/tg/Station 13

mstachife

One of the most pleasant admins to interact with back when I was new, glad to see them back.

mstachife

Used the AHEM mod to 'fix' ME3's ending on my last playthrough, worked great. Honestly felt like part of the game. There's even another mod that lets you play the citadel DLC afterwards to make it feel like a post-game.

mstachife

this assumes reviewing ban appeals is a full time job

mstachife

sinfulbliss wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 2:05 am If someone's spraypainting the floor and sec arrests them for vandalism, and then they yell "SEC BEATING ME" to be funny, it'd be a little excessive to start beating them to a pulp for that.

I wouldn't say excessive, I think it'd be fucking hilarious.

mstachife

That said, something still doesn't seem...right about this solution. I still need to think about it some, but it just kind of feels like a bandaid, you know? Might post here later with my thoughts.

Well, yeah if you think about it every rule after rule 1 is basically a band-aid intended to stop ...

mstachife

See the inherent problem for this is that this behavior is too vague to actually rule against. Building durands and grabbing sec gear isn't against the rules, so what you're doing is banning people based on what they intend to do with that shit which is impossible to prove.

And does building the ...

mstachife

Isn't maximizing your progress towards a given goal literally the definition of powergaming, though? It feels like this is an anti-powergaming rule even if that's not your intention.

Good luck finding a definition of powergaming that everyone agrees with. The problem here that I see that the ...

mstachife

im referring to how most non-antags either A. wont take action on sec/cap/hos to avoid being bwoinked, or B. do take action on sec/cap/hos and end up getting bwoinked, regardless of how valid the action was

Then this is a culture problem not a policy problem which makes this thread more or less ...

mstachife

Well Im not too sure what specifically you want changed then because I'm pretty sure escalation policy is the only place any sort of "protections" for antags/nonantags getting into fights gets mentioned at all.

mstachife

What rule specifically do you want changed / added? because

example 1: Security officer beats a botanist growing weed, critting and nearly killing them, the botanist gets healed and makes a baseball bat, killing the security officer in revenge, the security officer ahelps and the botanist gets a ...

mstachife

most based policy idea 2022

mstachife

Given how easy it is to print boards and subvert the AI I feel any argument about upload access asides from roundstart law changes is kinda moot. You literally need 5-10 seconds alone in the engy or sci lobby and a room to yourself. Most people seem to merely pretend the upload actually matters ...

mstachife

Issue with giving too much freedom to purged AIs is that it will cause people to purge them even less. If ever due to being responsible for it's potential mass murdering. I'd be all for it otherwise.

mstachife

Derek wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:30 am did a very funny scp-914 event that a lot of people got salty about. Personally I think it was very well done and haven't seen a preprogrammed event like this for a long time. Hats off to you and whoever put this together

Had a fun time with the event too, appreciate the work that went into it.

mstachife

Only PAIs should be able to go in a modsuit imo. They don't have binary; it would keep malf AI's round from being total'd. Not to mention it would lead to more people actually using PAIs.

mstachife

I feel any sort of actual ruling here would unnecessarily limit interesting situations that can occur. I like the way it works out normally now with command and security probably kicking in the door if you make one without authorization, but it not being expressly against the rules.

mstachife

pretty cool guy. also runs fun events

mstachife

Kel wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 2:19 am fantasy > 40k
archaon a bitch tho

Yeah GW kinda exploded that unfortunately

mstachife

I think AI's shouldn't be able to call the shuttle in the first place. It's boring and just means everyone leaves at the first sign of harm. Let the crew actually have to fight for access to the console instead of only having to shout "AI call shuttle" in comms.

You know that you can just say ...

mstachife

Not-Dorsidarf wrote: ↑Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:34 pm blech, only for printed boards. Make the actual AI upload boards Premium Boards or something so command staff can futz about with the AI if they please

Doing something like this would have a new hisk-risk item with the premium boards, and could potentially be a new objective.

mstachife

FMPOV--I don't mind as long as they're consistent, since they can't prove if they are or aren't human.

I ask to verify that they are human to follow through the order since it's just a voice over the radio. It sounds human, but I would like more before I begin opening doors and doing random ...

mstachife

Itseasytosee2me wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 1:43 am The radical solution is to not let dead people revive at all.

Then people will want a respawn shuttle, because sitting in ghost chat isnt fun and otherwise we go home after 40 minutes. Then we ask ourselves why we went through all this trouble instead of just having a method to revive ingame.

mstachife

What's the point of all this? What the hell am I arguing? I don't know. It's not like I am making a case for cloning. The big problem is just that defibrillators don't work like that, but mechanically its fine. So maybe you could put some witty flavor text on it about how bullshit it is or ...

mstachife

The issue here is that upon borging, your "job" is not Security Officer - your "job" is Cyborg of whichever model you choose. You may have been a Security Officer before, but you no longer have access to the tools or (usually) the lawset that enables that job, so suck it up and do the job you have ...

mstachife

Maybe, as a compromise, the boards inside the upload itself are multi-use, and you can only print off emergency boards. Traitor boards should be multi-use or have their cost reduced.

Yeah, something like that would actually make the upload marginally more valuable. The upload boards could even ...

mstachife

I disagree. Being able to upload AIs as is has been around for a long long time, and offers a great meta as it is.
If you can steal an AI upload board from secure storage, and pay the telecrystals, you can subvert the AI. If you can get into the upload and disable the turrets with all access/emag ...

mstachife

Don't think there are many who would disagree that this is an issue, given that having access to the circuit printer enables you to to subvert/unsubvert the AI in a matter of about a minute tops. Team antag rounds often get in a battle with competing uploads slapping boards on them as fast as they ...

mstachife

One of the best admins that frequents manuel, without a doubt. Always makes the round more interesting and fun to play.

mstachife

Issue with heretic imo is the RRing and blade break spamming. Some heretics will throw heads back in medical, but lets be honest waking up naked in medical (assuming your head is found) is a pretty shit experience and many just go soulless instead. A competent ash heretic with extra blades for ...

mstachife

After revolutionaries kill all the heads of staff and the centcomm message occurs are they no longer considered revolutionaries if the AI has a law regarding revolutionaries? For example, "revolutionaries aren't human and must be killed" .

mstachife

Have law updates for AI/borg be a popup rather than the text box bottom right. Or at least have an option for it. It can be extremely easy to miss sometimes.

mstachife

Goodmin, paces events well to maintain the flow of the round. Polite and considerate to everyone, and encouraging to players who've had particularly bad rounds.

mstachife

Other than being able to laugh at newbies fucking things up, does anyone really think the hours are fine where they're at for someone to somewhat competently play a head? Honestly I feel the requirement should be spread out in the department, for example to unlock hos you'd need 10h sec, 10h warden ...

mstachife

Grazyn wrote:That it's simply too soon to say he lost because your Constitution says otherwise

I dont care, Im going with what the AP has said.

mstachife

The level of mental gymnastics some people seem go through to explain why their guy didnt lose is pure insanity.
From Bush vs Gore https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/531/98/

[...]the state legislature's power to select the manner for appointing electors is plenary; it may, if it so ...

mstachife

The level of mental gymnastics some people seem go through to explain why their guy didnt lose is pure insanity.

mstachife

The head of the DOJ is Wiliam Barr, a trump appointee.
The head of the US postal service is Louis DeJoy, a trump appointee.
In Georgia, where some of this election fraud supposedly occurred, the governor is a republican.
The secretary of state in Georgia (the person in charge of elections) is a ...

mstachife

https://tgstation13.org/wiki/Rules#Escalation

Trespassing is not justification to round remove someone. If he had attacked you multiple times it would be.

mstachife

Specifically, allowing a violent human to be pacified or brainwashed? Apologies if this has been brought up already, but I didn't find a specific ruling on the matter.

mstachife

Id like to think that someone who went through getting a weapon permit from cap/hos should be excluded from that rule within reason, and anyone who went explorin' should just use that route when they came back on station. Several of the space ruins have hostiles though and I doubt anyone using a ...

mstachife

What if someone steals Caps or HoS laser and you can't find it?
Stealing either of those is acting like an antag.
Act like an antag get treated like one = free to be implant checked?

Having one of those items alone is normally imo not enough to be checked for implants. Only like Cobby said, if ...

mstachife

Oh well fuck me, I cant keep up.

mstachife

SkeletalElite wrote:That was before you could practically only carry one laser.

When Im playing sec late into the shift Ill typically have an advanced on my armor and an xray in my bag, with medkit and box filled with tools. Few other random items as well. You can fit as many as three in a bag minus the random junk.

mstachife

I disagree with this. Laser guns are already balanced around the fact that you dont have to carry around a bunch of ammo to reload, and advanced ones recharge automatically.

mstachife

Personally I wish space explorer / salvager was its own job, with a small shuttle they could use attached to cargo. Whiteships would be a thing they could still find for a much better ship. Replace some of the loot with disks for technology like phazons and advanced eguns, maybe a few new things ...

mstachife

I honestly think were far away from a civil war. I doubt the military would be involved outside of peace keeping measures. Our military has a lot of protections against this sort of thing, and units are integrated with people of various backgrounds. Back when I was in there was an anarchist, a ...

mstachife

I've used an autoclicker to combine a bunch of rods and glass into reinforced glass.

I've also used a screenshot tool to take a picture so I could remember things better.

Both of these were using external tools to help me and MAYBE gain some minor advantage (saving slight time or mental effort ...

mstachife

This is too situational and we'd be here for years coming up with rules that work for every situation. It needs to be left up the admins to decide on a case-by-case basis. In general, if you have to think "Am I validhunting" for more than 5 seconds youre probably validhunting.

mstachife

New chems suck. Anyone who thinks the current state of things are fine, try actually using them on someone and getting lynched like what nearly happened to me when I was trying to use this trash *the way you're supposed to*. Don't have time to do surgery one at a time when 10+ people come pouring ...

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