Who is the server made for now?

[Tiresoup]

I still can't get over the sound synthesizer comment. I should actually like it to be nerfed MORE because I'm tired of broborgs spamming the gunshot noise. Why do they even have a gunshot noise? Deception when emagged?

"What is my purpose?" "You open doors." "Oh my god."
They have so little as it is, lol. Silicons in general are so bare-bones with what they're able to do, even their upgrade system is just "become obnoxious to fight, heal instantly, recharge instantly, get more slots to get more things to get obnoxious with, or get cool glasses that borgs should have inherently." They don't even have vox like the rest of the codebases, or any systems to manipulate the station. They drag plasma canisters and open them as their main response to being rogued, cause its all they can really do. Like, their main gameplay loop on goon is relying on people to change their laws. They don't really have much else to do. I'd rather just make it so sound doesn't travel as far, cause that would fix many issues beyond the one you're describing.

Zamujasa honestly went over basically all of my issues in general, especially how we treat players with repetitive gameplay styles that are causing issues to the point that features just get removed. Xeram also makes a good point that the station doesn't feel very cohesive and tied together, it's just different sandboxes and occasionally they throw sand into another persons sandpit or steal some and run off without actually interacting on classic. Like xeram said, I think it would be good to have a system where it is beneficial for people to work together as a fundamental goal for something. Maybe tied in with a reward system like spacebux, although I'm not a huge fan of spacebux as it is. Like there is nothing to work towards at all as a "Station". It's all individual, and the only "the station did good" we have is a % screen at the end of a round that is mostly there to poke fun at security or lag out from.

I think a legitimate chunk of my issue is that there is no real system of PvE content that is actually engaging or has replayability, we rely on becoming an antagonist or hunting down said antagonist for most of the excitement, and being dead after that sucks eggs. You're essentially forced into actively murdering and rampaging, else none of the crew have anything to do. But once you kill those people, they're gone unless they got clone-scanned. They don't really have many options, unlike other codebases. Even RP lets people respawn at least.

The npcs/mobs also just aren't very fun to fight, with some minor exceptions. Either they're so weak that you one shot them with a non combat tool while they slowly shamble up to you, or they're so fast and obnoxious and ignore most combat methods that just getting into range and hitting them is a chore, like xdrone. Most of it also requires a pod since it's almost always in space, and space movement is hell without a pod or jetpack, and jetpack literally removes your backpack as a storage option. Or you can carry it around, and only have one hand to do anything with and pray you don't get put sideways for even a second else you've dropped your things.

Sometimes we have fun admemes with enemies, or a disaster round once in a blue moon, and those are very fun. Occasionally we get antag critters.. Unfortunately most are so incredibly weak and valid, they just die because people have nothing else to do. See = half full foam pitchers tossed at a fire elemental.

A lot of this is simply comparing Goon to other codebases. As someone who plays other codebases, I can't find one good thing vox adds other than the occasional "SUPERMATTER-IS-ON-FUCKING-FIRE" or insulting the captain. Furthermore, I do agree with you about how lackluster station interaction can be, but there are definitely avenues to perform this kind of stuff, at least in my experience on roleplay. On the topic of PVE, personally I've never been a fan of PVE, and this really brushes over interaction with antagonists as unenjoyable, despite them being one of the primary drivers of a round.