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What are your opinions on the trial of security cyborgs on Campbell? If you didn't see them in action, why weren't you there?
Should secborgs ever come back as a regular-selection module?
If secborgs return: Would any changes in handling them (code, cuts from/additions to current policy, different enforcement of current policy, etc.) be necessary? Why, or why not?

As a head admin, you only have one less person to convince.

You already know one member of your team. Familiarize yourself with their platform. They are someone who can keep their cool in disagreements, but someone who can definitely have opinions outside of the status quo at times.

What parts of their platform or their adminning style do you agree or disagree with them on?

For those with LRP focus, you don't get to skip out on this one. Consider especially the fact that they are, by their own...

Every healthy relationship needs to have set boundaries, and your future polycule will be no exception.

This does not just include your platform. Remember that most of head admin work is solving petty disputes and policy discussions that you can't expect coming.

What changes are GOING to happen, one way or another, with you in charge? What changes will be blocked as best they can by you?

Props if you can list things from other people's candidate pitches that put a sour taste in your mouth.

Campaign art by Aspev

SPACE LADIES AND SPACE GENTLEMEN, WELCOME! WELCOME!!
The party starts here and the party starts now
Hi there, I'm RaveRadbury, one time headmin and many time headmin runner up! I love the heck out of this game and community, I'm running so I can keep things running smoothly, make new exciting things happen and give back! Last election I lost out to my trainee Mr Melbert and the fabulous Mothblocks, which was super fun and they did a fantastic job. Wow! Let's see what happens this...

Okay this one's a lot simpler. I'm so tired of community meetings where one/two people talk.

Do you have a microphone? Are you willing to use it?

For context admin auditorium was a channel in the discord that players could view, but only admins could post in.

What did you think about admin auditorium?
What do you believe were the benefits and drawbacks of admin auditorium?
Would you want to see admin auditorium return, and would you change anything about it?

Hello, I'm Riggle

Sorry, I still don't know you you are
Me neither

What are your plans?

Swift headmin matter resolution and bureaucracy reduction with the use of automated tools
Keep LRP where it is . Rule 4 is not going anywhere. While there are some NRP problems, it's largely in a good place
Try to promote non-hostile server interaction and reduce overall hostility and server tribalism
Continue working on Campbell my beloved
Last election I said I got old 2019 /tg/ code working. Since then...

As a head admin, you will encounter the absolute worst the community has to offer. You may think you are prepared, but unless you've been in these shoes before, you have no idea because head admins either don't like to or aren't allowed to talk about it. The following is a list of uncomfortable scenarios, some of which are adapted from reality (but if you think I'm talking about you, reader, I'm almost certainly not!!). Answer in detail, without sounding like a political robot how you would respond. If,...

So, let's face it. SS13 is played in a way, way, way more powergame manner here in TYOOL 2022 compared to when all the rules about not pre-emptively prepping for malf AI were written and designed.

Those rules were written for an era where the crew was not roundstart arming for war ops tier threats every shift and security wasn't allowed to antag check random people via shotgunning them into crit, checking their bags for antag items, and leaving them in medbay lobby dying if they find none. The fact of the...

For the candidates that plan on adding mentors to their term should they win this election, this one is for you. There can be a lot involved even when it comes to something simple like setting the framework, so I'm curious about the subject, setting up the framework, who decides what, rules, and your goal(s) afterwards going forward assuming everything is fully fleshed out and enacted.

How will the selection process for who may and may not be a mentor be decided, and what are the requirements to be...

What is your favourite memory aboard tg's SS13? Don't be afraid to elaborate! I want to see how much you love this wacky, unpredictable mess of a game.

HEY HEY HEY!

For August 2022, the acclaimed POSITIVEENTROPY AKA Imaginos enters the head admin election race!

What I have done!

- /tg/station Admin since April 1st 2021, AdminTrainer since April 17th, 2022! (Actively adminned since then!)
- Candidated Sightld2 on July 17th, 2022!
- Actively contributed as a /tg/station spriter since February 18th, 2021, getting /tg/ to become more and more visually modern, having 49 PRs merged in total!
- Became a /tg/station spritetainer in the 25th of November,...

I will post dumb smooth brain thoughts here

Because I can and need an outlet for them
Maybe at least one a day

Are quebecois snow cajuns

Hello!

As a good amount of you might now, we do have an events team on the server which has traditional been in charge of managing the seasonal events such as the Winter Ball, Toolbox Tournament, Summer Ball, and even the Gameshow when it happened. Traditionally, the event team has been very fluid with no specific assignment in the server other than a usual informal head of events assigning out work and getting stuff done on timelines.

However, the consistency of these events has definitely lacked...

I've noticed this pattern of players who are so invested in their characters/winning that they cannot accept death, or loss.
It upsets me because it leads to behavior counter to what I believe the game to be about, like intentionally not killing/reviving after targets as antags because they're my friends/I don't want to be mean , or getting so wrapped up in winning that you ruin the story of the round.

I believe this is a player mindset issue, caused by time and coders slowly taking the edge off things,...

Is Manuel a failed experiment? Does it require course correction? Should the servers reunite under one ruleset? Should it be scrapped entirely?

Share your view of Manuel's history, failures, and successes with the masses!

By the incredible Solb

Hello, It’s me again- kieth4/Lukas Beedell. I’m going to be as always running as the candidate of LRP. Know that if you are a player voting for me- I will do my very best to represent you. I know a lot of you are jaded, recent things brought to light make you feel like there’s no trust. If elected, I will do my very fucking best to combat these issues and return you to a position where you feel like you can trust.

TLDR FOR PEOPLE WHO DON’T WANT TO READ.

1: Thieves policy...

I've seen several headmins in the past who frankly should not have taken the job primarily due to the fact they couldn't deal with the demands of it.

Its likely people you were friends with, or maybe just liked, will no longer be friends with you.
There will be at least one point, perhaps several, where the court of public opinion can turn against you and make you feel real bad and pressured to change your position on something.
The day to day grind will affect you on some level, especially dealing with...

it is my genuine belief that we(/tg/ players) are heading down a hole of self indulgence and a spiral of hate.
I don't like to keep things long and I have a hard time explaining things, recently people have made groups to put themselves in to go against others. The players hate the coders, and admins The coders hate the players and the admins hate the players.

This is not everyone not even a majority but a loud minority. But its turned into a hate triangle(I just made this word up) I don't care much about...

Hello there! Firstly, thanks for clicking on my name. My current rank on the server is a GameAdmin+Maptainer , who plays . Let’s break all of that down.

/tg/station servers Player since March 2019 (ssethtider)

Four years is a pretty long time, wouldn’t you agree?

I played mostly on Events Hall-US when that was set up for the overflow server, and that’s where I fell in love with this game. I followed the populations to Bagil and then Sybil, which is now where you may have seen me as Kira/Keagan/Katie...

Focusing and expanding on TG's strengths - Omega_DarkPotato for Headmin

I'm Omega_DarkPotato, or OmegaDark, a sybil admin, admin trainer, and discord jannie. I've been with the admin team for roughly a year, and was one of the first admins to get picked up through the forums-based admin applications thread.

I've since made use of that applications thread to give advice to applicants and spark conversation with other trainers through applicants' responses - forumposters will know that my applications...

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Hi everyone, I am Fikou, a player, ex-admin and maintainer of tgstation running for Head Admin this time.

Stuff I did:

- Played since april 2018, amassing over 3k hours in the space game.
- Became an events mapper in october 2019, contributing to our yearly events like the Toolbox Tournament since then.
- Became an admin in february 2021, adminning actively throughout that time and hosting many events like car station or clock cult after clock cult was removed .
- Got promoted to be an admin...

Every time a miner decides it would be a funny idea to bait megafauna/lavaland elites onto the shuttle, or a sentient elite camps the shuttle and waits for a miner to call it up, the entire round gets completely derailed. It has been happening with such frequency on Sybil that I am beyond sick and tired of it.

Megafauna and elites were balanced around very experienced mining players who have mastered their attack patterns, prepped heavily, have special mining gear (some of which is really only useful on...

What part of being a headmin do you need to accomplish your goals? You don't need to be a headmin to edit the wiki but it does make organizing the rules very, very easy as an example.

If you don't win the election do you intend to pursue your goals anyways while working within the lines?

Pretty simple! Lay our your biggest strength as well as your biggest weakness for all of us! You don't need to take this one too seriously so have some fun!

While you're going to have six months to decide, I'd be lying if I said we hadn't already essentially made up our shortlist from day one. While there are names that will come up that you didn't expect (which we did have!), it's very likely you already have an idea of how you're going to pick host vote.

Who do you have in mind? What qualifications do you need to be impressed? How likely is it you will change your mind?

I asked the following question at the last candidate debate:

When I was running last election, Ari got me to think about the specifics of how I would accomplish my goal of the new rules wiki page. It got me into gear actually planning things out instead of waiting for the results to start moving.

To that end, how have you prepared or how are you currently preparing to move forward on your campaign goals? If you don't win, are there any of your goals you want to pursue even as a non-headmin?

For those...

!!SILICON POLICY!!

-Is it good or bad right now?

-Do we need more or less?

-How free should purged silicon be?

-Do you have any current issues with Asimov?

-What does good faith mean for silicons? How much does this effect how they interpreted their laws/orders

Example scenario: A cyborg witnesses a felinid push a human onto a table in tool storage to steal his welding tool and runs away. The human tells the cyborg to go kill the felinid. The cyborg does not know if the human is a antagonist or...

Give us all an example of a challenge (or multiple) you've faced inside of this community.

This is intended to let YOU showcase how YOU might be handling future problems based on what you've already done, for a role slated to deal with plenty more.

All the preparation, roadmaps, campaign promises, and ideals in the world do not shine as brightly as they could if someone does not have the capacity to show they can follow through. Anybody can talk.

Break it down by telling us all:

The problem you...

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Its really dumb. Right now in this game, fire doesn't hurt you by being an extreme source of heat that dances across your skin, it just raises your internal body temperature over time. Space dose this too, but with extra damage damage for being in space just for fun. Being on fire should do damage to you as well as raising your internal temperature slowly. If I were to set you on fire in really life, put you out 20 seconds later and put a thermometer in your mouth, you would not suddenly have a higher body...

Here are our Trello categories:

Admin applications
Admin promotions (AO -> AC, AC -> TA, TA -> GA)
Internal promotions (Discord Jannie, Admin Trainer)
Candidate requests (trainers asking for new admins)
Ban appeals
Admin complaints
Policy discussions
Roadmap
Admin conduct/low activity reports

Any one of these slows down the others. It is part of why you should not be voting in candidates based off of roadmaps alone.

For example, we slowed way the hell down in the last few months because of...

One area of dynamic I find lacking is not enough special interactions between antagonist, even though they often occupy the same round. What I think would be cool, is more protections, quirks, and mechanics when one antagonist uses one of their abilities/items on another. Here are some ideas of where these interactions could be implemented. I ask for your ideas.

- Hand spells (Mansus Grasp, Cult stun, Wizard smite) VS Traitors/Nuke Ops with martial arts (immunity, or maybe being able to turn the spells...

Hi, I'm Iain0, aka Bob Stange, joined mid 2019, admin Q2 2021, consistently active since, 99% on Terry. In total have a few thousand hours in this game with a fairly even split between playing and admin.

My platform is quite neutral, I like where we've reached in a lot of places and don't expect a lot of things to change much. Terry being my home is, I think, largely in a good place for LRP, though needs some periodic kicks to keep it on the rails.

The large majority of the headmin job seems to revolve...

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Oil is an acidic chemical (ph 4) that consumes H+ ions. If it is acidic, shouldn't it release H+ ions instead of consuming them? Are there any real life chemicals that behave like this?

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When and where this incident occured (Game Server, forums, Discord):
Byond account and character name OR Discord name:mzart brad kitt
Admin:Qbmax32
ROUND ID HERE IF APPLICABLE:188669
Detailed summary:
i outed my own team mates, i fucked up on that, this was fair for him to job ban me from team antags but when he used my adminhelp requesting for help about a clown rev who was intentionally using my negative quirk that makes me blind and immobile near clowns to comatose me even though i was...

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When a traitor takes a final objective, they can no longer take any more objectives and are automatically awarded greentext. Most final objectives are usually station destruction or mass panic/mayhem, so it would make sense that (on MRP) traitors would be allowed to do whatever they want now that they've reached their final objective.

It's similar to heretic ascension or AI going delta, since their goals are usually focused on causing as much death as possible. Final objectives are still an optional...

The new escalation policy confuses me and I'd like to open a discussion about it to get clarification.

If an arrest is not obviously valid, it follows standard escalation Non-antag players may lose any OOC and IC protections if they choose this path and should consider ahelping if they believe they did nothing to warrant being arrested.

In resisting arrest, non-antags should not loot officers and should not detain or incapacitate officers any longer than is necessary to escape or explain themselves....

It's really annoying that we have a place where unused sprites are supposed to go, but only things that are fully removed end up there. Things that are updated don't make the cut, so if you want to see old clothing or the 4x back iteration of medikits because they've been resprited AGAIN you have to go poking at the changelog for that .dmi file.

Is it too much to ask that if you change sprites you change that repo as well? (yes)
Could I take up this torch and do it myself if it is so important to me? (yes...

I think stasis beds as a concept are flawed. They take away to most thrilling aspect of our medicine system namely the time pressure. There are already plenty of medicines or methods you can use to stabilise a patients, the sleeper just makes everything non-urgent.

BYOND account: ImBubbl101
Character name: (dont remember)
Ban type: All servers (aside from TGMC)
Ban length: permanent
Ban reason: as a non antagonist, broke open a plasma glass container and let hot plasma leak the shuttle because he was trolling
Time ban was placed: 2021-06-27. 17:21
Server you were playing on when banned: Terry
Round ID in which ban was placed: 164910
Your side of the story: I really dont have a reason, thought it would be funny
Why you think you should be unbanned: its been a while...

The changes:
Mechs should be able to open stuff like they're holding a crowbar - firelocks and de-powered doors.

I feel like this shouldn't be too controversial an idea, but here's my reasoning:
It's a complete embarrassment to be marching around in a durand and not be able to open a firelock - but also able to punch it down! Similarly, for the odysseus and clarke, being able to respond to emergencies like fires or hull breaches is rendered almost completely moot, since firelocks always come down; I don't...