over the course of the year. By this time next year, you can expect each thread to be yielding somewhere around 25 posts a pop. Pretty anemic growth, but it's still a feat to sustain that growth over such a long period of time. Whether we'll actually see this come to fruition, however, depends on whether the outcome of this thread will resemble the outcome of the past five. In all seriousness; actions speak louder than words. BREAKING NEWS: I have just been informed that I missed one of the data points. This really overturns my previous hypothesis. Now, the trend is far more irregular, the growth much more gradual.

You started smoking over a fucking videogame. And then you implied that you had started binge-drinking. You don't say that you've just 'taken up drinking' in that context to say that you're doing that stuff in moderation and being a responsible adult, which you now legally are. Given that you currently reside in the United States, you aren't even drinking age yet.

You started smoking over a fucking videogame. And then you implied that you had started binge-drinking. You don't say that you've just 'taken up drinking' in that context to say that you're doing that stuff in moderation and being a responsible adult, which you now legally are. Given that you currently reside in the United States, you aren't even drinking age yet.

But seriously, consider it. This shit is not healthy for you, and you know it. You're telling people about how you've taken up substance abuse because of this game, twice. I really, really think you should take a break, maybe of a few months at the least. Because you've made choices that have actual seriousface consequences, in what I can only assume is an attempt to fish for sympathy.

But seriously, consider it. This shit is not healthy for you, and you know it. You're telling people about how you've taken up substance abuse because of this game, twice. I really, really think you should take a break, maybe of a few months at the least. Because you've made choices that have actual seriousface consequences, in what I can only assume is an attempt to fish for sympathy.

I advise that you just take a break from the computer for a while. For real. Just, try doing something else. Reading, maybe. Focus on schoolwork, or meeting people. You're really getting way too caught up in all this. I was too, but not to your extent. Then I left. By now I've stopped playing. Previously I was quite addicted, and overuse of the game and playing at late hours was a major contributing factor to me having to drop one course and failing another my first semester at college. And the next semester, it was still an issue. Just cut it off, don't go back to it like you did all the other times you've said you'd leave. And I'm not saying this to be a dick. I'm legit concerned here. And, before you go. EDIT: Nevermind, you've quit smoking. Just. Don't binge drink, alright? Not over this.

I advise that you just take a break from the computer for a while. For real. Just, try doing something else. Reading, maybe. Focus on schoolwork, or meeting people. You're really getting way too caught up in all this. I was too, but not to your extent. Then I left. By now I've stopped playing. Previously I was quite addicted, and overuse of the game and playing at late hours was a major contributing factor to me having to drop one course and failing another my first semester at college. And the next semester, it was still an issue. Just cut it off, don't go back to it like you did all the other times you've said you'd leave. And I'm not saying this to be a dick. I'm legit concerned here. And, before you go. EDIT: Nevermind, you've quit smoking. Just. Don't binge drink, alright? Not over this.