This policy refers to Administrators and Curators, Unless otherwise specified.
1. Actions of Staff during round must be reported to the #Event-log in discord. This includes all “One-off” spawns. Spawns and actions pertaining to an approved event can be skipped as long as the event itself has been reported. Major changes to an event in-round must be logged. This excludes small actions that are taken to preserve the integrity of the game, such as moving players & addressing small bugs.
2. Never use a “smite” against a player character that is in round. This includes possible raiders. Smites have the capacity to be irreversible and game breaking. They should not be used outside of the admin arena.
3. Events should be allowed to play out at their own pace. Events will almost invariably be affected by the crew, antagonists, or natural occurrences within the round; let the round flow organically and allow players to interact with the event rather than forcing them to follow a script. Let them fail if needed. 4. Events must meet or exceed our MRP Standard. Both the rationale and implementation of an event must demonstrate evidence of a story, or be beneficial to the story unfolding on the station currently.
5. Events must not feature staff-level ghost roles such as deathsquad unless directly authorized by a Head of Staff. These roles should be filled by staff and represent both Administration and Curation in an in-character fashion.
6. Events should never portray NanoTrasen or Central Command as directly antagonistic to the crew. While Central Command is expected to be strict - especially on matters of policy and procedure - they should be supportive where possible, politely evasive when pressed, and only authoritative in extreme circumstances.
7. Events should not disrupt the balance of the round. Don't introduce overpowered, unique, or usually unobtainable ghost roles, entities, or items, and should not overwhelm the round, the station, or its resources. This includes objective items, spawn-only items, leviathings, etc.
8. Event roles should be reserved for players. Staff are expected to organize and oversee the event, not partake in it. If a ghost role is not taken for more than 5 minutes, the eventing staff member may join the queue .
9. aGhosts are welcome to take any ghost roles. Refer to the previous rule regarding roles you have spawned.
10. Do not test unknown commands on the game servers. All testing of Console commands, VVwrites, and other “Unused” aGhost powers should take place on a personal dev environment, not on the game servers.
11. You may not take ERT Leadership roles unless 5 minutes has passed without anyone taking the role. Any spawned CC character going to the station, must be armed by security on station. If your character is visiting the station, You are Not Allowed to spawn weapons for them.