Job selection and assignment

Preference Ranks

In the job selection window of your character setup you can select how much you would like to play as a job.

There are seven levels of priority:

• [High]
• [Medium]
• [Low]
• [Never]
• Banned
• Young

You can only select one job as high, the other ranks do not have limits. Banned is shown to players who were banned from playing the job (received a job ban). Players who are job banned cannot spawn as that job, they can however appeal the job ban on the forums. Jobs a player is banned from will show as [BANNED] no matter if it's a temporary job ban of a permanent one. Jobs the player is too young to play are jobs which require a player to have played a certain number of days as other roles before they are unlocked. Security jobs, head positions and silicon positions are the jobs that have this enabled. A [IN x DAYS] message will appear if you are too young to play a certain job, indicating how many more days need to pass before you can spawn as that job. You can still get the job by visiting the Head of Personnel though, or by being borged or stuffed into an AI. Ultra is a rank which gives you a higher chance of becomming that role, available to head roles and AI only. To get the chance to put these jobs on ultra, you can apply for the rank on the forums. Finally, [NON-HUMAN] will appear by some jobs if your character is not of human race, as they are prohibited from taking Head of Staff roles.

Antagonist Assignment

Before jobs are assigned, the game will decide who the round antagonists are. A player who would normally have spawned as Security will spawn as a different job instead if they are selected as Antagonist.

This means you can have Security jobs on HIGH without having to worry about never getting antagonist roles.

The chance to be assigned an antagonist-role on roundstart is increased by a player-specific "antag rep". It increases for each non-antagonist rounduntil it hits a cap and will reset upon the player being assigned an antagonist role. This mechanic only applies to roundstarts, becoming a midgame-antagonist will not reset your "antag-rep".

How Jobs are Assigned

Once the game is about to start, jobs are assigned to players.

Pre-emptive Assignment

• Assistants are assigned
• One head is selected
• The AI is selected

High Selection

Loops through a list of all players (randomized), if the player has a job set to high, and it has open slots, they receive it.

Middle Selection

Loops through a list of the remaining players, if the player has a job set to medium, he receives it.

Low Selection

Loops through a list of the remaining players, if the player has a job set to low, he receives it.

Post Selection

Any player who was not assigned a job spawns as a random job from the (probably small) pool of remaining empty jobs. This depends on what they selected in their character setup's occupation page (there is a toggle at the bottom).

If you join the round late, you will be able to choose a specific job from the remaining empty jobs, or a random job.

Tips for Job Selection

As you can see, people who have a job set to high are far, far more likely to get the job, since if there is only one slot available for a job - like HoS - and there is one person who sets that job to high and 20 people who set it to medium, the one person who set it to high will always get the job.

• Have your favorite job set to high, if you have two favorites or more, set one of them higher than the others. Do not have all three set to medium as you will very likely not get them - especially if the jobs have very few slots available.

Available Slots

This is a list of the number of slots available on station. This does not count reassignments done by the Head of Personnel. Cyborgs cannot be late-joiners, however you may spawn in as an assistant and be turned into one in-game. The default player age restriction is shown in brackets. Do note that the exact values are subject to constant balancing.

Role	Department	Start Slots		Notes
		Start	Total
Assistant	Service	Unlimited	Unlimited
Tourist	Service	Unlimited	Unlimited
Bartender	Service	1
Clerk	Service	1
Cook	Service	1	2
Botanist	Service	2	3
Clown	Service	1
Mime	Service	1
Janitor	Service	1	2
Curator	Service	1
Lawyer	Service	2
Chaplain	Service	1
Quartermaster	Supply	1
Cargo Technician	Supply	2	3
Shaft Miner	Supply	3
Station Engineer	Engineering	5
Signal Technician	Engineering	1	1
Atmospheric Technician	Engineering	2	3
Medical Doctor	Medical	3	5
Paramedic	Medical	2	3
Chemist	Medical	2
Geneticist	Medical	2
Virologist	Medical	1
Psychiatrist	Medical	1
Mining Medic	Medical	1
Scientist	Science	3	5
Roboticist	Science	2
Warden	Security	1		Min 7 day player age
Detective	Security	1		Min 7 day player age
Security Officer	Security	5+		Scales with population: Minimum 5. Min 7 day player age
Chief Medical Officer	Command, Medical	1		Min 7 day player age
Chief Engineer	Command, Engineering	1		Min 7 day player age
Research Director	Command, Science	1		Min 7 day player age
Head of Personnel	Command, Supply	1		Min 10 day player age
Head of Security	Command, Security	1		Min 14 day player age
Captain	Command	1		Min 14 day player age
AI	Silicon	1	0	Available late-game only if an empty core is available. Min 30 day player age
Cyborg	Silicon	1	0	Available at round start only. Min 21 day player age