The Roboticist's Dilemma

[babayetu83]

Borging needs to feel like a via-able alternative rather then: "Oh I am stuck."

There is a reason players like myself do not like borging as much due to the fact we are tied to listening and we cannot be "goofy"

For example: I like playing chaplain... but as a borg, most of my goofy antics would be seen as "disobeying laws" (even though they aren;t)

I tend to see borgs as "You are there to fill in slots"
Also if you are a security main... borging basically makes you feel bad due to brobocop.
Seriously... can we just split it now and make the security borg be slightly more effective but not have weapons?

Anyway... if we want more people to play borg funsies. We need to give the robotcist more ways to customize borgs so when a good robotcist is at the table, happy borgs will be going around.

well you have quite a bit of latitude as to what you can do as a cyborg. what i like to do is find some head of staff to authorize me acting goofy and if somebody (who is not another head/captain/hos) tells you to quit it that head's order supersedes theirs. people will also generally be less uptight if you're helpful (helping fix things, saving people's lives, retrieving stuff for people). people think it's the end of the world to be a cyborg when all you have to do is:
 follow direct orders (the devil's really in the details, if people are really vague or unspecific there's a little bit of wiggle room for how you can interpret it, as long as it doesnt break rules or violate your other laws) 

don't hurt people/engineer scenarios that would cause people to get hurt or die

don't let yourself get destroyed (simple but basically a nothing law, pretty standard gaming behavior to preserve yourself).

there's also something else worth considering: if somebody is being a jerkass towards you about something to the point of making you not want to play a specific job or role, consider adminhelping it.