Goonhub
09-24-2013, 06:19 PM
My favourite thing about them was how they forced people to get off of their chemmasters / genetics consoles / whatever and hang out for a bit. Every round it's all the same, people absorbed in work all the time. The radstorms gave us a nice fire-drill type of deal that forced everyone to huddle together in maint and wait it out.
It was a non-permanent way of mixing things up compared to a meteor shower. Sure, if your department gets beaned with one you'll have to leave and probably not come back for the rest of the round, because if anything, people would rather call the shuttle than take part in any large-scale repairs, especially with all the paranoia making interdepartmental cooperation almost impossible as everyone seems to prefer their little corner of the station.
I won't pretend that I would go "Yay! Radstorm!" but I never disliked them and as an event I think they're really cool. Especially compared to the godawful spatial tear
It was a non-permanent way of mixing things up compared to a meteor shower. Sure, if your department gets beaned with one you'll have to leave and probably not come back for the rest of the round, because if anything, people would rather call the shuttle than take part in any large-scale repairs, especially with all the paranoia making interdepartmental cooperation almost impossible as everyone seems to prefer their little corner of the station.
I won't pretend that I would go "Yay! Radstorm!" but I never disliked them and as an event I think they're really cool. Especially compared to the godawful spatial tear