Feedback on the EMAGed Borg Rework

[jan.antilles]

I feel like this take is a bit extreme. Ive seen a lot of very interesting and fun things come of this, and I dont see how its different from like how people are mindhacked or have their little lore reasons for when theyre traitors etc. Is there ways its done poorly? Of course! But thats with anything not just borgs and emagging vs syndicate frames etc. More often ive seen people with the old vers of emagging on rp servers playing into the 'busted' aspect and I dont see why having a different sort of personality is a bad thing for playing that up? I understand the want to remove metagaming regarding that sort of thing, but it feels more punishing on the player with the fun thing theyre doing rather than the person/people whos metagaming. IDK i just feel like calling it blatantly bad for the game is really extreme.

Here's the issue with this. When you lock character lore (which people want, because they enjoy interacting with you) behind being turned into an antag, you incentivize being targeted and made an antagonist purely so that people can interact with Cooler Better Crazier You.

That is blatantly metagaming, even if it looks harmless. People are using information they only have out-of-round (emagging you brings out Edgy You, as opposed to having you do Lawless Borg things) in order to specifically target you. This also becomes a problem because anyone who says "oh that's an emagged cyborg, go fix it before it kills people" will now be denied or called paranoid because "well they haven't done anything yet." (Because they also want to RP with Edgy You and see what wacky things Edgy You will do!)

This is not the point of the 6TC infinite-use "break this machine" card.