/tg/Station 13

I don't really think the problem is that people are too nice but that a lot of the structure of Manuel incentivizes people to play in fairly boring ways and makes more complex forms of roleplay/ character interactions harder to achieve. Which isn't to say people are unwilling to play/ engage with ...

yeah I'm not convinced we really need such a well defined naming policy especially since TG's vibe isn't really that serious to warrant it. Like as long as someone can come up with a semi-coherent explanation for why they have that name beyond "I thought it would be funny lmao", I don't really see ...

I can really only speak from my experience on manuel but, yeah decent RP moments are few and far between

I agree that more complexity doesn't really make a better game but I wonder if the issue is entirely a rise in complexity or more so that there's seemingly not a lot of effort put into making these systems compelling. Like when I think about other games that have similarly complex systems like CDDA ...

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Yeah, I agree thieves have really just become a threat dump. Even though I like the core concept of thief as a way to sort of enshrine greytiding as an actual role it really doesn't work. Even having like five or six thieves in a round is almost unnoticeable since they basically have to go about ...

PS: If you know how to sell items on the cargo shuttle, but link that purchase to individual ID cards. Please also post that. Like selling plasma, but instead of cargo getting the credits for the sale, your ID does. Someone did that for me one time.


you gotta swipe your ID on a sales tagger ...

Revolutions is easily one of the best podcasts out there if you're into history

Stuff You Should Know is another pretty good one, not my go to usually but if I need something to listen to I'll pop it on for awhile.

I always imagined MRP to have the same sort of vibe of like HLVRAI or a chill TTRPG session. You play at least a semi-consistent character, and engage with the game through the lens of that character. Kinda like improv acting.

What's both frustrating and enjoyable about Manuel though is that ...

Cytology really highlights the need for communication infrastructure that will actually facilitate interdepartmental supply chains more complex than just running up to another departments front desk, handing them a laundry list, and then hoping they actually do it or bargaining with them if they ...

I only got to play like one round with it, but seems to me that antags have the most to gain from it since being able to move around maint quickly makes evading capture a hell of a lot easier. Though I also imagine that this would make hiding any kind of hideout larger than a broom closet ...

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I agree with this tbh, I think spiders in their new form are actually quite enjoyable and being a powerful threat that can't be solved by conventional methods of just shooting them forces you to think outside of the box to try and overcome them. Not to say there aren't things that could use ...

If you asked me "what makes the actual game fun" then it's social interaction. I used to rush xenobiology green slimes for abductor mutation toxin due to wanting to be a gray alien (very few fucking games allow this, which goes back to my first part of this post on why I like this game/server) as ...

is there anything unique (outside theming ofc) that wizard brings to the table? Is there like a fundamental experience of wizard that isn't found in other antags?

The feeling of overcoming the odds against a powerful enemy/dangerous situation, (which in my experience often aren't even in the wizard ...

I honestly can't think of any wiz round that I actually enjoyed playing in. Most are just a sudden end screen popping up after 10 minutes of a wizard being called out or seeing some blue robed dude teleport in and instakill me. It's just such a fundamentally boring mode unless you get to be the ...

Ironically I've seen cults and revolutions play out better on anything other than the actual cult and revolution gamemodes. Were people actually have to put some thought into persuading others to their cause/cool kids club and can't just be pointed to and outed as a bad man instantly. I certainly ...

The process for acquiring/fulfilling bounties should really be decentralized, because having to run from your department to cargo to get a bounty that is often times not really worth the effort, back to your department to complete it, then back to cargo to claim it can be tedious at times. Also is ...

it seems like the biggest, non-code related, issue with cult on Manuel (and well just team modes in general on Manuel) is the cultural perspective on these modes. The moment everyone realizes it's cult most people just switch over to gamer mode which creates a cycle of "well it's TDM, no one is ...

wholeheartedly agree with this. I've seen so many rounds that have a setup for something cool to happen go down the drain because someone thought sitting in departures for 10 minutes instead of dealing with whatever was threatening the station was a better plan. Maybe the ability to call the shuttle ...

yeah you can pretty much already do this with the rags you find in the bar. Just dump a beaker of whatever onto a rag, use it on someone with harm intent and they will instantly ingest whatever was in the rag provided they don't have any mouth covering. They can only hold 5 units though so their use ...

I agree that the sense of urgency is good but I can't really think of any other event that hits the station as hard or as fast as this one does except for maybe catastrophic meteors. I don't think the crew really needs that much time but just a minute or two to organize and gear up would help a ton ...

So after observing/playing a fair few rounds of this and from collecting other players opinions on it there's a fair amount of feedback I would like to give.

First off, THE GOOD:
-I like the mechanic of someone being able to sacrifice themselves to the SM to help the rest of the crew. I think it ...