change/remove emagging phones

[Snoid]

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.

i only play goon 1 and ive seen countless people try and use phones, and whenever someone notices a phone is ringing, they opt to not answer mostly because theyre worried about the explosion. this happens to me too, i WANT to answer phones but i dont want to get an explosion in the face. im kinda uncertain why youre arguing for keeping the emagging of them because it seems to me that goon 3 players arent even allowed to emag them, so this is an issue that near solely effects goon 1. wizards love calling the crew, nukies sometimes call the crew, clowns love prank calling people, radio show hosts love getting calls, etc. 

we arent as barbaric as you might think, we love having our fun little moments and scenarios the same as you, i just dont like having to pretend im someone im not.