• Communication is important: Everyone says this, good thing it can't be overstated! Security is a department that needs communication way more then any of the other departments. Without communication like saying why people are wanted or telling others the status of yourself or someone's arrest the team would get confused and wouldn't be able to get things done efficiently and people would constantly be asking questions about who did what and where things are happening. While rounds can get chaotic and confusing communication can lessen this as if the whole group understands what's going on it will get less confusing.
  

• Handling of Antagonists and their equipment: Antagonists are the driving force of your rounds, security would not be needed without them. Killing all of them whenever they are discovered would leave you with a bunch of time with nothing to do! As such its important they get some leeway in areas. They should be treated like how you would treat the crew of the station until its proven they are not crew. whether it be giving them a chance to come in peacefully to letting them make deals. its important not to over punish for small crimes, like how you dont really need to search someone for attacking someone with a toolbox that's more a job for short brig time. now if they continually reoffend searching them would not be unreasonable. similar with one case of having contraband, if you can just convince them to hand it in there is no real need to search them. Larger crimes like murder or theft of an important item will push me to search them and take illegal equipment in addition to brig time. Now once you find contraband gear and confiscate it, it is to go in contraband and not be kept for personal use and should only be used in absolute emergencies if at all.  this part is even in space law!
  

• Crew interactions and gimmicks: The crew are 80% of the players of the game they are what you are here to protect, they are important and shouldn't be ignored outright. If someone comes in reporting a vampire it may sound weird an illogical (in an RP sense) but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be looked into. now onto gimmicks. Gimmicks are a big part of the game they can make rounds more interesting if everyone JUST did their role and nothing else it would be fairly boring and uniform. Gimmicks can also be REALLY funny and I love a good laugh so its best not to shut down gimmicks when they are just getting started unless its killed a large significate amount of the crew.
  

• What advice would you give to other sec players?
  1: Don't keep people too long, especially without roleplay. if you have someone in there for like 20 minutes while they are figuring out what they did or why they are there. at that point just take contraband and drop them outside security, unless they were gonna be executed (unlikely to be unknown by the whole team) they have already served their sentence out and then some.
  2: Winning is not the point of security, Securities role is to be the opposition to the antagonists and to make their round less of a boring steam roll with no opposition for them and an actual challenge. "It's not about winning. its about fun!" - Talking cheese. (for all parties involved preferably)
  3: Security is reactive and not pro-active over preparing for everything that could happens gives the antags less options and over all makes it less fun for people as a problem is dealt with before it happens.
• What was one of your favorite security moments? (Either playing as a sec officer or interacting with one)
  One of my favorite moments was the round where I learned how to do bomb RP, I had spawned in as a vampire but not wanting to do normal vampire things i decided I wanted to try something with TTV's, now this was one of my first RP antag rounds if I'm remembering right, so i asked the admins how to escalate TTV's as I didnt fully understand escalation at the time. I decided on wearing the TTV on my back and threatening to blow up medbay should my demands not be met. someone tried to take it off me while I was talking so I ran into a chute and ended up in the kitchen freezer. security blocks my one way out so I make demands "I want a ride out of here and ill leave the bomb with you" or something along those lines. so they get me a pod but they pod lock it so I'm standing there trying to figure out the code as I think they'll betray me. As soon as i figure out the code they tell me what it is, i start to get in and drop the bomb but they think i'm trying to leave with it so i get tazed, one officer notices i dropped the bomb so they tell the others to let me go, as I'm about to be taken in bio magnets of all things save the day bringing everyone right up on the same tile and giving me the chance to grab the bomb and set it off. all but one of security died I think. now I was dead, my round was over. then the fact i clone scanned came back into play, now I was alive and nearly all of security was dead. it wasn't to difficult avoiding the last remaining security person with the fact vamps can cancel stuns so I even made it to Central Command.
  

(01-18-2024, 02:47 AM)444explorer Wrote: I'm not entirely sure how to feel about this one - you're a good player, and you know what you are doing I just feel like you don't really give yourself a presence? I haven't ever seen you teach or lead, not saying this doesn't happen but it's an important part of how a HoS can improve a round. Neutral leaning on a 'maybe another time'. I'll be sure to write another reply if I notice these though.

(01-18-2024, 11:36 AM)GuiHppn Wrote: Jack is the silliest carrot around, would be interesting to see how they will make the carrot style match the HoS clothings. Although their character is really comical, and that made me think a bunch on writing this, they know pretty well how to escalate, what tools to use/not use, and how to make the round fun on overall. A thing that really made me happy is that in a recent round, after we sealed the armory since the reason it got open was dealt with, they were very proactive in returning the stuff they got from it. Im curious on Jack Hunter but with the serious boots and serious approach. Or maybe even with another character. One note, and that could maybe be on me for not seeing/remembering it, but i dont see them updating people much on what hapenned that round/whats going on, but again, that can be on me.

(01-18-2024, 02:09 PM)smallsandman Wrote:

(01-18-2024, 11:36 AM)GuiHppn Wrote: Jack is the silliest carrot around, would be interesting to see how they will make the carrot style match the HoS clothings. Although their character is really comical, and that made me think a bunch on writing this, they know pretty well how to escalate, what tools to use/not use, and how to make the round fun on overall. A thing that really made me happy is that in a recent round, after we sealed the armory since the reason it got open was dealt with, they were very proactive in returning the stuff they got from it. Im curious on Jack Hunter but with the serious boots and serious approach. Or maybe even with another character. One note, and that could maybe be on me for not seeing/remembering it, but i dont see them updating people much on what hapenned that round/whats going on, but again, that can be on me.

Thanks for the reply, i will take this into account, i suppose there is no such thing as Over-updating.

(01-24-2024, 07:37 AM)Glamurio Wrote: Jack is very active and I know for a fact carries a lot of experience of the game mechanics with him. If it only came down to knowing how to RP or how to play as a SecOff, it'd be an easy yes. But like Silent, I do think that you lack experience when it comes to cooperating or working in a team. You're a great solo player, but have trouble integrating yourself and seem more like a lone wolf. I'm still on the fence, however I do think if you keep at it, the beret is as good as yours.

(02-08-2024, 11:54 AM)Chatauscours Wrote: Smallsandman's a good officer, witnessed him teaching new rookies a lot of times, and i've witnessed him leading sec teams pretty successfully.
And that would be a positive recommendation, however I have some concerns about not having the emotionnal "robustness" needed for the role. I've seen you break pretty badly in some situations. And, don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with breaking sometimes, but the way you handle it, by letting it leak into IC , makes me doubt you'll currently make a good HoS.

And, as the others said, you're making good progress on all of that, so keep it up, and maybe in the next cycle.