CobyB

Hi everyone, Just thought I'd write a quick introduction post to kick off the new forum account. My name is CobyB - but you'll usually see me around playing as "Vanessa Thorpe". It was my first day on the station yesterday - and I loved it! (I'm not ashamed to admit that it was my day off, and I spent 12 hours playing - oops!) I'm new to Paradise, but not new to SS13. I've been playing from as far back as 2014/2015, starting on NoX Station (if anyone remembers that server!) and later helping out as an admin. Then, after it shut down, I moved onto Hippie Station - first as a player, and then as an admin for a while too. Around mid-late 2018 I stopped playing Space altogether - some drama within the servers and some personal reasons just meant that I didn't want to play, and I didn't have the time anyway. Recently though, as SS13 as been "thrust into the spotlight" by a couple of big youtubers, some of my friends have started talking about SS13, and were surprised to find out I used to play it myself. Although they've never played before, they had great interest in it, and loved hearing my experiences too. Seeing them talk about the game with such fascination, as well as being so interested in my tales - I guess it rubbed off on me, and reignited my interest as well! I was drawn to Paradise due to it being advertised as the "Perfect Mix of RP & Action" - I've always loved Space, but a common complaint of mine was that I could never find the right balance of silly and serious. High RP servers I found to be too serious - 3 hour rounds of extended with literally nothing happening, and then servers like Hippie - whilst still fun - didn't really let me implement any RP into how I played. From what I've seen with Paradise so far - the mix seems to be pretty great! Anyway, this was an extremely long introduction post and I do apologise - but I look forward to getting to know the server, and the players, a lot more. See you on the station!