Karma
Karma is a points system used by the Paradise Station SS13 server to reward players for good behaviour, roleplay and creative play as well as to restrict races and jobs that are either powerful (e.g Vox and Sec Pod Pilot) or require an experienced player in its position (NT Rep, Magistrate).
Rules regarding Karma
Rules regarding Karma are covered under Rule 14 on the Rules Page and on the Rules tab on the SS13 Game client. The rules read as follows:
"14. Karma:
Swapping Karma between friends repeatedly or other methods of 'Farming' is an offense that may result in being banned from the Karma system and all of its unlocks. Our Karma system is in place to reward good players, not those who have a friend to swap with every round. You are also forbidden to attempt reverse-engineer the code from the game to attempt at cheating the karma system's functionality."
You are also forbidden from begging for or asking for karma. Saying "I am not begging, but..." doesn't mean you are not begging. You still are. Stop it.
Giving/Recieving Karma
Every Player has one karma point he can issue to any other player at any point during the round. Once they have given that karma point, the player cannot give another player karma until the round ends.
However, a Player can recieve an unlimited (except by player count for obvious reasons) amount of karma points if required.
Karma can also be given out by admins for participating in events or bowing to their whims. Karma can also be given out for contributing to the community. For example, each sprite you create that is submitted to the game can gain you 10 karma points, check the Graphics Section on the Paradise Station Forums (http://80.244.78.90/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=17) and see what contests are going on and make your own sprite dump thread. You don't have to be good, you just have to be good enough!
You can also gain karma by making significant contributions to this very wiki! (HINT. HINT.)
Karma Unlocks
Karma Unlocks are split into Three seperate categories.
Job Unlocks
5KP - Barber 5KP - Brig Physician 10KP- Nanotrasen Recruiter 30KP - Customs Officer 30KP - Blueshield 30KP - Mechanic 30KP - Security Pod Pilot 45KP - Magistrate
Species Unlocks
15KP - Machine Person 30KP - Kidan 45KP - Vox 45KP - Slime Person
Ambassador Unlocks
Ambassadors are not implemented at the moment. Investing Karma Points in Ambassador will be a waste of your points. You must also have the prerequisite race to play as an Ambassador of a particular species. For example, you MUST have Vox unlocked before you can play Vox Ambassador.
Ambassador is presently 30KP and you must unlock each race's ambassador individually.
The following races have diplomatic representation:
Machine People and Humans do not have diplomatic representation. They report to the NanoTrasen Representative for their diplomatic representation as the former are a slave race to NanoTrasen and have no unified diplomatic body, and NanoTrasen IS the diplomatic body for Humanity. Since it's a Human-run corporation.