Headspidered victim dying should let the spider instantly take over

[Angel]

I play on the RP servers and my feedback will be focused on that area as a result.

I wouldn't call it cheap to consider suicide an option out of the headspider. Is it cheap to jump on a grenade and block to save everyone elses life at the cost of yours? As it stands, the headspider tends to happen right after death to escape in the post-violence chaos, or if security decides to split up and only have one officer drag the corpse to the incinerator - but usually this is a group affair. Once the group sees the headspider hop into John Staffie, they're just gonna beat John to death and then drag him to be incinerated OR drag him to medical where they fail to remove the headspider and they then beat him to death. It's a very dramatic thing to try to stop the headspider and I think that drama is well suited for the RP side of things.

We should look at the headspider form from a broad level then - What is the purpose? To give the changeling a second chance, but its not guaranteed. Why is it not guaranteed? The spider itself is fast but weak, and if your victim has bad luck they could be taken over near immediately, or you could have bad luck and they cut you out. I believe a good starting point here should be standardizing the time (if at all) it takes for someone to be infected by the headspider. As others have stated I've seen it last almost two minutes but usually its either near instant or within ten seconds from what I've seen.

It might also be worth considering changing how the headspider form works as a whole. Admittedly that consideration is far more vague and requires far more thought into it.

I see your point, but I still feel like having to surgery the spider out would lead to more drama and RP, since it also makes it so you have to include medical, or someone able to perform surgery to remove the spider. Also, yeah spider taking a consistent amount of time to take over, instead of how currently it either takes 10 seconds or 2 minutes, would be much better. I would argue surgery would lead to better drama and roleplay, since suicide you could just instantly succumb and that's that, while you dying the spider takes over means there's more drama and the stakes are even higher to be able to successfully perform the surgery. Also, means you could try to perform emergency surgery using a nearby table, if transport to medbay seems like it would take too long and the spider would take over, but with the spider taking over if they die, thats an added risk, while currently doing emergency surgery on a table with not the proper tools would means little to no risk, since if the person dies, the spider also dies. I play both classic and RP, and believe such a change would lead to more interesting scenarios on both servers.