Edgar Dawnguard's Custom RPED

[HunterRS]

BYOND Key: HunterRS

Character name: Edgar Dawnguard (Only when I am RD)

Item name: Director Dawnguards Rapid Part Exchange Device

Why is your character carrying said item to work? When Edgar was promoted to the research Director Role, he started to work on new projects, one of which is an custom RPED. He wants to use it on shift so he can know which one is his and has his project parts in it.

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Item function(s): Normal RPED functions

Item description: A Rapid Part Exchange Device, used to transfer parts to machines. On the side it says 'Made By Edgar Dawnguard'

Item appearance: Normal RPED, but instead of green light it's purple for the science team, and a small D.D. for Director Dawnguard. It also has a flame decal on it.

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How will you use this to better interact with crew and/or stimulate RP? I can talk about how I made it IC and how it is different, and explain how it works then traditional ones

Additional comments: I was thinking I can only spawn with it when I am in the Research Director Position, and I can get someone to sprite it if this gets accepted. I don't know if this gives me an advantage but you can make RPED's normally

[Lohikar]

Aren't custom items supposed to not give you an advantage? RPED does take some resources to make, and I don't think you can make it with base research levels.

[HunterRS]

Reading through other apps they have stuff that can give you ana advantage. And anyone can get an rped in less then 5 minutes, its not just for wanting to not wase materials, i was just thinking of something Edgar would have and this is one of them.

[Chaznoodles]

In-game item that gives an advantage, no thanks. Just make one.

[HunterRS]

I see plenty of items that can give an advantage, and I normally only make a rped at all

[Ron]

You know he has to do research anyways to get useful parts to actually replace right??? And to get to those parts you also unlock the normal item anyways right??? He isn't asking for advanced level parts, this gives no advantage at all, he still has to do research to use it effectively. Its just cosmetics. A little bit of research before you reply to a thread goes a long way friends.

[VileFault]

It just seems like this adds... nothing. I mean, it cuts a bit out of your setup, but that is a mechanical advantage and therefore a point against you. Your single sentence devoted to why this would be good for RP says you can talk about how it is "how it is different than traditional ones." What? Like, you plan on discussing in detail how a box you hold in your hand switches parts in a machine? I don't see how that ever becomes interesting. The flame decal is... cute? But weird, especially for a 37 year old scientist on a research station. It feels like the sort of childish thing I would expect from an 18 year old lab assistant. But then again, I might just be an old grumpy no-fun.

This just seems pointless, bad for the atmosphere, and mechanically advantageous. I think, if you really want something like this, use a labeler on a regular RPED. That should allow you to tag it, right?

[Ron]

It just seems like this adds... nothing. I mean, it cuts a bit out of your setup, but that is a mechanical advantage and therefore a point against you. Your single sentence devoted to why this would be good for RP says you can talk about how it is "how it is different than traditional ones." What? Like, you plan on discussing in detail how a box you hold in your hand switches parts in a machine? I don't see how that ever becomes interesting. The flame decal is... cute? But weird, especially for a 37 year old scientist on a research station. It feels like the sort of childish thing I would expect from an 18 year old lab assistant. But then again, I might just be an old grumpy no-fun.

This just seems pointless, bad for the atmosphere, and mechanically advantageous. I think, if you really want something like this, use a labeler on a regular RPED. That should allow you to tag it, right?

It cuts out him pressing a button and printing something. God forbid. I'm sure he will be able to preform 100% better than someone without this custom RPED and will lead to influx of requests for custom RPED's so that they could also match up to Edgar's one button advantage that does nothing you can't do without an REPD.

http://forums.aurorastation.org/viewtopic.php?f=100&t=7303 This stops him from having to get a cap and rename it with a hand labeler.

http://forums.aurorastation.org/viewtopic.php?f=99&t=2199 Same as above

Also, half of the custom items adds nothing at all except for the person who has it so don't pull that card.

Also, why are you judging someone else's character. If he wants to RP being a bit childish ICly allow him to do so, you are not the roleplay police and it hurts no one as long as its not excessive. I hate it when people are anal over other peoples characters like that.

[incognitojesus]

It just seems like this adds... nothing. I mean, it cuts a bit out of your setup, but that is a mechanical advantage and therefore a point against you. Your single sentence devoted to why this would be good for RP says you can talk about how it is "how it is different than traditional ones." What? Like, you plan on discussing in detail how a box you hold in your hand switches parts in a machine? I don't see how that ever becomes interesting. The flame decal is... cute? But weird, especially for a 37 year old scientist on a research station. It feels like the sort of childish thing I would expect from an 18 year old lab assistant. But then again, I might just be an old grumpy no-fun.

This just seems pointless, bad for the atmosphere, and mechanically advantageous. I think, if you really want something like this, use a labeler on a regular RPED. That should allow you to tag it, right?

It cuts out him pressing a button and printing something. God forbid. I'm sure he will be able to preform 100% better than someone without this custom RPED and will lead to influx of requests for custom RPED's so that they could also match up to Edgar's one button advantage that does nothing you can't do without an REPD.

http://forums.aurorastation.org/viewtopic.php?f=100&t=7303 This stops him from having to get a cap and rename it with a hand labeler.

http://forums.aurorastation.org/viewtopic.php?f=99&t=2199 Same as above

Also, half of the custom items adds nothing at all except for the person who has it so don't pull that card.

Also, why are you judging someone else's character. If he wants to RP being a bit childish ICly allow him to do so, you are not the roleplay police and it hurts no one as long as its not excessive. I hate it when people are anal over other peoples characters like that.

Let's just uh. Chillax here. As for this app, I definitely say it provides a mechanical advantage which is against what custom items are for, and this honestly should get denied. You say it saves you from having to waste materials on it, but isn't that kind of.... the point of science? If you're going for maxxing out things as quickly as possible, I don't think a custom item should serve to help you bypass that even further. It doesn't seem like it really adds much, honestly.

[Serveris]

Going to have to agree with IJ here. This seems to provide minimal backstory/fluff support to the character, and I seriously doubt you're going to be able to spin much significance off of it ICly, especially with the very cursory information you listed here in the application, which to be honest, looks like you just wrote it down to get the question out of the way.

For shit like this, people have often applied for an item that reskins, renames, and adds a unique description to existing items. Like, those mech customization kits that shaft miners used to get. They provided no mechanical advantage - because spawning in with a RIPLEY at round start is definitely something we can't allow - yet it still provided something to individualize the character.

If you're really keen on having a unique RPED, perhaps one of these customization kits would be more appropriate. Because there's no way you're getting an RPED from the get-go.

[HunterRS]

I completely understand where you both are going with, i just wanted to put this and see where this goes, i thought 95% chancd this was going to be denied. I dont care if it is, i kinda expected it. And i came up witha simple solution i can roll with, i dont use it until i have the levels for it

Also yes i still have to get parts for it, im not asking for it to have all the parts, how about you cna half the number of parts it can hold since its a prototype

And serveris, if that is possible to just get an item to reskin it when i make one, i can rp it, no biggie.

Also vile, i couldnt think of a proper decal for it so i just rolled with that one.

[HunterRS]

I was thinking about this, what if I can come onboard with an RPED chassis, and I have to add the materials needed to make one so I still use normal materials, just a thought.

[Zundy]

Just get the reskin lil'homie then there will be no issues. If you spawn in with an RPED then you get an unfair advantage; it's the same rules for say sec' officers, they can't have custom pistols even though "they could easily just grab one anyway in like 1 minute".

[TishinaStalker]

Application denied due to being for RD and player no longer having a head of staff whitelist.