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== Preference Ranks ==
== Preference Ranks ==
In the job selection window of your character setup you can select how much you would like to play as a job.
In the job selection window of your character setup you can select how much you would like to play as a job.
 
{| class="wikitable"
There are seven levels of priority:
! style="width: 90px;"| Priority
 
!Description
*<span style="color:blue">[High]</span>
|-
*<span style="color:green">[Medium]</span>
!High
*<span style="color:yellow">[Low]</span>
|You can only select one job as high, since it really makes you dominate the assignment-chances.
*<span style="color:red">[Never]</span>
|-
*Banned
!Medium
*Young
|No limit.
 
|-
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 [https://forums.yogstation.net/index.php?forums/ban-appeals.2/ 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 [[Cyborg|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 [https://forums.yogstation.net/index.php?threads/whitelist-registration-thread-2-0.14502/ 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.
!Low
 
|No limit.
|-
!Never
|No limit.
|}
{| class="wikitable"
! style="width: 90px;"| Flag
!Description
|-
!Banned
| 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 [https://forums.yogstation.net/index.php?forums/ban-appeals.2/ forums]. Jobs a player is banned from will show as ''[Banned]'' no matter if it's a temporary job ban of a permanent one. Cyborg- / AI- job bans can't be circumvented by getting borged, so don't even try.
|-
!Young
|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 [[Cyborg|borged]] or stuffed into an [[AI]]
|-
!Non-Human
|Your character is not of human race, and they are prohibited from taking certain [[Head of Staff]] roles
|}
== Antagonist Assignment ==
== 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.  
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.  
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This means you can have Security jobs on HIGH without having to worry about never getting antagonist roles.
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 round until 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 ==
== How Jobs are Assigned ==
Once the game is about to start, jobs are assigned to players.
Once the game is about to start, jobs are assigned to players.
 
=== Step 1: Pre-emptive Assignment ===
=== Pre-emptive Assignment ===
 
*Assistants are assigned
*Assistants are assigned
*One head is selected
*One head is selected
*The AI is selected
*The AI is selected
 
=== Step 2: High Selection ===
=== 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.
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.
 
=== Step 3: Middle Selection ===
=== Middle Selection ===
Loops through a list of the remaining players, if the player has a job set to medium, he receives it.
Loops through a list of the remaining players, if the player has a job set to medium, he receives it.
 
=== Step 4: Low Selection ===
=== Low Selection ===
Loops through a list of the remaining players, if the player has a job set to low, he receives it.
Loops through a list of the remaining players, if the player has a job set to low, he receives it.
 
=== Step 5: Post Selection ===
=== 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).
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.
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 ==
== 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 [[Head of Security|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.
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 [[Head of Security|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.
*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 ==
== 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]]. [[Cyborg|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.
This is a list of the number of slots available on station. This does not count reassignments done by the [[Head of Personnel]]. [[Cyborg|Cyborgs]] cannot be late-joiners, however you may spawn in as an assistant and be turned into one in-game.
 
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
* [[Assistant]]: Unlimited
!rowspan="2"| Role
* [[Tourist]]: Unlimited
!rowspan="2"| Department
* [[Bartender]]: 1
!colspan="2" class="unsortable"| Start Slots
* [[Clerk]]: 1
!rowspan="2"| Minimum Character Age
* [[Cook]]: 2
!rowspan="2" class="unsortable"| Notes
* [[Botanist]]: 3
|-
* [[Quartermaster]]: 1
!Start
* [[Cargo Technician]]: 3
!Total
* [[Shaft Miner]]: 3
|-
* [[Mining Medic]]: 1
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Assistant]] || Service || Unlimited || Unlimited || 18 ||
* [[Clown]]: 1
|-
* [[Mime]]: 1
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Tourist]] || Service || 0 || Unlimited || 18 ||
* [[Janitor]]: 2
|-
* [[Librarian]]: 1
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Artist]] || Service || colspan="2" | 1 || 18 ||
* [[Lawyer]]: 2
|-
* [[Chaplain]]: 1
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Bartender]] || Service || colspan="2" | 1 || 24 ||
* [[Station Engineer]]: 5
|-
* [[Signal Technician]]: 1
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Clerk]] || Service || colspan="2" | 1 || 18 ||
* [[Atmospheric Technician]]: 3
|-
* [[Roboticist]]: 2
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Cook]] || Service || 1 || 2 || 18 ||
* [[Medical Doctor]]: 5
|-
* [[Paramedic]]: 3
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Botanist]] || Service || 2 || 3 || 22 ||
* [[Chemist]]: 2
|-
* [[Geneticist]]: 2
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Clown]] || Service || colspan="2" | 1 || 18 ||
* [[Virologist]]: 1
|-
* Psychiatrist: 1
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Mime]] || Service || colspan="2" | 1 || 18 ||
* [[Scientist]]: 5
|-
* [[Warden]]: 1 (min 7 day player age)
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Janitor]] || Service || 1 || 2 || 20 ||
* [[Detective]]: 1 (min 7 day player age)
|-
* [[Security Officer]]: Scales with population: Minimum 5 (min 7 day player age)
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Librarian|Curator]] || Service || colspan="2" | 1 || 18 ||
* [[Chief Medical Officer]]: 1 (min 7 day player age)
|-
* [[Chief Engineer]]: 1 (min 7 day player age)
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Lawyer]] || Service || colspan="2" | 2 || 24 ||
* [[Research Director]]: 1 (min 7 day player age)
|-
* [[Head of Personnel]]: 1 (min 10 day player age)
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Chaplain]] || Service || colspan="2" | 1 || 18 ||
* [[Head of Security]]: 1 (min 14 day player age)
|-
* [[Captain]]: 1 (min 14 day player age)
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Quartermaster]] || Supply || colspan="2" | 1 || 20 ||
* [[Cyborg]]: 1 (available at round start only) (min 21 day player age)
|-
* [[AI]]: 1 (available late-game only if an empty core is available) (min 30 day player age)
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Cargo Technician]] || Supply || 2 || 3 || 18 ||
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Shaft Miner]] || Supply || colspan="2" | 3 || 18 ||
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Station Engineer]] || Engineering || colspan="2" | 5 || 22 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 3 hours in crew roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Network Admin]] || Engineering ||colspan="2" | 1 || 22 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 3 hours in crew roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Atmospheric Technician]] || Engineering || 2 || 3 || 24 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 3 hours in crew roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Medical Doctor]] || Medical || 3 || 5 || 26 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 3 hours in crew roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Paramedic]] || Medical || 2 || 3 || 20 ||
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Chemist]] || Medical || colspan="2" | 2 || 24 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 2 hours in crew roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Geneticist]] || Medical || colspan="2" | 2 || 24 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 1 hour in crew roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Virologist]] || Medical || colspan="2" | 1 || 24 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 2 hours in medical roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Psychiatrist]] || Medical || colspan="2" | 1 || 24 ||
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Mining Medic]] || Medical || colspan="2" | 1 || 26 ||
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Scientist]] || Science || 3 || 5 || 24 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 3 hours in crew roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Roboticist]] || Science || colspan="2" | 2 || 22 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 1 hour in crew roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Warden]] || Security || colspan="2" | 1 || 20 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 7 day player age. Min 5 hours in security roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Detective]] || Security || colspan="2" | 1 || 22 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 7 day player age. Min 3 hours in security roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Security Officer]] || Security || colspan="2" | 5+ || 18 || style="text-align: left;"| Scales with population: Minimum 5. Min 7 day player age. Min 5 hours in crew roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Brig Physician]] || Security, Medical || colspan="2" | 1 || 26 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 3 day player age. Min 1.6 hours in crew roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Chief Medical Officer]] || Command, Medical || colspan="2" | 1 || 30 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 7 day player age. Min 25 hours in medical roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Chief Engineer]] || Command, Engineering || colspan="2" | 1 || 30 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 7 day player age. Min 25 hours in engineering roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Research Director]] || Command, Science || colspan="2" | 1 || 26 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 7 day player age. Min 15 hours in science roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Head of Personnel]] || Command, Supply || colspan="2" | 1 || 26 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 10 day player age. Min 12 hours in supply roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Head of Security]] || Command, Security || colspan="2" | 1 || 28 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 14 day player age. Min 25 hours in security roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Captain]] || Command || colspan="2" | 1 || 35 || style="text-align: left;"| Min 14 day player age. Min 15 hours in command roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[AI]] || Silicon || 1 || 0 || || style="text-align: left;"| Available late-game only if an empty core is available. Min 30 day player age.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Cyborg]] || Silicon || 2 || 0 || || style="text-align: left;"| Available at round start only. Min 21 day player age. Min 2 hours in crew roles.
|-
|style="text-align: left;"| [[Synthetic]] || Silicon || 1 || 0 || || style="text-align: left;"| Available at round start only. Min 30 day player age. Min 15 hours in crew roles.


|}
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Latest revision as of 12:44, 29 April 2024

Preference Ranks

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

Priority Description
High You can only select one job as high, since it really makes you dominate the assignment-chances.
Medium No limit.
Low No limit.
Never No limit.
Flag Description
Banned 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. Cyborg- / AI- job bans can't be circumvented by getting borged, so don't even try.
Young 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
Non-Human Your character is not of human race, and they are prohibited from taking certain 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 round until 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.

Step 1: Pre-emptive Assignment

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

Step 2: 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.

Step 3: Middle Selection

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

Step 4: Low Selection

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

Step 5: 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.

Role Department Start Slots Minimum Character Age Notes
Start Total
Assistant Service Unlimited Unlimited 18
Tourist Service 0 Unlimited 18
Artist Service 1 18
Bartender Service 1 24
Clerk Service 1 18
Cook Service 1 2 18
Botanist Service 2 3 22
Clown Service 1 18
Mime Service 1 18
Janitor Service 1 2 20
Curator Service 1 18
Lawyer Service 2 24
Chaplain Service 1 18
Quartermaster Supply 1 20
Cargo Technician Supply 2 3 18
Shaft Miner Supply 3 18
Station Engineer Engineering 5 22 Min 3 hours in crew roles.
Network Admin Engineering 1 22 Min 3 hours in crew roles.
Atmospheric Technician Engineering 2 3 24 Min 3 hours in crew roles.
Medical Doctor Medical 3 5 26 Min 3 hours in crew roles.
Paramedic Medical 2 3 20
Chemist Medical 2 24 Min 2 hours in crew roles.
Geneticist Medical 2 24 Min 1 hour in crew roles.
Virologist Medical 1 24 Min 2 hours in medical roles.
Psychiatrist Medical 1 24
Mining Medic Medical 1 26
Scientist Science 3 5 24 Min 3 hours in crew roles.
Roboticist Science 2 22 Min 1 hour in crew roles.
Warden Security 1 20 Min 7 day player age. Min 5 hours in security roles.
Detective Security 1 22 Min 7 day player age. Min 3 hours in security roles.
Security Officer Security 5+ 18 Scales with population: Minimum 5. Min 7 day player age. Min 5 hours in crew roles.
Brig Physician Security, Medical 1 26 Min 3 day player age. Min 1.6 hours in crew roles.
Chief Medical Officer Command, Medical 1 30 Min 7 day player age. Min 25 hours in medical roles.
Chief Engineer Command, Engineering 1 30 Min 7 day player age. Min 25 hours in engineering roles.
Research Director Command, Science 1 26 Min 7 day player age. Min 15 hours in science roles.
Head of Personnel Command, Supply 1 26 Min 10 day player age. Min 12 hours in supply roles.
Head of Security Command, Security 1 28 Min 14 day player age. Min 25 hours in security roles.
Captain Command 1 35 Min 14 day player age. Min 15 hours in command roles.
AI Silicon 1 0 Available late-game only if an empty core is available. Min 30 day player age.
Cyborg Silicon 2 0 Available at round start only. Min 21 day player age. Min 2 hours in crew roles.
Synthetic Silicon 1 0 Available at round start only. Min 30 day player age. Min 15 hours in crew roles.