Goonhub
06-27-2013, 12:54 AM
I... Agree????
Providing security a supply of green spackers with baton rounds in emergency situations would make those situations feel a ton more dramatic for the crew, it'd be cool as a riot/emergency weapon and it could work in conjunction with other riot-based tools such as the marking-gun I suggested.
Getting rid of e-guns would actually make the head of security job a bit tenser, since half the time the HoS does have to rely on the e-gun for a situation. 8 rounds is generous and means you can fire it off a lot more useful than the tasers. The baton rounds in the spacker may load 7 but lack any initial means of being used lethally. That is the way I believe security should be - equipped for less-lethal and unprepared when deadly force is necessary. It also means ammo is finite - it can't simply be recharged for you to be good to go and requires the officer to count their ammo. An extra advantage is that it has less of a visual report than the taser's obnoxious glowing yellow bolt.
I suggested to Cogwerks a few days ago about how riot officers would often mark ring leaders with paint to pick them out later. This might be a really useful tool for officers to use if they need to deploy beepsky to a specific person that they may either have too little time to record the name of or may not even be on the manifest. It also allows people to identify jerks on sight, given they were marked. All it has to be is a flare-gun painted green that fires paint rounds and would colour whoever it hits with a random colour.
The head of security already has the methods necessary to order laser guns if the need arises. It shouldn't be as readily an available option it is.
Providing security a supply of green spackers with baton rounds in emergency situations would make those situations feel a ton more dramatic for the crew, it'd be cool as a riot/emergency weapon and it could work in conjunction with other riot-based tools such as the marking-gun I suggested.
Getting rid of e-guns would actually make the head of security job a bit tenser, since half the time the HoS does have to rely on the e-gun for a situation. 8 rounds is generous and means you can fire it off a lot more useful than the tasers. The baton rounds in the spacker may load 7 but lack any initial means of being used lethally. That is the way I believe security should be - equipped for less-lethal and unprepared when deadly force is necessary. It also means ammo is finite - it can't simply be recharged for you to be good to go and requires the officer to count their ammo. An extra advantage is that it has less of a visual report than the taser's obnoxious glowing yellow bolt.
I suggested to Cogwerks a few days ago about how riot officers would often mark ring leaders with paint to pick them out later. This might be a really useful tool for officers to use if they need to deploy beepsky to a specific person that they may either have too little time to record the name of or may not even be on the manifest. It also allows people to identify jerks on sight, given they were marked. All it has to be is a flare-gun painted green that fires paint rounds and would colour whoever it hits with a random colour.
The head of security already has the methods necessary to order laser guns if the need arises. It shouldn't be as readily an available option it is.