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by Screemonster
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:11 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Fortifying departments w/o provication
Replies: 28
Views: 1511

Re: Fortifying departments w/o provication

code solution, maybe it should take more than a wrench to move some machines like the bolts should need an id swipe to access or something
especially if they're machines that tend to occupy an otherwise unobstructed hole in a wall
by Screemonster
Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:04 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Fortifying departments w/o provication
Replies: 28
Views: 1511

Re: Fortifying departments w/o provication

Cargo should apply mosin nagants to anyone breaking in god I just had a horrible idea what if security had a punishment for greytiders that was basically the intestinators from the movie Fortress (1992) that basically just fucked them up horribly if they cross an area boundary _except_ if they do s...
by Screemonster
Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:49 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Captain, Security and RSR 4 (and RSR 9)
Replies: 58
Views: 2784

Re: Captain, Security and RSR 4 (and RSR 9)

Take a step back and look at other MRP servers, most of them have their validhunt rule apply to the captain since it is out of their realm of duty. The captain should remain a leadership role, not a combat role unless things have gone awry on the station. HRP admin here. While I'd bwoink a captain ...
by Screemonster
Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:49 am
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Remove Security Policy regarding Borgs.
Replies: 37
Views: 2008

Re: Remove Security Policy regarding Borgs.

bro you literally suggested that silicons should ask for a bribe to look the other way on human harm as one of your examples and then suggested that stopping human harm was "extreme interpretation of [their] laws"
by Screemonster
Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:05 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Security Metaprotections, Combative Crowds, And You
Replies: 23
Views: 1449

Re: Security Metaprotections, Combative Crowds, And You

I agree with Vekter. Security mobilising in force and throwing everyone aiding a known criminal into the gulag can be a really cool moment. ... but this isn't always possible. Sometimes you have a lone security officer, and having that officer just be unable to carry out arrests at all is lame. Bas...
by Screemonster
Mon Feb 05, 2024 10:04 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: What is the place of the Grey Tide in MRP?
Replies: 23
Views: 2153

Re: What is the place of the Grey Tide in MRP?

One thing I'd note is that I often see 'tiding' or 'greytiding' used to mean two different things: General griefing/arming up/stealing for no reason and the in-game action of breaking and entering, which all players end up doing to some degree due to the way the access mechanic in the game is built...
by Screemonster
Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:10 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: MRP-ification of the LRP servers: A Dangerous Path
Replies: 22
Views: 1617

Re: MRP-ification of the LRP servers: A Dangerous Path

The idea that "wordlessly killing" amount to NRP is dumb in the first place. There are plenty of situations where that is perfectly fine IC, for example people trespassing high security areas like the armory, AI upload or *gasp* bridge. I just remembered one of the times I was hrp adminni...
by Screemonster
Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:27 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: "Faking revolutionaries" Headmin Ruling Clarification
Replies: 24
Views: 4689

Re: "Faking revolutionaries" Headmin Ruling Clarification

I'm still not exactly sure what the complaint here is, or what a solution would look like. Faking a revolution intentionally is pretty obvious because it gets the entire station thinking there's revs? What needs to change? I recall the concern that was voiced in adminbus was that someone just rando...
by Screemonster
Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:02 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Paradox Clones and Metagaming
Replies: 32
Views: 12312

Re: Paradox Clones and Metagaming

i think it would be better if paradox clones didn't always explicitly have antagonistic objectives and could reasonably just be "this guy, but dropped in from another universe by mistake". it would be very funny to have a bender/flexo situation where it's the original that's the evil one ...
by Screemonster
Thu Jan 04, 2024 1:25 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Paradox Clones and Metagaming
Replies: 32
Views: 12312

Re: Paradox Clones and Metagaming

I still think it'd be funny if paradox clones from the good timeline showed up if the original is a traitor and weren't considered antagonists - except obviously they know their clone is an antagonist and can therefore rule 4 them or sic security on them. That way being found to be the clone by some...
by Screemonster
Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:47 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: ITT: We make shitty suggestions and come up with poor ideas.
Replies: 3937
Views: 1016896

Re: ITT: We make shitty suggestions and come up with poor ideas.

add mapbans for people who grief because they don't like the map
if that map rolls while they're banned from it they get kicked from the server
by Screemonster
Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:48 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Explosive selling
Replies: 16
Views: 7620

Re: Explosive selling

comedy prisoner's dilemma option <snip> That disregards the intent behind the non-antag's actions and encourages non-antags to seek antags to grief along, so I'm not sure if it's ideal I did say it was a comedy option butyeah dendy summed it up pretty well, people shouldn't be scared that they're g...
by Screemonster
Mon Dec 18, 2023 10:17 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Explosive selling
Replies: 16
Views: 7620

Re: Explosive selling

comedy prisoner's dilemma option If an antag makes bombs available (sells them, leaves them lying around, pulls them into the shuttle on a locker that someone gets curious about and immediately opens and grabs the contents, etc) and a nonantag sets them off, it's fair game 'cause an antag caused it....
by Screemonster
Thu Dec 14, 2023 6:48 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: reopen ban requests
Replies: 28
Views: 17697

Re: reopen ban requests

Not-Dorsidarf wrote: Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:18 am If we bring back ban requests it is ABSOLUTELY vital that they are not publically visible until resolved imo. They are the king of drama factories.
the popcorn factor was the only thing good about ban requests and even that part was only good for the people who weren't involved
by Screemonster
Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:26 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: (Proposal) Silicons and Prisoners - A Harmful Act
Replies: 24
Views: 7105

Re: (Proposal) Silicons and Prisoners - A Harmful Act

The main followup policy question that comes to mind is "what to do if a meta emerges of security just lying in the security records to stop silicons from releasing prisoners" That's actually really interesting gameplay! Should we lie about our records and trick the AI, but maybe an offic...
by Screemonster
Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:38 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: (Proposal) Silicons and Prisoners - A Harmful Act
Replies: 24
Views: 7105

Re: (Proposal) Silicons and Prisoners - A Harmful Act

Okay, so something like this? 3. Nonviolent prisoners cannot be assumed harmful. Violent prisoners cannot be subsequently assumed non-harmful. Knowingly or in ignorance of clear evidence releasing a harmful prisoner is a harmful act. Silicons can use the crime listed in a prisoner's security record...
by Screemonster
Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:41 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: G*lag Users
Replies: 34
Views: 19452

Re: G*lag Users

It's extra funny when you only assign a goal of like 50 points and they still dont do it. Cope, seethe, and mald grayshit. It's the principle of it. You shall not a single sheet out of me, tyrant. Good? Pretty sure this is the intended goal when gulagging tiders. round removing people as a nonantag...
by Screemonster
Sat Nov 18, 2023 9:42 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: "Faking revolutionaries" Headmin Ruling Clarification
Replies: 24
Views: 4689

Re: "Faking revolutionaries" Headmin Ruling Clarification

aren't half the arcade machine prizes things that are meant to fool people that aren't paying attention into thinking that there's an esword / red spacesuit / whatever around kinda like the old trick of renaming a book to "cryptographic sequencer" and putting it in your bag in front of som...
by Screemonster
Fri Nov 17, 2023 7:19 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Does ss13 inherently need to be balanced?
Replies: 18
Views: 5239

Re: Does ss13 inherently need to be balanced?

Wahh wahh wahh the crew is begging him to stop because he figured out a cool combo. There will always be broken features, coders can cope but it won't matter. Give up balance and embrace the jank. broken combos are fun until its recorded and the next 50 players who get wizard do the same thing This...
by Screemonster
Tue Oct 24, 2023 10:48 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Discord Rule 8 And What Is And Isn't Rule Breaking
Replies: 16
Views: 2938

Re: Discord Rule 8 And What Is And Isn't Rule Breaking

i dont think rule 8 should be a problem for anyone who doesnt have a porn addiction and i dont see why it needs so many clarifications Because the conversations usually go a little like this: - Someone posts something questionable in the art channel. - A Discord Jannie nukes it because, to them, it...
by Screemonster
Sat Oct 21, 2023 8:02 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Escalation Policy Rewrite
Replies: 53
Views: 21765

Re: Escalation Policy Rewrite

As antags are not bound by escalation policy, breaking escalation policy is acting like an antagonist :^)
by Screemonster
Mon Oct 16, 2023 12:00 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: (Roleplay) Heretics may be in a similar situation to what changelings were.
Replies: 33
Views: 9507

Re: (Roleplay) Heretics may be in a similar situation to what changelings were.

A way to deconvert rather than kill would be good for pretty much all our antags. That'd lower the cost of trying and failing. Saw someone putting up posters? Deconvert them. Someone took a guy hostage? Deconvert them. Mad bomber took out a department? Deconvert them. There is no reason to perma so...
by Screemonster
Thu Sep 14, 2023 5:58 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: on animal races
Replies: 39
Views: 17572

Re: on animal races

Shadowflame909 wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 11:57 am
Timberpoes wrote: Wed Aug 09, 2023 11:21 am Foxgirls pls.
As long as its an kitsune and not a kumiho.

One is a cute japan office prankster and the other is a liver eating antagonist

Know the difference! It can save your life
new antag idea: an actual fucking kumiho
humans get to be eugene tooms (still eats livers)
by Screemonster
Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:02 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Of Null Rods and Shotguns
Replies: 25
Views: 4745

Re: Of Null Rods and Shotguns

Re: the bartender's shotgun, there's precedent for security not being allowed to just take it because they want a weapon: viewtopic.php?p=661410#p661410
by Screemonster
Sat Sep 09, 2023 11:50 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: New Technological Antag Ideas?
Replies: 23
Views: 6957

Re: New Technological Antag Ideas?

Futuristic Game Show Team who get droppodded onto the station with a variety of gimmicky loadouts and rack up points for using them on the crew and accomplishing gameshow goals like securing the briefcase of cash that just got droppodded into the armory or uploading the special gameshow laws to the ...
by Screemonster
Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:54 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Framing others using "ligger"
Replies: 51
Views: 18226

Re: Framing others using "ligger"

Why don't we just go back to the situation we had before where the word was merely insulting IC and there was no problem whatsoever..... the situation that led to the ruling being made didn't even involve the dude being valided, he just got beaten horizontal and dragged to medbay by the guy he deci...
by Screemonster
Thu Sep 07, 2023 2:59 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: A strange and confusing clause in rule 2 precedent.
Replies: 13
Views: 3441

Re: A strange and confusing clause in rule 2 precedent.

The reason so people don't wind up being """""""ICly"""""" metagrudged for playing the damn game. Most places handle it with forced-amnesia because even if it is benign, there's always that one dipshit that listens in on the conversati...
by Screemonster
Fri Sep 01, 2023 11:51 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Ghost Court in Wizard Events Allowed?
Replies: 17
Views: 4857

Re: Ghost Court in Wizard Events Allowed?

My favourite thing during summon ghosts is to rename myself "Dog ghost that opens doors you point at", activate my AI interaction and randomly woosh around opening doors that people point at reminds me of the time I played a sentient Ian with knock and security were torn between validing ...
by Screemonster
Mon Aug 21, 2023 10:23 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Recalling as an antagonist.
Replies: 18
Views: 2697

Re: Recalling as an antagonist.

Don't you think it's a bit silly to emphasize the "repeated" or "multiple" recalls bit when, in the shift in question, I was the only other person who could have reasonably called the shuttle, since the AI was subverted and would not have called the shuttle against the orders of...
by Screemonster
Fri Aug 18, 2023 1:26 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: ITT: We make shitty suggestions and come up with poor ideas.
Replies: 3937
Views: 1016896

Re: ITT: We make shitty suggestions and come up with poor ideas.

when rolling a blunt, you should be able to stack it in layers so that when someone smokes it they start off with nice innocent weed and then the flame burns down to the gunpowder layer
by Screemonster
Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:44 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: on animal races
Replies: 39
Views: 17572

Re: on animal races

add hermit crab men that run around wearing boxes, crates, and lockers
by Screemonster
Mon Aug 07, 2023 9:36 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: let changelings say fuck (MRP)
Replies: 32
Views: 9779

Re: let changelings say fuck (MRP)

The purpose of kill/ "murderbone" policy is foregoing your mechanics to just pick people off, its not like "you cant kill more than 5 people unless your chart says Yes". Changelings have reason to off people on their own on top of the other aspects we allow killing for (self def...
by Screemonster
Sun Aug 06, 2023 11:19 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: let changelings say fuck (MRP)
Replies: 32
Views: 9779

Re: let changelings say fuck (MRP)

The purpose of kill/ "murderbone" policy is foregoing your mechanics to just pick people off, its not like "you cant kill more than 5 people unless your chart says Yes". Changelings have reason to off people on their own on top of the other aspects we allow killing for (self def...
by Screemonster
Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:10 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: ITT: We make shitty suggestions and come up with poor ideas.
Replies: 3937
Views: 1016896

Re: ITT: We make shitty suggestions and come up with poor ideas.

Wizard station trait that spawns everyone with robes and a random spell regardless of antag status (not exclusive with an actual wizard showing up)
by Screemonster
Thu Aug 03, 2023 7:44 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Allow one/no armed shitheads to be restrained
Replies: 13
Views: 3903

Re: Allow one/no armed shitheads to be restrained

hey so a polariscode server I played on a while back had this problem once thanks to one particular shithead who set himself to spawn with one arm and went around tiding and yakketysaxing away constantly and screaming if anyone laid a finger on him because he was playing the speedy fragile alien rac...
by Screemonster
Mon Jul 24, 2023 3:11 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Please simplify id cards access
Replies: 25
Views: 5748

Re: Please simplify id cards access

traitors stealing all access for their traitoring is fine, every yahoo on the station having it because it exploded and now everyone has ID console access and can shit out infinity all-access cards and spread them around the station is not buff agent IDs to have more slots if traitors being able to ...
by Screemonster
Wed Jul 05, 2023 4:34 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: LIGGERS.
Replies: 24
Views: 5118

Re: LIGGERS.

as for the recent peanut surrounding a medbay of lizards refusing to treat someone, i would rule on that differently because it was a case of someone alienating themselves from the crew for their prejudice after throwing slurs at pretty much everyone that was in a position to help them, and it came...
by Screemonster
Sun Jul 02, 2023 3:41 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: LIGGERS.
Replies: 24
Views: 5118

Re: LIGGERS.

what happened to "if you do something of no benefit to you besides making others upset, I'll ban you if you ahelp over getting killed for it" where does "I found this person sideways, but even though I didn't personally make them like that they pissed me off earlier in the shift so I'...
by Screemonster
Thu Jun 22, 2023 3:39 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Are male nipples in paintings permitted and if not, should they be?
Replies: 55
Views: 11814

Re: Are male nipples in paintings permitted and if not, should they be?

I don't remember what our decision was on erotic content in library books, but I think this should mirror that, for the most part. If I could personally choose, I don't think I'd permit anything suggestive in paintings just because this really isn't the place for that kind of thing, but we need to ...
by Screemonster
Sat Jun 17, 2023 1:46 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: (MRP) Disallow brain removal of heretic sacrifices.
Replies: 57
Views: 7919

Re: (MRP) Disallow brain removal of heretic sacrifices.

Iunno man, sounds like you care more about some funny green text more than you do about being interesting. I mean, you could level that sentiment at people who get mad at round removal too. If the antags aren't a threat of ending your round... what's the fucking point of having them at all then? If...
by Screemonster
Sun Jun 11, 2023 12:59 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: ITT: We make shitty suggestions and come up with poor ideas.
Replies: 3937
Views: 1016896

Re: ITT: We make shitty suggestions and come up with poor ideas.

every death of a nonantag within the brig area or at the hands of a roundstart sec member has a steadily increasing chance of a midround antag spawning in the form of an all-access skeleton in head of security gear who's only spawn text is The crime is life. The sentence is death.
by Screemonster
Sun Apr 02, 2023 5:24 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Escalating Against Shitsec
Replies: 44
Views: 6661

Re: Escalating Against Shitsec

One of the problems with the "just ahelp it if an officer is going around being an obvious overescalating shit and removing people's limbs for vandalism knowing the rest of sec will back them up because they're on the sec team" thing is it doesn't account for the times an antag does genuin...
by Screemonster
Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:32 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Shotgun Arm Implant
Replies: 2
Views: 698

Re: Shotgun Arm Implant

ages back on polaris I coded a thing where an unarmed attack could be attacked to gloves and it replaced your punches when you punch with it, with a framework for attacks to run arbitrary code but unarmed attack code is fucking spaghetti on that codebase and shit happened like simplemobs not calling...
by Screemonster
Sat Mar 18, 2023 7:03 pm
Forum: Coding
Topic: If changeling MMI test is a exploit, what is the solution?
Replies: 39
Views: 9982

Re: If changeling MMI test is a exploit, what is the solution?

If we are being honest, most lings go loud especially since the ling chat is back. So just dont allow lings brains to be put into MMI's. A text could be generated such as "The brain seems to grow tentacles making it not be able to go into the interface" or something in those lines. Now si...
by Screemonster
Sat Mar 18, 2023 4:19 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: ban players for metagaming antagonists via code oversights, ie. ban antag testing entirely
Replies: 58
Views: 8004

Re: ban players for metagaming antagonists via code oversights, ie. ban antag testing entirely

TheLoLSwat wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 8:42 am just deny testing it is a bluff 95% of the time if they had the proof to kill you they wouldve done it already.
refuse antag tests even if you're innocent
it's not "acting like an antag" to refuse a random search
by Screemonster
Wed Mar 15, 2023 6:36 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: ban players for metagaming antagonists via code oversights, ie. ban antag testing entirely
Replies: 58
Views: 8004

Re: ban players for metagaming antagonists via code oversights, ie. ban antag testing entirely

I'd say antag-tests also fall under "Non-antagonists are not allowed to pre-emptively search for, hinder or otherwise seek conflict with antagonists without reasonable prior cause." - specifically the "search for" part. If someone hasn't already revealed themselves to be an anta...
by Screemonster
Tue Mar 14, 2023 5:02 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: ban players for metagaming antagonists via code oversights, ie. ban antag testing entirely
Replies: 58
Views: 8004

Re: ban players for metagaming antagonists via code oversights, ie. ban antag testing entirely

The issue is reconciling this part of rule 4: "Characters are otherwise allowed to know everything about ingame mechanics or antagonists" I'd say antag-tests also fall under "Non-antagonists are not allowed to pre-emptively search for, hinder or otherwise seek conflict with antagonis...
by Screemonster
Thu Mar 09, 2023 6:27 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Scientists, The Xeno Egg, and Tiding (LRP)
Replies: 11
Views: 1478

Re: Scientists, The Xeno Egg, and Tiding (LRP)

2. Alot of the time, whenever there is a Xeno egg in xenobio, scientists and even sometimes the RD have very little/no say over what happens because the entire department gets tided by an extreme amount of people from varying departments, usually including the security team. It becomes a genuine ni...
by Screemonster
Tue Feb 07, 2023 6:35 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Silicon and justifying denying orders within rule 1
Replies: 59
Views: 10093

Re: Silicon and justifying denying orders within rule 1

Unless specifically asked by security 'Law 2 - AI please inform security if you see someone breaking into a department that isn't there's'. I've never understood the obsession with prefixing your orders with "Law 2." This isn't sudo the funniest shit is when they do it when the AI isn't a...
by Screemonster
Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:14 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Silicon and justifying denying orders within rule 1
Replies: 59
Views: 10093

Re: Silicon and justifying denying orders within rule 1

Unless specifically asked by security 'Law 2 - AI please inform security if you see someone breaking into a department that isn't there's'. I've never understood the obsession with prefixing your orders with "Law 2." This isn't sudo the funniest shit is when they do it when the AI isn't a...