Goonhub
10-03-2018, 07:48 PM
That's the thing, like anything that would actually fix security will ruin the fun for other players.
Sec players: "Tasers are slow, inaccurate, and don't last nearly long enough both in ammo and duration!" Admins: "Okay, we'll make tasers fast, laser accurate, and we've tripled the battery and stun duration now lasts five real world minutes." Antags: "This is bullshit, I can't get anything done as I'm being tased!" Non antags: "oh my god I was stunned nearly the entire round because I farted on a shitcurity and then a ling ate my head nerf plz"
You can't win.
The non antag players who are going out of their way to fuck with a sec officer, by the way? These are also the same people who are really good at the game and the only reason they're fucking with sec officers in the first place is because they know they're not going to get arrested because they're that good. Even if they do somehow get brigged they know worst case scenario they're in there for, what, five minutes tops? And released sooner if there is an emergency or something?
Antags are even more trivial towards sec. Honestly, when was the last time you saw a Security Officer (not the HOS) be successful in stopping an antag? Counter that number with how many got their shit royally pushed in followed by bombing the entire security department and stealing everything out of the armory. How many times has that happened and a CHANGELING was the one doing the bombing? I bet it's more than sec actually stopping an antag. To a good antag, security officers are literally walls made of player.
Sec sucks. I say replace sec as a department with a bitchin' nightclub complete with dancing and drinks and a superstar DJ and replace sec as a team with more Guardbuddies and Beepskies and Sentry Bots and Drones and whatever else we have as robo-NPCs, have them all controlled by the HOS like it's Dungeon Keeper or something. Then call it a day. That's my final word on the matter.
Sec players: "Tasers are slow, inaccurate, and don't last nearly long enough both in ammo and duration!" Admins: "Okay, we'll make tasers fast, laser accurate, and we've tripled the battery and stun duration now lasts five real world minutes." Antags: "This is bullshit, I can't get anything done as I'm being tased!" Non antags: "oh my god I was stunned nearly the entire round because I farted on a shitcurity and then a ling ate my head nerf plz"
You can't win.
The non antag players who are going out of their way to fuck with a sec officer, by the way? These are also the same people who are really good at the game and the only reason they're fucking with sec officers in the first place is because they know they're not going to get arrested because they're that good. Even if they do somehow get brigged they know worst case scenario they're in there for, what, five minutes tops? And released sooner if there is an emergency or something?
Antags are even more trivial towards sec. Honestly, when was the last time you saw a Security Officer (not the HOS) be successful in stopping an antag? Counter that number with how many got their shit royally pushed in followed by bombing the entire security department and stealing everything out of the armory. How many times has that happened and a CHANGELING was the one doing the bombing? I bet it's more than sec actually stopping an antag. To a good antag, security officers are literally walls made of player.
Sec sucks. I say replace sec as a department with a bitchin' nightclub complete with dancing and drinks and a superstar DJ and replace sec as a team with more Guardbuddies and Beepskies and Sentry Bots and Drones and whatever else we have as robo-NPCs, have them all controlled by the HOS like it's Dungeon Keeper or something. Then call it a day. That's my final word on the matter.