Goonhub
03-26-2022, 12:31 PM
I think the biggest problem I've personally noticed is that adding a freeform in can be unintuitive for new and old players with regards to how the laws are ordered.
To be more specific, I guess. Let's say Law 1 is overridden. First, only a few people know to pulse it with a multitool to fix the original board. Second, people at least ha e some awareness when trying to replace/fix laws that removing Law 1 even for the brief time to fix, though corrupted, probably isn't a great idea (all of the ion storms I have seen have corrupted the laws in a way where they do not replace the text of the law but rather just sort of tack onto the end of it; so even if Law 1 reads weird, removing it when it explicitly has a protection clause in it isn't the greatest when you're just trying to clean it up. Most people realize this and don't!)
Which leads to the next point, and that is that people will often slot in freeforms of a temporary Law 1 until they can fix Law 1 proper. The problem...most people, antags or otherwise, that I have seen try to use the law rack system don't intuitively understand that the top law on the rack interface (and bottom law on the sprite) IS law 1. Which leads to standard laws being listed as law 2, law 3, and law 1, in that order. Or a big bad Syndicate will put their cool freeform in and remove law 1 but not realize that if they don't slot their law into the first spot, they aren't roguing it with full effectiveness and how they *probably* intend to.
There's been a couple times now where AIs have stated laws and will state something like Law 1, Law 2, Law 3, and Law 5, and everyone is confused where Law 4 went or thinks the AI is now rogue and has a law they can't state when in reality, someone just jumped a slot when putting in their "Act like a clown" law.
To be more specific, I guess. Let's say Law 1 is overridden. First, only a few people know to pulse it with a multitool to fix the original board. Second, people at least ha e some awareness when trying to replace/fix laws that removing Law 1 even for the brief time to fix, though corrupted, probably isn't a great idea (all of the ion storms I have seen have corrupted the laws in a way where they do not replace the text of the law but rather just sort of tack onto the end of it; so even if Law 1 reads weird, removing it when it explicitly has a protection clause in it isn't the greatest when you're just trying to clean it up. Most people realize this and don't!)
Which leads to the next point, and that is that people will often slot in freeforms of a temporary Law 1 until they can fix Law 1 proper. The problem...most people, antags or otherwise, that I have seen try to use the law rack system don't intuitively understand that the top law on the rack interface (and bottom law on the sprite) IS law 1. Which leads to standard laws being listed as law 2, law 3, and law 1, in that order. Or a big bad Syndicate will put their cool freeform in and remove law 1 but not realize that if they don't slot their law into the first spot, they aren't roguing it with full effectiveness and how they *probably* intend to.
There's been a couple times now where AIs have stated laws and will state something like Law 1, Law 2, Law 3, and Law 5, and everyone is confused where Law 4 went or thinks the AI is now rogue and has a law they can't state when in reality, someone just jumped a slot when putting in their "Act like a clown" law.