r/SS13 Host of Helmsguard 2d ago

General The state of SS13 now

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Top server on the hub is the capital of furry ERP server, and just behind it is furry ERP server medieval edition.

This is the absolute state of Space Station 13 now. What space sim? You play this game to pixelbump your sparkledog with another sparkledog.

It's hillarious that the game's description is still "Stay alive inside Space Station 13", it should have been changed to "Stay dry inside of coomer sim 13".

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u/Kevin_McScrooge 2d ago

Fear it- dread it- but the gooners arrive all the same.

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u/TheA1ternative I make those YouTube SS13 shorts 2d ago

It’s not so much that they’ve arrived moreso that they’ve always been here and are all that’s left now.

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 2d ago

We had gooners all the way back in the 2010s, but never to this proportion. Back then, ERP is usually treated as an extension of romance RP, or at the very least, not the focus point of the server and hence not protected or expanded upon.

Most servers focused on events, intrigues and gimmicks.

These days, almost all of the top servers save for CM and Paradise now have options for you to customize your genitals, they have dildo vendors at every corner, along with ERP panels and explicit rules about disrupting ERP.

Alien races were interesting and immersive, you need to read their lore and apply for whitelist to play them to control quality. They had cool cultures, languages and they're always treated as a race separate from humanity, hence sometimes subjected to xenophobia, this would lead to interesting roleplay of discrimination, oppression, civil rights movement, etc.

Nowadays, they're all just fetish races or fursonas, there's nothing special about them, they're just treated as human with animal parts, something you play to fill a certain sexual appetite. It's shameful.

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u/BadAtThisReddit 2d ago

The server you host is a literally the same as Scarlet Reach in the ERP medieval server regard, lol.

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u/ScionsAndSinnersz You already know me. 1d ago

BATG?! HERE?

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u/satisfactsean 2d ago

there were gooners in 2007 too.

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u/JessHorserage -314/100 2d ago

Sure, but of a different stock, they presumably didn't have a secret society back then.

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u/satisfactsean 2d ago

secret society? thats all they had. it was kinda funny to catch them in goonstation back then and do the poop fire extinguisher at them.

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u/Tigroon > Looks like free greentext 1d ago

The gooning servers used to be off hub, for fucks sake. Invites were passed by word as mouth.

Now they're just rudely out in the open.

Take this as ' Old man shouts as cloud ' if you must.

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u/Diltyrr 2d ago

Nickname : Stoned Elf

Misses when the game had racism.

Probably plays a human male with a sword too.

It writes itself really.

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 2d ago

Nickname: Stoned Elf

That's my discord name, I used to play as an elven hydroponist who grows weed and psylobin shrooms and serving them as "elven tea" on Sojourn hence the name. What did you think it meant...

Misses when the game had racism.

My guy, I'm not sure what are you trying to get at, but this is a roleplaying game, a collaborative storytelling experience. The "racism" then, was Mass Effect level of worldbuilding, each race having a representative and embassy, with Solgov trying to protect human interest in the galaxy, and every other race factions pursuing their own agenda too.

It's not about being a dick but more so about making a believable world with social injustice that could create tension, dramas and stories.

If your take from this is "hur dur Op love racism", then I really hope you avoid reading any form of fictions, champ, they frequently have oppression and social injustice in them.

Probably plays a human male with a sword too.

No, I usually play as an elf in every game, maybe the name isn't big enough of a hint.

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u/koimeiji 2d ago

The "racism" then...

...was people using the xeno races as black-stand ins.

Like, I'm not gonna argue against the rest of what you've said, but for a very long time the "ingame" racism was just IRL racism except you're using "L" instead of "N" (as an example). Let's not romanticize that part of that period of the game, even if the rest of it was peak ss13.

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u/cassyjenelle 2d ago

Background wise. I remember when the xeno races were first introduced.

Tajaran and Unathi were the first ones, and basically their lore was imported from elder scrolls (Khajit and Argonians) which had their own lore. Canonically in the lore there was prejudice towards them, and you had a mix of people who would actually RP against them normally and a mix of people who were sus about it.

Because they were associated with furries and you had edgelords, some people inserted their racism into it, hence the "l*gg*r" slur - I personally felt uncomfortable with it because I am black myself. Now, the background of SS13 back then was extremely racist compared to now, you had chanboard teens being the main demographic.

In reality majority the people using that slur were the minority, few were the ones who were actually racist. Most people would stick to something tame like calling them "lizards" or "catbeasts", but usually would stick to trying to keep them out of command roles or something.

But you also had some weird furries actually acting they were being discriminated for "being furry" (which is not a real oppression) and even act as if it's a 1:1 analogue as if it was a civil rights struggle. They wanted to RP them as humans which then made them kind of pointless.

Nonetheless, if we pull some positives from that era, the xeno species would actually act and roleplay if they were in some station/world where they faced some barriers, and there were some non-furries who acted normal about it. I know a couple of older servers to mind that had this, which is what stonedelf is on about.

Would I give specieism a try? Personally not, because the only people who want to play species now are furries, and people are reasonably annoyed with furries now so the IC/OOC barrier will never be good. I'd just avoid the races altogether. If they were played by non-furries it probably would turn out better.

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u/GriffinMan33 I map sometimes, I guess 2d ago

Yeah I mean this is just blatantly clear, the other parts are fair criticism from op
but this at least was definitely 100% what 99% of ingame racism was for a very long time (I have no doubt it still is in place, really)

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u/ComedicMedicineman 2d ago

This is probably due to SS14 becoming somewhat well known, and a lot of the issues that happened earlier with the attack on Byond that messed stuff up. SS13 is still going strong, but those two things definitely affected its population

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u/Fuzlet 1d ago

another major contributor is there hasn’t been a major influx recently. ss13 is not a game with advertising. it runs a negative playerbase growth always. it’s stuff like sseth tide that gives the game new blood and revitalizes it. the chances or that happening again now are somewhat slimmer though

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u/ResolverOshawott 1d ago

Which is why people gatekeeping this game aren't doing it any favors.

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u/solicthesolletar 1d ago

this, and the tiders of old now come to ss14, because thats the one with A) the better looking grapthics and B) the fact they are more accessible than whatever the fuck BYOND is. SS14 being on steam is a huge boon for its player count.

So what do you get when your hardcore players leave for the newer version, and the young bloods go for the new version right away? only the people who want somthing SS14 cant deliver stay

and those things are either admins so laxed they might as well be offline 24/7, ERP, or the radically different gamemodes (which either way SS14 is slowly creeping up on, With Colonial Marines and Fallout servers out there.)

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u/bagpepos 2d ago

Gooning, gooning (medieval), the most ass (best) shooter-milsim in the market

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u/Trububbl3 2d ago

CM 13 would be so peak if the staff and maintainers didn't hate the game and the community

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u/AlexCrimson 2d ago

i swear every time i check the CM github its like the maintainers want to suck everything fun out of the game in favour of more dull frontline grinding.

Last i checked, they tried to kill Xenos ability to backline at all.

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u/fatalityfun 1d ago

all cause the occasional idiot gets caught lacking in the dark and doesn’t want his 10 page backstory to end as another body in the nest

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u/AxitotlWithAttitude 1d ago

I don't play cm but don't you become an alien once you die? It's not like your stuck with your dick in your hand for the rest of the round.

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u/Akabinxstar- 9h ago

Some people are incredibly elitist about which team they play and would rather be dunked in acid than be on the other side.

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u/fatalityfun 1d ago

that’s an option, you can also wait for the call ins or event factions (UPP, PMC’s, etc)

I always found it dumb to get upset that characters die without fanfare sometimes

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u/Amaskingrey 1d ago

Tgmc is the best

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u/Metzger4 1d ago

Absolutely agree.

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u/aloksky 2d ago

My honest to God dogshit opinion is that CM actually kinda sucks and is just a team death match with 0 roleplay happening outside of (maybe) the 5 goobers that sit in medbay

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u/Kitsunemitsu We do a little coding; We drink no longer. 1d ago

My honest to god opinion on CM is that half the roles don't matter outside of boots on the ground and doctors because Joefuck Mcgees who memorize every single xeno choke on the map and blatantly ignore everything outside of fragging

And the doctors that pull the larvae out.

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u/GriffinMan33 I map sometimes, I guess 2d ago

Honestly the ERP servers should start paying people on the sub with how often people post about them here lmfao

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u/MadDucksofDoom 2d ago

Living rent free in some peoples heads. I just go play space game.

Incompetent engineering and being an idiot in mining? That's my business.

What other people do in other servers is entirely their business.

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u/ProfessorPopoff That shit gangster, yo 1d ago

They should probably pay you for coming to their aid on every single post made on r/ss13 about ERP servers lol.

SOMEONE is passionate.

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u/GriffinMan33 I map sometimes, I guess 1d ago

what is blud yapping about

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u/Eggo1561 2d ago

Goonstation fell so goonerstations could thrive

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u/Spoonitate Artist without Borders 2d ago

When you consider how readily furries are to fund their hobbies is it any wonder these servers stay up? They’re probably making their operation costs back multiple times over. Your space sim could have the best sim you could ever space and it wouldn’t matter if the sole dev is impoverishing himself to maintain it.

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u/Trububbl3 2d ago

the kid who played SS13 10 years ago has grown and now still on SS13 but gooning on it

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u/Wora_returns Dr. Turboshitter 2d ago

reminds me of one of the best quotes I have ever heard about a videogame: "that kid that called you gay on GTA online in 2013 has a kid of his own now. And now HE'S calling you gay."

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u/KampferAndy 1d ago

I played in 2004/2005, and I'm still here doing medway rp

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u/Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws Grey Tide Station-Wide 2d ago

Isolation server as far as I'm concerned, that's like saying I can't enjoy Team Fortress 2 because there's gooner GMod servers

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u/cassyjenelle 2d ago

Be honest, the proportion isn't that high.

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u/fatalityfun 2d ago

when you launch TF2 though, the first thing people see isn’t two furry gooner gmod servers BEFORE an actual TF2 gamemode

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 2d ago

No this is just me lamenting as a space station 13 player of over a decade witnessing how much the landscape of this game has transformed. We had a gooner server or two back then, but they're usually confined to the bottom of the hub. Most playerbase were focused around classic SS13 servers and gimmicks servers.

Nowadays, it felt like ERP and furry races are becoming the integral parts of the game.

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u/No_Pie2137 2d ago

As much of the beestation devolved into do your job for hour and a half restart

I spent thousands of hours on it right now only monke has stable pop

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u/JessHorserage -314/100 2d ago

Devolve?

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u/MadDucksofDoom 2d ago

I don't know about No_Pie, but I used to play on Beestation ... probably a decade and a half ago? And it was usually a WILD ride. Super chaotic and fun.

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u/JessHorserage -314/100 2d ago

I know, I was just ribbing him.

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u/MadDucksofDoom 2d ago

... now I miss Beestation Gold

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u/Miserable_Sort_5472 14h ago

Who gives a fuck

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u/laser50 Apollo Gaming/(station) 2d ago

Suppose you weren't around for D2k5? Or similar name, it allowed rape among things, cum was added as a decal and all that, that was vile. And back then I thought that was already way overboard.

Hasn't gotten any better I see..

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 2d ago

Were those the days when farting until your ass falls off was the ultimate power move? Then I have. Those servers tend to be NRP and were a den for the chanboarders, I stick mainly on Baystation, Hypatia (Athena/Minerva), and sometimes Liberty Station.

It has definitely gotten worse yeah.

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u/cassyjenelle 1d ago

Hypatia man... those were some wild times.

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u/Green-Dancer 2d ago

Isn't Helmsguard, your server, a furry ERP medieval server?

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 2d ago

You got me there, friend.

It began as a medieval PVP server, but didn't work out because there weren't enough players.

What little player that was left demanded ERP and furry races to be added back in or they'll leave, and I made concessions. They left anyway. My server now is more of a PVE sandbox where I test some of my codes these days.

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u/cassyjenelle 2d ago

That's pretty fucked, the medieval server scene was doomed from the beginning. That's why Randy kept his code locked up lmfao.

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u/AdmirableTrash9967 1d ago

Tbh sounds like a server I would love because of the medieval style

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 1d ago

Aye, but for such concept to work, you'll need numbers, and without numbers, it doesn't work. God knows I tried to get numbers.

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u/Tough-Score-7246 Furry SS13 Server Enthusiast 1d ago

Basically what happened with Vanderlin according to their host in another post. Making an ERP off-shoot because players would either leave and let the server die, or stay if allowed to pixel sex.

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 1d ago

Yeah, I mentioned in the post regarding it that I can really empathize being placed into such a shit position, you either give in to their demands or risk letting the server die. On hindsight, I shouldn't have conceded, they'll leave regardless, so that's a lesson for any host out there, don't ever compromise with them, it's not worth it.

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u/mistermh07 2d ago

hasnt it been like this from at least 2021? first time i ever booted up byond and there were like 3 nsfw servers at the top. cant you just ignore the coomer servers and play on the not gooner ones?

if this bothers you that much then dont look at the hub and join from urls

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u/Armolitskiy 1d ago

I joined in 2019 and NSFW servers were on the bottom there. Things changed fast huh

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u/EvaArktur 5h ago

It was six years ago, things has chained at appropriate pace

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 2d ago

Can't a player lament the state of the game? If it bothers you that much then don't look at this post.

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u/MaxIsJoe UnityStation 2d ago

You guys "lament" about ERP/18+ servers every couple of weeks.

At this point, these type of posts should be seen as Karma farming and as spam.

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u/mistermh07 2d ago

Right? "i really dont like this thing but ill continue to look at it and give it free advertisement because i dont like it". its starting to get old

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u/evan243 2d ago

“The state of ss13!” Yeah you took the picture in the early morning, brother, of course the erp servers are going to higher on the list during when most of America is asleep

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 2d ago

Even on prime time, you couldn't beat 113 players.

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u/MathorSionur 2d ago

Goon does, no?

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u/Wora_returns Dr. Turboshitter 2d ago

goons player count has fallen off recently, the LRP server is all but dead, you only see players on one of their RP severs anymore

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u/MadDucksofDoom 2d ago

Man that still puts me for a flip. I used to go on the one RP server and there was either zero people or one person.

That was where I met a Goongineer thst showed me some tricks to up my hellburn game.

That's how I learned to make a hellburn get up to 28,000 YW and the hallway was still a perfect 20C.

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u/Wora_returns Dr. Turboshitter 1d ago

I thought it was weird too. It's a shame, because this means gamemodes like blob and more importantly nukies are not in the regular rotation. Only happens if an admin starts them now

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u/MathorSionur 1d ago

I'm admittedly more of a HRP player there, but still, server fluctuations happen, the codebase is pretty alive and well

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u/Wora_returns Dr. Turboshitter 1d ago

goon 1 is very very far from alive and well

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u/Irish-roach-in-house 1d ago

I hate how Goon RP has ‘dirty’ bar and a thirst bar. Like you don’t need to add those to make bartender important just have the hunger.

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u/Wora_returns Dr. Turboshitter 1d ago

they removed dirty quite a while ago, you only have hunger and thirst now

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u/Prestigious_Bid_8545 2d ago

Coming from a former admin of a sparkle sparkledog erp server btw 

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 2d ago

Best decision ever to leave.

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u/Prestigious_Bid_8545 2d ago

You're part of the problem 

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 2d ago

dog shit take, I don't admin there to endorse ERP or furry, I admined there back when it first started because I had friends playing there and they often get griefed when the host goes to sleep. You play on SS13, this game has ERP servers, is it fair to say that you're part of the problem too?

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u/Prestigious_Bid_8545 2d ago

You HOST AN ERP SERVER 

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 2d ago

It wasn't an ERP server to begin with, I just stated above. It changed because I made concessions just to retain the playerbase I had, but now it doesn't matter anymore, they left regardless and my server is dead because I refuse to concede any further and drawn my line. So shit on it however much you want, it doesn't matter anymore.

My entire development focus there were on NPC, mobs, mechanics and bugfixes, check the repo yourself, never once on ERP shit. I worked my ass off trying to turn it into a war server, then a PVE server, but people don't want that, they want their furry ERP, I relent, otherwise that'd just be half a year of work wasted.

And I fucking hate that it had to come to this. Either give furry ERP or no players would play on my server. So now I fucking lament, why the heck does it have to come to that?

I didn't start my server with any intention of making it a goonden.

If your conclusion from this is that I am the pot calling the kettle black, then I'm not sure what else to say.

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u/Quo97 2d ago

Enlist Or GOON

Truly a distopia

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u/FoxFishSpaghetti 2d ago

Enlist, goon, or goon

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u/redfoxdance 1d ago

“The state of SS13 now”

It’s been this way for decades

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 1d ago

There are many of us who can still recall the time when it was not this way.

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u/AntEconomy1469 1d ago

TOP 5 BYOND SERVERS:

Goon Goon Shoot a bug Goon Goon

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 1d ago

Welcome to Coom Station 69 crew, enjoy your sex.

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u/Emmett1Brown 2d ago

why care

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u/Narocky 1d ago

because normal servers are dying and this is an AWFUL first impression for new players?

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u/Sigvuld 1d ago

It's not that furry ERP server's fault that normal servers are dying lol those two things aren't really related

They just kinda exist and have stuck around longer than the folks who left. That's about it, really

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u/Narocky 1d ago

the game cant grow with stuff like SPLURT at the top of the browser. No well adjusted person wants to be anywhere near that mess - no one wants to try get their friends into this game either because then they have to be shown as being near that space (which is horrifically unsafe for both minors and the adults using it.)

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u/GreenBuggo 1d ago

this opinion is kinda just stupid tbh. gooner servers being a the top of the server browser, because theyre the ones with the most players as of current, is not unsafe for adults, nor is it the main reason the playerbase is stagnant (i think that byond being 23 years old might be more impactful, especially with SS14 existing now)

also minors shouldn't be playing the game in the first place lmao. the barriers to entry are a huge blockade, and the playerbase of this game are absolutely not the kind you want children being around in the first place

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u/Jamesdakilla 6h ago

I played this game non-stop when I discovered it at 10 years old, of course first two rounds I ever played I did the funny killing randoms with toolbox trick but then I slowly learned english and also the game

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u/Narocky 1d ago

being on servers like splurt, where minors are easily exposed to sexual content is legally unsafe for adults wdym its not unsafe for adults?

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u/Party_Presentation24 1d ago

New players aren't playing SS13, they're getting SS14 on steam instead of having to download anything.

New players aren't seeing any of this.

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u/Plannercat 2d ago

Furry ERP servers and Colonial marines have been the top of the hub for years, it's not new by a mile.

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u/dragonace11 Mutagen + Mercury pill Labeled Meth 2d ago

The only thing thats really changed is Paradise being up on top less often and Monkeystation and Vanderlin tend to be up on top when there's a stream.

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u/Tagalyaga 2d ago

18+ servers are popular, because during the BYOND DDOS attack, some adult players have temporarily migrated to those, and realized that they can actually play on a server with mature players, and proper rules,and not deal with dumb children players. And they don't even have to ERP, as those only happen behind closed doors at dorms. Most players still play normal, and unlike most popular stations out there, people actually try to save the station even if most people are dead and half the station is destroyed instead of calling the shuttle at the slightest danger.

For example, when I was playing TGStation, mostly as roboticist, robptics would constantly get raided by random violent greytiders and I would get killed by randoms without me or them even being antags. And nothing was being done about that. But after I started playing on one of the 18+ servers, I felt like I was in heaven. People actually follow the rules, and admins actually enforce it. 3 random greytiders won't randomly come to you and kill you and gib you. Hell, even antags and antag hunters have to show their intentions before starting a fight.

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u/Riptor5417 1d ago

I played a lot of those servers and like I mostly used them to learn how to do roles I never played before. I learned how to do Xenobio by just getting to play uninterrupted on an ERP server. Not a master but I know how to actually upgrade slimes and stuff pretty neat! I liked to spam gold slimes and just let loose a ton of random stuff into the vents to scare people. (using blood instead of plasma) one time managed to stop a xenomorph infection by doing that lmao. neutral mobs hate xenomorphs and getting several deathclaws and other beasts into the vents killed em.

I did also try bartending and trying to cook. Which was fun to an extent I got to learn how to do some cool drink combos and learned a little bit on how to make food besides frying random stuff.

Like truly +18 arent that bad, you can easily ignore the ERP most of the time, and can just deny any advances/ Flat out put NO as a preference for anything ERP related. and sometimes there are chaos rounds to spice things up. But I like it for the chill vibe of actually getting to learn what the heck I'm doing in a role

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u/GarbageWebsie123 1d ago

All roleplay, when it goes on for long enough, becomes erotic roleplay, mark my words of wisdom.

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u/DontknowwhatImdoingt 1d ago

i like how whoever miserable russian did the DDOS, claimed they were doing it for the ''good'' of ss13, and instead, all they REALLY managed to acheive was taking down the non-ERP servers for so long while not doing anything to the ERP ones (because he needed his goon sesh), which has only sped up ss13's coomer heat death

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u/cassyjenelle 2d ago edited 2d ago

As much as I agree with the sentiment, man we didn't need another ERP thread. I think we just need an injection of populace from non-coomer sources to balance things out, that way the demographics of the game can be normal again.

Any suggestions of places ss13 can advertise?

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 2d ago

First thing that came to mind is probably Barotrauma, but then again, Barotrauma was inspired by SS13 in itself.

Maybe Project Zomboid? They do have a decent roleplaying scene, one server I'm in, we roleplay like TV seasons, each season is canon along with character's death.

I was first told about SS13 back in 2010 on my Terraria server. A random guy joined and asked if he could build a space station and play as a "borg", we helped him build his space station in the space biome, and whenever we break a block, he would start gasping for air. So everything he did at the time sparked intrigue and then he told us about this hidden gem called Space Station 13, thus I find myself here today, having been trapped in the game from highschool all the way to my 30s... Maybe that could give us a clue on how we could expose the game further.

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u/overusedamongusjoke Unknown hits Urist McSpaceman with the user flair! 1d ago

Cataclysm:DDA players strike me as the kind of people who would enjoy SS13's overcomplication/depth, but a lot of them are probably already aware of SS13 and the community can be kind of salty about code changes

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u/Kitsunemitsu We do a little coding; We drink no longer. 1d ago

I've been advertising in Project Moon spaces (I am the headcoder on the project moon ss13 server) and then recommending goon or monke to my playerbase

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u/Narocky 1d ago

you cant fix this, the first impression when you open the server browser is dog cock normal people arent gonna stick around

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u/cassyjenelle 1d ago

Surely we can promote it using the alternative hub?

[User is currently in the "bargaining" phase of the five stages of grief.]

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u/ProfessorPopoff That shit gangster, yo 1d ago

A new player isn't going to want to go through an alternative hub. They're going to want to go through the proper hub OR they'll drift there simply on merit that you download the BYOND launcher and then... learn that you can just launch games from the actual BYOND hub- not some random site. The first impression of a minimum of 85% of new players will be the mile long list of vastly more populated ERP servers, including many which are very, very open about excessive promiscuity.

I feel bad for goonstation. I imagine they have had a loss in new player potential from people that don't want to join jerksesh stations. Seeing as they're nearby.... let's see.....

"S.P.L.U.R.T 2.0: Gooning Boogaloo"

Yep. We're cooked, sorry champ.

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u/Sigvuld 1d ago

Normal people never stick around with SS13 in general wtf do you mean

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u/fuckthisshitimout-- 2d ago

ok cool nobody cares

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u/DawsonKeyes Evil Ass Scarlet Reach Maintainer 2d ago

i salute the flag

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u/Leporesta 2d ago

Scarlet duchy? Is this the new ratwood?

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u/Kve44 1d ago

oh noo people are enjoying a thing in a different way then you do? How terrible! anyways...

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 1d ago

Space Station 13 is dead, and we gooned it.

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u/Twee_Licker I like Lizards 2d ago

You control the server you join dude.

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u/Tangyhyperspace 2d ago

There's porn in the space game, the west has fallen, redditor 9/11

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u/orionpax- 2d ago

atleast tgmc is alive

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u/BitBomb1 2d ago

i'm almost certain way more than half of the posts made on this subreddit within the past year has been people ranting about ERP servers with the exact same argument every time. I play a non-station based server where ERP isn't allowed and it regularly gets ~40-50 during high hours, and it's designed so that lowpop is just as fun. I also play a medieval server with ERP, where I haven't engaged in ERP for 4 months. the other shit still exists

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 2d ago

Oooh, I'm intrigued, tell me more about this non-station based server.

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u/BitBomb1 1d ago

shiptest takes place on like 4-10 different ships, so when it's lowpop chances are you still have a relatively full ship. all you'd be missing on in lowpop would be different crew interactions, but the game's perfectly playable without it. it already has pretty good RP and a stable community, so I doubt the playerbase would even move to an ERP server if one popped up

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u/Slim_Donkus 2d ago

It's either a lowrp shitfest with decision making done by a child, a midrp naptime as you do your job for the hour and leave, or, erp which is the same as mrp but you get to jack off with another undisclosed age man through the computer screen. These are your options, enjoy.

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 2d ago

Can't, I'm scared, what if I slipped on dogcum and died as soon as I got off the arrival shuttle?

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u/August_Bebel 2d ago

Don't worry, you'll be vored by thicc xenomorph mommy at arrivals (now guess if it's CM or furry ERP)

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u/Shazam606060 2d ago

CM removed vore a while back because the devs have no SOVL.

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u/Magenta_king Encino Moth| Crystal Keep Host 2d ago

By the time you hit the ground you wouldn’t be dry if you slipped on anything tbh.

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u/KingOfStarrySkies Disk retrieved, requesting extraction. 2d ago

Are you ever gonna get over this

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u/cydippida FUCK YEAH DIRT!!! 2d ago

Wonder if it's still being run by a scat fetishist with concerning political views...

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u/godzamok 2h ago

Yes and they defend pedophiles

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u/2C_Sant survived the station in chaos 2d ago

Mercy, before I was banned from BYOND it was always Paradise and CM at the top.

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u/MarioWizard119 Radiation is just spicy air 2d ago

You use the hub?

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 2d ago

just as grandpa instructed

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u/Odd_Economics_3197 1d ago

I wish this godforsaken game actually had proper servers, unique ones even, cause man the only servers I even bother playing are Aurora, TGMC and Paradise

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u/ngdaniel96 Rated 'R' for Robust 1d ago

Foundation 19 is working on a rebase, they're doing a relaunch eventually, that's something worth looking forward to

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u/Odd_Economics_3197 1d ago

Honestly? I wish voidcrew came back, that shit was shiptest but actually fun

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u/Andresc0l 1d ago

I miss paradise being the top server, so many happy memories on there, pretty much all my years in university where spent playing there, now its still there but on life support, and baystation is also gone, i always preffered baycode over tg

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u/Irish-roach-in-house 1d ago

Paradise’s player count is slowly re-healing. Although they did some weird things like a new event system, and made it so no biohazards can happen in low pop. Not even like one xeno or green terror spider: none.

And they still let slaughter demon roll. Tbh the best way for the game to survive is for every server to add Bingle and attract the Roblox kiddies.

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u/KampferAndy 1d ago

I blame the downhill changes to the codebases and the crappy admins over the past 6 years.

Made the game unfun and turned servers into hugboxes.

We need a reset

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u/SingerFair8777 sdiybt13 1d ago

sseth tzeentach it

i dare you

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u/FreezeMageFire 1d ago

Fallout Big Iron could be prospering but it seems like the bug where you can't select shit in certain menus because they turn into a white screen really hurts the game. I hope someone fixes it soon man...

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u/hippie_shroom 1d ago

Ill be Erping at the town square if you need me

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u/powerfullatom111 1d ago

have “normal” servers tried changing the formula they’ve been doing for the past two decades

matter of fact, are the owners of “normal” servers even complaining about this at all?

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 1d ago

Of course not, the normal servers are the ERP ones, that was clear

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u/Neskah 1d ago

You must goon. It is inevitable.

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u/LowLeijon 1d ago

I swear, every month or so, some bozo posts the EXACT same thing on this sub lol. Yea man we fuckin get it, you gonna do something or are you gonna keep whining?

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 1d ago

What can we do other than to whine at this point?

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u/LowLeijon 22h ago

Fuck, I guess you have a point. I'm curious what exadv1 thinks though

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u/lordofthefruit *seizes up and falls limp, his eyes dead and lifeless... 20h ago

people like sex dawg i dont know what to tell you

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u/Erol509 19h ago

There is a reason why people want and play on furry servers, regardless of their erp on or off genre. Its because, people are just tired out of constant human slop, with questionable racism at times. Its 2025 and human only servers are more dead than alive. And because furry community is growing stronger with each day.

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 12h ago

What on earth is a human slop? And yeah, furry server is the dominant one these days, I think many of us can see that now, hence the reaction and lamentation from the non-furries.

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u/RefrigeratorTop1909 15h ago

its over, newgens are moving to play the 10% finished game that is ss14 (which still has the same community except being more russian) and all of the oldheads either signed off or are perfectly happy with the current state of affairs

dont lament it, just enjoy it for what it once was but dont kid yourself we are never getting the golden age back without a new trend of players

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u/I_need_help_please5 yndican't 14h ago

Goon (noun) vs Goon (verb)

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u/AppleBerryBlast2021 7h ago

This is weird considering I tried to join one of these (I wanted to see what the sprites looked like I swear) and there's like an 11 step verification process and you have to post your legal license and full name and such like I'm surprised there's this many people with how tedious it is

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u/Bowshot125 2d ago

The furry erp situation is crazy.

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u/youssw 2d ago

A lot of my friends moved to Ss14, Maybe that's the problem? Anyways sad to see gooner servers are the top of Ss13.

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u/LivingEnvironment426 2d ago

Damm splurt came back?

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u/asdfgtref 2d ago

they rebased to modern tg because the codebase was dogshit, couple that with... I think? a lot of previous bans not transfering over so pretty much everyone that had tried the server and left for whatever reason must have gone back. Honestly I highly doubt its any less of a shithole than before, the community has always been the bottom of the barrel for people that were banned everywhere else. Maybe chart topping means they have more than just that group but I'm not going to play there to find out.

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u/kooarbiter 1d ago

Im not bothered by erp servers, but I wish they werent so popular because I can't really recomend ss13 to friends they're gonna think this is what the game is about

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u/satisfactsean 2d ago

to say scarlet reach is a ERP server is like saying goonstation is a serious roleplay server. Your definition of what one of these servers is seems to be simply a server you dont like. You can actually just not play them and don't say anything about them and it'll cost you 0 cents to do so. Be happy that they bring people into this community and keep all of these servers going. Instead of being a bitter individual on a forum complaining about how they're having fun and you're not.

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u/Iankill 2d ago

Last time I played SS14 it was pretty great in terms of space Sim. Or is SS14 not good enough

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u/stupidMoth 2d ago

Are you complaining because SS13 isn't offering what you want personally, or because you want to complain? I could understand crying about this if it prevented you from playing SS13, but does it? I hate the two servers mentioned as much as the next guy but it doesn't impact me at all. The servers I like to play on are totally unaffected, in fact the existence of these shitholes actively drags chuds away from the places I enjoy.

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u/Narocky 1d ago

it kinda does? how am i supposed to recommend the game to friends when the first impression is animal porn

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u/stupidMoth 1d ago

You're a bad friend for letting them near the hub at all! Just give them the server link and teach them how to bookmark, don't even tell them about the hub.

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u/WereBoar FURRY GANGSTER COMPUTER GOD 1d ago

maybe tell them to ignore the furry servers? do you have so little faith in people you think they can't just...not engage with things they don't like?

actually given the sheer amount of these "DAE HAETED EAR PEE SERBBER??" lately you might be onto something

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u/Narocky 1d ago

The top server (thats actual ss13 and not CM or ERP Blackstone), SPLURT, allows players to ERP without being age verified. Its a bad first impression.

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u/WereBoar FURRY GANGSTER COMPUTER GOD 1d ago

yeah, splurt is a dumpster fire, we've been aware of that for years now. of course it's a bad first impression but people with even a partially developed prefrontal cortex would be able to understand that a single shitty server doesn't represent literally the entire game or this game wouldn't have any playerbase whatsoever

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u/genericpornprofile27 Green 2d ago

So what? It's the best erp game I have ever seen. The only thing better is just plain text erp or real life.

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u/senseBucket 1d ago

Man, who cares?

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 1d ago

nobody clearly

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u/ProfessorPopoff That shit gangster, yo 1d ago

Not a single dentskull within BYOND, apparently.

I like that a few years ago... it was still kind of taboo and worrisome... but the overarching message STILL was

"uuuughhh whoooo careeee why do you even caaaaare. stop caaaarriiinng"

This whole goddamn community is filled with the most nonchalant jaded morons jfc.

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u/taylorstar 2d ago

its a pretty healthy sign of the player base when the top servers are all around 100 players strong, if your jealous of it try advertising the server you play, post clips vids pictures and stories.

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u/Erol509 19h ago

Their server died out very quickly.

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u/Stoned_Elf228 Host of Helmsguard 12h ago

It had a good run, but I don't aspire for my server to be anywhere at the top, I'm comfortable with my small and meager pop, I already put in the work to make the server functional as PVE.

I much rather see gimmick servers to be on top, for those of us who just want something fresh without having to necessarily deal with lewdity and furries.

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u/Revolutionary-Age557 1d ago

In a few years it is going to simply be a porn game for people who cant get laid.

They'll like it like that too.