Goonhub
04-14-2019, 07:36 AM
Concur with KikiMofo. I think Frank 4th and 5th suggestions might make an interesting mode on its own or maybe an addon to Gang, but I don't think the solution is to slow the game mode. The strict time-limit and its accompanying announcements encourage shorter, fast-paced rounds, and I personally prefer the high chaos of these kinds of modes.
Instead of slowing the Revs down, I'd prefer to quicken the Heads. This is why I like having more loyalty implants and more loyalty-implanted crew. It makes counter-revolutionary implanting easier and faster, since people won't have to break into the Armor and/or Sec or pay a somewhat hefty sum for more, and it evens the numbers, since the Heads'll have an actual base of supporters, instead just themselves, an oft-sparse Sec team, and apathetic crew. Together, they should encourage Heads to realize they have a fighting chance and try to fight the revolution, instead of hiding in space like a bore.
The one problem I see with people starting out loyalty-implanted is that some might try to extract implants out of themselves or others to figure out if it's Rev, similar to how, back when the shuttle call was simply rejected, people would call the shuttle early to see if it was rev. This could easily be fixed if it occured in all rounds.
Trust me, it's not kneejerk, for it happens quite often. One guy at least taunted us while providing advice on how to find him, but it was still extraordinarily annoying. The sad thing is that, as I wrote on the wiki page, they're actually hurting themselves.
Some guy suggested that at 30 minutes or some such, the Head Revs should get pinpointers for the remaining heads. If we needed to dress this up in "lore", we could say something like "Syndicate intelligence has detected that [STATION] has not fallen to the revolution yet. To expedite the process, we have given you a special device that will help you locate the remaining targets." If we wanted to do a similar thing for the Heads, we could say it came from those same "Anti-Riot" people who announce they've detected a revolution 40 minutes into the round.
Someone else also thought about having some sort of emergency cabinet that would have an in-game book/manual on what the revolution is and what to do about it. Interesting, but not sure how much it'd improve things.
Instead of slowing the Revs down, I'd prefer to quicken the Heads. This is why I like having more loyalty implants and more loyalty-implanted crew. It makes counter-revolutionary implanting easier and faster, since people won't have to break into the Armor and/or Sec or pay a somewhat hefty sum for more, and it evens the numbers, since the Heads'll have an actual base of supporters, instead just themselves, an oft-sparse Sec team, and apathetic crew. Together, they should encourage Heads to realize they have a fighting chance and try to fight the revolution, instead of hiding in space like a bore.
The one problem I see with people starting out loyalty-implanted is that some might try to extract implants out of themselves or others to figure out if it's Rev, similar to how, back when the shuttle call was simply rejected, people would call the shuttle early to see if it was rev. This could easily be fixed if it occured in all rounds.
(04-13-2019, 07:26 AM)Grizzwold Wrote: Admittedly this one may be a bit more of a kneejerk after I watched the MD hide under a medibot in arrivals maint for 20 minutes last night, but I still feel like it's one of the big weaknesses of rev.
Trust me, it's not kneejerk, for it happens quite often. One guy at least taunted us while providing advice on how to find him, but it was still extraordinarily annoying. The sad thing is that, as I wrote on the wiki page, they're actually hurting themselves.
Some guy suggested that at 30 minutes or some such, the Head Revs should get pinpointers for the remaining heads. If we needed to dress this up in "lore", we could say something like "Syndicate intelligence has detected that [STATION] has not fallen to the revolution yet. To expedite the process, we have given you a special device that will help you locate the remaining targets." If we wanted to do a similar thing for the Heads, we could say it came from those same "Anti-Riot" people who announce they've detected a revolution 40 minutes into the round.
Someone else also thought about having some sort of emergency cabinet that would have an in-game book/manual on what the revolution is and what to do about it. Interesting, but not sure how much it'd improve things.