timegate security holy hell

[Drago156]

When I'm HoS I'm fine with helping a new sec officer learn the ropes but thing is I'm expecting to teach the SECURITY ropes not the whole HOW TO PLAY THE GAME IN GENERAL ropes. After a week of playing the game I assume they know how to play the game in general and are ready to learn how to play security.

This. I've had a number of times even pre-tomatotide where I've had to commit any where from half a round to a whole round teaching someone how to play the game as well as not be shitsec WHILE antags were going around messing up the station, and it is most certainly one of the most stressful things IMO.

As for timegating security, there's no complex alternate solution necessary. Simply basing the timegate on number of rounds played is good enough, and if the person is willing to stick through say 20-30 rounds, chances are they'd stick around on Goon and know the game by the time they had the security officer position available to them. Also, HoSes are FAR MORE happy to teach people how to play just security than having to teach the entire game, and this would greatly help that issue.