change/remove emagging phones

[Lord_earthfire]

I feel like emagging phones would be frowned upon by RP's rp rules given that it's sudden explosions out of nowhere.  "It's not made for classic" is a pisspoor excuse when it's not made for RP either.

The phone in itself is a mostly RP-feature, with coms, PDA-message-groups and PDA-messages existing. Emagging the phone is only a interaction with it. And, like the detomatix, it is rarely frowned upon in RP if employed within the escalation rules.

So when peoples come around with "in classic, this [RP-Feature] is not used because the only reason to use it in general is to set you up for a trap" is a very poor argument. It won't change the fact that there is no reason to use it except for fluff/RP. Besides, there are still other methods to weaponize the phones, so it won't change anything about the arguments structure.

The point is: i don't see any gain from removing the emag interaction because i don't think it will increase the use of the phone to a noticeable effect on classic. It will just be another feature removal for the servers where the phones are generally used, which are the RP-ones.

This is very dismissive, I said already that this negatively effects 3 as well where I've had players discourage me from picking up ringing phones in rounds where no emagging has happened even though in character they haven't been able to justify why I shouldn't.

My former answer was dismissive and a bit poorly phrased. I think in the first part of this reply i phrased my opinion better.

Also, I would seriously consider ahelping someone who tries to discourage you from engaging in RP because of metaknowledge about niche-interactions. This behaviour shouldn't fly at all.