Goonhub
05-21-2023, 08:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-21-2023, 08:13 PM by Studenterhue. Edited 2 times in total.
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Usual character name: I have many characters, such as Corbin Dabra, Casimir Vespa, Antares/Lux/Ianis, Nicholas Clockwork, Lucilius Mothwing, Cheshire and ect.! Those are some names people might recognize in particular though, and I can remember teaching others as all of them.
BYOND username: LuciliusMothboy
Discord username (if you are on our discord): Mothboy#8289
Recommended by (if applicable): Colossus and Munien !
Goon servers you play: 3, 4, and rarely 1! I mostly play RP, but visit Classic on occasion.
Reason for application + game experience (300 word minimum): I’ve played on Goon since June of last year. It’s the first SS13 server I was drawn to, and I’ve stayed here. The community is wonderful, and I can not in words adequately express how glad I am to be a part of it. I’ve played often, and have gained quite a bit of knowledge in numerous departments and areas of gameplay.
Security: I have played Security in this game for a long while. I’m not even sure when I had my first Sec round. Gosh, I think it was last August? Often when I’m playing SecOff, I make a point to seek out and teach new players, usually asking assistants if they want training, teaching them and giving them advice, encouraging them to be active on comms and ask questions if they need help, and occasionally offering to let them shadow me. It’s something I’ve done a lot, and I’m sure fellow Security players on the RP servers have witnessed me doing it. It’s also something I greatly enjoy attempting to teach!
Mining: I’m decently experienced in mining. While I don’t usually find any miners who need or want to be taught by me, I think I’ve taught the secret to finding Starstone on the magnet before to at least one person! I definitely have a few more tips and tricks up my sleeves if I ever come across anyone needing or wanting them.
Ranching: I spent a good few weeks of playtime…essentially hyperfixated on ranching. As such, I know a lot about it. I know it is EXTREMELY confusing for new players and takes a while to figure out, so I genuinely would love to teach it! There’s a lot of fun things to do with it. Not to mention, the chickens are adorable! I’ve made most of them before, and know the basic strategies to getting them to evolve quicker and changing their happiness levels, not to mention what they actually do.
Command: I have played numerous Command roles, those being Captain, HoP, Research Director, and Medical Director. I have taught both Science and Medical and am experienced in those roles, and I do enjoy helping people out as Captain! I could also definitely help a new HoP learn how to do HoP things if they need it.
Botany: Botany is fun for me, and as such I’ve played it quite a bit. I know quite a bit about tray chemistry, infusions, mutations, and splicing, and I would love the chance to teach those to anyone who wishes to learn them!
Genetics: Genetics was the first job I ever played in this game. I don’t play it much anymore, but I have plenty of experience in it and would love to teach newer players about it. It’s a fairly good role for beginners, but has a lot of intricacies to it, too, that can make for some pretty fun gene combos! (or terrifying, should an antagonist get ahold of them…)
Medical: Medical is another role I have quite a lot of experience in and have taught before. In particular, I’ve taught Robotics and surgery often. One round I remember very vividly, I was a Vampire Roboticist and kept running back and forth between antagging and trying to teach a Roboticist who hadn’t played on the codebase in several years. I often have myself used to test surgery on in Robotics, whether by new players, or by Roboticists who just feel like doing surgery that round. I am also very experienced in and very much enjoy the Medical Doctor role. I find it fun to teach about uses for different medicines, SR, and handy PDA functions to use too.
Chef: Chef is, in essence, a fairly simple role compared to some of the others I’ve mentioned (most of it boils down to looking on the wiki and knowing what different food effects actually do.), but nonetheless I have played it plenty. I do have some tips I could offer that newer players might not know yet!
Science: The Research Department is another one of my personal favorites. I’ve played it a ton. It’s fun, and there’s always a ton you can do with it! I know how to do Telescience calculations by hand, I can build and program Guardbuddies, I know how to do Artlab and have recently become very invested and done a lot of work and experimentation with Chemistry. I know for a fact I’ve spent entire rounds teaching both Telesci and Artsci, and I’d love to help someone learn how to make a little robuddy army, or develop a love for Chemistry, too! All in all, Science is a department I believe myself to be very skilled in, and think I can bring quite a bit to the table when it comes to teaching others, too!
Bartender: Bartender, much like Chef is a role I always found fairly straightforward. It’s mostly a situation of “read the wiki”. But, I still have played it a lot, so I’ll include it here anyway!
Antagonist: Antagonist roles are something I have plenty of experience in, and are one of the roles that I know from personal experience can be incredibly difficult for someone new to the game. The first round I had as a Changeling, for example, I killed no one because I could not for the life of me figure out how the grab mechanics worked. And now? Changeling has grown into one of my favorite antagonist roles to play! Playing Antagonist takes skill, creativity, and knowledge of game mechanics. I love giving people tips and telling people things they might not know they can do as certain antagonists. And, having been in the spot of being a newcomer who didn’t know how the mechanics behind the antag I spawned in as worked, I would have loved to have a tiny little purple mouse in my pocket teaching me how to be a monster. And now, with the experiences I’ve had and the enjoyment I derive from playing as an Antagonist, I find myself wanting to be the tiny purple mouse in someone’s pocket, teaching them how to be a monster. It’s not particularly easy to teach this kind of role to someone else in round if you’re not an Antagonist yourself, especially on the RP servers! However, I feel that as a Mentor I would have more opportunities to teach these kinds of things to players who might be having trouble. I have played as Traitor, Spy-Thief, Changeling, Arcfiend, Salvager, and Vampire enough to feel comfortable offering advice on those roles and their mechanics specifically, in addition to general advice for Antagonists.
Silicon: Playing a silicon role may be difficult, or potentially overwhelming for a new player, with a whole new UI and completely different mechanics and rules than from playing as your average spaceman. I’ve played as AI quite a bit, mainly on RP servers, enough that I understand these differences, and I could and would like to offer help to new Borgs and AIs who might not have any clue how to use their tools, how to check their laws, what their laws actually entail, how to charge themselves, what different upgrades and modules do, etc!
I don’t only base this application on my experience, of course. Along with this experience, I also genuinely love teaching. I like to help and teach others, I like to meet and interact with new people, and I try my damned hardest to be a positive presence in the community. I try to reach out to others and help those who are struggling, and I love doing it. The chance to do more would certainly be an honor for me. I know I haven’t always been the perfect player and person, but I always do genuinely strive to put my best foot forward, and I think I have greatly improved not only in knowledge, but also in health, in attitude, and as a person in my time on Goonstation.
My reason for applying for Mentor is not merely based on my knowledge of the game, but it is also based on a love for and willingness to teach, a love for this community, and an ardent desire to be a positive presence within it.
Previous bans (while this will not affect your application lying about it will): None that I can recall. I’ve received warnings, time-outs on discord before, and gotten other people’s bans on accident due to IP stuff, but not actually been banned.
Oop! Forgot to change the font color for the "mining" paragraph when moving this from Google Docs to the forum. If an admin could fix that to be more readable, it would be appreciated!! Sorry for the trouble (again. Font color going from a white textbox to black background always gets me, it seems.)
BYOND username: LuciliusMothboy
Discord username (if you are on our discord): Mothboy#8289
Recommended by (if applicable): Colossus and Munien !
Goon servers you play: 3, 4, and rarely 1! I mostly play RP, but visit Classic on occasion.
Reason for application + game experience (300 word minimum): I’ve played on Goon since June of last year. It’s the first SS13 server I was drawn to, and I’ve stayed here. The community is wonderful, and I can not in words adequately express how glad I am to be a part of it. I’ve played often, and have gained quite a bit of knowledge in numerous departments and areas of gameplay.
Security: I have played Security in this game for a long while. I’m not even sure when I had my first Sec round. Gosh, I think it was last August? Often when I’m playing SecOff, I make a point to seek out and teach new players, usually asking assistants if they want training, teaching them and giving them advice, encouraging them to be active on comms and ask questions if they need help, and occasionally offering to let them shadow me. It’s something I’ve done a lot, and I’m sure fellow Security players on the RP servers have witnessed me doing it. It’s also something I greatly enjoy attempting to teach!
Mining: I’m decently experienced in mining. While I don’t usually find any miners who need or want to be taught by me, I think I’ve taught the secret to finding Starstone on the magnet before to at least one person! I definitely have a few more tips and tricks up my sleeves if I ever come across anyone needing or wanting them.
Ranching: I spent a good few weeks of playtime…essentially hyperfixated on ranching. As such, I know a lot about it. I know it is EXTREMELY confusing for new players and takes a while to figure out, so I genuinely would love to teach it! There’s a lot of fun things to do with it. Not to mention, the chickens are adorable! I’ve made most of them before, and know the basic strategies to getting them to evolve quicker and changing their happiness levels, not to mention what they actually do.
Command: I have played numerous Command roles, those being Captain, HoP, Research Director, and Medical Director. I have taught both Science and Medical and am experienced in those roles, and I do enjoy helping people out as Captain! I could also definitely help a new HoP learn how to do HoP things if they need it.
Botany: Botany is fun for me, and as such I’ve played it quite a bit. I know quite a bit about tray chemistry, infusions, mutations, and splicing, and I would love the chance to teach those to anyone who wishes to learn them!
Genetics: Genetics was the first job I ever played in this game. I don’t play it much anymore, but I have plenty of experience in it and would love to teach newer players about it. It’s a fairly good role for beginners, but has a lot of intricacies to it, too, that can make for some pretty fun gene combos! (or terrifying, should an antagonist get ahold of them…)
Medical: Medical is another role I have quite a lot of experience in and have taught before. In particular, I’ve taught Robotics and surgery often. One round I remember very vividly, I was a Vampire Roboticist and kept running back and forth between antagging and trying to teach a Roboticist who hadn’t played on the codebase in several years. I often have myself used to test surgery on in Robotics, whether by new players, or by Roboticists who just feel like doing surgery that round. I am also very experienced in and very much enjoy the Medical Doctor role. I find it fun to teach about uses for different medicines, SR, and handy PDA functions to use too.
Chef: Chef is, in essence, a fairly simple role compared to some of the others I’ve mentioned (most of it boils down to looking on the wiki and knowing what different food effects actually do.), but nonetheless I have played it plenty. I do have some tips I could offer that newer players might not know yet!
Science: The Research Department is another one of my personal favorites. I’ve played it a ton. It’s fun, and there’s always a ton you can do with it! I know how to do Telescience calculations by hand, I can build and program Guardbuddies, I know how to do Artlab and have recently become very invested and done a lot of work and experimentation with Chemistry. I know for a fact I’ve spent entire rounds teaching both Telesci and Artsci, and I’d love to help someone learn how to make a little robuddy army, or develop a love for Chemistry, too! All in all, Science is a department I believe myself to be very skilled in, and think I can bring quite a bit to the table when it comes to teaching others, too!
Bartender: Bartender, much like Chef is a role I always found fairly straightforward. It’s mostly a situation of “read the wiki”. But, I still have played it a lot, so I’ll include it here anyway!
Antagonist: Antagonist roles are something I have plenty of experience in, and are one of the roles that I know from personal experience can be incredibly difficult for someone new to the game. The first round I had as a Changeling, for example, I killed no one because I could not for the life of me figure out how the grab mechanics worked. And now? Changeling has grown into one of my favorite antagonist roles to play! Playing Antagonist takes skill, creativity, and knowledge of game mechanics. I love giving people tips and telling people things they might not know they can do as certain antagonists. And, having been in the spot of being a newcomer who didn’t know how the mechanics behind the antag I spawned in as worked, I would have loved to have a tiny little purple mouse in my pocket teaching me how to be a monster. And now, with the experiences I’ve had and the enjoyment I derive from playing as an Antagonist, I find myself wanting to be the tiny purple mouse in someone’s pocket, teaching them how to be a monster. It’s not particularly easy to teach this kind of role to someone else in round if you’re not an Antagonist yourself, especially on the RP servers! However, I feel that as a Mentor I would have more opportunities to teach these kinds of things to players who might be having trouble. I have played as Traitor, Spy-Thief, Changeling, Arcfiend, Salvager, and Vampire enough to feel comfortable offering advice on those roles and their mechanics specifically, in addition to general advice for Antagonists.
Silicon: Playing a silicon role may be difficult, or potentially overwhelming for a new player, with a whole new UI and completely different mechanics and rules than from playing as your average spaceman. I’ve played as AI quite a bit, mainly on RP servers, enough that I understand these differences, and I could and would like to offer help to new Borgs and AIs who might not have any clue how to use their tools, how to check their laws, what their laws actually entail, how to charge themselves, what different upgrades and modules do, etc!
I don’t only base this application on my experience, of course. Along with this experience, I also genuinely love teaching. I like to help and teach others, I like to meet and interact with new people, and I try my damned hardest to be a positive presence in the community. I try to reach out to others and help those who are struggling, and I love doing it. The chance to do more would certainly be an honor for me. I know I haven’t always been the perfect player and person, but I always do genuinely strive to put my best foot forward, and I think I have greatly improved not only in knowledge, but also in health, in attitude, and as a person in my time on Goonstation.
My reason for applying for Mentor is not merely based on my knowledge of the game, but it is also based on a love for and willingness to teach, a love for this community, and an ardent desire to be a positive presence within it.
Previous bans (while this will not affect your application lying about it will): None that I can recall. I’ve received warnings, time-outs on discord before, and gotten other people’s bans on accident due to IP stuff, but not actually been banned.
Oop! Forgot to change the font color for the "mining" paragraph when moving this from Google Docs to the forum. If an admin could fix that to be more readable, it would be appreciated!! Sorry for the trouble (again. Font color going from a white textbox to black background always gets me, it seems.)
