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Post by Turbonerd » #645373

Heads of staff should provide their reasoning for shuttle calls in the shuttle call. Too many times I have seen someone call the shuttle with reason: "It's time to go home" or similar when they find out it's revs or there's a blob or something. This isn't about calling the shuttle for no reason, but about calling the shuttle without providing the reason, and it's reaching NRP levels at this point. Crap shuttle call reasons should be actionable and made clear it isn't allowed, unless a singulo or somethint is about to eat comms console in 2 seconds or somethint like that.
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I've seen admins CC recall for poor shuttle call reasons. This seems like a reasonable ask for Heads of Staff.
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Turbonerd wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 11:03 pmThis isn't about calling the shuttle for no reason, but about calling the shuttle without providing the reason, and it's reaching NRP levels at this point.
These shuttle calls happen because there IS no reason. They just want to leave because "I'm bored" or "I want to roll antag".
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Post by Mothblocks » #645415

Can you provide a more articulate reason, especially why "It's time to go home" is NRP? You explain what happens but not necessarily why it needs to go so far as administrative action (which means using up admins time, and necessitates that it eventually be a ban worthy offense)
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im not opposed to encouraging more proper shuttle calling but also i feel like sending other servers incredibly silly and contextless shuttle messages is very funny
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Mothblocks wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:56 am Can you provide a more articulate reason, especially why "It's time to go home" is NRP? You explain what happens but not necessarily why it needs to go so far as administrative action (which means using up admins time, and necessitates that it eventually be a ban worthy offense)
Because there is already a built-in mechanism for ACTUALLY determining when it's time to go home, and it isn't determined when the Captain/Command decides so. That time is when the station objective is completed. Based on the RP setting, SS13's entire reason for existence is to complete the station objective. If the station objective is not complete, the only RP-valid reason to leave is if there's a major threat to the crew or the station.

Alternatively, if Command holds a shuttle vote, I think that's fine too. But Command just fucking over the entire rest of the crew because they're individually bored is pretty shitty and blatant NRP antag rolling.
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Mothblocks wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:56 am Can you provide a more articulate reason, especially why "It's time to go home" is NRP? You explain what happens but not necessarily why it needs to go so far as administrative action (which means using up admins time, and necessitates that it eventually be a ban worthy offense)

It doesn't really make sense for that to be a reason for the shuttle call if something is threatening the station, and makes it look like they don't care about the threat. I think making shuttle calls being informative a requirement will be a lot more beneficial for the experience of the round, as it's hard to tell if uninformative shuttle calls are just "I bored" calls or have an actual reason behind it, especially if the threat isn't obvious yet.

The consistent crap shuttle calls should face administrative action because it is dragging the RP down to NRP, and is very uninformative being a shuttle call and recall fight bait.
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Post by Drag » #645443

For me this really depends on the context, if the station is in active danger then yeah there should be a reason. However if it's a long round and it's clear everyone is bored I don't really care about the reason
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Post by RaveRadbury » #645444

I'll CC recall if the reason is especially poor. Some players will assume that I have an event in mind, even when the notice that gets printed is some IC version of "come up with a better reason"

This game is all about corporate dystopia and that means properly filling out emergency shuttle request paperwork.

Also: We still call this thing the Emergency Shuttle, so if we want to move away from it needing to be an emergency we should consider addressing the nomenclature we're using.
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we should probably make the CC recall reason be announced if not explicitly set to not-announce to reduce the volume of "omg admin event" in response to a recall.
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Post by blackdav123 » #645493

everyone hates when admins recall the shuttle an hour and a half into the round because "erm, you guys didnt build the dna vault yet :geek: :geek: :geek: "

if you want to force the crew to do the objective make it for a cooler reason

i remember one round we got an announcement that "a large amount of meteors will be coming towards your station in 45 minutes, constructing the meteor shield is advised" and it was a fun mini event that made us do the objective without arbitrarily forcing us
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blackdav123 wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:18 am everyone hates when admins recall the shuttle an hour and a half into the round because "erm, you guys didnt build the dna vault yet :geek: :geek: :geek: "

if you want to force the crew to do the objective make it for a cooler reason

i remember one round we got an announcement that "a large amount of meteors will be coming towards your station in 45 minutes, constructing the meteor shield is advised" and it was a fun mini event that made us do the objective without arbitrarily forcing us
I would never recall the shuttle over station goals, I just want the heads to actually talk about why the station is falling apart, y'know like, why there is an emergency.
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blackdav123 wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:18 am everyone hates when admins recall the shuttle an hour and a half into the round because "erm, you guys didnt build the dna vault yet :geek: :geek: :geek: "

if you want to force the crew to do the objective make it for a cooler reason

i remember one round we got an announcement that "a large amount of meteors will be coming towards your station in 45 minutes, constructing the meteor shield is advised" and it was a fun mini event that made us do the objective without arbitrarily forcing us
Then literally just do a shuttle vote so that way we all know it really is everyone wanting to leave, and not just you abusing your position as a member of command to call the shuttle so you can antag roll - everyone really did want to leave if the vote passes.
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Post by sinfulbliss » #645518

In the event things are really breaking - SM exploded, arrivals is spaced, comms are down - then saying just "shit's fucked" should be enough on LRP. On Manuel it would make more sense to phrase it as a note to Centcom on why you need an emergency shuttle, but on LRP I see no reason for requiring it if everyone would be in clear agreement it's time to call.

However if it's been a long shift and you do a shuttle call vote, and get a majority of "yes," that's also a valid reason, albeit not one that has an immediately obvious reason you could write down. "People are bored and want to leave" sounds worse than just saying "it is time to depart."
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sinfulbliss wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 4:42 pm In the event things are really breaking - SM exploded, arrivals is spaced, comms are down - then saying just "shit's fucked" should be enough on LRP. On Manuel it would make more sense to phrase it as a note to Centcom on why you need an emergency shuttle, but on LRP I see no reason for requiring it if everyone would be in clear agreement it's time to call.

However if it's been a long shift and you do a shuttle call vote, and get a majority of "yes," that's also a valid reason, albeit not one that has an immediately obvious reason you could write down. "People are bored and want to leave" sounds worse than just saying "it is time to depart."
Couldn't you just put down "The Crew has voted to leave"? As long as they actually did and the vote passed, I've never seen anyone have an issue with that.
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Post by Helios » #646100

Here's how I would suggest coding it. Basically the shuttle call will not be interrupted, instead an announcement will play saying that Centcomm wasn't too happy with the shuttle call justification, the station is now classified as "high-risk", and all future shuttle calls are manually approved by Centcomm. Saying yes this reason is good enough, or a secure communication printed out at the various comm consoles that no, that reason wasn't good enough try again later. Obviously this could break the game if no admins are on to approve/deny the requests, and would cause a softlock.
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Helios wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 11:08 pm Here's how I would suggest coding it. Basically the shuttle call will not be interrupted, instead an announcement will play saying that Centcomm wasn't too happy with the shuttle call justification, the station is now classified as "high-risk", and all future shuttle calls are manually approved by Centcomm. Saying yes this reason is good enough, or a secure communication printed out at the various comm consoles that no, that reason wasn't good enough try again later. Obviously this could break the game if no admins are on to approve/deny the requests, and would cause a softlock.
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Something requiring admins to be online to function is absolutely a no go. Not only are admins completely volunteers we already end up with cases where admins end up with severe burnout from normal admin work load. The pressure from "Well if I'm not here then X can't happen and nobody else will show up to help" is very real and happens to a lot of admins without things even being mandatory.
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It's just a fundamental issue with the game design that the driving force to continue a round isn't strong enough when antagonists aren't doing enough.
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RaveRadbury wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 4:00 pm I'll CC recall if the reason is especially poor. Some players will assume that I have an event in mind, even when the notice that gets printed is some IC version of "come up with a better reason"

This game is all about corporate dystopia and that means properly filling out emergency shuttle request paperwork.

Also: We still call this thing the Emergency Shuttle, so if we want to move away from it needing to be an emergency we should consider addressing the nomenclature we're using.
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Heavily agree, but for another reason not listed. Bored calling without any input from the other players is already shunned upon, but the issue with the poorly written reasons is that even if there is a legitimate threat, it's impossible for every player to know every situation that's going on in the station. I've had shifts where I'm an antag quietly setting up and getting ready to go loud, and all I see is "time to go", "I'm bored", "baddies all dead" etcetc. So I ahelp thinking it's just a person rerolling for antag, only to get told by admins "Actually it's pretty justified because x, y, and z" which I obviously couldn't have known since the caller made no effort to communicate. There are some obvious exceptions like single caps being launched everywhere or other terms of urgent shit is fucked, but if they have an opportunity to actually type out their thoughts, it should be mandatory to. Not because not doing so is NRP, but more so because it's risking wasting both player time and administrative time over an issue that never should've arose. I've also had situations where the admins go "Well, I'd recall due to the badly written reason, but there's [threats that I'm aware of, but that the caller is likely not]" and they wouldn't know this without log diving or messaging the caller, since the caller opted for the lazy way. A properly written reason provides insight to both the players and the admins why this is happening, if it's justified, if they're abusing authority, etc.

So I'm actually for two changes being made:
1. Mandatory shuttle call explanations minus IMMEDIATE serious threats that would justify them not having a lot of time to call. An example being a zombie infestation and them spamming nonsense when they are in the process of breaking into the bridge. And actually note for when this happens since the same people keep doing it.
2. Non-antags shouldn't be allowed to INTENTIONALLY lie about the call reason and in the event that they call over a threat that didn't exist/was already fixed and they simply didn't bother to check if it was true, can be punished for it by admins. Examples such as hull breaches that were breached that they know they were fixed. Saying the station is fucked when everywhere is intact. The justification for this is that the explanation is meant to provide both players and admins insight on to why their round is ending and that purposely fudging it is nothing short of malicious. One can argue they can call over misinformation and that that's part of the game, but most problems worth calling for can easily be confirmed with a camera check or suit sensor check.
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TypicalRig wrote: Tue Jul 12, 2022 10:52 am Heavily agree, but for another reason not listed. Bored calling without any input from the other players is already shunned upon, but the issue with the poorly written reasons is that even if there is a legitimate threat, it's impossible for every player to know every situation that's going on in the station. I've had shifts where I'm an antag quietly setting up and getting ready to go loud, and all I see is "time to go", "I'm bored", "baddies all dead" etcetc. So I ahelp thinking it's just a person rerolling for antag, only to get told by admins "Actually it's pretty justified because x, y, and z" which I obviously couldn't have known since the caller made no effort to communicate. There are some obvious exceptions like single caps being launched everywhere or other terms of urgent shit is fucked, but if they have an opportunity to actually type out their thoughts, it should be mandatory to. Not because not doing so is NRP, but more so because it's risking wasting both player time and administrative time over an issue that never should've arose. I've also had situations where the admins go "Well, I'd recall due to the badly written reason, but there's [threats that I'm aware of, but that the caller is likely not]" and they wouldn't know this without log diving or messaging the caller, since the caller opted for the lazy way. A properly written reason provides insight to both the players and the admins why this is happening, if it's justified, if they're abusing authority, etc.

So I'm actually for two changes being made:
1. Mandatory shuttle call explanations minus IMMEDIATE serious threats that would justify them not having a lot of time to call. An example being a zombie infestation and them spamming nonsense when they are in the process of breaking into the bridge. And actually note for when this happens since the same people keep doing it.
2. Non-antags shouldn't be allowed to INTENTIONALLY lie about the call reason and in the event that they call over a threat that didn't exist/was already fixed and they simply didn't bother to check if it was true, can be punished for it by admins. Examples such as hull breaches that were breached that they know they were breached. Saying the station is fucked when everywhere is intact. The justification for this is that the explanation is meant to provide both players and admins insight on to why their round is ending and that purposely fudging it is nothing short of malicious. One can argue they can call over misinformation and that that's part of the game, but most problems worth calling for can easily be confirmed with a camera check or suit sensor check.
Half of this is code changes, and so completely impossible to ask the headmins as headmins to do.
The other half seems overly strict, and would not always be possible to ensure. Speaking personally it'd drive me away from ever playing head of staff if I risked being banned if my shuttle call reason was not perfectly true.

In addition to this, shuttle calls aren't always emergencies. They're fluffed that way, but they serve as a way for players to go "nope, I'm out"
Of course I want them to be emergencies, but they are not always, and forcing them to be will just place you in the situation you'd get into on lowpop manuel like 2 years ago, where the round was "over" but none could come up with an IC reason to leave, so none left. "Winning" the game, and not being able to make a new story, that, that's torture.
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TheFinalPotato wrote: Tue Jul 12, 2022 8:14 pmIn addition to this, shuttle calls aren't always emergencies. They're fluffed that way, but they serve as a way for players to go "nope, I'm out"
Of course I want them to be emergencies, but they are not always, and forcing them to be will just place you in the situation you'd get into on lowpop manuel like 2 years ago, where the round was "over" but none could come up with an IC reason to leave, so none left. "Winning" the game, and not being able to make a new story, that, that's torture.
"The station objective is complete" or "The crew has voted to leave" are both perfectly valid IC reasons to leave.
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TheFinalPotato wrote: Tue Jul 12, 2022 8:14 pm
TypicalRig wrote: Tue Jul 12, 2022 10:52 am Heavily agree, but for another reason not listed. Bored calling without any input from the other players is already shunned upon, but the issue with the poorly written reasons is that even if there is a legitimate threat, it's impossible for every player to know every situation that's going on in the station. I've had shifts where I'm an antag quietly setting up and getting ready to go loud, and all I see is "time to go", "I'm bored", "baddies all dead" etcetc. So I ahelp thinking it's just a person rerolling for antag, only to get told by admins "Actually it's pretty justified because x, y, and z" which I obviously couldn't have known since the caller made no effort to communicate. There are some obvious exceptions like single caps being launched everywhere or other terms of urgent shit is fucked, but if they have an opportunity to actually type out their thoughts, it should be mandatory to. Not because not doing so is NRP, but more so because it's risking wasting both player time and administrative time over an issue that never should've arose. I've also had situations where the admins go "Well, I'd recall due to the badly written reason, but there's [threats that I'm aware of, but that the caller is likely not]" and they wouldn't know this without log diving or messaging the caller, since the caller opted for the lazy way. A properly written reason provides insight to both the players and the admins why this is happening, if it's justified, if they're abusing authority, etc.

So I'm actually for two changes being made:
1. Mandatory shuttle call explanations minus IMMEDIATE serious threats that would justify them not having a lot of time to call. An example being a zombie infestation and them spamming nonsense when they are in the process of breaking into the bridge. And actually note for when this happens since the same people keep doing it.
2. Non-antags shouldn't be allowed to INTENTIONALLY lie about the call reason and in the event that they call over a threat that didn't exist/was already fixed and they simply didn't bother to check if it was true, can be punished for it by admins. Examples such as hull breaches that were breached that they know they were breached. Saying the station is fucked when everywhere is intact. The justification for this is that the explanation is meant to provide both players and admins insight on to why their round is ending and that purposely fudging it is nothing short of malicious. One can argue they can call over misinformation and that that's part of the game, but most problems worth calling for can easily be confirmed with a camera check or suit sensor check.
Half of this is code changes, and so completely impossible to ask the headmins as headmins to do.
The other half seems overly strict, and would not always be possible to ensure. Speaking personally it'd drive me away from ever playing head of staff if I risked being banned if my shuttle call reason was not perfectly true.

In addition to this, shuttle calls aren't always emergencies. They're fluffed that way, but they serve as a way for players to go "nope, I'm out"
Of course I want them to be emergencies, but they are not always, and forcing them to be will just place you in the situation you'd get into on lowpop manuel like 2 years ago, where the round was "over" but none could come up with an IC reason to leave, so none left. "Winning" the game, and not being able to make a new story, that, that's torture.
Literally neither of the two changes are code changes and I'm unsure how you came to that conclusion. This is purely policy saying someone should try to the best of their ability to make an accurate shuttle call reason unless there's something that's urgent to justify just typing anything to get the call through (antags obviously exempt). Also I find it odd that you jumped to immediately assuming you'd be at risk for being banned over this, like our admin team isn't trained to use discretion per each case. "would not always be possible to ensure" is also not an argument, because, well, that applies to enforcement of every rule on this server. Sometimes things can't be dealt with. This is simply meant to reduce the problem.

I also agree that the majority of the crew being bored and agreeing to leave is a perfectly acceptable reason. This COULD be done by code, but for the sake of this sticking to policy discussion and not code discussion, is also fine with a simple comms vote assuming the heads actually honour the results, as it's not uncommon for someone to ask for a vote and then call anyway if they don't like the results.
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Oh you mean mandatory as in admin enforced not code enforced.
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Post by Misdoubtful » #651003

Are there any updates on what encouraging heads of staff to do for shuttle calls would mean, and if this is something that would have an administrative consequence based backing?

Or if this is something that would best be done through IC means — or something that would result administrative consequences when it gets to be too out of hand?
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Post by Timberpoes » #651023

I'm not even sure this is something the admin team as a whole care about micromanaging beyond what they already do to deal with what they feel are bad faith shuttle calls.

If the call reason isn't ock ick or otherwise doesn't break any of our other rules on bigotry or ERP or it isn't just "I didn't get antag, go next shift", it feels like such a major IC issue moment to me.
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Helios wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 11:08 pm Here's how I would suggest coding it. Basically the shuttle call will not be interrupted, instead an announcement will play saying that Centcomm wasn't too happy with the shuttle call justification, the station is now classified as "high-risk", and all future shuttle calls are manually approved by Centcomm. Saying yes this reason is good enough, or a secure communication printed out at the various comm consoles that no, that reason wasn't good enough try again later. Obviously this could break the game if no admins are on to approve/deny the requests, and would cause a softlock.
Only reasonable alternative without admins is to have a single ghost spawned in as a CentCom shuttle intern, who basically gets to say 'you stay' if command calls a shuttle, and if they act like a dipass, ahelp, or in an IC way, Request Veto, where admins can just remotely handle it on discord, or, Request Meeting if the console is emagged. Basically pods down the intern to be beaten to shit, then take the shuttle veto button and blow it the fuck up. Intern only has a detbaton so people won't induce it for loot. Oh and if nobody takes the role the thing isn't done at all. And if no emags are found, make hitting the shuttle console with a toolbox give a 5% chance to unlock Request Meeting.
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Re: Heads of staff should be encouraged to put the full reason in their shuttle calls.

Post by RaveRadbury » #653751

Shuttle call reasons are basically what Centcom fills in on the "What went wrong?" section of the incident report, and should reflect that. We're not asking for paragraphs, examples of acceptable shuttle call reasons: "Oh god it's all on fire", "The situation is rapidly deteriorating", “THE SPIDERS ARE IN MY SKIN THE SPIDERS ARE IN MY SKIN THE SPIDERS ARE IN MY SKIN”. Call reasons should be reasonably descriptive and fairly accurate to the condition of the station.

Admins are encouraged to reject bad shuttle call reasons at their discretion.
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