Getting Started

## Welcome and Basics

You have just started your shift aboard a Nanotrasen space station and along with your crewmates should cooperate, perform your job role to the best of your ability and have fun (not at the expense of others hopefully).

Please make sure you understand the server rules (F1) and if you have any questions, consult this guide, your colleagues on shift in person or over radio or via discord. You can also ask admins for help (ahelp) by hitting the escape key > admin help and typing a message to any online admins. Especially do this if you witness someone breaking rules.

To reiterate, you are all a crew of people who work together (even the clown) and you should not be harming each other unless you have an extremely good reason (self defence) and even then, call security over radio, stun and detain, do not commit murder as a non antagonist (see antagonist further down).

## General Guide and Rules Explained

### Roleplay, IC and OOC

If you’re new to roleplaying or are unfamiliar with IC and OOC please read on. If not, skip to the next section.

SS14 is at its core a roleplaying game - You play a role on the station through your character which you can customise from the lobby prior to joining the game. You can select the roles or jobs your character plays via the customisation menu too. Therefore when you’re in a round playing your character, you are **IC** or **In Character**. When you’re in character you forget any knowledge of previous rounds or essentially of the outside world and you play as if you’re a member of the ships crew.

Therefore, **OOC** or **Out of Character** is any conversations you have outside of the game world e.g. in the OOC chat, on discord or with your friends. You shouldn’t discuss the current round or anything that’s **IC** (in character) in out of character **OOC** chats. Likewise anything you see or read in **OOC** cannot be used by your character in game such as if someone on discord names a traitor or tells you they’re dying in a certain location and for you to go help them. This is known as **metagaming** and will get you banned if discovered.

If you suspect a player in game is metagaming (e.g. you’re a traitor and they just walk up to you and kill you without you doing anything to antagonise them) then report them via ahelp or discord.

To summarise, when you’re in game, don’t discuss the round anywhere else until the round is over and don’t share information about the round in OOC such as if you’re dying, where you are or if you find a traitor.

### Traitors, antagonists, RDM and “self antag

If in your character customisation settings you selected the chance to become an **antagonist (antag)** or other traitor role, it is not guaranteed that you will be one. When a traitor gamemode round starts there is a random roll of all the players who selected the chance to become a traitor and only some get selected. They will be notified they are a traitor in chat and will have a set of objectives they can view by pressing **C**.

Being an **antagonist** is not an excuse to go on a murder spree and your job is to complete your objectives which on occasion will include escaping alive or dying a glorious death. How you complete your objectives is up to you so murder is valid but try to have fun (ideally not at everyones expense but that’s up to you).

If you suspect an antagonist such as a traitor or cultist etc report them to security as fast as possible and if necessary do what you can to protect yourself. Remember traitors are people too so ideally they should be arrested and prosecuted under **space law** and not just murdered (but do what you need to do to survive).

**RDM** or random deathmatch is the act of killing someone for no reason or attempting to. If you are being attacked it is likely the other person could be an **antag** but if you’re unsure, ask the admins for help (**ahelp**) to check this when convenient.

**Self antag** or self antagonising is when you are **NOT** an antagonist which is determined at round start on traitor modes, and you go out of your way to break the law, damage the station or commit murder. Breaking the law is not inherently self antagging, but murdering, attacking, attempting to break into high security areas etc are examples of self antagging and will get you banned. Unless you are an official antagonist then you are a normal member of the crew who’s only objective is to complete their shift in their designated role.

#### Antagonist Guides

So you were randomly selected as a traitor. Press C to see your objectives which can range from killing the chef or stealing the captains ID to dying a glorious death or surviving the shift. You may have a code word to identify other traitors but beware, their objective might be to kill YOU!

Open your PDA to purchase traitor only items and weapons to help you fulfil your objective and above all else try to have fun and complete your objective in a memorable way for everyone.

As time goes on, more antagonist roles will be added to the game so you’ll see specific guides on those over time but for now, traitor is the main role which is a member of the crew who is…a traitor. In future you might start to see things like changelings, cults, syndicate agents, wizards or nuclear operatives.

### Job Role / Department Quick Guides

Take a look into the Category jobs to see a list of all available jobs, and Guides that go with that job.
Category:Jobs