Administrative Assistant, a new RP / Support centric "command" role

[noctyrnal]

About the PR

Adds the Administrative Assistant role to all stations, acting as both a secretary for command and as a worker on the bridge, answering faxes , grabbing coffees for command members and so on. Intended to support command members in more menial tasks, and to provide unique RP circumstances.

Why / Balance

Makes command's life a bit easier to have a person dedicated to helping them do the small things

Technical details

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Media

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Breaking changes

Changelog

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• add: Added the Administrative Assistant Role! Assist command in their day-to-day activities, grab the captain a coffee, answer faxes in the bridge!

[deltav-mapserver[bot]]

This PR contains new or changed maps:

• arena.yml
• asterisk.yml
• edge.yml
• hammurabi.yml
• hive.yml
• lighthouse.yml
• pebble.yml
• shoukou.yml
• submarine.yml
• tortuga.yml

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RSI Diff Bot; head commit 2dfd51cc72b8f31864d4d13b28372bfc099425ad merging into 48397c83a22058398d9a1d76f35a32edacdc9ab5 This PR makes changes to 1 or more RSIs. Here is a summary of all changes:

Resources/Textures/DeltaV/Clothing/Uniforms/Jumpskirt/admin_assistant.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
equipped-INNERCLOTHING-monkey			Added
equipped-INNERCLOTHING			Added
icon			Added
inhand-left			Added
inhand-right			Added

Resources/Textures/DeltaV/Clothing/Uniforms/Jumpsuit/admin_assistant.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
equipped-INNERCLOTHING-monkey			Added
equipped-INNERCLOTHING			Added
icon			Added
inhand-left			Added
inhand-right			Added

Resources/Textures/DeltaV/Interface/Misc/job_icons.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
AdminAssistant			Added

Resources/Textures/DeltaV/Objects/Devices/pda.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
pda-admin-assistant			Added

Resources/Textures/DeltaV/Objects/Misc/id_cards.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
idadminassistant			Added

Resources/Textures/DeltaV/Objects/Misc/stamps.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
stamp-admin-assistant			Added

Resources/Textures/Markers/jobs.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
adminassistant			Added

Resources/Textures/Objects/Misc/bureaucracy.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
paper_stamp-admin-assistant			Added

Edit: diff updated after 2dfd51cc72b8f31864d4d13b28372bfc099425ad

[noctyrnal]

Why does this remove courier localisation?

Probably me misreading one of the changes in master and assuming I accidentally deleted something, I'll go undo that now

You shouldn't be editing maps in the same pr that introduces something, mappers should do that on their own, or if they're unavailable, it should be a seperate pr.

Noted

[Axionyxx]

I see more problems, but I'll do a bigger review tomorrow

[Axionyxx]

Localized entities are not a requirement and make editing more difficult. It should only be reserved for non English codebases.

[DangerRevolution]

Localized entities are not a requirement and make editing more difficult. It should only be reserved for non English codebases.

would be nice for some of our downstreams that aren't English :)

[Timemaster99]

By name, this is an assistant role, similar to technical assistant, research assistant, security cadet and medical intern. New players will see this and think of it as a decent role to get them used to the pressures of command before entering a position of responsibility. That's why I motion to remove the command time requirement and whitelist. For the whitelist, I believe the purpose of that system is to keep the most influential roles to a higher standard. By itself, this role has no influence and depends on assignments from command to enact any authority (as you will not see anyone respecting the will of someone with "assistant" in their job name). As for the command time, it's unnecessary to require the role with the lowest authority in command to be in the upper echelon of experience for command roles, especially because of how attractive this role is to newer players looking to learn command. I understand that the requirements are likely a result of the accesses granted to the role. I agree with Danger that these should be limited. Chief Engineer could benefit from AA to repair station-threatening breaches, but they are still not afforded that much power. Command access is all that's required for this role to operate normally, and since that access gives them permission to call the shuttle and make announcements, the 30 hour overall requirement is equitable. Command requirements already average ~30 hours playtime, so this is definitely enough to prevent raiders and uncommitted players. Aside from that, I think a role to help transition players into command is a great addition. It will help new players attach to a command member of choice and learn from them, while also giving some nice interactions and roleplay for command members themselves. Great job on this PR

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[noctyrnal]

Still need to figure out how to get the map file changes undone fully, but review stuff should be done for now atleast.

[Timemaster99]

Still need to figure out how to get the map file changes undone fully, but review stuff should be done for now atleast.

git checkout master FILEPATH to revert the specified FILEPATH to the version in master. Then commit the changes

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[noctyrnal]

I plan on renaming this to Administrative Secretary to further get the point across that this is a support command role and not a command role designed for learning the aspects of command. I'll do this once I have everything all done as per the final review.

[Axionyxx]

and to localise some of the new entities

You have already been informed we don't do this several times. If you continue to give our contributors bad advice like this, you may be banned from the repository.

[DangerRevolution]

If you continue to give our contributors bad advice like this,

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[noctyrnal]

Should be all ready for a review now, merged to master and fixed the conflicts

[noctyrnal]

we're so back secretary bros

[sword-of-stabbing]

This would probably be the command role I would play the most. Head of Paperwork, basically. I love bureaucracy.

[Timemaster99]

This would probably be the command role I would play the most. Head of Paperwork, basically. I love bureaucracy.

HoP in shambles

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[Radezolid]

Hey @noctyrnal do you mind if i yoink this and finish it?

[noctyrnal]

Hey @noctyrnal do you mind if i yoink this and finish it?

Go wild.

[Radezolid]

Thanks!