Validhunting, Supercops, and You

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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.

This I feel strongly. Its not that I don't want to stop the rampaging antag. Its that I can't. What am I supposed to do against Robust McGee and his robust mindhacked friend, who have already killed all of security (if there was any to begin with) and robbed the armory ?

Call it apathty all you want, but I don't see the point in throwing myself at theses kind of antags that I know will disable me instantly and shrug off whatever minor damage I could have done to them a few second after my swift death.

Its really not the dying part that the worst here. Its the disabling. We talk a lot about stun meta but really the meta is disabling your opponent as fast as possible so they are not allowed to retaliate, trough whatever means. Stuns is just the must obvious. This make for very one sided antag interaction with predictable results.

Of course another big factor in that kind of scenarios is that rampage hours are often no security hours on classic. Antags team up against a very, very understaffed sec, giving them a huge upper hand. That would almost never work on RP where the opposite tend to happen. Security is fully staffed with officers chilling around having coffee and donuts waiting for any glimpse of antag activity.