User:Studenterhue/Ass Jam

Ass Jam:
-no grife pls
-much features do whole section
--more maps
--new features 
--how2contribute???
-rename everything

Ass Jam, aka Ass Day, is a Goonstation-exclusive holiday that occurs on the 13th of every month on the main Goonstation server/Goon #2 (and only there), where all sorts of wacky and zany features are enabled and admins, mentors, and players alike can enjoy 24 hours of chaos, anarchy, and shenanigans. It started in April 2020, as a rebranding of Ass Day that focused less on rampant Grief and more on the beautifully strange and strangely beautiful quirkiness that makes Goonstation, and arguably SS13 in general, so compelling.

Ass Jam Rules

command should probably be updated
okay what about the "don't use modified client" rule
add updated rules

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If you see when you join and can pull it up via the Ass Day Rules command, that means it's Ass Jam!

If you see when you join and can pull it up via the Ass Day Rules command, that means it's Ass Jam!

The rules may be relaxed, but that doesn't mean it's "no rules all crime is legal" like The Purge. There's still some rules in place, the Ass Jam Rules, listed below:

1. DO NOT GRIEF OR OTHERWISE SELF-ANTAG. PLAY AS NORMAL
2. No intentionally crashing the server or causing lag.
3. No bigotry.
4. No sexual stuff.
5. No creepy shit.
6. No impersonating the admins.
7. No walling off or obliterating arrivals.
8. No giving out secret recipes and the like.
9. If an admin tells you to quit doing something, quit it.
10. No you do not get an antag token.

Ass Jam Rules 1-9 are basically condensed versions of Rules 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, & 11, which are better explained on that page. Rules 3 & 6 (the metagaming ones) are still in effect, but relaxed; more on that later.

10 says that if you spawn as an Antagonist, have your round ruined by Admin shenanigans (far more likely than on any other day), and request an antag token, you're not going to get one. The reasoning is that by playing on Ass Jam, you understand and accept that the Admins are allowed to absolutely wreck your round up and forfeit any right to be compensated for said round-up-wreckening. Besides, you don't really need to ask for tokens; getting an Antagonist role Ass Jam doesn't affect your chances of getting Antagonist on other days.

Where and when do they apply?

Ass Jam begins at the 13th of midnight EST (UTC-05) / EDT(UTC-04). It occurs only on the main Goonstation server, so the other servers, Goonstation Roleplay and the backup servers, don't have Ass Jam, so they don't have Ass Jam Rules.

Strictly speaking, the special Ass Jam rules apply only to rounds that begin on Ass Jam. For example, if a round begins on 11:50 PM on the 12th and continues past midnight, it's still a normal round, and Ass Jam Rules don't apply. Similarly, if a round that begins on Ass Jam continues into the 14th, it's still an Ass Jam round, and Ass Jam rules do still apply. Essentially, if you can pull up the Ass Jam Rules via the Ass Day Rules command, it's Ass Jam, and those rules apply.

So what does it all mean?

take closer look into metagaming stuff

Here's by no means comprehensive list of things you can and can't do under these rules:

You can...

• ...metagame with some restraint. Basically, talking with friends on the game server about things in the current round through other platforms like Discord (metacomming), discussing in-game stuff in OOC chat (IC in OOC), other forms of Metagaming, you can do it, but you can't be a jerk with it. For example:
  • Good: "There's a portal to the Hidden Workshop in the Bar."
  • Bad: "rurt kussell is ling"
• ...go absolutely hogwild with all the buttons as Admin and pull no punches with gimmicks. Some old/inactive admins even come out of hiding just for some good ol' Ass Jam Admin Shenanigans.

You can't...

• ...intentionally cause grief when not an antagonist. That means that as non-antag you can't:
  • Blow up places.
  • Fight people for no reason.
  • Test your latest chemmixes on the station.
  • Forcefeed people poisoned food, pills, drinks, etc.
  • However, there is exception if the grief is accidental. If, for example, you try to tase a perp, and it turns out some chucklenut made it shoot lightning like the Thunderbolt from Quake, and suddenly everyone in the room is dead, the admins will likely be lenient, especially if it's clear you had no idea this was going to happen and didn't want it to.
• ...disobey your laws as silicon. The AI, cyborgs, and ghostdrones must still follow their laws.
• ...act as shitcurity. The Head of Security, Security Officer, Detective, and other people considered part of or acting as Security are still expected to prosecute crime justly and protect the crew with appropriate amount of force, to the best of their ability.

Ass Jam Exclusive Content

Ass Jam Features

This is where the magic happens. The real meat of Ass Jam is all the experimental maps, game modes, weapons, and other features that may be too powerful, buggy, laggy, unbalanced, or otherwise too crazy for normal days are enabled. There's content from the coder team and regular community members alike, and it includes things like:

• Maps
  • Donut Station 2, Mushroom Station, Linemap and Samedi return as Map Vote options!
  • Trunkmap/Devstation/Ovary Station makes a triumphant return, renovated for the modern farty spaceperson!
  • Some community-made maps enter rotation. This time around:
    • Density: A ridiculously tiny map that's shaped like a bad idea.
    • Fleet/Bellerophon: A series of tiny ships each with their own department, loosely linked by pipes.
• Antags
  • Ass Day Classic is possible game mode in secret. Essentially, everyone is an antagonist!
  • The sleeper agents event makes everyone a sleeper...sort of.
  • Wizards get a Timestop spell that causes everyone and everything around them, including projectiles, to stop for a while. It has a cooldown of 45 seconds, requires a short delay for casting, and if it's cast without a staff, the wizard might get frozen too!
  • Nuclear Operatives sometimes have deploy the bomb at a randomly-picked station location, rather than just a set list of mildly important rooms. Sometimes, it might be off-station, including places in the Adventure Zone. Pool bomb site makes a return!
  • Roundstart antag selection is completely random on Ass Jam. Weighting doesn't matter at all! Luckily, again, getting antag on Ass Jam does not affect how often you get antag on other days.
• Weapons
  • Zipguns are no more. Instead, there are slamguns, made by combining a pipe frame (made by clicking on metal sheets while they're in your hand and choosing Pipe Frame) with another pipe frame that's been smoothed out by a welder. They accept only shotgun munitions, and after each shot, you must click on it while it's in your hand to manually eject the casing.
  • To go along with slam guns is nailshot, which can be made at a general fab that's been hacked. Nails fire as a spray of projectiles that devastate organs and cause lots of bleeding but have trouble with armored targets.
  • The Head of Security gets a cannon that fires secbots that pursue the victims they hit and a unique version of the nukie combat engineer turret that fires rubber bullets at people who don't have golden IDs or ID cards with red or green bands.
• Miscellaneous
  • Some NPC humans may explode.
  • Toilets can also affect time.
  • You can spawn with any item for your heirloom. Any item. Guns, bombs, you name it, it could be your trinket, aside from a special few.
  • Designer drug pills (those pills you find in pill bottles labeled "pill bottle (???)") can contain any chemicals, not just a hand-picked selected of drugs and other weird chems. There literally could be anything in them.
  • There's a Locker Entanglement event that can cause lockers to basically act like two-way people transporters.
  • There's another that causes part of the station to suddenly flood with a random reagent.
  • Rarely, crates ordered by cargo may enter accompanied by a heavenly light and a choir of angels.
  • There's a 25% chance for everyone to spawn with randomly-chosen mutation.
  • The AI gets a hat. Nifty. Sometimes, it also gets legs. Don't ask.
  • Everyone can *dab! It's not bound to any particular hotkey, so you'll have to enter say "*dab into the text parser near the bottom of the screen or press T and put in *dab if you have WASD mode on. You are still not protected from the more harmful effects of dabbing though.
  • Your space bees can sometimes look a little...different.
  • OOC is always on. As a reminder, the hotkey for it is Alt + C or just O in WASD mode. If all those fail, you should still be able to use the ooc command, either through the Commands tab or the text parser at the bottom of the screen.
  • There's a special Spacebux bonus for playing on Ass Jam.
  • Cheese does something extra when heated.

Useless historical trivia: Ass Jam takes its name from a past community game jam of sorts, where players got to contribute any sprites and/or code they wished into the game, so long as they were properly formatted, relatively self-contained, and within the normal server rules. From this event came new foods, potato batteries (which were later incorporated in the game full time), a Metal Gear-inspired antag, and...interesting bees.

Urs Dungeon

Puzzles! A whole level full of fun puzzles and mysteries to solve, made by prominent admin UrsulaMejor/UrsulaMajor/Emily. It's almost like a Adventure Zone area, complete with unique rewards at the end you won't find anywhere else and a hall of fame commemorating past divers who successfully conquered the dungeon. (Signups to be commemorated are unfortunately closed now.)

To enter the Urs Dungeon, swing by the Space/Sea Diner; there's usually a beacon for Space Pods to warp to there, and on maps set in outer space, the Mining Shuttle near/in the Mining Department takes you to the Diner. Call up John's Bus at the bus console somewhere in the diner. On the bus, you'll find a slick pair of black VR goggles; sometimes there'll also be a similar pair in the Diner somewhere. Put them in your eyes slot, and you'll be transported to Urs Dungeon! Note that putting on the goggles deletes all your equipment, so you can't bring in any external aid, and your body in the normal, non-Urs-Dungeon world poofs away completely.

There's a new version of Urs Dungeon every couple months or so. Currently, it is on iteration 5, with the theme of "Shitty Bill Is Missing!", As you might have gathered, Shitty Bill is trapped in the dungeon, and dungeon crawlers must use the power of friendship (no, seriously, you'll need multiple people for this one) to save him! (Please ignore the fact that Shitty Bill is also still at the Diner. Don't think about it too hard how this is possible.)

Respawn Arena

If you die and use the Fight for a new life ability as a Ghost, you'll spawn in a hellish arena that contains a few weapons, lots of lava, and a special butt named "The Divine Relic of Ass Day" (exact spelling of "Ass Day" can vary). If the butt remains in your possession for 30 seconds (you can still move, fight, etc. during this time), you'll be sent back to the main lobby, ready to rejoin the round.

Contributing to Ass Jam Features

Want to add a feature for Ass Jam? It's easy. Just take a look at this Google Doc for details on formatting your code for Ass Jam shenanigans or read this this comment snippet for a shorter guide. If you don't know how to code or use Github, but still want to contribute, check out the Goonstation Development Guidelines and this wiki's Coding guide.

We ask that you 1) try to add code, rather than change existing code, 2) leave a comment explaining the Ass Jam code 3) follow the server rules, and mostly importantly 4) make sure your code compiles, both with Ass Jam define off and with it on. Depending on how good your features are, it might even be incorporated into the full game, to be enjoyed all 28/29/30/31 days of the month, not just one.

History

Ass Day is a Goonstation-exclusive holiday that occurs on the 13th of every month on the main Goonstation server/Goon #2 (and only there), where the rules surrounding Grief and Metagaming are relaxed, and admins, mentors, and players alike can enjoy 24 hours of rampant chaos, anarchy, and shenanigans. It started back in August 2016 and continues to be one of many long-standing Goonstation traditions.

Ass Day Rules

If you see when you join and can pull it up via the Ass Day Rules command, that means it's Ass Day!

Despite what people say, not all of the server's rules are suspended, like in The Purge. Rather, the normal Rules are swapped out for a special set of Ass Day Rules, listed below:

1. No intentionally crashing the server or causing lag.
2. No bigotry.
3. No sexual stuff.
4. No creepy shit.
5. No impersonating the admins.
6. No walling off or obliterating arrivals.
7. No giving out secret recipes and the like.
8. If an admin tells you to quit doing something, quit it.
9. No you do not get an antag token.

Ass Day Rules 1-8 are basically condensed versions of Rules 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, & 10, which are better explained on that page.

9 says that if you spawn as an Antagonist, have your round ruined by Admin shenanigans (far more likely than on any other day), and request an antag token, you're not going to get one. The reasoning is that by playing on Ass Day, you understand and accept that the Admins are allowed to absolutely wreck your round up and forfeit any right to be compensated for said round-up-wreckening. Besides, you don't really need to ask for tokens; getting an Antagonist role Ass Day doesn't affect your chances of getting Antagonist on other days.

So what does it all mean?

These rules might not look all that different from the regular Rules at first glance, but they let you get away with a lot of things you normally aren't allowed to do:

• You can Grief and do stuff you normally can only do as an Antagonist. You can test bombs on the station, forcefeed people poison pills/food/whatever, fight random people for no reason...or just do normal job duties.
• As an AI or Cyborg, you're free to ignore your laws and harm humans, refuse orders, etc. If someone orders you to open a door, you can tell them to shove it, and maybe bolt and electrify the door just because.
• As a Ghostdrone, you're not bound to any of your laws and can intervene in people's affairs and mess up the station as much as you want. In fact, asshole ghostdrones are sort of a tradition on Ass Day.
• You can be as brutal or lenient as you want with Head of Security, Security Officers, and Detective. Executing people just because you thought you saw them stealing some cookies? Allowed. Sitting back and munching on donuts while the world burns? Allowed. Literally practicing eye for eye by removing people's eyes as punishment? Allowed. Rounding up random crew members, forcing them to fight to the death for their freedom, and then shooting the winner anyways just for kicks? Allowed.
• You can talk about the current round on Discord and other platforms. Play with your metafriends!
• You can get your revenge on people for things they've done in previous rounds, including ones that didn't occur on Ass Day.
• You're allowed to talk about in-game stuff in the current round in OOC. For example, if a Changeling stings you in maintenance, you can screech on OOC for someone to help you.
• All these rules apply to Admins too. In fact, they are often encouraged to go absolutely hogwild with all the admin buttons and pull no punches with their gimmicks. Some old/inactive admins even come out of hiding just for some good ol' Ass Day Admin Shenanigans.