Shadeykins

Speaking from experience, allowing people of various races to fluently communicate with each other or understand those secret conversations tends to reduce bullshit cliqueish behaviour. This is an overall boon to roleplay, and actually has alternate languages see greater use.

Agreed. Priority shuttle should just not be a thing unless there's been a shadowling ascendancy or Narnar has been summoned.

Personally opposed unless it's restricted to only be available to IPC characters. It's just going to introduce naming headaches for every other race.

IPCs do not have flash protection, and you still get white screened when trying to weld something. They do not take eye damage, but those are two different things. Additionally, as most of people seem to think welder healing is a buff over conventional chem healing because welders are so common, the other part of your statement makes no sense. Sorry, let me elaborate. Flash protection and welding protection are two different things. I mean welding protection, IE: not taking eye damage. Even with a welding tool, a non-IPC has a disincentive to weld things without proper welding equipment.

Right;; the roboticist who borged me was an antag so I couldn't really do anything about that I'm not really confused on the whole borging thing, its not the first time I've been borged literally out of nowhere, I mostly had a problem with the AI thing the Borg thing was,, mostly there because that was yet another job i'm not very familiar with so it made me panic a little since the (antag) roboticist was telling me to kill someone who was coming to robotics, but I don't know enough to just jump into action as a borg The CE didn't borg me though, he only made me the AI despite me telling him I couldn't do it Whether or not you're capable of doing the job is irrelevant at that point. If the CE was an antagonist, I presume he put you into an AI so he could steal you or enact some other plan that marginally required your services. The comfort of one player is not worth ruining an entire round for an antag. For instance, I have a "steal an AI" objective and a "Murder Harry Partridge" objective. I decide to go after two birds with one stone, and kill Harry Partridge and debrain him. Upon trying to fit his brain into an AI core (which I could then intellicard) I'm met with a message that the player is ineligible, and all my work up until that point (stealing everything to make an AI core, and the intellicard) has been for no reason.

Make the 20TC clown item an cluwne-cream pie launcher that instantly slips a hit target and deals a decent amount of burn damage. Someone killed by the launcher gets cluwned. Ammo for it is generated by either honking your bicycle horn, or hitting something that honks.

Even though this is a small amount of things, the power of starting with a welding tool and flash protection is severely underestimated. Pretty much any situation can be denied by welding a door, as most people don't have welders and even fewer have flash protection.

Forced borging is murder. This is why roboticists are required to make contracts that people have to sign off on, and why it is a relevant option for executions. The correct procedure here is to inform a pertinent member of command (IE: The Captain) about it, and get the CE permabrigged for murder. You shouldn't be confused as to this whole situation (it's understandably frustrating), as you should note that not only did the CE violate spacelaw, he really had no business building an AI in the first place. edit: For future reference, if your laws permit it (IE: they're not an antag who enslaved you via AI laws) you could have a borg arrest them yourself.

McGriff Gruffpants is casting resistance. McGriff Gruffpants casts resistance! McGriff Gruffpants has +1 temporary HP. Just make it dumb things, like the ability to make temporary dim light (a poorman's flashlight) and the ability to summon communion wafers.

Just sounds like a way to encourage cyborgs to meme, which does anything but add to RP. No thank you.

It wasn't shot down hard, as the polls were pretty close to 50% on this issue. I recall that quite clearly, as I was here when you could take secondary racial languages and was appalled by its abrupt removal (as were a lot of people) in one of TigerCat's PR's which refactored language. Honestly any language that is able to be vocalized should be able to be taken as a secondary option - or at the very least if not spoken then understood.

Don't think of it as a convention - it is not a behaviour that emerges or one that can be modified without serious incentivization. There are a lot of people who will simply do as they please irrespective of the established confines that lore or rules may present. While some of this may be due to a general inexperience in writing, more often than not it is a simple disregard for the established norms in favour of presenting themselves in a manner which either they personally prefer or provides more enjoyment for themselves (even if it is at the expense of others). There are people who simply will not abide by established terms, and will go off and do their own thing. Having administrated for RP forums and high-RP gameservers (And I mean paragraph-level writing), the people who go against established convention will more or less always continue to do so. Though it does not generally relate to roleplay, I can think of no greater example than the number of people who successfully appeal a ban only to receive a secondary ban. It demonstrates a lack of willingness to modify behaviour to what is generally regarded as acceptable. There are of course exceptions (as people respond to levels of incentive in various ways), but by and large the established trend is that people will never modify their behaviour if they do not view the repercussions of doing so as problematic. For a great number of people, the value of playing an alien species according to the established lore is often outweighed by their own personal preference/conception of how things should be done. The repercussion for inappropriately playing a species is non-existent as well which provides little incentive for abiding by established lore. Though it would never be implemented here, the incentive successfully utilized on a number of servers is a "roleplay rating" which provides some arbitrary cookie at fixed intervals that can be modified by administrators according to whether or not you're being engaging/interesting and providing something beneficial to the community. The repercussion for being ridiculous/inappropriate with a species was a reduction of this rating, which could be seen as significant in the eyes of some (therefore providing an incentive to modify behaviour for those that were willing to do so). Those who weren't interested in that incentive by and large wouldn't modify their behaviour irrespective of what anyone had to say about it. tl;dr there is no present incentive to accurately play a species according to lore, and some people will never modify their behaviour irrespective of what incentives there are or how many times they may be asked to do so. Hope that rambling paragraph clarifies on what I'm talking about.

Unecessary edge. I havent even given it a thought when making the post. Great job noticing and bringing it up. Horay equality. I was just being my usual derp. If it's not evident already, I'm of the opinion that the chaplain shouldn't really act like a paladin.

What did you guys change to the lore while I was gone Hahahaha that's amazing Burueacracy is death. Also yes, all the racial lore has been changed thus far sans Plasmaman and Vox.

Whether or not someone accurately plays a race has to do with that person's capabilities as a roleplayer and their willingness to abide by established lore/convention. It's got nothing to do with how many other people are playing a species at any given time. Hard mechanics (or fluff) that provides notable differentiation between species would encourage the sort of behaviour you're after. Large amounts of players playing something tends to just make a species mundane/uninteresting.

I think LOOC should be the preferred method of OOC communication as is, really. I seldom see it used in comparison to OOC.

I'd be okay with this, if OOC only muted on roundstart (not lobby), and unmuted at the end of round. I am of course biased, because OOC made a meme out of me.

Chaplains can be women and robots too, and they can also be young. :^) Hence why I voted 3.

NO. Sparky here didn't really answer the question very well (No can be interpreted in two ways here). Yes, that is more or less validhunting. When you are going out of your way to hunt antagonists to valid kill them as a non-security role, it's considered validhunting.

Make auto-accent a character specific feature that you can set and forget, rather than having it on the OOC tab.

Actually I'll say straight out that I haven't had a detomatix cartridge work for me in several months, trying various targets. I have even PDA'd to check if someone's PDA was messenger enabled first (it was), before sending the virii. It always states "Success!" and does nothing.

Fast LINDA exists on /tg/ and works on a system with specs that are on par with ours. From my understanding though our code is also incredibly inefficient when compared against /tg/'s due to the sheer number of maintainers they have over us. As to Ansari, it wasn't ten minute lag. I've been around since ZAS and I've played on servers that still utilize it. It's not as bad as everyone likes to make out. Is it more costly? Sure, but that comes hand in hand with being more reactive and having far greater scope.

I dig it, sans the control the Captain of the NSS Cyberiad has over the Klap. I think while he should be honoured and entreated to certain privileges (much like the NT Rep) his authority on the second station should be "honourary" unless NT directly states otherwise. Also, change the name to something else otherwise you're going to see gonorrhea jokes 24/7.

As per subject title. Scale job slots with population.