Space Station 13 and Its successors communities - Lolcows and milk... In spess

[The Bogwater Rises]

Well new players disrupt me because my meta clique dont get to have all the medical slots!

Said players of HRP servers forever.

 

[LOWERCASE LETTERS]

tbh I didn't mind the Ssethtide so much, it was funny watching maps be utterly packed to the brim with people. As usual the real cancer in the community has always been the long term drama fags who have nothing better to do than sit on the internet all day and make trouble.

 

[ArtificialBrain]

Ssethtide was good. It filled servers with random shitters instead of furries, trannies, and miscreant poofters which have always been the blight of SS13 after they turn into admins and coders. It's surprising TG hung on for so long without a huge implosion, you'd think something would've gone down earlier.

 

[Horpach]

Good tread for a new year.

I will say that I'm glad to see that the SS14 and Robust engine both have good licensing terms (MIT and GPL, MIT except for assets respectively). Communities like the Farms are free to fork SS14 for their own servers, free from moderation by space-troons, which is very encouraging. SS14 is reaching the point of having enough content to be a suitable successor, even though I wish there was more engine shit for engineering to tinker with; I think it's fun enough for me to tolerate the troon admins and the out-of-proportion number of scalie fuckers running around until hopefully the codebase gets mature enough for Kiwis to host a server of our own.


I will also take the opportunity to post my favorite SS13 video:

 

[LOWERCASE LETTERS]

I kind of miss doing Solarium stuff and chasing the Porktonium II white whale, but I suspect that the old Solarium crew is long gone.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

I kind of miss doing Solarium stuff and chasing the Porktonium II white whale, but I suspect that the old Solarium crew is long gone.

I was part of said crew but my professional responsibilities ballooned to where I can barely game. I've talked to the head dev at goon and poor Cogwerks is just absolutely exhausted at this point.

Would have loved to have finished the puzzle area where you get mailed to CentCom, the "Nanotrasen Retention Center". Remember it being a sweet place.

 

[Some Spaceman]

I was part of said crew but my professional responsibilities ballooned to where I can barely game. I've talked to the head dev at goon and the man is just absolutely exhausted at this point. And a bunch of fun stuff like the cat world was CUT entirely.

Would have loved to have finished the puzzle area where you get mailed to CentCom.

Catmandu made it into the game!

 

[LOWERCASE LETTERS]

At least you can still speedrun the bad end and utterly confuse people who have no idea Solarium stuff even exists. Back when I last played, you could do it entirely solo and get enough keys to manifest the server without needing to go to any ultra dangerous areas like the ice caverns (biodome was a requirement though). Admittedly this is because they kept adding meme keys.

Off the top of my head, silver key, key lime pie, cheese keyzza, skeleton key, iridium key, old fancy key, lunar key, and house key are all pretty trivial to get, although some of these may have been nerfed/removed to make it harder to speedrun.

 

["Controlled Demolition"]

>ssethtide
Didn't last even a month before most everything returned to old numbers. Why? Because Sseth recorded most footage on /vg/station, the most 'old-school' server even back then. Things have only worsened since, but even at the time it was a no fun allowed zone. /vg/station probably felt the biggest long-term bump in population as a result, but even then it was only ~10% of the actual Ssethtide (50-pop servers going 100+ every night). And it was usually the most insufferable, mind-rotten 10% that actually vibes with the slow troonification of the game. The sane, normal people treated it as the flavor-of-the-month party game that it was, got banned, and forgot about it. No, the decline is driven by the likes of the furry polycule, that plays SS13 every single day and deeply values its special snowflake OC character. They're the majority, and they're not going anywhere unless you rip them out by the roots. Or burn the entire forest, as MSO has helpfully done.

But ultimately, Sseth was largely inconsequential to the game. He reported on it in its terminal phase. The "player count" is also highly misleading: I wouldn't want to play on the biggest, most populated, most featured servers if 100% of their population was the usual no-fun rule-abiding subhuman that worms their way into admin positions. The game died a slow, tortuous death by a thousand different reasons, not too dissimilar from the Roman republic and then empire. It wasn't the barbarian hordes or the arabs alone, it couldn't have been.

OpenDream may be promising as a future for SS13, and I should try riviera's code on it, but I wouldn't be surprised if PJB & co. tried to take over that as well. After all, his grasp over SS14 is faltering, but he still might have the keys to the rest of Robust Toolbox and OpenDream to reassert his control.

I pray for a good BYOND alternative that current code can be easily ported over to. The Rivierastation KF server is on a countdown of unknown length before exadv or someone else interferes in a way that has never happened before (SOP for anything KF touches).

BYOND 516 may be it (for me), if the problems with it aren't resolved. It moves the web rendering dependency onto WebView 2 and, unless BYOND gets a native Linux release (which I doubt), that may kill WINE emulation. It's currently even less functional than the previous Internet Explorer based rendering. Only VMs from now on.
But even so, I'd rather hedge all bets with BYOND. It's far, far preferable to TranSS14 whose "developers" would take down global authentication out of spite; BYOND devs themselves barely acknowledge SS13 even exists in some sort of pseudo-jealousy, and do not care about the Hub at all, to the point that they don't police servers at all.
(their "jealousy" likely stems from the fact that it's a cheat that there are multiple servers at all; Exadv1's original BYOND Hub auth key got leaked along with his code, and anyone can now use it to host their own free server without paying into the hosting scheme that BYOND has set up)

 

[shoashuffle]

Sseth didnt record footage from /vg/, that was mandalore. Everything in sseth's video was fake shit he set up on a private server. And /vg/ was quick to panic bunker during the ssethtide.

 

[mentally retarded user]

Everything in sseth's video was fake shit he set up on a private server.

Like the holocaust?

 

[Farmer9876]

i once personally grabbed and threw a /tg/ tranny felinid player into the cold void of space.

You fiend!

 

[potato sack]

ssethtide wasnt that bad, neither was mandytide (when MandaloreGaming covered the game and something similar happened)

sure loads of new people joined all at once and it slogged the game with people wanting to make their friends into pizza or w/e after that interest waned and only people who genuinely enjoyed the game stayed

like if a big bucket of bugs was dropped on a pile of shit and after a couple of months only the flies remained

i fucking love ss13

 

[niggersneed499d0e5e]

In case there was any doubt that MSO was in fact, a closeted tranny, he recently posted this in the tranny grooming subreddit, r/egg_irl.

This could just be a desperate attempt to re-ingratiate himself with the tranny clique that evicted him from TGstation, but it should really be no surprise that Kyle the rape fetishist wants to become Kylie the rape fetishist.

 

[SuStallone]

In case there was any doubt that MSO was in fact, a closeted tranny, he recently posted this in the tranny grooming subreddit, r/egg_irl.

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This could just be a desperate attempt to re-ingratiate himself with the tranny clique that evicted him from TGstation, but it should really be no surprise that Kyle the rape fetishist wants to become Kylie the rape fetishist.

I'm tired of always being right.

 

[pootoucher]

In case there was any doubt that MSO was in fact, a closeted tranny, he recently posted this in the tranny grooming subreddit, r/egg_irl.

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This could just be a desperate attempt to re-ingratiate himself with the tranny clique that evicted him from TGstation, but it should really be no surprise that Kyle the rape fetishist wants to become Kylie the rape fetishist.

Many such cases of a no-girl trying to become their very own perfect girl.

 

[spdopodksfposdf]

About moving kiwistation onto SS14, PJB already has a way of policing servers by de-hubbing them, this isn't a big issue since you can simply favourite the server or direct connect to it via the IP. The bigger issue is the tranny jannies being able to auth ban your server entirely to basically kill it. To my knowledge only 1 server has been authbanned before, but I won't be surprised if kiwistation immideately gets blown up by him for obvious reasons. He also made sure that you can't use the other auth (SS14 Multiverse) as a way to connect, but that one is made by a furfag and the only servers up there are shitty fart inhaling ERP servers.

 

[Verdun_Salient]

This thread is going to be plauged isnt it?

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

This thread is going to be plauged isnt it?

I sincerely doubt it being as SS13 is so niche.
Even the old Solarium ARG content has, I just found out, been completely mothballed.
Cheget, that weird computer with tapes, a zillion smaller mysteries are all stillborn because it's basically only Cogwerks doing anything.

 

[enaR]

To my knowledge only 1 server has been authbanned before

Like half of the EE bans last month were upgraded into Authbans. It's maybe like ~5 now. PJB was literally saying something like "I'm going to keep authbanning servers until you talk to me."