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RE: Admins Messing With Rounds - Please Vote - Bob - 03-08-2017
It's altogether possible that one player I was communicating with at the start was the changeling the whole time. I'll grant it to you. He did seem knowledgeable.
And was putting off his role since the crew was minimal.
Very likely.
But does the text at the end of the round make mistakes like that?
RE: Admins Messing With Rounds - Please Vote - 69andahalf - 03-08-2017
(03-08-2017, 02:57 PM)Bob Wrote: It's altogether possible that one player I was communicating with at the start was the changeling the whole time. I'll grant it to you. He did seem knowledgeable.
And was putting off his role since the crew was minimal.
Very likely.
But does the text at the end of the round make mistakes like that?
The round end report displays the name the current changeling is displaying, not the name they started with. You'd want to go off byond key for that, which appears next to their current name. As Gannets was saying, the player absorbed Shitty Bill, then transformed into them presumably, which would make their name appear as such at the end of the round.
RE: Admins Messing With Rounds - Please Vote - Bob - 03-08-2017
Okay, so last question, and answering this will solve the case. He was wearing a spacesuit so I couldn't see his face. How did he have my name, and yet the log referred to him as "her" while my character was male? And when I pointed it out he turned me into a female that looked nothing like my original character.
Okay. so it's possible, and likely. got it.
RE: Admins Messing With Rounds - Please Vote - 69andahalf - 03-08-2017
(03-08-2017, 03:09 PM)Bob Wrote: Okay, so last question, and answering this will solve the case. He was wearing a spacesuit so I couldn't see his face. How did he have my name, and yet the log referred to him as "her" while my character was male? And when I pointed it out he turned me into a female that looked nothing like my original character.
Okay. so it's possible, and likely. got it.
I don't believe that a changeling can transform into someone who they haven't absorbed, but if your name was "Shitty Bill" then it would make sense. When they turned you into another character that was a DNA sting, which causes you to transform into someone they have absorbed when they sting you with it.
RE: Admins Messing With Rounds - Please Vote - Bob - 03-08-2017
I'm still puzzled...
With a bunch of questions.
RE: Admins Messing With Rounds - Please Vote - ZeWaka - 03-08-2017
Changelings have a mimic voice command.
RE: Admins Messing With Rounds - Please Vote - Vitatroll - 03-08-2017
There's a few ways a person can transform themselves and others. The most common being:
- Stable Mutagen + Blood Sample
- DNA Sting (Changeling version of the above)
- Polymorphism (Genetics ability, though it only changes the user)
- You can also get this effect, sorta, by covering your face and wearing an id that isn't your own. When you scream, it uses the ID's name. Speaking gives you away (Manne Love (as Mommi Lovi) says, "Blah!"), though.
Anyways, this is pretty standard low-pop ling activity. Eat the Diner crew (Shitty Bill, included), become Shitty Bill, use mimic voice to screw with people, DNA or LSD sting people. There have been times where the entire crew got turned into Shitty Bill by the end of a round.
Admins generally make it very obvious that you're being screwed with. They only tend to do it to people who ask for it, to regulars that like 'fun', or during admin rounds. Even then it's quite rare.
RE: Admins Messing With Rounds - Please Vote - Gannets - 03-08-2017
You can learn more about what changelings can do here: https://wiki.ss13.co/Changeling#Powers
RE: Admins Messing With Rounds - Please Vote - Bob - 03-08-2017
Well that explains it...
Man, I suck...
RE: Admins Messing With Rounds - Please Vote - 69andahalf - 03-08-2017
(03-08-2017, 04:27 PM)Bob Wrote: Well that explains it...
Man, I suck...
Nah, you're just learning. Soon you'll be smashing changeling heads and taking names.
RE: Admins Messing With Rounds - Please Vote - Superlagg - 03-08-2017
(03-08-2017, 04:27 PM)Bob Wrote: Well that explains it...
Man, I suck...
You don't suck, you're just new. If anything, this is one of the best parts of becoming a spacedweeb, when everything is still a mystery and not a bunch of game mechanics to minmax and then disregard minmaxing.
RE: Admins Messing With Rounds - Please Vote - Bob - 03-08-2017
I was following the wrong trails. I was an idiot to think it was an admin. The guy was a mastermind.
Then again, there may have been no way I could've known, and I was doing everything to the best of my ability. I think we're done here....
No, screw that. That's how I was playing the game. Now it all just fits into place. Screw you guys saying I don't suck. I know when I suck!
Nevermind. You're right.
RE: Admins Messing With Rounds - Please Vote - atamusvaleo - 03-09-2017
(03-08-2017, 07:21 PM)Bob Wrote: I was following the wrong trails. I was an idiot to think it was an admin. The guy was a mastermind.
Then again, there may have been no way I could've known, and I was doing everything to the best of my ability. I think we're done here....
No, screw that. That's how I was playing the game. Now it all just fits into place. Screw you guys saying I don't suck. I know when I suck!
Nevermind. You're right.
... You okay there, Bob?
RE: Admins Messing With Rounds - Please Vote - 69andahalf - 03-09-2017
(03-09-2017, 05:58 AM)atamusvaleo Wrote:(03-08-2017, 07:21 PM)Bob Wrote: I was following the wrong trails. I was an idiot to think it was an admin. The guy was a mastermind.
Then again, there may have been no way I could've known, and I was doing everything to the best of my ability. I think we're done here....
No, screw that. That's how I was playing the game. Now it all just fits into place. Screw you guys saying I don't suck. I know when I suck!
Nevermind. You're right.
... You okay there, Bob?
That's a little something called dissociative identity disorder!
RE: Admins Messing With Rounds - Please Vote - atamusvaleo - 03-10-2017
(03-09-2017, 02:46 PM)69andahalf Wrote:(03-09-2017, 05:58 AM)atamusvaleo Wrote:(03-08-2017, 07:21 PM)Bob Wrote: I was following the wrong trails. I was an idiot to think it was an admin. The guy was a mastermind.
Then again, there may have been no way I could've known, and I was doing everything to the best of my ability. I think we're done here....
No, screw that. That's how I was playing the game. Now it all just fits into place. Screw you guys saying I don't suck. I know when I suck!
Nevermind. You're right.
... You okay there, Bob?
That's a little something called dissociative identity disorder!
That's actually not DID at all. DID is when there is a strong trauma in your early life causing you to dissociate from from yourself. I know this because I have a "friend" who has it.
Bob is just arguing with himself.