Goonhub
04-05-2022, 08:29 AM
A lot of good officers have surfaced, and with experience comes more communication and a desire to improve. As someone that plays security on both RP and classic i can say that while classic is certainly getting quite busy in terms of communication lately, its not quite the same compared to RP. On rp, security officers will speak all the time about their current whereabouts, what they're doing and how the situation is going. I think ikea did point out an important difference however between security and rp when it comes to handling antags, and that's mostly coming down to the fact that an antagonist on rp being arrested usually leads to some fun interactions, while an antagonist being caught on classic is fairly likely to have their round ended on the spot depending on who caught them and what they did so far.
I think that once some of the newer players get a good grip on being the bad guy, the issue will get better, but i do agree that there is fairly little counterplay for antagonists when it comes to preventing or disrupting sec's communication.
Perhaps some antagonists could have some of their powers adjusted to affect communications somehow? I do like ikea's proposition of your speech being interrupted if you take a certain amount of damage as well.
The alert button is instant and powerful, and will usually lead to a bunch of sec flooding in without warning. The PR proposing to give a clear warning to onlookers that the alert button has been pressed sounds appropriate.
Maybe health implants should only notify medical? I get that it's sec's job to go on a search and rescue mission, but maybe they should be working in tandem with medbay in order to rescue a crewmate's life. Medbay has the stabilizing meds but requires security to come as an escort, makes for an interesting dynamic, and that way a secoff can still get notified if they choose to plug in a medical cartridge, but they lose the easy access to the strong options the R.O.B.U.S.T cartridge offers like the port-a-brig.
In my opinion, there just needs to be more ways to mess with a screaming secoff's distress call. Like making it slightly garbled, or cutting off abruptly.
I think that once some of the newer players get a good grip on being the bad guy, the issue will get better, but i do agree that there is fairly little counterplay for antagonists when it comes to preventing or disrupting sec's communication.
Perhaps some antagonists could have some of their powers adjusted to affect communications somehow? I do like ikea's proposition of your speech being interrupted if you take a certain amount of damage as well.
The alert button is instant and powerful, and will usually lead to a bunch of sec flooding in without warning. The PR proposing to give a clear warning to onlookers that the alert button has been pressed sounds appropriate.
Maybe health implants should only notify medical? I get that it's sec's job to go on a search and rescue mission, but maybe they should be working in tandem with medbay in order to rescue a crewmate's life. Medbay has the stabilizing meds but requires security to come as an escort, makes for an interesting dynamic, and that way a secoff can still get notified if they choose to plug in a medical cartridge, but they lose the easy access to the strong options the R.O.B.U.S.T cartridge offers like the port-a-brig.
In my opinion, there just needs to be more ways to mess with a screaming secoff's distress call. Like making it slightly garbled, or cutting off abruptly.