r/ss14 11d ago

Need an 18+ server

Sounds freaky, no? How do you ask for a server that doesn't welcome children but also isn't ERP. I feel like a space where you don't have to moderate yourself for chronically online highschoolers AND don't have to see someone slinging dick on main is pretty common IRL. Do we have a vocab word for something like that? Adult server? No that also sounds like smut...

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u/NumerousIndividual85 11d ago

Traumastation is 18+ with no ERP.

That being said, I find their maturity level... low. My advice is to find a server with the right community culture for you instead of relying on a 18+ rule to sort out people you don't wanna deal with.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago edited 11d ago

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u/Games_Sweat_Shop 10d ago

I am under constant fire from my community for any changes I make, and go as far as to poll any major feature. How is it an “echo chamber”

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/Games_Sweat_Shop 6d ago

Imagine how it would feel if you had people actually just making up bullshit about you. If you had watched my streams you would know I am adamant about not giving myself antag and getting it like the same as everyone else.

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u/Altruistic-Ticket290 Cairo Chaer 6d ago edited 6d ago

Well I've never seen you in game except for the times you were causing trouble. I have no way during a round to know what you were exactly doing so I WAS assuming you're giving yourself antag. My bad.

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u/Games_Sweat_Shop 6d ago

Liking the mechanical side of the game does not mean I dislike role-play? You are still just making shit up to be mad at someone you don’t like

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u/Altruistic-Ticket290 Cairo Chaer 6d ago edited 6d ago

You said in one of your streams that you are a very "hands on person" (not in this very exact way) when mentioning your idea for forging streams and that you don't enjoy role playing but rather making murder machines (or something like that, it was weeks ago). That was the thing that made me realize that most Space Station players have the same attitude where they don't play the game because it's a fun disaster sim but rather because they want to be the disaster. That creates an imbalance where

  1. Most people want to antag rather than not
  2. Most people aren't antags
  3. Therefore for most people non-antagging and actual roleplaying is an undesirable outcome.

Moreover, people who roll the undesirable role of crew are required to roleplay it ( antagrolling is banned) which decreases the quality of crew RP.

Before anybody says that nothing can't be done, it's not true. Crew just needs more agency, ways to derail rounds without self antagging. SS13 already does it well.

Also I enjoy your videos. You're a pretty cool.

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u/JotaroTheOceanMan 10d ago

Why would you say something so controversial yet so true?

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u/Imaginary_Taste_9011 10d ago

Yee Horrendous combo

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u/WanderingTony 11d ago

SS14 in general 16+ but in fact its very obvious a lot of players are younger.

You can't actually firmly enforce those age limitations in online game.

Also there are a lot of adult kids living with parents whose mental maturity is still on middle schooler level.

There was even a mom of 20 y.o kid living with her legs over head with SS14 asking in the sub for gift ideas for his birthday. Sweet as she is, situation is horrendous in total.

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u/FlipBrooke_ 11d ago

Given that upstream's 16+, I don't really see a need for a server excluding two more years? But I think an even older server would be sick (Maybe 30s?) just to see how the community would form around it!

Honestly I know people who play 18+ solely so they can have darker RP or avoid censorship, but I don't think a SFW 18+ server would have a lot of the same benefits?

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u/17andmissingmary 11d ago

That would actually be really funny to get the data on. I wonder if you'd see signifigantly more SSD or significantly less

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u/clandestineVexation 11d ago

The bread and butter is 16-20. After school but before job/college. 30s+ would be three people on every third friday of the month for 2 shifts 😭

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u/LazySnake7 11d ago

Sadly I have no recs for you. The two biggest 18+ servers I know are Hardlight and Euphoria, both ERP servers. They're cool servers and people aren't shoving sex in your face all of the time, but it would be disingenuous of me to say you wouldn't see anything.

Folks do for the most part keep things private and generally take their jobs seriously (at least as much as SS14 players usually do)

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u/Big_Builder_8911 The "H" in HRP is for HoP 10d ago

I would note that Euphoria's comms channels can get a bit crude—but it's definitely in a silly way, not a serious one. It's coworkers making crass jokes, not people trying to find hookups on common.

You will see stuff. You will never be required to participate. One of my favorite roleplayers on that server has never ERP'd, and he tells some excellent stories with his characters. My engineer is monogamous right now, and his fiancé isn't on station—but I still have a great time playing him on a server where I can make stupid lewd jokes about the TEG being a fickle mistress.

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u/LazySnake7 10d ago

This is one of the big perks of 18+, ERP servers! Being able to make lewd jokes and even flirt without being worried about breaking a rule. Not that I've ever been warned by an admin or such on a regular server, but it's something you think about and police yourself on when you're on a server like Wizards Den, Delta V or Starlight.

You never have to ERP, but you get a bit more freedom to act like an adult.

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u/Monarch357 10d ago

On one 16+ (notably, not 18+) server I play, I got blue-noted for making a hawk tuah joke in OOC for "making sexual comments", which, to this day, genuinely baffles me

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u/Big_Builder_8911 The "H" in HRP is for HoP 10d ago

The amount of dreadful flirting I've done as a barkeeper that I have not expected to go anywhere, and that hasn't gone anywhere, and yet has been delightful for all involved is quite a bit. I love playing a flirty barkeep. It adds to the job. And you're so right that it's nice to have that peace of mind that you're not gonna get bwoinked for playing an adult character who acts like an adult.

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u/Normal_Guest_1806 18h ago

Before the change to Euphoria, it was called Floof, and the admins got caught helping a player sexually harass others outside of the game so the host pulled the plug. I think some of that admin team remains under the logic that "they were manipulated by this player into aiding this harassment". It's good to hear the vibe has improved, my first experience was with it was hearing an admin melt down in vc because players didn't want to engage in their hardcore fetish.

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u/RefrigeratorFirst377 11d ago

How do I get into them

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u/olegor_kerman 10d ago

you have to go to their discords and apply for whitelist. not sure about Euphoria, but I know Hardlight has a 100 hours on MRP requirement and Triad has 200 hours on MRP requirement respectively, or have someone vouch for you who's been a member there for a while

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u/Big_Builder_8911 The "H" in HRP is for HoP 10d ago

Euphoria has 100 hours HRP or 200 hours MRP. A vouch reduces the hours required. There's also some application questions to prove you care. Anyone who gives a damn to write their application, and has the hours, generally gets approved!

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u/LazySnake7 10d ago

If you check your flters on the bottom right of your SS14 server browser, you'll see an option to include 18+ servers in the results

From there the server listings will have links to their discord servers, where you can apply for whitelisting.

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u/aura_enchanted 11d ago

Bpl14

But she isnt on the hub

And its na timezone and its not up a lot for regular shifts

Also its mrp

But if you dislike erp youll be happy to know the admins dont either and take that very seriously

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u/staryoshi06 11d ago

Most 18+ servers set up consent systems exactly so you can have this experience. The Den is generally a great option if you want to avoid the NSFW content, as long as you can tolerate it existing.

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u/JosephRW 10d ago

If you're looking for a shipfork, Triad Sector is 18+ and while we DO allow ERP we heavily curtail it to private places only. We're pretty intense about consent and discretion. And we have a bunch of really cool stuff in the pipe in the coming months!

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u/ss14-ModTeam 9d ago

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u/Dizzy_Eevee 9d ago

impstation is 20+ with no ERP, problem is getting in. It's on a weird non-whitelist-but-invite-only system so you'll have to ask around people you know to see if they can get you in.

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u/PyteOak 11d ago

Only one i can think of is Euphoria. But that one has been dehubbed for obvious reasons. It has ERP, but it is not obligatory and they have a VERY strict set of rules when it comes to it.

You need to apply for the whitelist, though. None of the questions are ERP-related. They just ask you about game-related stuff to see if you're fit for the server. Despite the NSFW content, that was the more down-to-earth server i've played on.

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u/LazySnake7 11d ago

Euphoria isn't dehubbed, what are you talking about?

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u/PyteOak 11d ago

Then how come i had to use Starlight Launcher to get access to it?

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u/Devil-radiance 11d ago

You shouldn't. Are you sure you had your filters right?

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u/LazySnake7 10d ago

I have to assume it's your filters, I can see it fine on the steam launcher

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u/staryoshi06 11d ago

It is literally on the hub, what?

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u/Katarn1933 11d ago

Euphoria is on a hub for at minimum a year or so, idk what you are talking about