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[RelentlessGarbage]

i dont know, apathy to the point of not caring if half the station is gone due to one person popping off is kind of worrisome

This is particularly the case on Classic, where crewmember teamwork is scarce. Heck, the other day two antags teamed up and wiped out a huge chunk of the station single-handedly with a wrestling belt and port-a-puke, and they were never stopped. (Granted, they were VERY robust traitors, but still, they killed, like, at least 20 people with that port-a-puke, maybe more.) I've also seen two people having a conversation about not getting involved with fighting a changeling while said changeling was in horror form and actively eating someone in the same room - which, admittedly, was probably just to make a joke, but it sort of illustrates the Classic attitude.

The culture is very much one of issues on the station being "not my problem" unless they are actively disrupting your department. You might hear screams from maintenance, turn to your buddies and say "ah, it's probably nothing to worry about," and I guarantee you nobody will check up on those screams. I suppose the apathy comes from the quick rounds and limited per-round investment. People see things devolving into madness and throw their hands into the air because they know that the next round will come soon enough, and they can start over again. People are also quick to run rather than fight because some folks on these servers are FAR more robust than most crewmembers by virtue of experience, and people understandably don't like dying. They just want to get their Spacebux at the end of the shift and be able to try again.

I guess, if we wanted to change this, we could look into encouraging more teamwork between departments and regular crewmembers on Goon through the addition and modification of game features. But it's not my place to say what direction the game should go in - this is a community space after all.