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4chains tg and v threads over the years

Watching Texicus' videos of maintaining an attempted roleplay style while shit hit the fan all around him inspired me to play though.

It's probably fine if the stream is private and the friends aren't playing. I play a lot of short streams for my friends since they want to watch, and if they're playing then there's no point in streaming. If someone's streaming publicly and it comes back to bite them in the ass when someone snipes ...

The policy should be whether most admins think it's too dumb to stay This, just write as something like: Names are decided on a case-by-case basis, if the admins that are currently around to make the decision decide that your name is too dumb / doesn't pass the entertaining enough / named in bad fa...

What if you had a menu you could access from someplace like near the HoP line, where you could choose from a category of objectives to add to your round. Have production/department related stuff come from a centcomm manager, interdepartmental relation stuff from the HR department head, and RP relate...

give cultists the ability to respawn at the cost of power. I like this idea, can be done thematically matching as well. (Maybe make them have the appearance of a clockwork golem after so it's harder to conceal yourself if you die) For the finale thing, maybe make some way to channel energy into the...

Something like a machine prefabrication kit that an engineer could make to send to another department, where they deploy the machine there would be neat. Put together all of the components in engineering since the manufacturing facilities are there, then send a kit to whoever needs it.

The issue I see with a conversion limit is that of metagaming - yes, as it is currently I know Newbie Lagsmuch is a way less valuable convert then Powergame McGee, but I still want to convert Newbie Lagsmuch, because he can at least serve as a distraction/generate some resources. If theres a conver...

It didn't occur to me until recently that conversion is like this. Converting people leads to more people who can convert others, which leads to more conversions... I'm not sure at what point it gets out of control, but it absolutely does. The issue with applying a limit, unfortunately, is the way ...

sec leaderboards, where the sec team is given points for number of live antags under arrest at round end, and points deducted for false imprisonment. strive to become the best redshirt you can be!

I think one of the main things leading to snowballing of either side, leading to the perception of unfairness/no chance, is conversion, and it inherently problematic due to its self escalating nature. Perhaps for conversion mode antags, a static limit that's applied depending on the population of th...

I love this idea, and was thinking along the same lines as I was playing the longer rounds on Terry and late-night Sybil. Maybe have them as a request that you can have the HoP send in (or just your department head) and it picks from a random pool of objectives. Give greentext commendations at the e...

Perhaps tie some sort of PvE conflict together with the station objectives, so that if the round goes on long enough (enough for the objective to be completed without necessarily rushing it), the crew is equipped to tackle a foe or situation that the goal is preparing them for. An easy example would...

Always pleasant and helpful.

OCEAN MAN, TAKE ME BY THE HAND

fund it

How about a progress bar and big red text announcement that "______ is attempting to shove a bag of holding into another! Oh noes!" Gives time to react to people nearby, and requires some set up by the person if they wanna get a target specifically with it, and not just set it loose in som...

Remember back when I said we can just have 3 engines and the engineers pick which one they set up in an empty room I quite like this idea, given that maybe some tools are added or things like creating the components for each engine are readily available, maybe ordered via cargo as a voucher sorta d...

Trial by fire is !FUN! and getting burned is part of the game. I agree, and I personally have fun running face first into things and ending up in hilarious situations because of it, but I see a lot of people raging in deadchat at others who don't know what they're doing, and the experience leaves t...

I think of admins doing things like this from a Dungeon Master perspective: it's important for them to keep the round moving along, and throwing a wrench (that doesn't just screw over the antag of course) in their plans to mix it up is welcome. Heck, having an announcement that says you basically n...

At the end of the day, the best testing environment is a private server. Everything else is covered in-game on a page in the slab/tome. This is true, and there's a lot I messed around with on my own on a compiled build, but I'm not sure the average player would want to or know how to do that. I mig...

As a normal player, I'd give the benefit of the doubt to the admins if they chose to press some buttons after I did something like run around having my way with the station for a while, having some extra attention thrown your way because your influence of the round was so great should be perceived a...

From observing and playing for a little while, the biggest hurdle and learning curve that I've seen for newer players including myself is "What the heck am I supposed to do now that I've been converted to a (insert cult) here?". Getting dragged away then expected to know how to accomplish ...

Alt Clicking things. Moving one inventory to another storage all at once. Clicking on foam darts with the magazine to pick them all up at once.

Ran a cool event with a serial murderer in maint, was REAL SPOOKY.

You could try to add more station goals that are really hard to make/do but make the rewards really OP/fun. It would give people incentive to stay and try for it. Giving random crew members goon-esque objectives to work on for discount greentext... ...Give departments strong endgame projects to wor...

What is the source of these crafting recipes with the drop-down steps?

Another option that I recall someone mentioning was making a larger container (like a stationary cauldron or something) that would allow you to mix larger amounts of chems at once, that would effectively allow for mass production of needed things while cutting down the steps as well. It's called st...

From someone that just picked up chemistry to try and learn it, this system, while convenient, seems like you're not playing it properly if you don't write out and copy/paste the macros to make things during a round. I spent around 30 mins or so stocking up the fridge during a round, when another ch...

Guardian of late night Sybil. Does a good job keeping the rounds that can kinda drag on a for long time interesting for the ghosts, and remains fair to the people still in the round trying to accomplish their goals. A bit relaxed on enforcing rules down to the letter, but that's probably good for th...

captain sawrge wrote:Make sure to commit lots of crimes its the most efficient way to have fun

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Which jobs (that you've tried) were easiest/hardest to pick up? Which were the most/least helpful wiki pages? I've only messed around with the civilian jobs so far on the live servers, they've been pretty simple to pick up as a lot of what they entail deals with interacting with the crew, rather th...

Also, whoever wrote most of the wiki articles is hilarious. T-t-r-riple post!

This is a good thread, its nice to see people enjoying the game for the first time. My first round consisted of asking the HoP for an assistant position somewhere I wouldn't blow the entire station up, and went over to botany to grow some food for the chef. The botanist there taught me the basics, ...

Oh, and the only thing that's been off-putting so far has been some people raging and taking the shit out of people that they converted to their antagonist side, that didn't perform up to their expectations. While I don't really let the bants effect me, I know what probably sucks even worse for the ...

Yo. after playing a few rounds, and practicing a bit on a locally ran server to get a hold of the controls, I thought I'd give some feedback from the perspective of someone new to spess. First of all, the admins that I've talked to have been very helpful, and the ghost chat people that I shot questi...