Goonhub
07-14-2025, 01:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-14-2025, 01:55 AM by The Panna. Edited 1 time in total.)
Simply put, I completely understand and agree with RubberRats concerns.
I find it quite uncomfortable when I see reaction when the local station darling appears. It is neither common nor uncommon, it is just a thing that happens. The reasons that I think this is negative for the game are many, but I also see how this is kinda expected/inevitable. There will always be certain popular folks in a community, but considering how SS13 is an extremely social game having a certain few favourites that people want to be around and interact with above other players is just bad, quite bad actually.
There are two ways to mitigate this issue in my opinion:
1. People being aware of their behaviour and who they talk to and interact with in a round.
2. Encourage people to have multiple characters and random-name once in a while. The former will increase the diversity of names and folk people see each round. The latter can give players more perspective about the game and how people interact.
[I am also a proponent of having the byond key removed from character names in LOOC and end of rounds credits but that’s a whole another thing.]
I find it quite uncomfortable when I see reaction when the local station darling appears. It is neither common nor uncommon, it is just a thing that happens. The reasons that I think this is negative for the game are many, but I also see how this is kinda expected/inevitable. There will always be certain popular folks in a community, but considering how SS13 is an extremely social game having a certain few favourites that people want to be around and interact with above other players is just bad, quite bad actually.
There are two ways to mitigate this issue in my opinion:
1. People being aware of their behaviour and who they talk to and interact with in a round.
2. Encourage people to have multiple characters and random-name once in a while. The former will increase the diversity of names and folk people see each round. The latter can give players more perspective about the game and how people interact.
[I am also a proponent of having the byond key removed from character names in LOOC and end of rounds credits but that’s a whole another thing.]