St0rmC4st3r Mentor Application

Your CKEY: St0rmC4st3r

Your Discord: st0rmc4st3r

How long have you been playing ss13?: 7 years, totalling more than 2000 hours.

Who vouches for your experience (if anyone)?: I mean, I used to be a fullmin here years ago, and retired in good standing. I think Ruko could vouch for me?

Game Experience (More Detailed): I used to be an admin, I am a repeat contributor to the codebase, and navigate it pretty well. I consider myself decently good at chemistry, medical and engineering. I might not be the best at combat, but I know what to do to tip the scales starting from getting a slight advantage, to outright unfair techniques. I like helping newbies, and would like to do it more effectively.

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Geeetings Applicant, thank you for offering to sell your soul


As is traditional, you shall be asked questions!

  1. I want to kidnap a lizard and stuff them on a shuttle with no console. Will an intercom still work in space? Also how do i set up a custom camera network so i can watch them without the station camera consoles showing what im doing?
  2. What are some fun ways to complete the “Prevent PLAYER NAME from evacuating” ? Is killing them really the best to finish this obj?
  3. Bonjour les mentors de Beestation, je me demandais s’il était possible de jouer sans parler anglais ? Je vois que les mimes sont muets de toute façon.

Thanks for applying, and please bear with us as the application is proccessed <3

  • :moth:
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Welcome back bud,

saw you rejoin us only a few months back after a bit of a break
A good few things have changed since!

Lets throw some questions at ya

  1. My pda isnt working, I cant access anything ;-; Its just a dark screen help!

  2. How do I make a callout as a miner or explorer with my radio?

  3. How do I order a tamed mob around?

Yes theres more~

  1. I saw someone running around with a swarm of mice, how can I do the same?

  2. I saw a cultist walking around being followed by black cats and dogs, how did they do this?

  3. How do I quickswap my modsuit tools

  4. My uplink shows I can buy a “Springlock Module” for 2tc, what does it do?

and finally

  1. How does the supermatter work these days, I dont see any radiation collectors…

(You dont have to do all of these, but they’re worth looking into either way)

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Questions! Naturally!

  1. Aside from it probably being not the best player interaction idea, intercoms should function only on z-levels with a telecommunication relay (you can build one, lavaland comes with one, some space ruins have one), or on station z-level, unless you are on the same z-level with your victim. Regarding the camera console, I am not sure.
  2. Aside from killing, turning your target into any silicon (cyborg/ai) counts. Turning your target into an AI, uploading a law to serve you, carding it and turning networking on makes it into a scarily dangerous lockpick. Turning it into a simplemob should work too! Treat your buddy with a Gondola steak… If you can get your hands on Romerol and getting your target turned into a zombie, that will work! As an explorer, “forgetting” your crewmember on a station can work. 15u of sulfonal just before the shuttle arrival never hurt anyone… Isn’t it nice that default syringes can fit 15u?.. There is a syringe gun in the CMO office and sometimes in medical storage… I mean, sabotaging the teleporter will prevent them from teleporting to the shuttle too.
  3. (Okay, I am treating this one as a challenge of my memory!) Bonjour! C’est nest pas une bon idee. Mimes necessiter beaucoup d’effort en anglais pur communique sans communication verbal!
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Heyo! Yep! I’ve been playing on and off lately, and I hope I am staying this time!

  1. Your PDA is discharged. A sure way to charge it is any weapons charger (a public one can be found in dorms in the holodeck. Load up Kobayashi Maru simulation for one.), and probably a cell charger too (there should be one near science or the tool storage). In the worst case try replacing the battery in it.
  2. Shift + MMB click should open up the wheel, then mouse over the one you want to use!
  3. Shift + Mouse Over your tamed mob, then click the command you want to use.
  4. (Had to look in the code) Feed mice cheese!
  5. (Had to look in the code) From what I see, they are considered tamed by cultists by default? Didn’t check yet.
  6. Ctrl+MMB Click yourself.
  7. (Oh, I read the PR recently!) It makes other modsuit modules activate much quicker, but getting sprayed with reagents pretty much kills you instantly! (FNAF anyone?) This is intended not for you, but for sabotaging someone else’s modsuit!
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Very well done

+1 from me

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+1

I mean… To me at least I don’t see why you shouldn’t be a mento. Retired admin with quite a few hours under your belt, and I’m just a mod/mento.

Total: +2

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Haha yeah you can have my +1 too

Total: +3


The only thing I’d metion;

Espeically as an old-admin you do have a good understanding of rules, but mentors aren’t meant to be answering rules questions.

#3 here slightly leans into that. I do like the effort you took, and the answer you gave, but in other situations where players DO ask for help understanding the rules: be sure to promote those tickets to an ahelp <3


Thank you again for the application, and answers. They were great and looking forward to seeing how your application unfolds while wishing you luck in it

  • :moth:
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Hello,

Seems like the question list is empty, so here’s more:

  1. Wtf is a gas rig and how do I use it? (Any tips?)
  2. I saw this lizard running around with a blood cult halo, though at round end, there were no cultists how is that possible?
  3. This stupid shitsec gave me 15 minutes in genpop, Is there any way to speed up this timer up?

Good luck!

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Hellooo. I think you’d make a great mentor but here are a few questions anyway!

  1. I’m playing ashwalker rn and I really wanna make the cloak but I have no clue where I’m meant to get leather from?? How do I make it. I have everything else just no leather.
  2. I want to play curator but my character has foreigner quirk. Will they know galactic common or not?
  3. I just read someone fart on common radio?? lmao how do I do that
  4. I’m trying to treat someone but they have like 0 blood. The blood crate doesn’t have anything for psyphozas so how am I meant to treat them?
  5. The borg is upside down for some reason and asking for help how do I put them the right way up?
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Popping in to ask you a few questions.

  1. I Saw a tip of the round that science can make bananium, I’m trying to make some but I have no clue how to do it. All I know is that it involves xenobiology but I can’t wrap my head around it.
  2. I’m trying to figure out how nanites work with the purpose of making the people who have it say a funny word at the press of a button like someone did to me a few rounds ago. Any ideas?

Good luck and take your time

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@St0rmC4st3r Were you still interested in pursing this application?

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Hi! I am back, with quesion answers!

  1. It is a machine that allows you to mine more gas. You can set the depth to which to drill. Until about 400 km no intervention is required. Beyond that you need to use the shielding and fracking gas ports (on the left and the right) to supply additional gasses to boost the shield, and I think the right should boost mining effeciency? I am yet to play with this thing proper.
  2. Probably a toy halo you can win from the arcade machines.
  3. I think you can reduce your sentence by making donuts/plushies, and exporting them.
  1. Grab some goliath plates, scrub them with a knife, soak in the puddle and then grill on a bonfire (preferably with a grill of metal rods on it).
  2. Unsure. I think Curator should always know languages?
  3. This is custom speech syntax. You can use it with or without an actual message. “yells at the top of his lungs|LINGS REAL!!!” will result in “Rips-The-Hearts yells at the top of his lungs, “LINGS REAL!!!””. To fart on the radio, access the radio channel via “;” and then type “farts|”.
  4. Saline-glucose solution should substitute the blood for most species. Also feed them iron, which regenerate blood. (unless I misremember something, and psyphosas do not have blood? I doubt that.)
  5. I don’t remember. Try both mouse buttons with both intents? One of them should work, I think. I may be wrong.
  1. You will need to get into slime crossbreeding. Feed 10 yellow slime cores to an adult (big) Pyrite slime and fill the resulting extract with plasma.
  2. It’s the Forced Speech program in the Supression category. I am not sure how exactly to do the remote trigger aside of a nanite remote, but you should look under Utility for Relay and other programs.

There! Should be it!

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This should be the right steps to make leather (I am not fully convinced bonfire rod grilling works right now but in theory, yes), but it was a slight trick question. Only the first step is actually necessary, as the hairless hide (from shaving with knife), and wet leather (from washing it) both count as leather as well, for some reason.

Still, great answer :plushizzard:

Yep, they do! :plushizzard: Remember, if you are unsure, you can always test it out. It may not always be practical in a round, but we aren’t on a time limit here (and I personally wouldn’t know whether you already knew, or had to figure it out by yourself to answer this).

Perfect! :plushizzard:

They do for Psyphoza, but it isn’t the most effective solution. Psyphoza’s special blood type can be very quickly replenished by Space Drugs.

Still a good answer that would work for the mhelper in the situation.

Again, you’re welcome to do your own testing before you answer the questions, though this answer would help an mhelper as Right Click on Combat Mode will right borgs and bots! It is the same to tip them over as it is to set them the right way up.

I think you’re well able for the mentor position, honestly, and I’m confident in giving you a +1. Your answers show enough game knowledge, and I think you have a great personality for mentoring.

T:+4

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  1. I believe it is up to 500km, other than that it is correct. I would recommend reading up on it or even testing it locally for learning purposes, as we do get some weird atmospherics players who get way over hyped about its technology and all the gases that mix with it. As well as give a warning on what might happen if the shield breaks. OK here.

  2. Woah thats cool, is there any other reliable way of getting that toy? I played like 3 games of “Beat the Greyman” and it is way too slow for me, I like get 1 toy per 3 minutes. I’ll probably die from brain damage faster.

  3. I made like 3 plushies, but like there is no conveyor, where I can cash them in?

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Damnit, must you leave no more questions for us others to ask!

Howdy, guess im blind as an eel for having missed this for so long.
Anyhow,

  1. Help im trying to connect two cable strands but they wont line up.
  2. Im in a wheelchair and cant move.
  3. Why cant i wear this paperbag i found like i saw another player do it?
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Alright. I’m giving you my +1

TOTAL: 5

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  1. <3
  2. cracks knuckles They can be bought from a hacked donksoft toy vendor (you can get a refill box from a floor bag or in a contraband cargo crate), it can be found in a cargo contraband crate itself, or bought from a hacked ClothesMate vendor!
  3. Grab a prison export scanner and slap it with your ID. Use the scanner on the donuts or plushies. Once done - slap your ID on the scanner again to redeem your served time reduction.
  1. Check whether you are using the same colour of the cable. If not - hit z while holding the cable in hand, and select the required colour. Worst case scenario - select the omni cable and use it, as it connects to all cables.
  2. It might be a motorised wheelchair, and it is either out of juice, or has no cell at all. Use a screwdriver to open the hatch, and replace the cell after that.
  3. You need to cut holes with something sharp - then you can wear it as a hat! (I recommend also using a pen to draw a smiley face beforehand, it looks cooler)
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See you soon on the mentor side. +1

Total: 6

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  1. excellent
  2. yes, that might be the case. The only thing id add is that you can no longer move in a regular wheelchair whilst holding an item in your hands.
  3. also excellent, didnt even know you could do the smiley face thing.

I have not much to add, your answers were all very good, youre an ex-staff, and make a good impression.
You get my +1
Total: 7

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