User:SharkLordSatan

Hi! My name is Paige and I'm a die-hard fan of Halo.

If you need to get in contact with me, the best way to do so is via my Discord; SharkLordSatan#0314.

Anyway, this page is where I drop all my WIP shit.

So, You Wanna Play Halo: Space Station Evolved.

First off, this guide will assume you know the basics behind playing Space Station 13. If you don't, then we highly recommend that you familiarize yourself with the mechanics of Space Station 13 on other servers.

On top of that, please familiarize yourself with the server's rules, which you can find here.

Know the basics? Good! Let's get started. Let's start off by creating your characters, as you'll need multiple to get the maximum playability out of the server.

Making Your First Character!

When you first log in to the server, you'll be greeted with a window with multiple options. Click on Setup Character.

The character creation screen. Note that as of current this screencap is somewhat outdated, so some options/buttons may be missing.

After you clicked on that option, this window (to the right) will open. Here you can configure your character to your liking. Let's run through the options available.

At the very top of the page shows your options with the character slots. You can have up to ten different characters. Below that are different tabs for customizing specific aspects of your character. Ignore them for now, and focus on the "General" tab - the one we're looking at now. Here's a run-down list of all the options you'll see on this page. Note that some of these options may not be compatible with non-human races, such as Sangheili or Unggoy.

Character Creation: General

NAME: The name of your character. You also have a option to randomize it. Note that if you choose a name of your own making, that it must comply with these rules:

It cannot be the same name as a canonical character in Halo lore. (i.e John-117, Thel 'Vadamee, Avery Johnson, etc.)
It cannot be a "meme" name. (i.e Dr. Coomer, Chungus, Chad Thundercock, etc.)
It must be realistic to the setting/your species. So your human character cannot have a name that an Elite would have, and vice versa.
Names that start with things such as "Sgt." or "Dr." are fine. Having a nickname in the middle (i.e Robert "Blitz" Dawson) is also fine.

If you're having trouble coming up with names and find the randomized names to be lacking, you can refer to this website here and see if you can find anything you like. And, if you're not sure if a name is appropriate for your character, feel free to ask somebody in-game or on the discord server for their opinion.

GENDER: The gender of your character. Choose between "male" or "female".

AGE: Specify the age of your character. Minimum is 18, max is 80.

LANGUAGES: What languages your character knows. As a Human, you will know English as well as up to 2 other languages of your choosing. As any Covenant species, you will only know Sangheili as well as the language of your own species. Any languages you don't know will be heard as undecipherable gibberish.

SPECIES: Change the species of your character. Currently available species are Human, Jiralhanae, Kig-Yar, Sangheili, San'Shyuum, Tvaoan Kig-Yar, Unggoy, Yanme'e, ORION, and SPARTAN. Note that some of these species may be locked behind faction whitelists.

BLOOD TYPE: Change the blood type of your character. This is a game mechanic and not just for RP flavor.

SKIN TONE: Change the tone of your skin. Higher numbers are darker, while lower numbers are lighter.

NEEDS GLASSES: Choose whether your character has impaired vision and thus needs glasses. This is a game mechanic and not just for RP flavor.

ADJUST LIMBS: Choose what limbs on your body are amputated/prosthetic. This is a game mechanic and not just for RP flavor.

ADJUST ORGANS: Choose which specific organs you want to be assisted or synthetic. This is a game mechanic and not just for RP flavor.

HAIR: Change the style and color of your hair.

FACIAL HAIR: Change the style and color of your facial hair.

EYES: Change the color of your eyes.

BODY MARKINGS: Give yourself specific tattoos. Some tattoos may be non-functional.

EQUIPMENT: Change the style and color of your undergarments (bra/underwear/socks), what undershirt you have, and what style of backpack you have.

FLAVOR: Even more flavor info. You can assign flavor text for your character, and even for body parts.

After we are done with this, we can move on to the next tab. Feel free to ignore the tab titled "Skills", as this is just flavor stuff for your character. To continue customizing your character you'll want to click on the tab titled "Occupations".

Character Creation: Occupations

The Occupations tab is where you essentially choose the job for your character. What type of job you can choose depends on whether your character is the correct species, the current gamemode of the round, and whether you have faction whitelists.

Some examples of jobs you might see available.

While there are too many individual roles to list here in a big ol' table, there are handy links you can click to view the roles available for each faction.

For the roles available as the UNSC, click here.
For the species and their respective roles available as the Covenant, click here.
For the roles available as the URF/Insurrection, click here.

Once you're done deciding what roles you want for your particular character, you're essentially done with the process! However there are some other tabs with other options, which we'll describe here for the sake of understanding them and whether they're really necessary or not.

Character Creation: Roles

Not to be confused with occupations, the roles tab allows you to assign yourself the chance to be randomly selected as a antag for a round much like in "normal" SS13 servers. However, as of current this feature is nonfunctional so it's recommended to just ignore this page entirely.

Character Creation: Loadout

Somewhat for flavor, this page allows you to give yourself specific items to spawn with at the start of the game. However these items are solely cosmetic and typically won't help you in combat, or just get you yelled at by other players in-character (especially if you're playing Covenant, as they're meant for humans!)

Character Creation: Global

Not necessarily for RP or gameplay, these settings simply change things such as what you can hear as a ghost, whether you can hear music that's played by admins, and other options generally related to OOC stuff.

A Final Note for Character Creation

Perma-death is not an option available on this server. Basically, that means you can respawn as a new character after about 5 minutes. However you'll need to switch to a different character to keep playing, unless your character died via unusual circumstances (i.e griefing, or a really bad glitch) and the admins or mods have given you permission to respawn as your previous character. This is why it's recommended to have multiple characters available on hand, in case your previous one suffers an unfortunate fate and you want to jump back into the fray as soon as you respawn.

If you don't have enough slots to have 2 of every species, it's fine to just play as basically the same character so long as you completely change the name. So if you were playing as a Grunt named Slapslap and die to some tomfoolery you can just take that same grunt and rename it to something else.

Of course, when a new round starts you can always play as any character you have on hand regardless if they died the previous round or not.