[Reach the highest number without an admin posting]

thats TWO times i had to heal you for severe burns.. STOP RUNNING INTO FIRES!

[Prototype medibeam]

3 hours ago, EvadableMoxie said:

The problem is once science starts making these you might as well tell all the Doctors to go to Cryo because their job is now pointless. At least with the ERT beams they are rare and not so easy to get your hands on.  If they are an R&D item, you could print 30 of them and give them to every department and close down Medbay. 

Negative, the doctors job is already pointless if Chems is working and the fridge is stocked, or the sleepers are upgraded, or the cryotubes work. Anyone that can enter medbay or is let into medbay heals themself anyway.

 

The point of a doctor is that they need to specialize in fixing oddball problems (infections/genetic disorders) and surgery. A mounted medi-beam that heals basic damages wont change a doctors purpose. Its just a better-medbot. A medbeam wont bring back the dead, it wont cleanse toxins from your body (nerfed version), it wont de-blind you or heal organs or bones... it just performs what synthflesh/pentetic/saline already do.

 

Ideally it'd be tuned to require uranium to produce as well, limiting it to only 3-4 are produced and attached to bots or healing turrets or given to paramedics.

 

This is a fantastic idea really. Lets the doctors focus on getting better at surgery (now with the infection PR, surgery is even more labor intensive and annoying which has only made shadowlings and tspiders stronger than ever..)

 

If youre worried about sec powergaming it, make it take up both hand slots or function as a backpack sprayer, and have a range of 1 tile unless its turret-mounted.

[NERF STUNS]

On 4/15/2017 at 6:25 AM, ZN23X said:

There has actually been alot of discussion for this lately. For everything that stuns or knocks down. Including disarm.

except then you start treading on vampires and shadowpeople, and we dont need to make slings any stronger than they already are, compared to security , considering they can already just thrall you through a mindshield with a small delay.

[Admin actions over nonexistant rules]

7 minutes ago, ZomgPonies said:

If we want to aim for medium RP, rules should fit with the lore we're trying to enforce.

IPCs, Vox and Plasmamen get away from having only a single name, as long as the name fits the lore.

All other species need 2 names, and players for the most part pick lore-appropriate names, but we're much more lenient on the names fitting lore.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, we're looking at clarifying the naming rules now, but remember that at the end of the day the admins are the final arbiters of what constitutes an appropriate name. He was fully in the right to ask you to pick a last name.

Is there really no consideration for backstory/RP reasons behind the choice to have a single name?

[Admin actions over nonexistant rules]

Just now, Spacemanspark said:

Before I begin, vox/ IPCs are specifically given special rights in terms of names, due to, well, what they are.

As for the rest of this, my ruling of your name comes from me talking with other administrators and getting a confirmation that, yes, a last name is required. Prior to requesting you change yours, I had /just/ fixed someone else's name.

It's also something thats not in the rules aside from 'Having a last name is suggested unless your character has a reason for it.

Rather than listening  to the reason that is established, the action was simply handed down as word from god.

I'm not 'Joe the Human'. The character has a self-assigned nickname with a reason behind it, down to the etymology and roots of the word that was being used being integrated with the backstory. The assigned nickname is also unique enough to have spawned differences in what people call her based on their familiarity and has even spawned interesting RP elements on the interaction with radio/written text.

[Admin actions over nonexistant rules]

Admin Key: Spacemanspark

Your Discord name (if applicable): Valkuma

Complaint: Pestered two days in a row over having a character with no 'last name' despite playing this charcter for a month or so now. This character also has a full RP backstory regarding her origin and last name status. Spacemanspark was not interested in any result other than my character having an arbitrary last name. I dont want to be banned for ignoring him but this isnt even listed in the rules. Additionally if this WAS to be a community requirement, every Vox/IPC on the station is also missing a last name.

 

When offered having a good reason for no last name, my statement was ignored and instead Spacemanspark continued to pester me to offer a name immediately. and the following day even removed me to the lobby so that i could change the name of my character (i did not, and instead sat out the round and made someone new rather than ruin my character profile to fit a rule that doesnt exist)

[Additions to the Grab intent]

I wouldnt mind improvements to grabbing at all. It seems like the only option you have as someone getting harassed by greytide is to disarm them or hit them with something big enough they'll get scared but not big enough you'll get ahelped for it.

Note: calling security isnt really an option when youre on with 80 people and 3 officers

 

[Request: Source for all the sweet art / midi's that were done on Paradise?]

Heyo,

 

So with the server-borking that happened on March 31st we got to see that really cool background for the old version of the server which inspired me to make this request.

 

Does anyone have sources for all the sweet SS13 artwork / voicework that are used on Paradise? Im thinking the psychotic clown pic + the 'brimming glass of clowns' kind of stuff.