Goonhub
03-01-2025, 01:08 PM
Personal take on the matter: making cuff breakouts inevitable after enough attempts just puts a lot of time pressure on security and forces them to crack down even harder just to do something as simple as putting a criminal in the brig. Assuming they don't want to cooperate, anyone they bring in will be disinclined to talk with their arrester because that's time they could spend mashing the resist key so they can be out sooner. As a consequence, officers are incentivized to process prisoners as quickly and efficiently as possible, or do things like permanently stun them, to avoid an endless cycle of Staffie McGraytide trying to beat them up.
Similarly, simply letting people fight back while cuffed, no matter how limited, encourages people to do so until they literally can't, because the alternative to doing something is letting security search and brig you. This scenario, again, forces security to adopt more oppressive methods just to perform basic arrests.
Maybe the power of cuffs can be dialed back, but the average assistant can't be trusted with the ability to negate them with zero effort.
P.S. if security is keeping you for an excessively long time, you should ahelp it
Similarly, simply letting people fight back while cuffed, no matter how limited, encourages people to do so until they literally can't, because the alternative to doing something is letting security search and brig you. This scenario, again, forces security to adopt more oppressive methods just to perform basic arrests.
Maybe the power of cuffs can be dialed back, but the average assistant can't be trusted with the ability to negate them with zero effort.
P.S. if security is keeping you for an excessively long time, you should ahelp it