/vg/ is pretty insular and I want to hear from people that no longer play about why they lost interest.
The game is as popular as ever and is still as it always was with the same pros and cons.
1/?
2/?
>games where you're supposed to 'roleplay'
Sorry I'm not gay
3/?
4/?
>>341893429
roleplay enforced servers are the minority. most are extremely light rp and only have the bare minimum of no underage names like XxXPr0Sn1p3RXxX. But I'm grateful for the response.
5/?
>>341893148
Mostly because the "communities" end up being cancerous and horrible to newcomers. /vg/ especially has this "meme mentality" and normally while playing you'd pick this up, but I could not for the love of me join /vg/ servers because of how toxic they were to people first not familiar with their inlined jokes.
I'm not unfamiliar with SS13, but /vg/ is hard to get into.
>>341893148
I always knew about this game but never actually got around to playing it
Honestly the best sell for this game and what finally got me to download the BYOND installer was sleepycast "griefing and game design" where oney and the swain (blockhead and mastermind flash series) talk extensively about the shit you can pull in this game and its dwarf fortress levels of insanity. Im still learning it but listen to that sleepycast if youre even remotely interested or wanna know what this game is about
This game could fill a TECHNOLOGY thread
People still play byond shit today?
>>341893752
Anything related to /vg/ in online games is always 100% literally shit with absolutely no exceptions. There's literally zero reason to ever play with them in anything.
>>341893752
It's better to play in spurts. It helps you tolerate the worst of it.
>>341893874
I actually installed BYOND and saw 150+ people playing some DBZ themed RP game
These games have worlds/second life hidden potentional for just crazy shit you could find
6/?
>>341893148
Because the engine is shit.
It stopped being fun
Rules got annoying to deal with
The most fun i had was being a greytider and other simmilar things.
Besides, a better alternatve exist now but I won't tell you what it is;^)
7/?
>>341894034
Many SS13 servers aren't on the byond hub. So even though SS13 is by far the most popular game on Byond, it's even bigger than it's represented as.
>>341893986
>>341893962
It ended up with me eventually joining smaller severs, and less people actually had this sort of...comfy feeling. Local and smaller playerbase allowed more focused and intimate RP and conversations, allowed smaller but more personal scenarios.
Fuck /vg/.
>>341894178
TELL ME YOU FUCKING FAAAAAAGGGGGG
8/?
>>341894178
party
>>341893148
too many people pretending to be gay, or actually being gay and forming cliques
At least the ack was cracked, That was about the last time I played.
9/?
>>341893752
>Mostly because the "communities" end up being cancerous and horrible to newcomers. /vg/ especially has this "meme mentality" and normally while playing you'd pick this up, but I could not for the love of me join /vg/ servers because of how toxic they were to people first not familiar with their inlined jokes.
Please explain. I have never heard anyone say this and that is why I had interest in making the thread (to get outside opinions I never hear).
I answer questions from new players pretty much daily and have a hard time understanding what you experienced.
>>341893148
I started on goon, moved to /vg/ then back to goon then quit after playing for 5 years.
Can't handle the shitty community and shitty admins everyone dickrides and I was burned out already. I'm very glad I stopped playing a few months back since I didn't feel like I could stop./vg/ is incredibly shit, it has no real features and relies on feature bloating the server with recycled assets and questionable game design
Just got tired of it, as all games eventually become dull with enough play. Im sure someday I will come back for a few rounds.
10/?
>>341894493
What is a real feature to you?
I got a new computer and didn't want to install byond again. I've forgetting literally everything I've learned about the game so I decided to just stay away.
I really only spectated in my later rounds anyway.
>>341894482
If you don't get /vg/'s gay memes, you'll end up just being in the background, and bored, since it's easy to get lost in all that hustle and shit.
>>341894689
If you will give me one more reply, what are /vg/'s gay memes?
>>341893148
I got bored and real life shenanigans made me really busy and took away my spess time
Its been about a year since my last spessman adventure
Also what's the deal with all of this /VG/ hate?
>>341893148
I tried it and have no idea what I'm doing. Plus moving around is slow and sometimes my character doesn't even move with the arrows. Anyone wanna explain how to control this game or how it's played so u can get Into it? I hear so much great shit about it but I can't see why
>>341894895
>waifushit
>circlejerking over certain players
>wgw
>meta club
>greytiding
>>341894178
If you're talking about Lifeweb, it's absolute trash. Played for a day and the community was absolutely toxic crybabies. The forums were even worse. Was just them circlejerking each other about how edgy the game was.
>>341895041
Have you tried reading the wiki you cancerous namefag?
>>341893148
I got banned from all the /vg/ rooms
1st room was from killing someone after they bashed me over the head and took my upgraded mop
2nd room banned me for talking OOC when i was cut open and and had my brain removed. I was sitting there for 20 minutes without anything to do and brains cant talk
No fun allowed, the videogame
>>341893148
I blew up the escape shuttle on accident when I brewed some Thermite in the labs and wanted to try it out. I never went back to the server because of that.
>>341894653
I'm guessing he wants something completely original to be developed on the server instead of just getting what other servers have in a different version.
I personally stopped playing because the player-admin circlejerk got too much to handle. Everyone would drop anything they were doing to RP with the admin player characters. The thread itself would just be people fellating admins and them being like "u to qt~"
>>341895350
What server was that?
>>341893148
I went to university and i have a shitty computer there.
>>341895314
Thermite isn't explosive though. But ok fair enough.
>>341895104
Your why /v/ and /vg/ are turning more and more cancerous. Why not just answer the question instead? I checked the wiki but was hoping to get an opinion or answer from my actual question from an actual person, I don't need a wiki worth of details to answer my question
>>341895082
This is literally all the ss13 /vg/ threads.
This green text, right here. Is everything. If you're not a part of it or don't BECOME a part of it, prepare to be ignored and ultimately just fuck around until you get banned because you did something one of the snowflakes didn't like.
I kept to myself and experimented with stuff and never got banned, but I've seen it happen to other people.
>Playing /vg/ instead of Hippie.
>>341895104
There's a lot the wiki doesn't teach you and some of the info is outdated.
>>341895563
http://ss13.moe/wiki/index.php/General_Help#Controls
He's taking the piss because movement is wasd and/or arrow keys. There's drop down menus at the top including a help menu that lists the controls.
/vg/ is a waifushit circlejerk, I left and went to goon and never looked back.
EVERY server has a meta club, but /vg/'s is ridiculous.
>>341895629
tbqh i don't know how to consider some of that. if you don't talk to people and make friends or introduce your friends to the game you won't have friends. the metaclub things funny because it IS a vg meme, and it isn't real. it's a 3 year old joke about things that got shut down long ago.
also
>complaining about woodys got wood
baka
>>341895752
Are the controls always so unresponsive? I always feel like I'm playing a turn based game because sometime my character just waits 5 seconds before actually moving
>>341895956
At least /vg/ RP rules are more light
>>341895956
you've already posted it 3 times senpai
>>341896035
no, either you joined a super laggy server or joined one while something huge was happening like the entire station was being destroyed.
response time is usually under 300ms
>>341896117
OK I see, guess I'll try to play again later today. That was the thing that bothered me the most. Any suggested servers? Also maybe a tip for new players?
>>341893429
That's the problem with /vg/, though. Everybody is a powergaming faggotron that will laugh at you for role-playing. That's why I stopped playing, at least.
>>341896228
Come to /vg/,that's where all the cool kids are and its the only place where people won't bitch about your incompetence.
I only play spess to erp with fellow /v/irgins. Anyone up for some saucy erping now? Preferably furry :3
>>341896228
vg is fine. read the rules they're very short (although they have many explanations and examples below the short list).
join as an assistant, cargo tech, or janitor. they have hardly any impact on the round and no one minds if they're stuck on the arrival shuttle asking how to take the plastic bag off their head while suffocating.
>>341896468
Hang yourself
>>341896374
Last time I went to /vg/ they told me to read the wiki, lurk, and blamed me for joining the game so late for not knowing how to play. But if you ever see my trip code there, reply, and I'll join whatever game your on seeing as your not some asshole.
>>341896531
I'm not into abuse erp tho
>>341896468
vore and citadel.
>>341896523
I'll do that then, starting small is probably the best thing to do. I understand this game involves taking roles and such
>>341896228
Colonial Marines server.
>>341896602
go ahead and don't trip in the vg thread unless you want everyone to treat you like the dip shit you are.
>>341896735
I only use trip when I know I'm gonna reply alot to people and want them to know it's me and not some random anon being a dick hole but sure I'll just remain Anon
Isn't it full of macro-spamming superusers?
>>341896890
the only macro worth having is say *fart
>>341896859
tripping if you're not an admin in that thread is asking to be crucified.
>>341894463
>>341894652
>>341894659
Thank you for the replies.
>>341895535
It must be an ultra shitty computer because spess is an ultra toaster game.
>>341895676
hippie sux
>>341897151
Last time I played there was one homo who clearly was using macros to grab players and KO them in a way that was basically impossible to stop. He was one of the admins buttbuddies or something too so fuck you if you bumped into him
>>341897624
I don't know maybe it was a temporary bug but all attack actions have built in delays to prevent exactly that.
>>341897431
/vg/ sucks ten times more.
I don't stop. I have bouts where I play it like a madman for days at a time all day then I just do other things.
>>341897881Then why do players that get banned on /vg/ go to hippie as a second choice then appeal on vg
>>341897974
Why are you using spoiler text? I also don't know that, but am not banned on /vg/ if that's what you're inferring.
>>341895956
>Goon
>Ever good
Wew laddy
I've been through countless SS13 threads, but I've never seen anyone talk about Yogstation.
Why is that?
>>341897624
Was it a skeleton fetishist? If so hes still around
>>341898413
Most servers are filled with user drama and isolated from 4chan because of it.
>>341893148
Servers are still run alright. /vg/ an /tg/ servers are fucking abysmal through, /tg/ being a tad more playable of the bunch.
Heard theres a new server up that's big and shit, somewhat like goon. Stone station? Idfk I forgot the name.
>>341899101
But 4chan is all about user drama
>>341893752
Just turn off OOC chat. I only have LOOC on so I can still see when someone asks how to do something nearby. The server wide OOC chat is always annoying as fuck in every server.
Alright I'll try it again. I use to play geneticist and got breddy gud at it. Which server should I join
I wanted to play it, but literally every single time i tried everyone was a complete cunt that would either insult me for no reason or just outright ignore my presence.
SS13 is an incredible experiment about insular communities.
Every server will say that their server is the best while others are cancer with circlejerking, power tripping, unbearable retards.
And in the end every server is the latter.
The game is pretty fun. Just remember to never play on the /vg/ server.
>>341900059
That's why I used to play geneticist because I could lock myself in a room with a grey assistant homie and hulk each other out. no homo.
I like the servers that make the jobs deeper then they already are with new updates, however the very active servers have the strongest metaclubs and you feel pretty faceless after a while. What server does OP play on?
>>341900220
So would you recommend not joining it for my first time? I tend not to care about 4chans community since it's the same as everywhere else just a little more gay.
>>341900401
Hes probably a /vg/tard trying to get people to play on it since their population was slowly dwindling a few weeks ago.
>>341900401
/vg/
>>341900475he's posted the same thing five or six times now some people have an axe to grind
>>341893621
is that yang?
>>341900475
I used to play on SA and those guys are some giant homos. I don't know who else is left. /tg/?
>>341900531
That was a few months ago and the only cause for it was we were >>341900195 more insular than ever and no one ever talked about it outside the board.
A week later and our server was full of fresh faces and that was in the past.
I made the thread to see why people who have left had left not to get more people.
teach me how 2 bomb pls
stopped playing because i only play sec, and the amount i had to power game to stay ahead of the curve was fucking ridiculous. And all the special snow flake faggotry that the admins defend.
>>341900752
Yeah please fuck off.
>>341901009
>>341900752
ban the do nothing namefags like yahir and his crew of niggers and ill come back
>>341901182
>anime/vn reaction image
Great way to out yourself as nothing else but a shitposter.
Let's see all this advertisement lying about the server being better than the rest and welcoming to new players vanish once Probe gets that Aussie trialmin he's looking for.
Whoa what is "dragon universe"? This game has 250 players and seems way more badass than autism station 13
>>341901317
>yahir still plays
why am I not surprised
Did that powergaming medbot player stop playing? He was the reason medbay was perfect at times, but also boring as fuck to play if he was on shift because he was infinitely better than everyone else.
The name Build Your Own Net Dream takes me back to a more innocent age.
I played on /tg/ station a few times as a janitor or assistant. First time as a Janitor, I got toolboxed in a hallway, dragged into my cleaning closet, killed, and flushed down a toilet. The round went on another 3 hours with me as a ghost, my corpse somewhere off in space.
The next two times as an assistant, I asked a doctor if I could help, he didn't say anything, and then security showed up to arrest me for being a traitor. The next time, I actually was a traitor and killed by clown ten minutes into the round.
I would probably give SS13 more of a chance if I could at least learn the mechanics alone somewhere, as it is, it's pretty difficult to just drop in and learn how to play.
>>341902000
time for DBZ
OH LOOK
OP IS THE CURRENT HEAD ADMIN OF /vg/STATION TRYING SUBTLY SHILL HIS SERVER
>>>/vg/145892820
>>>/vg/145893469
>>341901906
Yred is always online.
If he's not playing as a mute looking for antags to kill or killing everyone as an antag he's an observer looking for people to report to admins to get banned.
He's online 80% of the time.
>>341895545
It is when it reacts to fire
>>341893148
far too much meta gaming
the namefags that get jerked off in the general get away with murder, and tell their mates where they died, get killed etc so if you're not part of their club you will always 9/10 lose to them. The circle jerking to particular characters turn s the round into player following certain "robust" players and helping them grief/ fuck shit up without ever worrying about any consequences; as soon as security arrests them random shitter no.162562 will break them out just to be part of the circlejerk greentext. The amdins don't do anything to stop said meta because those namefags are what holds the server together and can effectively just ip change grief forever if they even get a warning.
It's a poison mixture of players getting special treatment, admin incompetence/immaturity and game hosting/security limitations that create a nest of abuse and corruption
ITT: if you play, you become a pawn/ plaything for established name fags, if you stay, you get banned by said irritated namefags/ become a name fag yourself
Fuck now I want to play again.
I want to get into some of the more complicated jobs but I don't want to ruin everyone else's game the first few times I try them.
>>341902238
>subtly
I've intentionally not mentioned the server and asked about SS13 as a whole. Why you heff to be mad?
>>341902665
In /vg/ admins bait randoms who are suspicious of metagaming by locking them in an isolated place with no radio and wait for their suspected buddies to beeline to their location to rescue them.
But every thread/OOC popufag are actually in a discord hosted and endorsed by admins now so it's really just a main circlejerking shutting down others.
I still play, almost exclusively on /tg/
>>341902895
Honestly because SS13 communities are horrible and you shouldn't lure people back into them.
>>341893148
i've done basically everything that can be done in that game, i've been playing since it was an atmos simulator in 2004 before the OpenSS13 project, i have done literally every single secret on gooncode before the massive code leak, as well as /tg/ code. never bothered with autistic RP shit like bay/yog/etc. It also greatly ticks me off how many servers have faggy rules about not hurting other people now, when the game was fine for years without them.
if there is a reason for me to come back then I will.I also know pic related IRL
>>341902389
Great, as long as he's there I'm probably not going to go back to /vg/. There's powergaming, then there's Yred levels of powergaming. the former ar usually people who take "precautions" when shit is starting to hit the fan. Yred is just a faggot. Always stops interesting antagonists and ruins fun altogether.
I used to play on /vg/ alot.
had a fun time too. Decent mods, decent map and would rotate for fun sometimes. Well supported forum.
Then after a while I played as Chaplain and I pretty much got rocked by some greytide faggot who stole and spaced my rod. I decided to beat on him by Security orders and I got boinked from the admin team for griefing.
Long story short; this piece of shit would power game every time he played and would steal high priority shit from every department (teleporter, weapons/armor, fire axe, gloves, janitor galoshes, etc) and then bait people in and immediately rat them out to the admins.
After about 4-6 incidents like this, and an obvious ban baiting on one of my other friends, he got scorned by the community and everyone knew his reptutation for being a raging cunt.
The admin team would always let him off with a warning. I still go to the forums sometimes to see if he's still around and he is.
My assumption is that he's cockriding one of the admins cause the shit he got away with and is still getting away with is absurd. That's why I left.
Fuck you Sirnat you cunt.
>>341902895
There is nothing you nor anyone else can do to improve your server.
It is the people on your server that are the problem. It's like high school over there. /vg/ server itself is pretty fucking good.
>>341903605
It's funny because despite being a no-fun, mute powergamed people only defended him for ages.
Now that he stopped being a borg or CMO every round the shitters are starting to turn on him since he won't be saving them.
But really fuck that community, people praise him still. Just like how every time someone mentions or shows that plasmamen are OP everyone defends them instead because of Sawbones
>>341903808
It's really not. It's shit and every other server is too.
>>341903785
reminder that /vg/ was the server that had MLP sprites and ERP verbs that sprayed cum everywhere, and was always cancerous as fuck. I think Elyina was a /vg/ admin too
>>341902895
The /vg/ server code is pretty good. I just don't play there because the community is 4chan.
>>341904036
Wrong server
Elyina was with /v/stations and a few /vg/stations. Not the current one though
>>341893148
>Why did you stop playing Space Station 13?
I got banned from every server for having to much fun.
>>341904018
SS13 used to be good.
if i had the money to host a server, i would bring back donut1 and donut2, bring back the classic goon ss13 style server with poo, replicants, the T.U.R.D.S, no retarded rules about "griefing" since the POINT OF THE GAME is that it's a survival game where anyone could go crazy and fuck shit up at any time, maybe the clown decides to feed people to the engine. doesn't need to be a traitor. gives security something to do.
>>341904036
I think you're mistaking /vg/ with TG since /vg/ officially scorns and bans ERP despite being run by people who endorse faggotry of the same level.
But its not too different, /vg/ is run by weebs anyway who are just as bad.
>>341904159
no, i am one hundred percent certain that /vg/ was the server with the MLP shit, because I got banned for suicide bombing two people ERPing with their horse sprites. Elyina might have been on a different server but i am CERTAIN that the pony shit was /vg/, this happened about 4-5 years ago
>>341893148
I got tired of the meta gaming, power hungry admins and waifu faggotry my favorite server went to.
Guess which one.
>>341904426
TEEGEE?
>>341904280
You're thinking of old Goonstation.
I'm aware that Goonstation WAS SS13 back then but now it's 90% those bay/tg forks involving anime or furry circlejerking with dumb rules.
>>341893148
Igot a gf
>>341904572
You fool.
>>341904476
Yes, and /vg/ now as well. It's an infinite loop circle jerk now.
>>341904426
That's like any non-RP server.
Hippie? TG? /vg/?
I miss New Eden with that text to speech thing.
"Griefing" being extremely cracked down on and a bannable offense. I get it, nobody likes being taken out of the game for an hour+ because some shitter thinks it would be a really funny idea to blow them up with a bomb, but it's a fucking video game. Security may as well be renamed to "Valid Hunters" because any non-antags doing something bad are often banned, and they are under constant mod scrutiny where actually doing their job may as well result in a ban.
This may have well have changed a lot because I quit a couple years ago, but it's still a problem I saw far too much of.
Static names being a thing.
>>341893148
Started out with goon station a long time ago. I was always impressed with the core game development they had, but after a time the old guard got so ungodly good it felt like you couldn't have fun without being "in the know" (aka being that select group of players that knew every dumb secret/buddied up with admins). The admins were also a very mixed bag themselves. There were some that just simply did their job, and others that turned into a silly cult of personality. This made dealing with them like edging a minefield. I distinctly remember it getting to a point where the general playerbase came together to tell them to lighten the fuck up when it came to the game.
/vg/ was interesting but by the time I started playing there, I had already lost major interest in the game and couldn't keep my interest too strongly maintained.
Dumb question but why are all the in-game links yellow and almost impossible to read
Goon became shit and I'm pretty sure I got perma'd there, /tg/ turned into shit with the whole errorage coderbus meltdown and subsequent civil war thing, and I refuse to step foot in /vg/. I forgot my BYOND info too so that's a thing.
>>341893148
I hate /vg/ because I don't like circlejerks.
The time investment required for a good round of spessmans is very bad for my backlog. That, and the magic is basically gone for me. If I'm not an antag I get bored pretty quick. Every once in a while I'll start a game on /vg/ and if I get tator science I tend to have a good time.
>played SS13 since donut station
>game is ridiculously boring after the initial realization you can do whatever you want wears off
>start doing meta shit, such as grabbing powerful weapons/internals from the beginning of the match
>can't have any fun, if the mods don't approve of it
>remove windows from escape
>spacelube the entrance
>people slip and slide into space
>banned
>autolathe the escape hallway
>banned
>kill someone in self defense
>banned
>closed source coders, only way to even have any progress made is to leak the fucking code
>being jailed is boring as fuck
>robusting is just whoever has the better ping and can click faster
the game is just shit, the administration makes it worse, and roleplay fags are cancer
Why is everyone who plays on /vg/ an insufferable condescending cunt?
>>341906793
weeabooism
>>341893849
>griefing and game design
The only reason I know about this game, so far. Makes it sound very detailed and TECHNOLOGY filled.
I've haven't even seen any gameplay, how does it play?
>>341906940
You can knock someone out and inject them with LSD.
You can forcefeed people burgers to make them fat and have heart attacks from cholesterol.
Just a lot of stuff.
>>341906940
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJUEI8_qC28
>>341906859
This. They are actually an echo chamber of waifus and husbandos.
In response to the OP, I forgot my byond login info and just said fuck it.
I've played the game since some if the first source code releases like. I haven't been playing for a few months. Honestly? I get withdrawal constantly when away from it but it takes up a lot of time and my day flies away because of it and my friends get mad so I have to stay away
I tried playing it, but I got overwhelmed by dramamongering server wars, annoying people, and understanding the meta of the game that people who have been playing for years know like the back of their hands.
>>341907103
>not making people fat and making them explode with a mint
>>341907110
Is this video actually worth watching? The first few seconds of lisping spittle swilling turn me off.
Does he do any crazy shenanigans?
>>341907334
>not robusting 5+ sec officers with nothing but *shit, galoshes and a stolen stunbaton
It's like you don't even fight desu
>>341906940
You can bash someone in the chest with a toolbox, and rupture their lung.(which can only be cured by having the medical staff lay you on a table, knock you out, and perform surgery)
Can someone explain to me WHY Hippie isn't the best SS13 server nowadays? From what I can tell Hippie doesn't have dedicated autistic waifu circlejerk threads.
>>341907528
>chest toolbox
>not eye screwdriver and blinding people
>>341895309
the fun comes from baiting other people to break the rules and getting them into trouble
or just *barely* breaking the rules so that the admins won't really fuck with you
>>341907665
I only mention the chest toolboxing because one time I misclicked the toolbox to my own chest and made my lung commit sudoku, forcing me to find a doc.
>>341906940
>>341907436
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=calbFSLKAqo&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdjWSyIFyiI&feature=youtu.be
Pretty basic idea of what the game looks like.
>>341907198
I play on /vg/ and posted the weeabooism thing but I don't think you're exactly right there you're not exactly wrong though either. Just watching anime a lot makes you an insufferable condescending
>>341907436
oh you want to watch a full round?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJFucZO0WNc It's really old and out of date but this guy has the least offensive videos
>>341895309
>2nd room banned me for talking OOC when i was cut open and and had my brain removed. I was sitting there for 20 minutes without anything to do and brains cant talk
Well it depends. You weren't talking ICC in OOC were you or asking about the round or anything like, right? If not, then yeah that's bullshit.
i never started and its one of my biggest regrets
>>341907664
>From what I can tell Hippie doesn't have dedicated autistic waifu circlejerk threads.
lol
Hippie is notorious for adding dakimakura's of their waifus.
Its literally so endemic its in their code.
>nobody has mentoned the crippling lag
The lag and the shit performance are excruciating.
Still the most hilarious, varied and engaging game I know of, though.
>>341908198
That's becausevg fixed almost all the lag long ago
>>341908298
well shit, I'm gonna play right now.
>>341908051
Yeah but I don't have to worry about fags shitposting on 4chinz about the current round on hippiestation.
>>341895041
>interrogation marks
what?
>>341893148
I overplayed the game two years ago, and got bored of it since it's just starts to repeat itself after you see everything. I come back once in a while but it's just ain't the same
There's also Lifeweb i played the fuck out of, the only thing that interest me is getting a good aspect and shitting on people with it
Doesn't help i actually have a life so i play vidya in the weekends instead
Its one of those 'story games' that always gets great screencaps about the stories like Dorf Fort but takes so much effort to try and get into and actually learn how to play that it kills the feel. And since its multiplayer and everybody else already knows how to play it feels even worse.
>>341893148
> join /v/ or /vg/ server or someshit
> assistant because I read he doesn't really have a job so you can freely explore
> announce that I'm a new player
> just look at stuff and get a feel for the controls
> never enter any unrestricted areas
> suddenly get attacked by a security guy
> ask him what I did wrong
> no response
> he steals my stuff, cuffs me and throws me in the brig
> try talking to people but they just ignore me
> in the brig for the rest of the round
> station gets destroyed by aliens or someshit and I die
I'm amazed the game is still "as popular as ever" if you treat all new players like this.
I can see the potential in this game but not if it's run by a bunch of turbo autists.
>>341908635
the learning process can become part of the roleplay element
have someone take you on as their second or apprentice
have them teach you and get you into shenanigans
maybe you'll save their life when something crazy happens
its how i started and made learning fun
sure i made mistakes and goofed around in space but you know you get there.
You'll get it anonI love you <3
>>341893148
Game's great, Communities are shit
RP game communities always, ALWAYS without fail turn into more of a hugbox as time goes on, eventually you end up with basically every time tested SS13 server where they meta friend and have ERP sessions in the middle of the round, /vg/ is no exception.
this game looks good is it easy to get into
>>341907945
I watch a lot of anime but I'm not insufferable or condescending. I swear.
>>341909452
Don't worry I believe you.
>>341909074
><3
fag
I never started. If anything I'd like to try, but I'm afraid I'll let everyone down from my inexperience.
>>341909374
it has a lot of depth and it takes a while to really learn but everything relies on the same set of rules so the more you learn, the less trouble it is to learn more.
>>341909795
if everyone was robust then the game would be pretty boring and at any given time at least 25% of the players have been playing for less than 3 months.
>>341908980
>things that never happened
or
>lies
Not like any server would endure you.
>>341908980
Nobody has respect for greyshits because griefers tend to go assistant as an excuse to start shit all over the station. Once you have controls down, the next step would be to actually pick a department. People are usually very willing to help people out in their own department.
>>341910094
typical /vg/ fag kneejerk response.
My friend got me into it, but he is an rp fag and I'm not. All of the drama and bullshit rules, no matter which server I joined, killed the fun. So I stopped, this being the first and only game so far that I have quit solely because the community is shit.
> be new
> start as cook
> take ages to figure out what the fuck how do I make shit this is so confusing what the hell
> manage to make a few dishes
> suddenly some guy comes in dragging a dead monkey behind him
> blood all over my fucking cantina you cunt what the fuck
> he tells me I can make meat and burgers from its corpse
> okay I guess, try to stuff it in the grinder but it's not really working
> "the emergency shuttle has been called"
> shooting and explosions
> step out of my kitchen
> vomit and blood literally everywhere in the corridors
> see some security guy near death, he's also vomiting occasionally
> drag him behind me
> some cunt knocks me out and drags me to the emergency shuttle
> forgot the details but he was a bad guy or something
> get on the shuttle with him, don't know what's going on anyway
> push him out of the airlock when I get the chance
Confusing but amazing
>>341910094
why would I lie you faggot
It's been a while (like a year maybe?) so some of the details may not be entirely correct but that's more or less what happened.
>>341910214
>I can't read the wiki and I did something stupid
>I don't want to "git gud" so I will just spread lies
Does it make you feel better? Not like we need new people, player levels are at an all time high and strangely I was only jailed once when I was a traitor. So yeah, typical "XY" response I guess.
>>341893148
for a 4chan server it sure is full of incredibly annoying underage b&s
I've honestly gotten away with some crazy shit on goonstation. The few bans I ever got were completely justified. I haven't played for about a year though, so I don't know how shitty the player base and moderation has become.
>>341893148
terrible community
it's not very fun to play when absolutely everyone is a powergamer/metagamer
>>341910780
God shut the fuck up already. I'm sick of overly defensive /vg/ fags whining whenever anyone says something bad about their shitty server.
>have a bug that makes it so any time I open a command window of any sort the game will freeze solid for 10 seconds and sometimes brick the client
>same thing happens when closing a window
>PDAs, computers, vending machines of any kind, even interacting with objects or players that opens a window
>still tried to play but it became an agonizing hassle every time
>No amount of bugfix or reinstall or client changes fixed anything
I'm still mad, I played so much
>>341910830
Someone on /v/ calling others underage.
>>341910780
You're replying to the wrong guy m8.
And what does reading a wiki have to do with anything? If i'm just running around looking at stuff that's enough to get my ass kicked and jailed?
Sounds like a shitshow you guys are running honestly
>>341911076
Iron huh?
not bad.
>>341910985
>Stop calling out my bullshits!
Okay I will stop if that makes you happy.
>>341911238
I will be honest with you, I'm not the guy you originally replied to. This guy right here >>341910573 and here >>341911175
is. I just want you to stop being such a bitch and stop throwing a fit whenever someone has a negative opinion on /vg/.
>Still new as fuck
>Some kind guy tries to teach me how to be a geneticist
>End up injecting him with some shit that makes him fall over and have spasms
>Don't know what to do, so I run away
>End up finding his dead body by the end of the shift
Poor guy. He was so patient, too. And to this day I don't know a thing about genetics.
>>341908298
>>341908343
yeah it's still pretty fucking laggy - doesn't help that the coders are always adding new stuff
>>341911759
Genetics is just a boring slot machine simulator. It used to be worth it when hulks could still wield guns.
vg sux tg rulez
>>341903246Are YOU pic related?
Byond is literally the worst platform/engine I've ever seen.
That, and people from /v/ and /vg/ are cancerous to play with. Avoid at all costs.
>>341903808
>It's like high school over there.
Holy FUCK I can't believe how accurate that description is. This is especially evident with how they constantly fawn over the "girls" (AKA grown ass men pretending to be girls online) of the server.
>>341911076
nice response dude - most of the players there are admittedly 17-21, it blew my mind.
I remember one time I saw a picture of this game where a guy made a literal start inside a station
It made me want to start playing but I never got around to it, maybe I still will
>>341912378
that's because most of them are actually in high school and on top of that when they're fawning over 'girls' it's the admins' staticnames so it's not like they don't know it's a guy - they do.
>>341893148
>Why did you stop playing Space Station 13?
i became an admin on my favorite server and realized the community is shit.
>>341912110
liggers
>>341912093
that will always be part of a game that is in continuous development and is open source. new shit -> optimized new shit -> new shit is added
>>341912103
hulks can use guns on some codebases
>>341912619
Is there evidence of this or are you just working on assumptions? Not that I disagree with you or anything but still.
>>341909795
>Dying to someone's incompetence
The beauty of it is that this is literally part of the game andthe fun
>>341912103
Genetics is fun when you use it to turn literally everyone in the entire station into you. Not much else really.
>>341912656
>it took you that long
>thinking "halp george malons griffiin me" was just a joke
SS13 is the perfect game with the right people. Once it becomes overly meta it becomes boring.
shitty admin banned me 3 times for bullshit reasons so i just gave up, its a miracle that a friend even convinced me to rejoin after the first ban since im overreactive and retardedly emotionally and i felt like it was just "wrong" for me to be on the server somehow
fun game tho
Banned 3 times, but I had only been playing the game for little over a month.
the 3rd ban was because i decided to gain some confidence for once and call out the admin for her false-positivity bullshit, so what if i "icked in ooc"? everyone knew of what i did anyway, i meant to say in Common that it the AI saying bazinga was my idea, but i accidentally said it in OOC instead, how is that even a fucking issue
It's a video game. You shouldn't take it that seriously that you go false-positivity-I'm-actually-secretly-pissed-off-at-you mode over a mistake. Especially a harmless one.
/tg/station btw
>>341912378
>fawning over the girls
not fawning over the superiorLizardboi pussi
>>341894237
I've dived into other BYOND games for shits and giggles, and lemme tell you, I've seen some shit.
DBZ ERP servers with built-in breeding mechanics.
Mountains of shitty character profile pages with awful music and edgy quotes.
Usernames I would've thought were ironic anywhere else. I swear to god, I've seen a Kirito Uchita.
I tried it and spent most of my time just wandering the fuckhuge ship as a janitor doing nothing
I was eventually choked by some guy and stuck me in a closet. I was still alive and just waited in there yelling for help but no one came.
Shit game.
>>341911528
>throwing a fit
So calling out someone for his lies is "throwing a fit". And you wonder why people call /v/ cancer.
>>341893962
This is it. I used to do a fuckton of /v/ and /vg/ groups back in the day. Devolves into the same inane shit every single time.
>>341903246
How much of the modern game was even coded by the original creator guy?
>>341913859
How do you know he's lying exactly? I'm not saying he's telling you the truth, but you have no reason to believe either or.
>And you wonder why people call /v/ cancer.
Yes people post on your hugbox thread on /vg/ about how /v/ is so dumb like you always do.
>>341913906
less than 1%
>>341913410
>Bazinga
tbqh senpai you deserved it
try playing the game with an admin just waiting for a reason to ban you because you called their special snowflake static name character a slut for sucking dick in maintenance in a cap announcement.
>>341913983
>people
*please
>>341913859
>And you wonder why people call /v/ cancer.
Then fuck off to whatever shitty forum you came from.
I stopped playing because it eventually became a bunch of shitty cliques on every server power gaming within their shitty little group so that they can fuck up the round for everyone else
>>341913859
>his lies
Yeah because shitcurity has never done stuff like that before, right?
Like other people have said, the community on these servers are shit for the most part.
>>341893148
It's a game with way too much depth for me. I'm so busy that sometimes I only get to put in 3-5 hours a week. So it doesn't help that I spend all of those hours just trying to learn the fucking thing.
Plus no good servers. I want to actually roleplay on rounds that last at least 2 hours. Not that murderboning 50 player tg station shit where the station's blown up in 30 minutes so there's absolutely no point in trying to do anything.
>>341914071
i made the AI spam bazinga, it was hilarious
every 3rd word it said had to be "bazinga"
i know the big bang theory is a shitty show, thats why its funny
because I only play the game in short bursts, but I always completely forget how to play the game and have to relearn every time.
Also I'm not really that creative, and usually get killed real easily very early.
The roles I only really gravitate to were
>Drug Dealer
>Robotist that throws out death machines at random
>Asshole Cargo Worker that throws a ton of paperwork at everyone that wants something.
>Miner because comfy.
>>341893148
>Why did you stop playing Space Station 13?
The Byond Client is ass and I only have so much patience for something I only use for one game.
>>341914336
There's like 4 servers with 2+ hour roleplaying
Has any server gotten the blob to work correctly? I liked the random gimmick shit goonstation and a few other servers had. It's been a long time since I've played last.
>>341914557
I'm similar. Once a year I pick this game up, play for maybe a month, but spend most of that time just learning everything I forgot....
>>341914336
there's only one thing you need to learn to have fun with the game
>get screwdriver, crowbar, and multitool
>screwdriver airlock
>use the multitool on the airlock
>pulse each wire until you find one that turns the Test Light offresults may vary
>quickly crowbar the airlock
congratulations you now have all access enjoy being an assistant don't let security catch you
>>341915008
I hate to recommend it, but /vg/ did.
>>341915764
Well that fucking sucks. I doubt there is anywhere near enough cohesion to make it not a shitty time.
>>341915764
It still has one glaring problem. We added blob meteors that come in two varieties. A mildly annoying blob shower that sends AI controlled blobs crashing into the station. They need to be removed or else they will eat away at the hull.
And a blob storm that sends up to 4 player controlled blob cores.
1 blob core is a challenge. 2 is a serious, we're probably not gonna make it deal. 4 is just rape. Fortunately it only happens during super high pop.
>>341916349
The headmin already whined and I'm fairly sure that the player-controlled blobs from meteors are now limited to one or two players.
In theory they're very vulnerable since their cores will always be next to open space but if they get new cores up then they often steamroll.
It really depends on how many competent valid hunters are around.
>>341916349
>>341916540
Seeing as you guys seem to know, is the server as shitty as people claim? I'm not new to the game, but it has been a while. How much grief is one allowed to get away with? I don't want to make it a shitty time, but it's still hilarious spraying shit down as a janitor in hallways at inopportune moments.
>>341917467
I'm really a super jaded regular there and I don't wish for others to suffer what I did.
Or to become the people that I hate like how a newfag likes to latch on to a popular namefag on the server and memes about it on OOC.
>>341917467
Honestly it's not as bad as everyone here is making it out to be but it's still pretty bad.
>>341917467
It's not that bad at all
>>341916540
No, they haven't been touched. And I'm Probe so wah
>>341918238
So its your own fault.
>>341906940
One time, I kidnapped the captain, surgically removed his ass, made him watch me cook it into a burger (called an assburger), and then I force fed the captain his own ass.
>>341917467
I can't give you an impartial answer because I'm involved in running the server.
I made a thread to find out why people have left SS13 in general, not our specific server. However I (hope) a lot of the responses are from people who have lost interest or appeal in the game.
So you'r reading, 86 odd different IPs opinions on the game and many of them are dissatisfied. Right now we have 65~ players playing the game on our server alone and we're one of the more mid range servers in terms of player count. They are satisfied enough with the game to be playing it.
itt you'll see one kind of opinion because that's the opinion I wanted to hear about instead of the usual "its ok" that people who are satisfied give.
tl;dr I think there are a few areas that are shit, a lot of areas that are pretty good, and some areas that are great and it's enough to make this game my hobby.
>>341918389
I'm a bad coder but yeah, if you're unwilling to do it yourself then you hold some responsibility if something is shit and you don't help fix it.
>>341918558
You guys have fun stories like this but I get the impression admins are autistic and would ban you for it.
>>341918783
I tried to code before but no one gives any help other than parroting to join the IRC.
Blob clusters with over minds are rare enough that I think that they might be fine being round enders as they are.
>>341918783
I'm sorry Probe, you seem like an alright guy but is 65 people supposed to be comforting?
You have a stable of 10-15 players who are all metafriends and admins that encourage their jackassery, and then an asston of admins who also play and have their own metafriends.
This leaves you with a decent 10-20 players who will try the game and end up burnt out because of the bullshit you guys allow. (this group switches out every few weeks)
>>341919275
There's no way there's more than 5 people who are metafriends and on at the same time
>>341919229
don't fucking bother, these literal kids only complain about every addition to the game without any attempts to contribute themselves, it's a waste of time and will only serve to frustrate you.
>>341919275
Probe acts all nice and whatnot but he doesn't condemn all the waifu and animefaggotry from other admins and regulars.
He's like a well meaning but wholly incompetent administrator. The sort of guy that becomes a footnote in history until a more radical person takes over the institution.
>>341919421
>implying 5 extremely loud faggots (you know exactly who I mean) don't force people to be their friends and act like them.
seriously dude come on.
>>341893148
Tried getting into it, a combination of me not knowing what to do, not wanting other people to suffer for my incompetence at learning and the fact the coding always had some lag to it so it becomes fairly annoying to play.
>>341919571
I am implying that
