Goonhub
09-29-2022, 07:30 AM
Very fair points being raised, both for and against RP relating to antagonists. When playing Security, I try my hardest to give every single antagonist a chance to play out whatever their fantasy is, even if it's extremely obvious that they are an antagonist. This particularly pertains to actions committed by antagonists that do not harm other players. An arcfiend draining power in an abandoned part of the station doesn't really impede anyone, neither is it anyone's issue if the local vampire starts asking medbay for blood bags. Those aren't really problems, but instead make a round more interesting.
As an antagonist, in all honesty, the biggest issue is that it's a dice roll whether or not you have RP-friendly security officers or not. I've had rounds where a HoS caught me with a cloaking device and a Spy PDA and let me walk right after, and then I've had rounds where I was taking a hostage in an RP scenario, and was promptly gunned down before even finishing my sentence. The real issue is that security simply has too much authority and power to the point where sometimes you can't even allow yourself to RP a scenario to its full extent because you know that security will mess it up, so you go for a different plotline that's much more boring but way more effective.
I've once seen a doctor place a mindhack cloning module on the cloning pod in medbay, and within 5 minutes someone took it off. As players, of course we all know that will mindhack you, but would it have been so bad to leave it up there for at least one ore two people to get mindhacked before destroying any hopes at the attempt? Instead, you have to build your own private cloning lab and murder people forcefully in some alley instead to even have it be worthwhile, which is much more effective, but frankly, not nearly as fun, because part of the fun in the other scenario comes from everyone knowing what's up but playing along.
People roleplaying with each other in metacliques is largely something that happens because too many people forget that they play on RP. If we could streamline that properly from both sides, maybe we could nip both of those issues in the bud.
As an antagonist, in all honesty, the biggest issue is that it's a dice roll whether or not you have RP-friendly security officers or not. I've had rounds where a HoS caught me with a cloaking device and a Spy PDA and let me walk right after, and then I've had rounds where I was taking a hostage in an RP scenario, and was promptly gunned down before even finishing my sentence. The real issue is that security simply has too much authority and power to the point where sometimes you can't even allow yourself to RP a scenario to its full extent because you know that security will mess it up, so you go for a different plotline that's much more boring but way more effective.
I've once seen a doctor place a mindhack cloning module on the cloning pod in medbay, and within 5 minutes someone took it off. As players, of course we all know that will mindhack you, but would it have been so bad to leave it up there for at least one ore two people to get mindhacked before destroying any hopes at the attempt? Instead, you have to build your own private cloning lab and murder people forcefully in some alley instead to even have it be worthwhile, which is much more effective, but frankly, not nearly as fun, because part of the fun in the other scenario comes from everyone knowing what's up but playing along.
People roleplaying with each other in metacliques is largely something that happens because too many people forget that they play on RP. If we could streamline that properly from both sides, maybe we could nip both of those issues in the bud.