/tg/Station 13

Title says it all.

Just interested in what floats all your boats.

You could also include your favourite gimmick whilst in that job and what all your HIGH MED LOWs are if you are feeling extra special.

I LOVE playing Heads because I like having power over other people and have decent knowledge of the game to justify it.

I have AI on High because I'm sick of seeing shit AIs who don't let people do the most normal thing because X might lead to Y which in 2277 years can lead to human harm, and I want to show people (how I think) it should be done.

I have all heads apart from Captain and HoS on MED because that's a little too much responsibility. Also I have Clown and Mime on MED because I enjoy pissing about, and Chef on MED because Bork! Bork! Bork!

For LOWS I have jobs that I think would be most fun as an Antag such as: Chemist, QM and Roboticist.

Overall my favourite job is HoP because it is such a versatile role. If you are antag you are basically Captain with a Syndie Uplink, even as non-antag you are basically Captain as they usually fuck off, die or both. One gimmick I like to do is make inspection forms, go to all the departments that I manage and rate them on how well they are doing, how clean it is, how safe it is, etc. The best department wins a prize or gets to compete against other parts of the station (as the HoP has many departments) such as Medbay and Science (conducted by me, their respected head or the Captain) and the winner out of the departments gets a prize.

We already had a thread like this.

Rule Cargonia. Although, for slower rounds, it's Chaplain.

High
Engineer - Because I like excuses to make autism forts. This is my favorite role hands down, as it carries not that much responsibility, but enough to make me care about the job. It is pretty much assistant with higher access.

HoP - Similar to what HOP said, it is such a versatile role that can get very fun to play. I also like gimmicks. Some day, I want to make a scavenger hunt the entire station can play in. The winner will get all access.
Medium

Cargo Tech and QM - Cargonia rules.

Mime and Clown - TEEHEE

Low

Security Officer - In all seriousness, I like helping people. It feels gud.

Any of the Medical Roles - Better then nothing.

Detective. I love the noir outfit, I love shootouts with the revolver, I love piecing together evidence to solve crimes, and I really love setting up crime scenes with sec tape and chalk, and creating case files with all my printed evidence, transcripts and photographs.

Right, I forgot how fun atmos tech can be.
Lawyer, very rarely, if I get sec who actually listen to people making a good case.
AI and Warden for mad powertrips.
Cyborg for masochism fests, and detective for skulking.

AI/cyborg, best role easy
CE/engineer occasionally fun, depending on roundtype and how good your comrades are. you get to feel like a hero when you scrap together an emitterwall in blob, and fixing something that's broken feels nice

until they keep fucking breaking it or push your windows off the grilles

FUCK

Roboticist Getting dead people back into the round is the bestest, and both positronic brains and drones make this nice and easy.

Atmospheric Technician A thousand ways to kill. CO2 choking, plasma flooding, replacing O2/Air canisters with CO2, there's something entertaining about taking people out while being nowhere near them. Infinite disposal loops, disposal + crusher fun times, swapping bins for chutes, slip'n'chute, you name it, all fun. By far my favourite job as traitor.

Scientist Xenobiology for the various shenannigans with golems and sentience potions, getting people back into the round. Raise your own xeno hive! Spam food! RnD lab for the awesome tools and guns.

At the moment my favorite role is Assistant due to lack of responsibility, but it changes weekly.

A week or two ago I set Atmos Tech to high because I finally figured out how the atmos bullshit works (except for heat transfer pipe things) AND you can do all the autism fort things you could do as an engineer but with less responsibility.

Just recently I was playing a lot of scientist since I really enjoy maxing research and seeing my work pay off. I turned it lower as of late due to exploding every fucking round not getting cooperation from cargo/mining or having the round end before I can see my labor's rewards come to fruition. This goes without saying scientists also get things like xenobio and toxins.

Bartender's a neat role if you're awful patient and in the mood to chat. Chef is too, but with less chatting.

Really like playing viro - I can finish my job in 15 minutes or so, spread beneficial diseases to everyone on the station so everyone is moving at sanic speeds and getting pulled out of crit by my diseases, then I can dick around as an assistant with med access or just load up on coffee and explore space.

Botany is fun too, because although it can be RNG as fuck getting mutations, you can really easily save your progress towards high stats by just harvesting once and turning them into seeds, so you never feel like you're going backwards.

Xenobiologist is ok, but I'm still really unrobust at it so I never get to gold and light pink slimes.

Bartender is fun in quieter rounds, especially with a cooperative botanist/chemist. There's something nice about absolutely covering the bar in pretty drinks.

For really busy rounds I like playing CMO or Chemist and being usually the only competent doctor in the medbay healing like 8 people at once. Really frantic work that people always feel grateful for.

CMO because seeing a shittily run medbay is fucking painful and not a lot of people can keep shit running uber smoothly

There's no better feeling than being a chef and actually running a good kitchen, with botanists who've got your back.

cargo so I can greytide easier

High
Security: i hate seeing officers that barely know what to do and are slow.

Roboticist: i started out with it and have just gone with it ever since.

Med
Engineer: mostly because i know how to set up the singu and solars PROPERLY. After that i just fuck off.

Scientist: i like to do the occasional RnD grind

Low
Cargo tech: grey tide without being grey tide

Medical doctor: i would like to learn how to play it properly eventually, and learning the chems would be nice

Roboticist is a top favorite and my most common one on High. Make big stompy mechs, build drones so ghosts can autism fort repair the station. Positronics as well but for borgs. Also a fun job for being an antag. Mechs or emagged borgs make excellent tools, as long as the borgs don't blow your cover.

Xenobio Scientist is also fun, typically I do this if I late join as Roboticist is usually taken. Make Ian sentient, become a slime person, wear cat ears for added effect and silliness. Spawn a golem army only for them to get valid hunted by sec because one stepped on someones toe. If someone is already in Xenobio though I tend to go do something else. RnD if no one else is, but I don't mess with toxins.

Engineer is also good, fix holes and autism fort. Never singularity though. Pure solar power. I like my station in one, not two, pieces.

And when I usually feel like assisting, I go Mime as Trap. Run around the station, mess around, help where I can. It's good for something to play casually.

Medical doctor when I feel like it. Nothing like patching up the station, one brute patch and defib at a time.

And Detective when I get the urge to play sec because it's a more lax sec job, though it feels good to catch the evidence on those dirty traitors.

QM/Cargo Tech: HAIL CARGONIA

I forgot how fun scientist can be.

Especially if you get to teach the RD a thing or two about DOING YOUR FUCKING JOB, then inexplicably failing to make even the weakest of bombs.

I usually go chief engineer. I'm pretty well versed in engineering and building, but it can get annoying sometimes. Especially when your engineers dick off somewhere to go build autism forts with out your permission. Not that i strickly have a problem with autism forts, but when you're letting the SMES go un-powered for your pet project and i'm left to either set up the engine or wire the solars, you could have at least asked. But When you got a good crew under you it's a lot of fun and rewarding to get shit done with good coordination. Also, i love playing around with NTSL. Usually the first thing i do as a CE is set up the job indicator script. And sometimes i'll add a buttbot script that can be turned on and off with a secret command. I usually only turn it on when there isn't much going on though. It's funny to see shit like, "Hey scientist, your Butt shipment is Butt at Butt", "Clown's tripping people with his Butt", "What butt fuck?", "Butt GOING ON? AI STATE YOUR Butt".

If i'm feeling lazy though, i'll probably take up mining, it was my first job ever when i joined and i've grown kind of attached to it, the parse placement of mobs means i can zone out for a while and contribute to the game. (also mining ripleys)

Clown also set to high for obvious reasons.

Everything else is set to medium, i like a little variety.

I used to love being a citizen of Cargonia, but recently I've had nothing but long-ass boring rounds where nobody even came near Cargo except to murderbone and my colleagues were either incompetent or just didn't care, so now I kind of hate being there. My current favourite is Medical Doctor. It's a job that's almost always in high demand and I'm actually really good at it. Never CMO though, even when I'm the most competent person in Medbay, because fuck Head drama.

janitor

i love just taking the low-tech janicart and just mopping up blood while pointing to my holosigns.
i really, really like playing janitor.

Miauw wrote:janitor

i love just taking the low-tech janicart and just mopping up blood while pointing to my holosigns.
i really, really like playing janitor.

You need to play "viscera cleanup detail". Sounds like just the game for you

There is something very satisfying about slipping an entire hallway, though. Especially if you've put up all the signs you need to.

My favorite jobs are:

HoP - Nothing more fun that being able to actually contribute to the station by giving access where needed.

Lawyer - It's like being a sec officer without ever having to be a sec officer. You're privy to all of sec's information and happenings, and yet you don't ever have to actually do anything. Kinda relaxing actually.

Bartender - Very relaxing. Just sitting around, making drinks, playing cards with the mime.

QM - Is a nice healthy dose of both being useful, and fucking around.

Security - because its the only job where each round is unique

Assistant.

Because when I show up to medbay and TEACH CMOS THAT O- IS A UNIVERSAL DONOR and AB+ IS A UNIVERSAL RECIPIENT, I get a superiority boner because that's like middle school health class stuff.

Actually, showing up anywhere, doing the job better, and then fucking off into maint to hunt for the not-so-elusive corgi generating strange objects gets me so happy.

Research Director. While I'm not that up-to-date on what the best ways to progress research are, I enjoy letting competent people do their work and getting them the tools they need to get the job done. Sometimes this involves bugging the rest of the command staff for things, but other times it involves using my access to get things from the other sub-departments that the people who work there are too busy to handle themselves (printing off various mech bits for use in the destructive analyzer, for example). It's usually pretty sedate and only really gets stressful when some jackass gets bored and releases plasma, some retard tables himself to break into robotics, or the department gets blamed for mining's lack of delivery (usually because the only miner is the previously-mentioned retard).

Scientist, because mah sentience potions

Botanist, because apparently I just like tedious RNG-based jobs

Miner, because feels good to help man / it's like its own minigame

Clown, because HONK

Mime, because

Silicon, atmos, some times security.

Ai on HIGH/MED
I like AI, it can be a fun role if you put the time and effort in to try to Argh-Pee. Though on slow rounds being treated as a glorified doorknob get's grating but getting back is easy by being a smart arse when people say "AI door"

Borg on MED/HIGH
Same reason as AI mostly, though with the added benefit of getting involved in the hum-drum. Quite a bit of enjoyment in the paranoia of looking over your shoulder for anyone trying to hack you

Chaplain on MED
TIME TO FORM A CULT. But in seriousness, being a MD without the degree is pretty awesome

Everything else on LOW
For that extra bit of randomness to keep things more or less interesting

peoplearestrange wrote:

Miauw wrote:janitor

i love just taking the low-tech janicart and just mopping up blood while pointing to my holosigns.
i really, really like playing janitor.

You need to play "viscera cleanup detail". Sounds like just the game for you

cleaning is lame though
seeing people slip despite signs, get up, and slip again is worth it every time.

Robotcist.

I mean, who doesn't like shitting out 10 ripleys untill mining gets back to shit out 10 durands?

With the crusher as it is, better shit out 10 HONKs.

HIGH:

AI, because I am the omnissiah.

MEDIUM:

Cyborg: beep boop

Warden/Detective : Stop! You violated the law! / You lookin' at me, punk?

LOW

Captain: You don't need Captain higher than low to get it 30% of the time

Robotics. Mechs, bots, Borgs and Augments.


I've been on a weird assistant kick on the rare times I play with "Can-lift-much." THough my most memorable recent round with him was as a cargo tech.

HoS and RD are my two favorites. HoS because there is no such thing as a dull HoS round. You get to move around the station constantly, and something exciting always happens. RD because who doesn't love shiny science toys?

Assistant for sure. No responsibility, no one really pays attention to you in the halls. You can make spears and take all your shit off and march around like a tribal if you want, and no one questions it or accuses you of ditching your duties. If you really get tired and want another job, there are always openings. You can make bananas for the Clown all round, or you can build a fort in Maintenance, you can do anything.