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[IronTomato]

Is this ded? I haven't played it in forever, and it looks like there's been a lot of changes to various things since the last time I was on, but I'm in the server right now and the only other player is catatonic.

[Glloyd]

Hop on the discord, that's where the activity is. Things usually pick up on weekends.

[IronTomato]

I've never used Discord and didn't know that this had one. I can't keep up with you damn kids and all these fancy new means of communication

[AH]

At time of writing we have 16 players. Come on in.

E: That was a good day! Hopefully we'll get the same tomorrow.

[EnigmaticHat]

Finally got around to trying this game!  On one of the Paradise servers, hopefully we're allowed to discuss other stations here?

My first experience was bizarre but pretty nice.  I came onto the station very late in its run.  I dicked around in the arrivals tool storage, trying to figure out how to do basic things.  Ended up emptying a blue toolbox on the ground and then hitting myself with it, then dropped it but forgot that arrow keys move instead of WASD.  In the midst of all this, a corticol borer slowly crawled under me.  I noticed it pretty quickly but tried to move away using WASD and so was infested.  The borer player was actually really nice!  Once I figured out how to talk to them (and that people wouldn't realize I was infested just because I was talking to myself in the hallways), we had some talks.  They used the possession as an excuse to give me a tour of the station, with random detours into bathrooms to make more worms.

Probably helping our budding symbiosis is the fact that despite reading about this game for literally years, I had no idea what a borer is.  So I assumed that I was an antag and I had to do whatever the worm told me to.  It was a good strategy, I ended up successfully escaping the station with the worm in tow.

Edit: Oh, and the worm actually didn't kill anyone.  It possessed me and dragged an unconscious person back to sickbay, then successfully healed them.  That person will never know what wormbuddy did for them.

[JimboM12]

All ss13 is ok here, i usually jump between servers myself.

And also, welcome to one of the most insane games ever devised.

[EnigmaticHat]

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Had a bit of an interesting game.  Or perhaps not, but I found the RP aspect interesting.  Was absolutely the only person in Cargo, as my first time in the role.  A bunch of angry people flooded me with requests which I dealt with to the best of my ability.  At one point a roboticist banged on my glass a bunch and asked for 3 buckets and 3 proximity sensors, then told me he'd worked in Cargo before and we're all lazy.  I told him we didn't have the resources to order those parts and then walked away while he furiously pointed at the autolathe.  To my credit tho I may have saved the station just by showing up to work, security and hydroponics were locked in battle with some kind of killer plant and I ordered a weed killer crate.

Meanwhile I checked the mail room and found a janitor ID, while someone with no ID said over the radio "I'm trash.  This is my home now."  So of course I take the ID to disposals and what do you know, there's a person lying on the conveyor.  I give her the ID back and then spent about 10 minutes in disposals talking her through her problems, ignoring the people spamming over the radio that there was no one in cargo and could the AI please let them in.  She told me that she was depressed and janitor was an unappreciated job.  I complained about how all the scientists didn't appreciate hard work, then suggested she get a new job.  Then the Head of Personnel called me back to my station to pay attention to requests.  Turns out there weren't any new requests, what had happened was the roboticist went and complained to HR about me.

Back at my post I spend 20 minutes furiously juggling PDA requests, manning the front desk, unloading the shuttle and sending things off with MULEs.  All the while learning on the job.  I was so busy that I had to announce to the station that I was going on lunchbreak.  Cue radiation cloud immediately forcing me into maintenance.  Then it turns out there was no chef the whole time so I had to shovel potato chips and twinkies into my backpack from a vending machine and then go back to work.  Then the virologist started pestering me because the cloud killed all his monkeys.

Then who shows up but the former janitor, now with a cargo technician ID!  Except she has no clothes to wear it so she can't get in.  I give her a jumpsuit and then invite her inside.  I attempt to show her the mail system using the spare monkey crate I ordered, except I accidentally failed to tag it and sent it to disposals.  At this point the quartermaster shows up and starts doing my job for me, so I spend the rest of the time showing Ravenia (that's her name) how to work as a cargo technician.  She mostly picks it up but has a critical lack of confidence.  I ask her about it and she brings me aside to whisper a story to me.  Apparently in a previous shift, she worked as a cargo technician and was fired early on because she accidentally sent two crates out into space.  I told her that's funny and she shouldn't get discouraged because the QM was too busy to teach her.  We're both starving to death because of the lack of a chef, so I get 6 packs of raisans and we share them.

At this point the shuttle gets called.  I finish teaching her how to use the supply shuttle console and then tell her we don't have time to wait for it to arrive.  We head out, but then she remembers that she left her tame pink slime in the mail room.  We go back for it, I decide to drag it along because she's starving and thus moving slowly, while I'm merely hungry.  Rushing to that shuttle was honestly one of the most dramatic things I've ever experienced in a video game, because it was a really close shave.  I go in the top door with 5 seconds left, and see her moving through bottom the airlock.  I loop around to try and open the shuttle door to let her in, knowing that she is literally on the other side.  I hear the hiss of the airlock... and then the shuttle launches and presumably she's sucked out into space.  I'm knocked to the ground from the launch and yell "nooooooooooooo" into the headset, but we're out in space so it doesn't broadcast.  After the match ends I use the OOC chat to tell Ravenia's player that I saved her slime and she thanks me.  Ended up sending a friend request, I don't know if it was accepted.

10/10 slice of life simulator, would be punch clock spaceman again.

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Space Station 13

[JimboM12]

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Cargo tech is usually one of the best classes to start with, as is hydroponics tech, chef, bartender, chemist and robotics. Just keep a wiki guide handy and you're golden. I personally love hydroponics; there's something relaxing about creating a singularity of ever-growing plants that only need one start up crop that turns into endless plants and ez grow. Protip; start with watermelons for the biogenerator.

[hops]

You can also be atmos tech because nobody knows what you do anyways so you can take as long as you like without the risk of the station running out of stored power (coughnewengineerscough) and it still gives you engineering practice.

[JimboM12]

Atmos tho, keep the relevant wiki open with tips on what to do; most games you'll do nothing really, but you have the potential to kill everything if you want/do something wrong, and the potential to save the station if an out of control fire begins.

[EnigmaticHat]

Cargo tech is fun!  I was basically quartermaster for half the game; when the actual quartermaster showed up and started quickly and silently doing everything I was kinda bummed.

What's the best introduction to medical BTW?  I'm thinking paramedic.  I want to take the dive and learn that department but I don't want to ruin anyone's round with medical malpractice.

[hops]

I recommend the old practice of going assistant and then asking the HoP to transfer you to a medical trainee.

Atmos tho, keep the relevant wiki open with tips on what to do; most games you'll do nothing really, but you have the potential to kill everything if you want/do something wrong, and the potential to save the station if an out of control fire begins.

It's why I suggested atmos. It's a very easy check-the-list job, and that's actually for optimization. In reality you don't have to do anything until something breaks.

[JimboM12]

It's why I suggested atmos. It's a very easy check-the-list job, and that's actually for optimization. In reality you don't have to do anything until something breaks.

Ah, i see what you mean. Yeah, Atmos is easy usually but dang when it goes bad it goes really bad. Learn your atmos mixes ahead of time.

Cargo tech is fun!  I was basically quartermaster for half the game; when the actual quartermaster showed up and started quickly and silently doing everything I was kinda bummed.

What's the best introduction to medical BTW?  I'm thinking paramedic.  I want to take the dive and learn that department but I don't want to ruin anyone's round with medical malpractice.

Try chemist actually. Learn your medicines, how to make them, what they do and how certain chemicals affect the body. You'll be more prepared when you're a doctor cuz you'll know exactly what to ask for and you can always make it yourself if anything happens. Chemist is also rather easy, its a get a beaker of one chemical and another beaker of another chem and boom, you've got what you need. Just keep the wiki with the recipes open.
For surgery knowledge, try.... i dunno. Robotics? learn how to cut off brains and butts and make borgs with them and butt bots.

[hops]

Yeah but when it goes really bad people are used to there not being an atmos tech anyways and the engineer would probably just come to help you sort your shit out.

EDIT: I'd also have recommended chemist because it was my first experience with medical but.... they barely has anything to do with medical aside from churning a ludicrous amount of chems. Also, chemistry is very labor-intensive at round start because you gotta fill up the cryo, and last I remembered, clonexadone is kind of tedious to make.

In fact, anything worth making for medical is kind of tedious to make. So choose chemistry only if you're willing to spend the first ten minutes of the round walking around a small, confined room clicking dispensers.

[JimboM12]

Thinking about it, to learn medical without killing anyone, you could always be an assistant and see if the HoP and Chief Medical officer will let you become a 'medical assistant' or intern or something, and just observe/help and read the wiki. I had one round where something like that happened, I was security and our sec chief was smart and assigned an officer to each division and I got medical, so i sat at the counter there and kept an eye on the place while occasionally helping when someone with a bloody face wandered in from the bar.