monkeysfist101

This rule change was about 50% of why in the span of a week, I went from putting in 45 hours a per week on Paradise to putting in 45 hours per week on Aurora. Paradise is kickass. It's got awesome mechanics, a good community, and high population role playing through the violence and macabre treatment by NT. I'd love to come back to Paradise and have tried multiple times, but every time, it's either a baldie named Johnny Rico or a blue haired greyshirt named Rick Sanches that takes me out of the round. My gaming community used to have Paradise station specifically as one of our primary games for game night. The name change and subsequent loss of immersion drove them away from SS13 as a whole. A few mainline Aurora, Goon, or CM now, but the majority of them (about 20 in the group) are gone because of it. (And a few other changes that happened around the same time that I won't bring up in this thread out of respect for ts people who implemented them.) TL;DR THE PARA IS GOOD. THE RULE IS BAD. SO SAYS ZARDOZ.

I swear the suggestion thread is completely cyclical. While not quite the same (apes vs monkeys) the core idea's still there. Unfortunately, the general consensus of the admins is that we don't need another race. viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4951

-Cough- Shameless necro -cough- viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3178&hilit=xenomorph

Cough. Cough. viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5042

Personally, I'm a fan of our old laws. When enforced properly, they worked out much better in my honest opinion.

How about "Kalsari?"

INB4 new trend is to suicide at round start to get to heaven.

Welcome to the best/worst station this side of Andromeda.

A big no from me. I've put my reasoning on the github.

Have you taken into consideration players with poor connection who rely on using aim of to have any chance of surviving an engagement? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the click spam, but I do know several players who maintain a 0.85 ping at most times who would be absolutely wrecked without the aim function.

On top of that, pod pilots rely on the fact that carp forget about you when you get a certain distance away. As the tile directly in front of the pod deals no damage when the lasers are fired, pilots have to fly off and line up strafing runs. If players were able to control the carp, they would be able to hug the pod without taking damage.

Bump. It's been two weeks without Ponies confirming that he has recieved the sprites through either this post or multiple PMs.

: / The joke is that the dog is Old Yeller. Old Yeller has to be put down so before the boy's father kills him, the boy says, "No, Pop. Old Yeller is my dog. Let me do it."

There's an official Paradise organization? If so, this is not it.

There we go. Invite sent.

We have a group of members specifically geared towards resource exploitation. As the ground team and combat logistics coordinator for out organization, I'm not fully versed on our mining fleet, but I know that we have at least one Orion.

Jedr right now.

In the words of Amren, "You tried mercenary work? It might suit you."

I don't see the issue in this. Just prevent/ignore players claiming to be ERT while not. As far as Syndicate teams go, My headcanon is that they're individual operators chosen for an operation, so the flakier, the better.

All I get from this is that it breaks the Immersion for you. You just gave what you consider an exception to the rule. It has to be all or nothing, otherwise we will keep getting edge cases of "But his name is fine why not mine?" I did not give what I believed an exception to the rule. My first point, referencing Robocop was to imply that any reference should be server-side. Building ED-209 is fine. Claiming that you're Robocop is not. My second example was to show how ripping a character from other media detracts from immersion. If it seems like I'm ragging on Fox, I'm not. I don't have an issue with Fox himself. I just believe that abusing adminship to circumvent the rules of the time is not the kind of standard that should be set for Paradise. With our population, we are currently the flagship for SS13 and should act like it. As far as the Arwing debate went. I'm fully aware that Fox was not the one to suggest the Arwing. He seemed to believe that Paradise did not have permission to use the current sprites and when informed that the sprites were open source still insisted the Arwing be used. Once again, I do not dislike Fox McCloud. I just think that he could have been a little more professional in his practices and was using him as an example for the naming convention.

I'd like to also call to attention the whole Vuplkanin race and the push for the security pod sprite to be turned into an Arwing. This was a gift from Nienhaus, he never even asked for it to be done, so using this for evidence isn't really a good way of going about this. If he himself put the work into this, or asked for it, yes it could. So, what I'm getting from this is that if someone makes me a sprite and I code it myself, I can just give myself all kinds of fluff items, too? Nice! The references are in the code, not in the players. There's a difference between building ED-209 and naming your character Alex Murphy or Robocop (if you're a security borg.) If I take a Vox (if you're saying that wouldn't work because it isn't the right species, keep in mind that before his pet species was added, Fox was playing a tajaran with flavor text claiming it wasn't) and name it Falco Lombardi and act as though I'm that character, people would have an issue with me breaking immersion.

If you're interested, I lead a 25 person strong mercenary band. We have about $15,000 in ships between us. While our main focus is convoy escort, we are also geared towards bounty hunting and cargo hauling. Here's our link: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/orgs/TRAF/members

That's why it should be tied to a mechanic instead of waging a hairly war against the heads of the crew.