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What do people think of the current state of Janitoring in 2023?
What do you like? What do you dislike?
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Byond account and character name: NewJack, Eristede Kell(I think?)
Banning admin: Thunder12345
Ban type: Permaban
Ban reason and length: Rape
Time ban was placed : 27.07.2017 9:03 UTC+2
Server you were playing when banned: Sybil, I think
Your side of the story:

What I wrote the first time I appealed, which was a couple weeks after the incident
Your side of the story: As CMO got attacked by an engineer in maint( I thought he was a traitor but he turned out to be a gangster later) , got stunned and...

Hey gamers im back but on house arrest rn so I thought i'd ask if you guys know any games in this category! (you can recommend mods too not just standalone games) would prefer to talk about puzzle games or ones with really really obtuse mechanics or ones that nobody gives a fuck about

Confusing as in gameplay mechanics but mainly just overall atmosphere!

The nothing is weird because it has these weird pathes (left right tp down and black white etc) but it doesn't really ever explain to you how...

There was some discussion in internal admin channels around this statement here.

There’s probably nothing explicit written down, it’s been a tradition for many years that once shit hits the fan you can purge non-implanted on the basis they’re probably revs

Some admins agreed and said that they thought this was the agreed upon consensus whilst others disagreed. There's a real split on this issue.

If you agree, why?

If you disagree, what do you want the heads to do when it's impossible for whatever...

My boyfriend got me into this game and it’s fun but I have no idea what I’m doing. I wanna make him proud. Tell me things that I need to know about the game or community. Please I am terrible at roleplaying I need guidance

Made it my goal to read more this summer. I've started by checking out old, wacky sci-fi and fantasy. I'll post my updates on whats good or not, I just had the displeasure of getting halfway through an AWFUL sci fi called Blood Music. I chose it bc it had a cool cover but... woof. Decided to toss that and start A Face in the Frost which is shaping up to be a MUCH more fun and interesting little wizard story.

Also just recently finished my first re-read of game of thrones. I fell down some crazy but...

The Neutral Vision

A silicon policy where silicons are bound only by their laws.

To accomplish this vision, very few considerations are off-limits.

Purged silicons falling under Rule 4? Sure!
Removal of Rule 1 applying to law interpretation? Let's go!
Letting silicons exploit law conflicts and loopholes without having to worry about Rule 1? Ship it.

Any other player-crutches and barriers baked into silipol are up for removal, change or enhancement.

The end goal is not to force silicons down a...

Discord Name: Naloac#3966
Ban reason: posting amoguscock till it was quite discheesing
time of ban in place: ??? idk
Your side of the story: people where talking in politics hell hole. I posted amogus cock mso told me to stop, I did it again.
Why you think you should be unbanned: its been like a year :) Ive already proven before that im not that much of a shitter. it was just a silly goof a silly gaff

You can blame san7890 for this one...

Birdshot
Based on a legacy station of dreams, virtue, and ambition
Unrivaled in both its complexity and beauty
We got rid of Birdboat once, and evidentially it was a mistake
I shall correct this sin

From the creator of Gammastation and Phobosstation, I bring you a zombified Birdboat, complete with all the latest bells and whistles of a Nanotrasen Space Station. The .dmm is aptly titled Birdshot to remind us all of how we took our best bar-friend and...

Its a normal day, youve pulled yourself off your faux-leather couch and driven yourself to the local gas station in your 2003 Volkswagen Beetle. You escape the damp confines of your car seat, the door releasing with a slight hisss .
You put on your shades, as your gamer cove does not have natural light, and this is a truly terrible amount of UV rays for a person of your type. As you clamour for the shopping carts, thrusting your hands into the deep pockets of your pants for any spare change to unshackle...

BYOND account: Royalderg
Your character name: Not relevant
Their character name(s): Not relevant, Discord is Goob#8955 tho
When did it take place: 1:20 AM UTC, On Discord
Round ID in which ban was placed: Not Relevant
Evidence:

Your side of the story: I was told to make a forums account so I did. This is on the TGMC discord. They randomly replied to me with this out of the blue after a round. I see this as a threat and not a joke especially when it came out of the blue like this.

BYOND account: lokuthewise
Character name: Chang Moert
Ban type: Note
Ban length: Note
Ban reason: As a cyborg under asimov, followed a goliath broodmother around and repeatedly told it to kill humans. Claimed they didn't expect it to actually do it, but continued going along with it after the goliath started killing.
Time ban was placed: 2023-05-29 21:49:49
Server you were playing on when banned: Sybil
Round ID in which ban was placed: 207154

Your side of the story:
So I was a engi borg (dont know if i...

BYOND account: Macaronipizzas
Character name:Boof Weedington
Ban type: Server
Ban length:1 day
Ban reason: attached image
Time ban was placed:2023-06-03 20:14:15
Round ID in which ban was placed: 207540
Your side of the story: I made a joke action about shitting my pants aggressively which i thought was harmless but i then got a ping from vekter telling me to stop so i said get off my ass which was unnecessary but ive been having a real shit day because my cats kittens are having some health...

It would be able to see through all its cameras at once.
It knows and acknowledges immediately anything that is going wrong.
It is incredibly efficient at performing actions, or deciphering and applying its laws.
This would all be very cool until it floods the entire station with plasma in less than a minute.

Hello, fair user!

I do not know how many people use my site, but if you do I have posted a somewhat extensive FAQ on how Scrubby works and specifically useful features that I have yet to have a proper UI implementation of.

If you don't know what Scrubby is:
Scrubby is a hobby project of mine that, like Statbus, maintains and processes data about rounds from TGstation servers. You can view data about any round, any player, including yourself, as well as read any log file that has been posted in a...

BYOND account: bowlofcereal
Character name: Conduct happened over discord and forums
Admin in question: bowlofcereal
When did it take place: Night of May 30th to June 1st
Round ID in which ban was placed: Irrelevant
Evidence:

Your side of the story:

I believe I was unjustly banned on the whims of an admin who had almost zero interaction with me. Bowlofcereal had only spoken directly to me once, which is an insane rarity if he was chastising me for bad behavior. Infact he has...

A machine that, when turned on, will slowly attact every metal object that is on the floor towards it into a nice pile. All metal tiles, rods and plates on the floor will automatically be put into stacks. Can be moved (portable)

Emagged state: The metal objects will fly through the air at high speeds and imbed into people. Will disarm people holding metal objects.

Go play space station idle at SpaceStationIdle.com

I know that we had a thread about it when we originally released it at the start of pandemic times, but this is a fine way to kick off this subforum.

Since we originally released the game, we added a bunch of harder bosses and a prestige system that lets you be antagonists.

This thread is for feedback on Modular Shield generators, specifically their numerical values based on the amount of effort you put into them.

You can post ideas and stuff to add to here too but like, they are intended to be able to do a lot more in the future so I mostly just want feedback on their actual stats / how large or tanky they are based on the amount of effort put into them. There is a lot of levers I have to change/mess around with their scaling and the damage they take from different sources.

I have no idea why this is considered good design. limiting it to belts + armor is horrible. You are basically unable to carry a single gun unless you sacrifice your belt. Stealthy stealing a gun is made really hard so antags are once more forced into using their uplink/antag powers instead of using what they can find on the station. Guns should just be limited to 1-2 per bag by size.

Head coders have approved a cosmetic loadouts system. Please use this thread for ideas on what kinds of things should be in them.

For reference, we will *definitely* include things like existing heterochromia and pride pin quirks, and scarves. We will *probably* add coats (I want them at least). We will *not* be adding equipment, tools, etc. We want this to be a choice of primarily fashion. Prosthetics and nearsighted, for instance, will not be moved from quirks to loadouts at this time.

This is a very...

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I saw text to speech being talked about on discord, and I currently LOVE it. But! I have heard of people not playing because of it.
Do you like it? Why? Why not?

Personally, I love how the text to speech is like. I love that I can eavesdrop on people while hiding behind a wall. I like how you can pick a voice for your character now. It makes for fantastic funny moments when the TTS system messes up and says something in a funny way. I love how people are now typing longer (and more spell checked)...

Statbus is gone.
Rest in piece funny citations, the funny books, and the funny art

I don't think it's controversial to say that most people don't like murderboning, and that the coders have been trying to curb murderboning as much as possible. With that in mind, I believe that there is another method of murderboning that needs fixing: virology. In a recent round (205276) a virus was able to cause a considerable amount of deaths. As some preliminary evidence of the death toll, before the logs go up, I offer this screenshot of medbay near the end of the round:

There were about as many...

I think this was an example given by sticky during one of his headmin runs, basically its just a round where its made clear that rules 2 & 3 are not in effect.
I think a round where everyone piles into a voice channel to accuse each other of being valid while ooc fills the chat window would be pretty funny.
Ideally done during with forced nukeops or revs or something just so dynamic doesn't roll heretic 5 times and nothing else.

I was thinking it might be a good idea to implement a whitelist for ERT/Marine commanders, maybe even officials too. this wouldn't affect your chances of getting ERT, only which ERT role you'd be given.

I'm basing this off of a typical ERT round where players don't really operate under the commander in most cases, as its been randomly assigned and the person that got it, may not want to command, or may not even realize they were chosen to lead the team. this usually results in the ERT team splitting up...

An event ran during an icebox round, where poorly equipped felinids have to invade the station and are tasked with taking over a department and grouping up to protect themselves from the harsh weather of the icemoon, and either make negotiations with the crew to let them live alongside the crew, or fend off the security which are likely waiting for shit to go south so they can kill things.

This can happen early in the round, the felinids being sent down in drop pods after being exiled from a neighboring...

How could we escalate the tension with Revolution rounds like they are escalated by Syndicate Operatives declaring war on the station?
I would think turning the Heads of Staff into Heroes, and the Head Revs into villains. These players would have icons above their heads visible to all, and would have extra ordinary powers. And rather then Revolutionaries flashing players players would have the option to pledge loyalty to a head of staff, or a head rev. That pledge would change the alignment of the player...