Feedback on the EMAGed Borg Rework

[xenomni]

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.

I definitely do understand that. At the same time, I do feel like the 'haven't done anything yet' bit is iffy for me. A lot of roboticists in particular but silicon lovers in general are inclined to not fix an emagged cyborg for lots of reasons that don't involve this specifically. Firstly is just that emags have worked differently up until now obviously, but more so im referring to just character traits of being lenient, trusting, etc. Like, I definitely get the metagaming aspect, but I wanna note that not fixing an emagged borg can have nothing to do with who the borg is and completely be on the roboticist or other people who are supposed to fix them having their own opinions on things IC. (idk how coherent any of this was tbh, my point is basically that like just bc someone doesnt wanna fix an emagged cyborg doesnt mean it has anything to do with like the cyborg characters lore)

Actually on that note, I do think raising the price of the emag card could be useful if things like this become an issue- not just this specifically but various situations revolving it. That note is completely off the topic of the quote tbh just kinda popped up that I support a price raise for such a dangerous break everything item.