Waterboarding Security

[Coolguye]

I can safely say that every time I have ever broken into anywhere I have never, ever been killed just for breaking in. Just rushing into Sec just gets you stunned and brigged/tossed out and no one in Chemistry ever cares, it's usually been thermited into Medbay by the 15 minute mark anyway. Robotics usually assumes that you either want to be borged or you want a flash, and they don't really care either. Electronics guys will just immediately stunglove you and fart on you.

While the first part of your statement is true (I've never been murdered for a break-in) the second part most definitely is not. I don't know what Roboticists you've been around, but every Roboticist I've ever played with immediately assumes that someone rushing into their lab is up to no good - most Roboticists even make people who politely ask to be borged wait outside until their body is ready. Robotics is just too high profile a target, if you let people roll in willy nilly you'll probably get murdered by a traitor who doesn't want you making any more borgs. Also, try rushing or hacking your way into Cargo Bay sometime. Chemists who thermite into Medbay don't care, but if you waltz in there when they haven't, you are likely going to end up with a face full of whatever they've been brewing. Which, half the time, is poly-acid.

The disconnect here is that the rules are very fluid on gibbed and the administration is pretty inconsistent. I'm not trying to rag on the admins - the job they have in front of them is daunting to the extreme - but you don't need to look too hard to find major rifts in how the rules are applied. This is doubly true if you consider both these forums and the SA thread. Look at the Unban Appeals forum and you'll find plenty of instances of admins saying to adminhelp almost everything. Look at the SA thread and you'll find plenty of instances of admins saying that you probably won't feel a repercussion if you slaughter someone who deserved it. If it happens to be Popecrunch posting, this will be followed with "(Let's face it, almost everyone deserves it)".

Again, I'm not trying to rag on the administration team. If I had an honest issue with anyone I'd just come out and fucking say it because my life is too short to be catty. But the entire reason these disputes come up is because the list of what is and isn't OK changes wildly depending on who's handling the adminhelp, and what mood they're in.