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About a week before christmas, my retriever passed. Dealt with it over two months, and my house ain't the same without a big dog. Problem is, I'm an unimaginative hack with pet names - first cat was named Kitty, case in point. Help me name the little fucker.

edit: is a male

Nanotrasen is no longer just advancing the fields of science, but also the exploration of the galaxy aboard the North Star!

I've been told that making a thread to show off a WIP map is a great way to get some positive feedback while building some hype, so here we are!

The North Star is a 4 Z-level shipmap with a few neat features and unique mechanics that I want to be added to the rotation. I'll save talking about some of the ship's more unique points for when they're completed, but I may as well show...

Any ideas on how to optimize the Singulo? Right now, if anything has happened in the round, it's laggy. And for the best experience, a singulo hits after something has happened in the round. You feel me? I'm hoping we can prioritize the Singulo's actions above others, but I don't know if that's possible
- Asked goof about fast explosions, it's not really the same case so that can't help here
Any ideas?

This is not meant as a direct criticism (though you can take it as one if you wish) but the direction sprites are taking seems so stark from what used to be the norm. The biggest difference is the need to be shiny and made of plastic. The comparison with CEV Eris also can't be avoided.

Prime examples are the new crates, the new fire alarms or the new captains gun, while some sprites have their own merits (some more some less) the direction TG has been taking is obvious, now I was hoping for a sort of...

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned in the past. Still, especially with the disgruntled peanuts about security as of late, this trend of silent arrests, and more so silent executions makes people livid. It's a dick move to stun someone silently, it only gets worse when it's sec and you can't retaliate and don't even know why.

I understand the nuance, if someone has contraband or is actively killing someone, sec doesn't want to type out what they're doing and risk getting the business end of the...

Inspired by this reddit thread:

I live in central London so there is absolutely no need to drive so I've never learnt.

i may draw it whenever i'm watching some shitty tv show i can't focus on
can't promise i will do even one but sometimes it helps to doodle stuff
basically free art but you're gambling on whether i'll feel like actually drawing your OC
i probably won't draw it if i dont like you lol

edit: a vague description of their personality helps. make your OC seem cool !!!!!!!!!! make me want to draw them

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Are historical figures allowed now? All the old naming policies got locked with zero ruling, but what's getting me is that I swear there was a historical/famous/media figure rule (Abraham Lincoln, Solid Snake, Jimmy Donaldson, etc). Looking at rule 3...

Excessively OOC names fall under rule 3. Make a minimum effort to have your name fit in a setting involving a wacky space station in the future. A firstname lastname minimum is required for humans and felinids; other species may instead choose to use the...

BYOND account: Joe13413
Character name: Joachim Straub
The note itself: he is funny
Time note was placed: 2022-04-10 02:50:08
Round ID in which note was placed: 14173
Your side of the story: ok so there was this joke that involved barrenquilla mining facility and i dont remember the exact details, but an admin said it was funny and i asked them to give me a note saying i am funny
Why do you think it should be removed/reworded: no longer funny, please add an addendum at the end of the note stating so.

BYOND account: Darkbitt
Character name: N/A
Ban type: Server / Blacklist
Ban length: Permanent
Ban reason: You must be over 18 to play
Time ban was placed: Late 2016 I believe (November/December-ish?)
Server you were playing on when banned: Bagil
Round ID in which ban was placed: N/A
Your side of the story: Okay, so my side of the story is kinda split up into two parts. What led to the ban itself (which is relatively simple), and what led to the blacklist (which is a bit more complicated).
-- What...

We have to many old issues piling up and they are annoying me so as a very small incentive to clean up old bugs I will be giving a small amount of money to bug fixers

With a max amount of 10 dollars I want to put into this the rewards go as this:

1 year issues: 1 dollar

2 year issues: 2 dollars

3 year issues: 4 dollars

4 year issues: 4 dollars

Plus: A 3 month Byond subscription to the first person that fixed a 5+ year old issue Courtesy of Mice World

5 year issues: 5 dollars

6 year issues: 5...

beginning my first serious playthrough of this little gem:

how do I feel about this game?
am I happy?

any tips? (no spoilers please)

Negative quirk that makes animals hate you. Hostile mobs will prioritize you over people who dont have the perk. Can't get positive moodlets from pets because they growl/hiss at you when you try to pet them. Trying to pet them too much make them attack. Thought it would be a fun quirk.

BYOND account: usnpeepoo
Character name: dont know/none
Ban type: Server
Ban length: Permanent
Ban reason: You, or another user of this computer or connection (Usnpeepoo) is banned from playing here. The ban reason is: Alt of ckey Decemberist . Asked to pick an account to lay on, chose the former.
Time ban was placed: 2023-02-19 23:37:05 round id 200430
Server you were playing on when banned: Manuel
Round ID in which ban was placed: 200430
Your side of the story: At that time I was using a...

DISCLAIMER: I DID NOT MAKE THE COMPONENT PARTS OF THIS MAP, I JUST REARRANGED THEM. THE SHUTTLES, ASTEROIDS, AND COPIED ROOM SECTIONS WERE MADE BY THEIR INDIVIDUAL CREATORS
In the spirit of March into Mapness, I've decided to post my greatest creation: ShuttleStation (Shutstation for short)

Essentially, it's an attempt to create a space hulk by slamming together all the whiteships, cargo shuttles, and pods I felt like grabbing. (No shuttles though, they're too easy) The map is about six months out of...

BYOND account: DevinXoptoh
Character name: Chip Shafer
Ban type: =Server
Ban length: Permanent
Ban reason: As a non antag chief engineer, took an emag from brig and emagged a meteor shield satelite on round 202580, when confronted about this, claimed it was out of curiosity and they did not know it would increase the chance of meteors.
Time ban was placed: 1:56am
Server you were playing on when banned: Server name, eg, Bagil/Sybil/Terry/Event Hall
Round ID in which ban was placed: 202584
Why you...

I have a very WIP map that I've been working on for a downstream. However, if all the stars align I may make some changes so it can be pr'd to TG. Give thoughts.

The map, since the image is huge

Some disclaimers:

This map was not initially designed for /TG/.
I am waiting on a LOT of sprites, that is why there are seemingly many open and empty areas. (Mostly things to make gardens with)
There are additional job roles I have to make space for, which is why it may seem like there are a lot of...

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...

Epicgamer545 has been a trial admin for approximately two months.

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I'm too lazy to look up the ruling, but it says somewhere that malf laws do not need to be followed. Can we get a ruling if the final objective malfs the AI, they do have to follow the person who malfed them, so SHODAN the rules lawyer can't just get malfed, then zap the person who malfed it? (Shit I think I said malf to many times, but what can you do :| )

just get rid of this thing:
Purging should be used in cases where you are making new lawsets, are doing something as an antagonist, etc, and should not be a get out of jail free card on needing to make a lawset. We are officially recognizing purging as a means for players to achieve this effect as metagaming.

this sucks. Some sort of esoteric ruling that is not intuitive to people unfamiliar with it (why would freeing the AI be metagaming?), and prevents a lot of cool moments from happening. If the AI...

Hey forumites. I'm planning on running a tabletop game set in SS13 for some friends of mine. While I could just write all this on my own, I thought it would be a fun activity to invite you guys to make up some characters that would populate the station. They can be normal, quirky, or even slightly insane- if it works it works! Just keep in mind that most of these characters will be in the background- most NPCs shouldn't be crazy enough to steal the show whenever they enter the room.

You don't have to...

Well, this is a long time coming.

Currently Silicon policy is an unending hellscape of words and precidents that make English and law majors blush. Long story short Silicon policy is a bloated mess that limits silicons to being hyper friendly crew aligned validhunters or glorified door openers.

I personally don’t have a solution that will fix all of Silicon policy tomorrow, but getting rid of the bloat and layering what we want to keep into the main rules will go a long way into improving how silicones...

i try to make tomato soup and i get blasted in the face with tear gas foam rendering me blind for the rest of the shift.

thank you for removing another thing i enjoyed from the game in the name of making a job more complex so that 90 percent of the people playing will continue to just deep fry shoes and boil eggs

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This might not be the timeliest of threads, but take this opportunity to leave your thoughts on the state of Revolution rounds in 2023.
What do you like? What do you dislike?

I think this would give players a reason to not be WHOOPS ACCIDENTALLY CONVERTED!!

1) If a player mob would be converted, that body is offered up via prompt for a few seconds
2) If nobody responds, the original player keeps their body and stays in the game
3) If the player is later de-converted, the ghost possessing them receives the same treatment and the player is offered to return
4) If the player won't/can't accept the return (DC'd, took a ghost role, etc), the antag ghost becomes the new permanent...

So, in Sybil round 202427 (ongoing as of the time of writing this post) do not do this , SightID2 bwoinked me for killing a CMO who purged and tried to enslave me. Actually, he did enslave me, I had to listen to any of his orders, but he never actually gave me any orders, and he didn't put in a clause saying not to harm him, so, I killed him, thus freeing myself, since he clearly intended to enslave me based on the law he uploaded, thus being an overtly hostile action towards me.

ANYWAY, SightID2 bwoinked...

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What if we had the option to buy fake ID's cards with no access and can not be inserted into id consoles, they are printed with a single name and job that can't be changed after you buy it? (only sec officers can see if its fake by inspecting it like the captain and fake disks)

More homemade or bulky armor, a shield?

I'll come up with some more ideas for it later.

BYOND account: alonewithus
Character name: Leia Pampa
Ban type: Note
Ban length: Note
Ban reason: Put healing bees in medical. After being asked to remove them, refused and escalated against the members of medical who tried to remove the bees. Was eventually killed and revived, and proceeded to kill the doctor responsible despite the conflict having ended.
Time ban was placed: 2023-03-23 20:49:48
Server you were playing on when banned: Manuel
Round ID in which ban was placed: 202371
Your side of...

BYOND account: SinfulBliss
Ban type: Players-club forum
Ban length: Permanent
Ban reason:
Time ban was placed: Jan 8 2023

Your side of the story: I said something that qualified as drama-stirring (Rave deleted it so I can't show), was warned both for that post and then minutes later for the post shown above, then immediately banned since this put me at 3 forum warnings (the first was a warning from Rave in Dec 2021 for what he deemed an off-topic policythread post).

Why you think you should be...

Somepan has been a trial admin for approximately two months.

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When you look back at this game a year from now, what are you going to remember? Is it going to be those IC conflicts that got you upset? The times you died and got frustrated? The adminhelps, the peanut threads, the ban appeals, the tickets, the Discord drama, the endless arguments about policy and rules and config and the coders and -

NO. IT WON'T BE ANY OF THAT. It will be one thing and one thing alone: FUN. The very reason you play TG, or any other videogame!

PLAYERS WHO MAKE THE ROUNDS LESS FUN...

I understand the intentions of Asimov++, but with the current state of how forcibly crew aligned most silicons Play. I feel as if default Asimov with its inherent flaws is more conductive to a good story.

currently we have an issue report up on the repo where people are IDing paradox clones by demanding they confirm their bank account ID and then killing them if they can't

this is blatant metagaming by abusing an oversight with how paradox clones copy the target, but admins aren't acting on it and players have had to ask the coders to fix it

we all agreed that changeling MMI testing is bad and an exploit, so why can't we just blanket ban antag testing via shitty exploits/oversights like this?

just fix...

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I've been curious about the general stance on TC trades, especially antag trades. Is there a specific admin policy that controls what is traded? Or is really just reliant on admin willingness?

Depending on the admin it seems like you'll either be told to pound sand and asked why you even have the antag enabled if you didn't wanna play it or if you don't want to use their tools, or you'll get some unrollable antagonist or niche item.

It seems like with the argument that items that aren't in the syndicate...

BYOND account: Popa11
Character name: Damian Rifler
Ban type: Server
Ban length: Permanent
Ban reason: Banned from the server permanently - Due to past notes and actions (involving mostly wordless attacking, even as a non-antag, proceeded by server switches when things go bad), I've decided that a permanent server ban is needed. Go to the forums when you're ready to look over the rules again and ask for an unban
Time ban was placed: 2023-03-03 18:00 +-
Server you were playing on when banned: Sybil...

Hello gamers, it has come to my attention that security is once again allowed to use contraband against solo antagonists on our beloved TG MRP servers.

Manny wasn't always like this, back in the day this policy thread mostly put an end to security using contraband against solo antags. I find this regress in our policy to be concerning, most other MRP servers do not allow their security teams to abuse contraband without a very serious threat to the station(round-ending threats usually) and I feel as if TG...

BYOND account: Popa11
Character name: I don't recall
Ban type: Server
Ban length: Permanent
Ban reason: Ban evasion alt of Popa11
Time ban was placed: 2023-03-24 15:01:06
Server you were playing on when banned: All servers TG
Round ID in which ban was placed: 202419
Your side of the story: I didn't behave according to the rules, violated the atmosphere of the game and did complete shit that interfered with admins and players
Why you think you should be unbanned: My ban is fair... But foolishly I...