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Here's a tip for playing science: You can use the Bluespace Rapid Part Exchanger with a security camera console to upgrade machines without having to move from R&D. Just ask anyone in sec to print you one board and build the camera console inside R&D.

Also, there are strange devices all over the station (mostly in maint). These can be scanned in the EXPERIMENTATOR machine to print out paper report that can be used in R&D consoles to add research points.
 
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Here's a tip for playing science: You can use the Bluespace Rapid Part Exchanger with a security camera console to upgrade machines without having to move from R&D. Just ask anyone in sec to print you one board and build the camera console inside R&D.

Also, there are strange devices all over the station (mostly in maint). These can be scanned in the EXPERIMENTATOR machine to print out paper report that can be used in R&D consoles to add research points.
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Even better. You can fuck with the strange machines so they can produce meme devices; hand over the cleaning foam to the janitor and the guy will basically suck your dick.
 
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How do I evade bans? Asking for a friend.
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The following guide is for KiwiNiggers only, and should not be shared outside this site. Also, don't be an ass with this unless you're doing it to tranny servers, in which case I encourage it. This is my original guide, and no, I don't know anything about BYOND, I'm just a retard who got mad at a tranny who banned me a while back, so I took a day or so to figure out how this shit works and get back at them.

SAVE THIS BEFORE THE WORTHLESS JANNIES DELETE IT!
Basically, when you get banned, the server registers and bans 3 things:
1. Your BYOND account ckey
2. Your IP
3. Your CID (computer ID, based upon your computer's hardware)
If you try to log into the sever and any of those three are banned, it bans the other 2 as well.

The first two are easy enough. You can just register a new free BYOND account to get a new ckey, and you can change your IP with a VPN or proxy. The CID is much harder to evade, since it's based upon your computer hardware. I found out through some experimentation that it's based upon your hard drive serial number, which you basically can't change because it's set by the manufacturer. The best way to get around this is to just use a virtual hard drive in a virtual machine. To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Make a new Windows 10 virtual machine on Oracle VirtualBox
2. Install a VPN program or configure Windows 10 to connect to a proxy or whatever. Basically, make sure you have a bunch of external IP's you can present yourself as once they get banned one by one.
3. Install BYOND (duh)

Once you get banned for calling the admins niggertrannies over ICC, do the following steps to get back on and do it again:
1. Delete your BYOND cache folder containing your old ckey (It's a folder titled "BYOND" in your documents folder)
2. Shut off your virtual machine
3. In VirtualBox, make a full clone of your machine. Select to keep the UUID's, drive names, MAC address, and stuff all the same. VirtualBox will change almost nothing but your virtual hard drive's serial number, which in turn changes your CID (This is the secret sauce).
4. Boot back into the virtual machine
5. Connect to a different proxy/VPN server to change your IP
6. Make a new BYOND account in a private tab and log in to the BYOND client on your virutal machine with it. If you need a new email for BYOND account registration, there's plenty of sites that offer disposable 10-minute email addresses.
7. Enter /tg/station again and tell the tranny admins to SEETHE AND DILATE
8. Get banned and repeat

The performance of the VM isn't great, but it's enough to let the admins know who's in charge.


If you want to test your own methods yourself, here's how:

To check your hard drive serial number, open an administrator command prompt window and type:

wmic diskdrive get model,serialNumber,size,mediaType


To view your CID, open Dream Maker (development tool that comes with BYOND) and run this program:

/*
You can drop this snippet into an empty environment in Dream Maker, compile and run it,
then simply click the verb to receive your computer's ID.
*/
mob/verb/GetComputerId()
src << client.computer_id


To check your external IP, just Google "what's my IP"


There's rumors that BYOND might change CID generation methods from time to time, but the above self-developed method worked for getting past a ban on Goonstation a couple months ago.
 
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Buncha shit
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Thanks nigger.

So apparently to refine solid Hydrogen I need to react it with BZ at high heat and pressure. In order to make Hydrogen I need an Electrolyzer, and idk what the fuck tech I need to make the board, the wiki won't tell me. To make BZ I need to combine N20 and Plasma at low pressures. That's not too hard.

I will refloor this entire station with hydrogen so help me God.
 
All right, time for a little story time. I have to say that, as many of you, this is my first time playing. When Null announced the server I googled the game and became excited, but I know how ruthless you faggots can be and thought I'd be better off learning the ropes elsewhere (just to end up realizing the kiwi server is actually pretty nice and there's a good balance between newfags and oldfags). My first few days wandering around as a staffie in /tg/ and goonstation were mostly uneventful (besides the ocassional game were shit would go down for me), but I was hooked. I really wanted to get into a profession, but the problem was that I could not even open a pack of cigarrettes properly, so I was still kind of retarded regarding the controls. At my first kiwi game, I chose a janitor called George Floyd who, funnily enough, died because of withdrawal symptoms of krokodile. If it weren't ironic already, Niggerman Rub helped me around as much as he could to keep me alive, even when I was arrested for murdering a guy (hey, he asked me to beat him to death and I complied). The next day I thought I read enough of medicine to try the profession. I don't know what drew me to it, probably that it's a noble work and can become handy to know first aids in any chaotic situation. I created Hans Handke, with the Medic from TF2 in mind. Now, what I like the most about multiplayer games is that you can make friendships. Call me a softie, but I love my online pals, and after you go through a lot of shit in a game it makes you feel like you're close, you know? So the stories I want to tell you are divided in the friendships I've made that made me learn and love the game.

So my first day at Medbay there was this CMO called Sheryl Landers. She made sure everybody got treated, and I think at first it was only the two of us. I still had no idea how to open a bottle of pills, but Sheryl was really nice with me and helped me in every single step possible. Then she suddenly told me I needed to perform a coronary bypass. Although the steps are available at the Wiki, I felt that I wasn't ready. Yet I did it, and it was a success, and that led me to try other more risky stuff. Our first rounds at Medbay were iffy; we couldn't save many of those that came in dying, but we learned a lot of stuff. She was demoted for not being a good CMO and confessed me that she just learned medicine too. We died a couple of times in fun ways, but in the end we always came back as a team and really learned how to set up everything quick. The downside is that it seems that she just stumbled upon the server by chance, because when I told her about the thread here she didn't seem to know what I was talking about. But what I will always admire from her was her willingness to help others and her almost child-like curiosity and experience she learned from trial and error, as well as her ventures to chemistry. Thank you, Sheryl, and I hope I can see you again.

So after she got demoted, our next CMO was Tradwife. She's a fucking badass; she really knows her field and is just so responsive really quick. She also has a witty personality and loves Runtime, the cat that's locked in the CMO's office. She's saved my ass countless of times and she always seems to end up uninjured, except that only time I had to put her on cryo. We've had amazing rounds, such as when she found the cure for the sleepy coof, or when the giant penis monster attacked, or when the bots went rogue and kept arresting us. Sheryl, Trad and I worked as a great team, too, even in times of adversity, such as when the raditation caused me to appear dying on the floor in random parts every ten seconds, and they tried to save me, just for me to disappear again and end up dying in some kind of small office. Next time we play I'll make sure to make up for everything she's thought me, and the compliments that I've received when I have revived someone actually come from following Tradwife's advice.

So when Dahmer arrived he was just a weird guy that kept to his own. Now, I don't have anything against Murdoch Murdoch, but he can't handle being CMO and the rounds I've had where Medbay is his get messy, really messy. It also doesn't help much that most of those rounds have been full of cultists ready to blow us up. In fact, Dahmer and I didn't really get close until that happened. This fucking jihadist came and chopped my head off, and I spent there like 10 minutes on the floor, decapitated. I was giving up on hope, nobody seemed to give a fuck about my corpse and because of the nature of my wounds I thought my only chance to come back to life was to be borged, but boy, fucking Dahmer saw me lying around, threw out some random prisoner nigger from the bed and started fixing me. The fucking madman actually went ahead and replaced all my internals with robotic parts, then attached my head and, to my surprise, it fucking worked. One of my legs seemed unresponsive, and eventually gave up while we were in a small escape shuttle eating pizza, but I was alive, damn it, and didn't expect it to end in (almost) one piece. We played a few more rounds and got really close. You're a cool guy, Dahmer, I'll make sure to get some cuban cigars for you next time.

I don't remember the names of them all unless I see them again, but there's been some wonderful staff helping us and getting mixed in all these shenanigans. Really makes the game a lot more enjoyable, and some have saved my ass a couple of times. I remember a girl that died with me because we were locked in a fire and we just layed down and shared some nice, last words. I remember some paramedics, especially a male one, that were really quick to respond and just amazing. I remember this guy that was really fucked up and I repaired him, but he still had awful brain damage and just sticked around as the funny retard. Good times.

I also want to apologize to Paris Moon, Saul Goodman and all others that end up dead many times and beyond repair. I'm sorry I couldn't have saved you.

FruitFighter said:
The following guide is for KiwiNiggers only, and should not be shared outside this site. Also, don't be an ass with this unless you're doing it to tranny servers, in which case I encourage it. This is my original guide, and no, I don't know anything about BYOND, I'm just a retard who got mad at a tranny who banned me a while back, so I took a day or so to figure out how this shit works and get back at them.

SAVE THIS BEFORE THE WORTHLESS JANNIES DELETE IT!
Basically, when you get banned, the server registers and bans 3 things:
1. Your BYOND account ckey
2. Your IP
3. Your CID (computer ID, based upon your computer's hardware)
If you try to log into the sever and any of those three are banned, it bans the other 2 as well.

The first two are easy enough. You can just register a new free BYOND account to get a new ckey, and you can change your IP with a VPN or proxy. The CID is much harder to evade, since it's based upon your computer hardware. I found out through some experimentation that it's based upon your hard drive serial number, which you basically can't change because it's set by the manufacturer. The best way to get around this is to just use a virtual hard drive in a virtual machine. To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Make a new Windows 10 virtual machine on Oracle VirtualBox
2. Install a VPN program or configure Windows 10 to connect to a proxy or whatever. Basically, make sure you have a bunch of external IP's you can present yourself as once they get banned one by one.
3. Install BYOND (duh)

Once you get banned for calling the admins niggertrannies over ICC, do the following steps to get back on and do it again:
1. Delete your BYOND cache folder containing your old ckey (It's a folder titled "BYOND" in your documents folder)
2. Shut off your virtual machine
3. In VirtualBox, make a full clone of your machine. Select to keep the UUID's, drive names, MAC address, and stuff all the same. VirtualBox will change almost nothing but your virtual hard drive's serial number, which in turn changes your CID (This is the secret sauce).
4. Boot back into the virtual machine
5. Connect to a different proxy/VPN server to change your IP
6. Make a new BYOND account in a private tab and log in to the BYOND client on your virutal machine with it. If you need a new email for BYOND account registration, there's plenty of sites that offer disposable 10-minute email addresses.
7. Enter /tg/station again and tell the tranny admins to SEETHE AND DILATE
8. Get banned and repeat

The performance of the VM isn't great, but it's enough to let the admins know who's in charge.


If you want to test your own methods yourself, here's how:

To check your hard drive serial number, open an administrator command prompt window and type:

wmic diskdrive get model,serialNumber,size,mediaType


To view your CID, open Dream Maker (development tool that comes with BYOND) and run this program:

/*
You can drop this snippet into an empty environment in Dream Maker, compile and run it,
then simply click the verb to receive your computer's ID.
*/
mob/verb/GetComputerId()
src << client.computer_id


To check your external IP, just Google "what's my IP"


There's rumors that BYOND might change CID generation methods from time to time, but the above self-developed method worked for getting past a ban on Goonstation a couple months ago.
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This is both winner and autistic at the same time, congrats.
 
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If not for the obvious desire to keep my KF and normal internet personalities separate, and the fact that it would get you banned instantly just for the character names, I’d love to stream Kiwistation on Twitch just because of some of the insanity I’ve already seen in this game.
 
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Regularly, I find my character being pushed in one direction, as if I had a movement key held down. This lasts from seconds to around a minute. At first I thought it was some weird gravity thing, but it seems to not affect other players nearby. Is this a feature of the game I don't know about?
 
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Regularly, I find my character being pushed in one direction, as if I had a movement key held down. This lasts from seconds to around a minute. At first I thought it was some weird gravity thing, but it seems to not affect other players nearby. Is this a feature of the game I don't know about?
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It's ghost inputs from lagging while pressing a button. Spam the button (in this case the direction you're moving) again to make it stop. If it becomes a real problem, tap your keys instead of holding them.
 
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Regularly, I find my character being pushed in one direction, as if I had a movement key held down. This lasts from seconds to around a minute. At first I thought it was some weird gravity thing, but it seems to not affect other players nearby. Is this a feature of the game I don't know about?
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It's probably the greatest feature of all! Lag.
 
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I tried to play a round last night but my ping was reliability in the 300-3000 range. Normally ive been getting more like 90-150, which is pretty playable. Is there some beyond weirdness that causes that, or was my ISP just fucking me?
 
Handling Tickets
In general, do not look for problems, they will find you. If two people have an IC conflict and neither ahelps it can usually be ignored. Preemptive intervention is fine with random killing (particularly from Security, as we get people who join up as HoS/Warden just to get a shotgun and kill people).

If you are the victim of something you are suspicious about you are free to investigate it and resolve it yourself, but don't act with anger because you'll just make the game miserable for everybody.

If someone asks if the person who killed them is allowed to do so, only respond to tell them you're looking into it or if it was valid or not. You will be asked "is X a traitor?". Yes reveals too much information. Valid works fine.


Admin Involvement in Rounds
If something is happening that is actively making the round unfun, some involvement may be enjoyed. In normal circumstances people just want to play the game. The worst admins on the worst servers typically make rounds about themselves. No one is playing Space Station 13 to be in your personal Vault 112.

Examples:
- An antagonist plasmafloods the station and many people are dead. I have spawned human mobs with atmos hardsuits and given them players to help fight the fires. If it's hopeless, I call the shuttle.
- A non-antag plasmafloods the station. If it can be contained with the Right Click -> Turf -> Fix Air, I do that and ban them.
- A non-antag / Cybersun agent kills a ton of people. I will either Mob -> Player Panel -> Heal, or resurrect the CMO/Doctor and spawn a Staff of Healing if it's already late in the game and the shuttle is on its way anyways.
- Many people are dead for various reasons and people are bored. I may spawn a bunch of corgis and give them sentience so people have something to do.


Banning
Bans are a matter of last resort and should always be ID/IP/CKEY. Never ban someone before thoroughly confirming they have actually broken rules. I have almost banned a Traitor with a Chameleon Kit and Mindshield Implant that looks IDENTICAL to the real HoS but thankfully did enough looking into it to determine they were allowed to kill.

Prefer job bans to server bans. For blatantly violating Silicon Law, ban from Silicon. For being shitsec, ban from security. For being a generally incompetent greytider as Command, ban from Command. Start with a day and if they continually abuse these positions go for permanent.

If someone joins for the first time, picks HoS/Warden, gets a gun from the armory and starts killing randomly just permaban from the server.

Someone created a deadly virus to kill the station as a non-antag. I asked him why and he said it was to end the round. I banned him for 2 hours to defeat this purpose. It could have been longer (24 hours) and would have been depending on what he said in Admin PM. Heavy handed bans tend to just create a rift between players and staff that a lot of communities suffer from.


Still writing. Feel free to argue in replies.
 
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