Sec Equipment being overtuned

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concept regarding medical alerts for sec:

instead of having medical alerts be sec's passive insurance against being killed on station, what if they had to be toggled on to work? and each toggle would only last for a few minutes, and each implant was only limited to, say, 3 to 5 uses before the implant itself had to be replaced? from my (admittedly limited) perspective, a lot of sec's ability to retaliate so overwhelmingly against antags is tied to the fact that, when a secoff dies anywhere on station, the rest of the team immediately knows Exactly Where It Happened, and more likely than not they're booking it over there without hesitation

having medical alerts be something that required a little input from the person they're attached to seems like it could remedy this, to some degree. if it's early in a shift and a secoff gets caught unawares, it's not necessarily the open declaration of war against sec that it usually is, but once sec's more in tune with the situation and more likely to know who to be wary around, the risk of targeting them increases too

I do worry this would potentially be A. harder on newbies than anyone else (though that could mean a rise in cloning disk usage! and a good lesson for what to do in the future!) or B. too similar to the pda security alerts... but I want to float the concept, since I found it interesting to think about

Interesting concept! I think that would be a good idea, although potentially I'd like to see it dropped lower than 3, since from my perspective it's unlikely you'll be using it more than once or twice a shift.