repurposing security

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...The Security Antagonist Role!...

In my opinion the low point of playing sec is dealing with nonantags who like to fuck with sec and the high point of playing sec is using cooperation and teamwork with fellow competent officers to track down an equally competent and evil antag. Allowing officers to be antags would make people more willing to fuck with sec (that officer could be a traitor!!) and it would make real cooperation between officers much more difficult because you wouldn't be able to trust anybody. The detective is already a sec role that you can't really trust, making every officer untrustworthy would spoil what I consider to be the most rewarding part of security. 

I believe that security makes antag's rounds much more fun so long as the players playing sec understand that this is a game and that everyone is playing to have fun. Going up against a five-man sec team as a ling is much more engaging than steamrolling a crew that has no sec at all or dying to some random scientist who carries a hellchem glass. Sec also has a lot of room for improving antag's rounds that would otherwise be over. (Cloning dead wizards and holding phony witch trials comes to mind.) 

I believe to some extent that not many people play security because not many people play security. Having a good time in security depends on having a good team to cooperate with, more so than any other role in the game. People seem generally more willing to play as sec when you say "Hey I'm gonna play sec let's all play sec" in OOC from what I can tell, which might be helpful to consider when thinking about why people don't want to play sec. It would be cool if you could press a "be sec" button before the round starts that would make you 100% a sec officer and display that this coming shift is going to have at least one officer. Just something to let people know that security isn't going to be empty and they can depend on someone else being sec with them would go a long way I feel. Or at least it would entice me to play sec more often.