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[Kot]

The fighters sound pretty cool though. Are they like mechs (code-wise) in space, somekind like CVRs are big mechs on treads?

[BFEL]

BFEL - you could've just as well used an airtank, and you started with one.

That's what I DID do. THE WHOLE TIME I PLAYED I WAS USING THAT AIR TANK. It ran out of air right around the time we had failed three times over and one person was sorta figuring out what we were there for finally. And then I waited to either finally fully suffocate or be told how to turn my air on.

The fighters sound pretty cool though. Are they like mechs (code-wise) in space, somekind like CVRs are big mechs on treads?

They are very much mechs in space. You apparently use the exosuit menu (because everyone knows that's an actual thing) to TURN ON YOUR LIFE SUPPORT.

[Kot]

BFEL - you could've just as well used an airtank, and you started with one.

That's what I DID do. THE WHOLE TIME I PLAYED I WAS USING THAT AIR TANK. It ran out of air right around the time we had failed three times over and one person was sorta figuring out what we were there for finally. And then I waited to either finally fully suffocate or be told how to turn my air on.

The fighters sound pretty cool though. Are they like mechs (code-wise) in space, somekind like CVRs are big mechs on treads?

They are very much mechs in space. You apparently use the exosuit menu (because everyone knows that's an actual thing) to TURN ON YOUR LIFE SUPPORT.

TBH, if it has exosuit menu you should know that you need to turn the air on, as mechs have that off on default.

[Ozarck]

Also, quite frankly I was a bit sad that with the teased different faction goals it boiled down to each team doing their own thing, I hoped for intra-defender conflict.

Seemed a little hard pressed for there to be time or effort available for factional conflict. "Holy shit that's a lot of aliens. We're all going to die!" Seems more like what was available. Now, i the threat seemed more distant and the teams had time to jockey or position, and maybe if each faction was independently given some clue what their long term objectives respective of the other factions was ...

[scrdest]

Also, quite frankly I was a bit sad that with the teased different faction goals it boiled down to each team doing their own thing, I hoped for intra-defender conflict.

Seemed a little hard pressed for there to be time or effort available for factional conflict. "Holy shit that's a lot of aliens. We're all going to die!" Seems more like what was available. Now, i the threat seemed more distant and the teams had time to jockey or position, and maybe if each faction was independently given some clue what their long term objectives respective of the other factions was ...

Well, the first thing was that at least one of the factions never even got to meet the other two by design. That was actually part of the source of confusion - I thought the planet icon may be a disguised teleport to ground Z-level for boots on the ground support at first - BTW, making almost the entire dogfight zone take place over the planet icon may help a lot with the navigation, because you'll have reference points, at least more than you have over endless space tiles.

The other was that, at least for Navy, the admins playing officers weren't told about said goals beforehand either.

[BFEL]

BFEL - you could've just as well used an airtank, and you started with one.

That's what I DID do. THE WHOLE TIME I PLAYED I WAS USING THAT AIR TANK. It ran out of air right around the time we had failed three times over and one person was sorta figuring out what we were there for finally. And then I waited to either finally fully suffocate or be told how to turn my air on.

The fighters sound pretty cool though. Are they like mechs (code-wise) in space, somekind like CVRs are big mechs on treads?

They are very much mechs in space. You apparently use the exosuit menu (because everyone knows that's an actual thing) to TURN ON YOUR LIFE SUPPORT.

TBH, if it has exosuit menu you should know that you need to turn the air on, as mechs have that off on default.

Ok, but not everyone has USED A MECH BEFORE. I sure hadn't. Granted I'm fairly new, but it seems like a dick move at best to give us space fighters and not tell us in advance how to turn the air on, just in case newbies (of which there are a lot of) don't know how to do something so completely essential.

I get that in SS13 failing at things like this are half the fun, but that's in a normal round and not "Super serious plot relevant space battle"

[Liction]

Feeding muh nokolai.

(Its nokolai's sleeper meat)

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[Donuts]

<3 LOVE CAN BLOOM ON THE STATION

[Nienhaus]

No love pls, erp is banned.

[Donuts]

BRB bugging Glloyd to legalize ERP.

[Kot]

Legalize ERP and Tajarans 2015.

[BFEL]

While daydreaming at my job this morning I imagined playing a wizard round where I convince the heads of staff I'm there from the future to "Prevent the birth of the Demon Lord" who is apparently conceived on the station during the round after a "ERP virus" infects the crew.

As much as I want that to be a thing I doubt the admins would go for it

[scrdest]

That could actually be an interesting Cult variant - less CTHULHU FHTAGN and more Rosemary's Baby.

[Kot]

ERP virus could be considered both IIC and OOC "Rape" as it's essentially forcing people to ERP. Pretty bad if someone doesn't want to. Would be better if they didin't actually have to ERP but rather... do suggestive stuff.

[scrdest]

ERP virus could be considered both IIC and OOC "Rape" as it's essentially forcing people to ERP. Pretty bad if someone doesn't want to. Would be better if they didin't actually have to ERP but rather... do suggestive stuff.

The actual problem with ERP is ghosts and admins. You may be hidden out of sight of everyone on the white ship or whatever... but the dead know not peace from your dickings.