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Mickyan

Last time I tried to add this the PR was unceremoniously closed after barely a day and I'm still a bit salty about it but at least it does mean I had a lot of time to think about this

There are a few design points I aimed to abide by that I think are worth bringing up. For the most part these exist ...

Mickyan

I find TTS to be immersion breaking and the oblivion-tier voice acting to be distracting and annoying, and that's my entirely subjective opinion

What I really don't like is that there are several design issues with its implementation that seem to always be brushed aside:
Why can you hear it through ...

Mickyan

This is fine you're always going to get people who'd rather skirt the rules and then complain about being asked to change instead of just working within the limitations of the rules in the first place

Although beside the point I agree that the ethereal (and plasmaman) naming conventions are ...

Mickyan

I am genuinely sad that so much effort has been spent on this but making everyone sound like robots is a huge immersion downgrade from using your imagination

It's largely agreed upon that bad voice acting is worse than no voice acting and it applies here

I've always been of the opinion that TTS ...

Mickyan

The secret rule is a plausible escape clause for anyone that wants to not follow the rules, that's why it should never be officially in writing

Mickyan

Turtles

they bite hard

Mickyan

Our current random events are almost always major and station-wide, having localized but more frequent small events like a breaker tripping, a machine exploding or a hull piece breaking would go a long way in adding a layer of unpredictability and opportunities for mayhem

We have something like ...

Mickyan

I dont necessarily disagree with the sentiment but consider this: there's a reason why most movies do not end with the main character getting run over by a bus on their way to fight the big bad boss

Imagine you're having a great time, maybe you even survived an encounter with an antagonist! The ...

Mickyan

I don't think you're wrong but too often people complain that nothing is happening and that's because there's nobody willing to make things happen, get out there and be a menace

But don't confuse starting a conflict with cheap griefing, walking in the bar and smashing all the glasses without saying ...

Mickyan

I would rather assistants didn't have maint access in the first place if it was an option but I don't like this either way

Maintenance access drastically opens up the map, it provides protection from being stranded, excellent freedom of movement and places to hide in. As most jobs have maintenance ...

Mickyan

Back when I started playing /tg/ was a nice middle ground between goon's unbridled chaos and bay's text heavy roleplay, I can't comment if this is still accurate as I never felt the need to try other servers ever since

Mickyan

Starting loadouts, not necessarily the same way is done on other servers

Mickyan

From a brief search on manuel any substantive discussion on families only upticks after carsh makes his thread and very few people actually pinging goof to provide direct actionable feedback. If people aren't seeking out the coder of the gamemode to provide feedback that is useful (and by useful I ...

Mickyan

Until families doesn't spit in the face of the beautiful work Inept and Co have done on the common core lore repo, the gamemode doesn't have a place on any server, let alone MRP.

A)common core was not primarily written by inept

b) it's only a guideline, and no developer is under the ...

Mickyan

Bad bait unless oranges vows to immediately remove the numerous uses of the word cracker from the codebase

Mickyan

I think the only practical difference is that we would be allowing people to get themselves banned (or otherwise play the admin lottery) by using slurs rather than stopping them from doing so in the first place which I'm not sure can be considered an improvement

Mickyan

Put it on centcom, add a few room slots that can be loaded in, put in some facilities around it to use as tutorials or mess around so we can stop pretending that's what people use ghost roles for, let people respawn there when they die

Mickyan

Cobby wrote: ↑Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:11 pm Stasis beds being a cure-all crutch is bad for the game.

This is an issue that needs to be addressed with proper tools for triage and stabilization instead of pretending stasis beds are a problem rather than a bandaid

Mickyan

EoC is kind of a necessity to the flow of the round, security has no reason to expect an antagonist will just give up after being released and it's not the kind of meta-information you can ignore, even subconsciously

However I think having clear guidelines that make a distinction between perma and ...

Mickyan

The short time limits on sentences has always felt pretty awkward to me because if security is doing their job correctly (searching, gathering evidence, retrieving stolen property, putting away their belonging etc.etc.) it's very likely the amount of time required to process a prisoner is going to ...

Mickyan

You can set the bonus based on the total submitted amount instead of current stock

Mickyan

In terms of resource acquisition it would probably help if the mining points payout was at least partially based on the amount of that specific material already in the silo so miners are encouraged to keep all materials equally stocked

Mickyan

Why the fuck should we, in a game that is infamous for its interlocking systems and creativity have a shuttle that bottlenecks creativity so the only solution is "get money lmao"?

This is a good way to put why I don't like any of the gimmick shuttles, you have a billion different ways to ...

Mickyan

The detective scanner is already so unreliable and easy to counter it would suck big time if you had to second guess every print you find

Mickyan

Mostly for self defence since the detective is not supposed to be the one arresting people, which may just be frowned upon but if you start braining people to arrest them for petty crimes admins are definitely going to start noticing

Mickyan

Consider the situation: an admin makes an event with 10 participants. At the end, 5 people enjoyed the event while the other 5 hated it. Later, the admin repeats the event, complaints are made, but the admin keeps running the event, citing the people that enjoyed it

Was this a good event?
If not ...

Mickyan

The supermatter is a high security area, often closely monitored with a considerable danger for the user and possibly the reason why I've never heard of someone getting killed by being thrown into the SM unless they were trying to show off

The crematorium is one maint door away and doors have never ...

Mickyan

The only time I've ever gotten mad about dying just due to the sheer lameness of it was when someone was camping near the chapel with a stun baton, grabbing people and throwing them into the crematorium before the stun could even wear off

Mickyan

The jukebox is just a cursed lag machine

Mickyan

I'm just here to own the noobs

Mickyan

more like someone handsome and sexy enough to convince us
I know a few maintainers that were interested in it when it was discussed, obviously any big change is going to be controversial so the only way to settle it is to PR it and watch all the maintainers fight over it!

Not much can be said ...

Mickyan

It's been discussed before we just need someone who's handsome and sexy enough to do it

cocothegogo wrote:this gets suggested every few years. remove your headset in game for a week then come back and see if your opinion changes

I tried it, my opinion hasn't changed

Mickyan

signature quotes are cool they show people that everyone loves you

Mickyan

I am reasonably shocked by this fact

Mickyan

It's a good example of why cryo pods dropping everything on the ground made them a pointless waste of space and I'll never use them for this reason but if you don't allow looting then you run into the metagaming problem of automatically assuming anyone who's looting is either an antag or breaking ...

Mickyan

I got the shot about two weeks ago unfortunately my wifi reception is still pretty bad so that's disappointing

Mickyan

Understood, thank you!

Mickyan

BYOND account: Mickyan
Character name: Swanni
Ban type: Note
Ban reason: Built a uranium block in departures. Didn't realize it irradiated the area. Should know better for the future.
Time ban was placed: 2020/10/2
Server you were playing on when banned: Manuel
Round ID in which ban was ...

Mickyan

not worth our time to moderate or even code a solution to because it is not an issue

change my mind by convincing me that it is an issue, as you have failed to do in your OP
There's an argument to be made that giving players a free outlet for rule breaking material is a very bad idea for a ...

Mickyan

I don't get it but imsxz is a knave and still owes me a video tutorial on how to kill people with kindness

Mickyan

Perhaps make the shuttle doors bolt upon entering hyperspace.

Honestly, This should be done for every single space craft.
I don't think we should go this far. I really like the idea of people getting shoved out of shuttles and such, and would hate to lose it
There's only a few ways to round ...

Mickyan

For what it's worth there's already issues with portraits getting duped, as you can see on statbus. I know it can be done by moving a persistent painting to a different category but occasionally it seems like some paintings also get saved in the same category more than once, I do not know why.

It ...

Mickyan

#Freearmhulen2021

Mickyan

My 2 cents is the root of this problem is assistant is far too desirable and versatile for what's meant to be a beginner role and the proper way to fix this problem would be to lower that desirability until experienced people move on and naturally spread to more specialized roles. You have freedom ...

Mickyan

Let's do this but after 5 negative ratings you get banned for a month

No longer will players be subjected to the admin tyranny, tg will be administrated by the people through democracy, as it should be

Mickyan

I like it, however the mechanic isn't well explained and there's no feedback that'd allow players to learn not to ignore bodies and gibs, granted this was an issue with miasma too

At the very least an examine message that tells the body is rotting, but personally I'd like to see a visual overlay ...

Mickyan

Ultimately none of these proposed nerfs really make oxygen scarcity more interesting, at best they're encouraging rushing spare tanks for fear of being left without one, or hoping atmos will do their job (funfact: if you're in a situation where air is a station-wide problem, there's a 95% chance of ...

Mickyan

I think it'd be an interesting thing to try but it should be done on a completely new server rather than try to force it on an existing community, then we'll know if there's any real interest in it if it doesn't become a ghost town after a week

Mickyan

Spraypainting an ethereal in the face should change their light color

Mickyan

Armhulen wrote:it most certainly did not thank you

Eh, call it whatever but what I meant is chef still has an obligation to the crew and the tourists aren't the only (nor primary) focus of the job, but I agree with everything else

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