Goonhub
12-27-2024, 05:49 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-27-2024, 05:50 AM by mona. Edited 3 times in total.
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eh. i'm not sure i super care since i've played without it before and it was mostly just fine then.
i do think it's worth considering though that sec panic buttons were added in the security assistant PR. that's pretty telling to me, and frankly even though the PDA is a good tool for many things in this game, it's an unoptimized piece of crap that i don't think new players really want to interact with because it's so crungy to navigate. the pr says there's no justification for why it was added but i think it's sort of clear that this was the implicit justification. the pda isn't user-friendly to new players and stubborn ones and a hud button is simpler. for the same reason we have the ticketwriter item AND the ticketwriter app, and why we have security records PCs + the recordtrak AND the security records app. there's a lot of things that have a lot of overlap in this game but some of it is easier and more "tactile" to use and learn for some people, and others might prefer having everything on their PDA which is extremely portable. carb was a good mentor, i think he was sensitive to all of this when making that PR, though i'll welcome anyone else who knows more to weigh in.
and then what other people said, that it's a safety net. it's become a safety net for EVERYONE in sec, which is what i understand everyone has a problem with, but i'm not that interested in kneecapping sec assistants. maybe they get a special PDA module for it and everyone else just gets one without it.
i do think it's worth considering though that sec panic buttons were added in the security assistant PR. that's pretty telling to me, and frankly even though the PDA is a good tool for many things in this game, it's an unoptimized piece of crap that i don't think new players really want to interact with because it's so crungy to navigate. the pr says there's no justification for why it was added but i think it's sort of clear that this was the implicit justification. the pda isn't user-friendly to new players and stubborn ones and a hud button is simpler. for the same reason we have the ticketwriter item AND the ticketwriter app, and why we have security records PCs + the recordtrak AND the security records app. there's a lot of things that have a lot of overlap in this game but some of it is easier and more "tactile" to use and learn for some people, and others might prefer having everything on their PDA which is extremely portable. carb was a good mentor, i think he was sensitive to all of this when making that PR, though i'll welcome anyone else who knows more to weigh in.
and then what other people said, that it's a safety net. it's become a safety net for EVERYONE in sec, which is what i understand everyone has a problem with, but i'm not that interested in kneecapping sec assistants. maybe they get a special PDA module for it and everyone else just gets one without it.