Applying for mentor is pretty easy and the only requirement is that you actually play and respond to mhelps
being a mentor is near identical to being a normal player as you barely get any new abilities
applying for admin on the other hand? actually requires effort to be an admin
Yeah, I can’t deny that I have had to deal with very toxic elements of the community (guilty of racism and homophobia in particular).
I do find some satisfaction in finally being able to ban them.
If applying risks in any way to be taxing on your health though, I absolutely wouldn’t recommend doing it!
Health comes before anything else, especially a videogame!
You… reported these right?
i know alot of players and some memes hang out in cringe metagang servers, most prominently the felines one
but this is the first time i hear about racist servers being spread around.
This is pretty concerning, espechaly verry much so if its comming from staff since staff are supposed to represent beestation.
report shit like this, for the love of god
I’ve been an admin for bee twice so far, and am currently applying for a third.
Its an entirely thankless job but it can be enjoyable depending on how people are each day and whats going on. Plus answering prayers is always fun!
The community can be a bit tempermental sometimes but its like that everywhere, some weeks are great, others are full of shitters, but thats ss13 all over.
If you havent considered applying, you should! Especially if you prefer to sit back, and observe pure chaos.
I think in my “career” of beestation I have had prayers answered… three times? One they instantly kluned me and then gibbed me, then respawned me. It was random. One was I was a chaplain and I had collected every musical instrument type and I asked for notice of my divine ritual, they said in my head “Okay, Hold On” then never replied and the round ended, very God like (not sarcasm).
I think if I were to apply I’d put special effort into answering reasonable prayers that piqued my interest, which is what I assume the admins do
speaking from experience Prayers fall into a few categories
a) low effort prayers - will get ignored or smitted for at best - 60% of prayers
b) Decent-ish and good prayers( of which 25% happen when admin is busy with ticket, 10% get missed cause no sound, 5% get answerd)
then add to that “admin” coverage by moderators that cant bus/prayers
What is realy sad tho is chaps not praying, the one role that gets an actual sound for us when you pray, and supposed to be god man - just not praying.
Or if they do low effort “give me a mission”
Generic prayers like that or such are not gonna get a good response, if any. Even for chaps.
I don’t think I ever prayed and I will never pray.
Because admins are unbased
I’d be like “I am the chaplain and my religion is Smooth Jazzism would you please play a jazz song for everyone, in exchange for this boon i have gathered one of all instruments, and a Dr. Gibb (for throat) for you, oh SATCHAMO JONES”
satchamo jones is my religion’s god name :3c
those never get answered
sad.
Thats a decent prayer for sure
Your mission is to explore cryo storage so that someone better can be chaplain.
roll chaplain
pray “give me antag” five times in a row
refuse to elaborate
leave
I dont get whats so bad about asking for a mission. Like if its asking for something stupid I get it but if its just asking for a mission in general then there is a huge opportunity to create some good rp on the admins side such as asking chap to gather a hard to obtain relic (not anything dangerous but mundane with a name change or some shit). The chap can go get it and display it to the crew and maybe get them to actually visit the chapel (I am saying this as someone with chap as his third most played role).
Its bad because its lazy.
While an admin (that has time) should idealy service the chaps gimick to some degree, its on the chap to come up with a creative gimick worthy of attention.
Like this, the creative effort to make the round interesting is put on the admin instead.
If the chap already has something in mind, like “oh god, what can i do to achive X?” thats slightly better. Still not great but better.
What if we had special kinds of admins that only do prayers and adminbus
gamemasters were shut down since they kind of don’t earn their power
admins have admin bus as a “reward” for admining
I’m not sure these people could be trusted with admin powers.
Admins will always need to clean things up and have done that for months+ before being trusted with the bus privileges and by that point you will know if a player is trustworthy (especially with player data (!!!), logs, banning people, etc).
I don’t think the people who would sign up for Game Master could be trusted with all this.
PS: Having more admins would make it easier to run events/bus
@LodedDiper
Ruko for gamemaster 2022
Not to toot my own horn, but I’m a pretty damn good chaplain. I think of an original gimmick, I do it, I get others involved, I make a clear prayer asking for something small, aaaaand ignored.
Some of the things I’ve done are:
Elvis themed religion, wearing his full white outfit, changing my hair, writing some lyrics on the ground, playing a guitar, spray painted blue suede shoes, offering his favorite peanut butter bacon banana stuffed bread, some more shit I can’t remember. I asked for Elvis mutator. Completely ignored every time I’ve done it when admins are on.
Syndicate religion where I got syndicate mask and clothes, I redid the ENTIRE chapel to have the titanium walls floors and red silicon tiles, wrote syndicate stuff on the floor, spoke in “code” on comms, and offered a syndicate encryption key I was randomly given by a janitor at the altar. No response.
USMC OORAH religion where I shaved my head and mustache, wore camo, ate crayons, said SEMPER FI every other word, and got 3 people to sign funny enlistment contracts. Offered em up, no response.
The only time an admin actually pulled through and enabled my gimmick as a chaplain was when I hosted a monkey constitutional convention and during my trial they gave the AI an ion law that legality is determined by whoever has the most cash. This would have actually hurt me had I not stolen the CE’s money before the AI noticed since they just slapped like 20k from the budget down on the table to my 20 bucks as broke ass chaplain.
Most of these have images on the screenshot thread and people like them but I just don’t get the admemes attention which is weird and sad since when I pray as non-chaplain I get a response quite frequently.
I have considered it.