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I don't like off-station crimes and I can't describe why
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(05-31-2025, 09:21 PM)JanusRose Wrote: Jailbirds arriving as convicts would be cool. Maybe they'd have different sentences instead of "having to pay off a debt". And maybe the convicts could be a few different types.

Normal convicts who are serving a sentence by being in the brig for some type, maybe spawn with one random item on their person to help. Convict with a death sentence, perhaps these prisoners did a more heinous space crime and have a limited time to escape or accept their fate.

And maybe a mutant convict, some weird mutant prisoner that at least for rp reasons isn't treated like a prisoner and is sort of a nanotrasen secret project. I guess this deviates from the initial jailbird trait, but maybe this would be cool.

Perhaps extremely unfairly: I would dismiss this or any "deliberate method of ending up in the brig as prisoner" idea out of hand simply because a majority of people who seem to ask for it are people who really either struggle to remain unbanned or are getting banned because they struggle with basic rules. No thank you. No thank you forever. No thank you in general.

Slightly more fair reasoning: The -useful- thing about jailbird right now is that security can logically and reasonably elect to focus on antagonists (of whom's moment to be in the limelight is now and something they may have had to wait some time for) rather than off-station crimes (which would be every single round with a trait like this) when things are crazy/busy. This is a bit harder to ignore without some cognitive dissonance of turfing "prisoners" every round.
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RE: I don't like off-station crimes and I can't describe why - by Lefinch - 05-31-2025, 09:43 PM

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