Unimportant Stuff:
I'm GeneralThrax, admintrainer on Manuel and having formerly adminned Terry. I've been around since early 2019, and as of fairly recently, trained 3 admins (smoted, mrrfiish, isratosh) and helped train another trainer's candidate (TheBibleMelts). You might know me as Beauregard on Terry and Piper Faust on Manuel.
Highly Unimportant Stuff (what I'm definitely probably maybe 100% going to do):
Be Highly Involved with the Training Team
This last term has been marked by some drop offs in trialmin / admin candidate activity that resulted in some failed trials and early retirements. Headmins have (god bless them, they're quite busy) been a tiny bit late to promotion shenanigans on several candidates / trialmins, and I hope to be prompt with this and keep on top of things to make sure our new admins don't lapse into inactivity.
MRP Policy
I've, more or less, been content with the state of rules and policy on Manuel. However, after having spent a bit of time on other servers and hearing a few players out, I think we could do (marginally) better.
A few things I'm intending on pursuing are:
- A modified (and likely simplified) Space Law being more important with security, in a hope to improve the current state of antagonist-sec and crew-sec interactions (preventing situations of sec unanimously deciding you aren't worth being around and giving lawyer more of a foundation to stand on)
- Throwing antagonists like changeling or pirate a rope, considering they're technically not murderbone antagonists yet because of how they are (pirate highly destabilizing the station, lings being uncontainable), crew have little sympathy in dealing with them
- A more hardline stance against starting conflicts with escalation policy, I've seen a lot of interesting rounds / gimmicks ruined by people simply looking to escalate in a "valid" manner while playing, and I'd like to usher in a harsher outlook against it for admins.
- Some genius thing players will probably whisper in my ear that I've completely forgot and will probably do later in the term
I've been on the team and quite active for years now, and I'm fairly involved with admin training and the Manuel community. Getting along with the other headmins shouldn't be much of an issue, I'm sure everyone running is levelheaded enough to come to an agreement and work something out.
Though I might be an odd pick for LRP players, I have spent a significant amount of time on Terry and other LRP servers before coming to Manuel, and even here I'm more lenient leaning (not necessarily a good thing) compared to some of my fellow Manuelmins.
I do very much love Manuel and the community around it, and I'm looking to take a more active stance in making it more receptive to new and returning players.
"Here we come, General. Like a chemical spill."