Goonhub
10-21-2025, 04:58 PM
Herb reviving Jailbird trait discourse again! Hopefully for the better?
See this thread for relevant prior discussion.
I don't intend to discuss wider ranging overhauls to the system, I don't really think I have anything useful to add on top of what's been mentioned before. Just a little thing that's still been irking me.
I don't think we should be writing off Jailbird charges because they happened "off-station" or they're outside our scope. They're in our records system, they've been set to arrest on our system, our department is tasked with dealing with them.
This does not mean that Jailbird charges should be chased to the ends of the earth every single time. They didn't actually "happen" in an OOC sense, we were gonna need to triage them out anyway because they're not as impactful on the course of the round. It doesn't mean we can't roleplay them as a system glitch or a mistake or whatever. I've taken to putting them on bail pending a trial if there isn't a lot of drive to push the scenario further. I just think it doesn't make sense that we can write them off as not our problem IC when we get wanted posters printed and records data changed with each character.
The impact of a cultural change like this, honestly? I don't think it amounts to all that much. It could be a pet peeve overblown. Dunno!
See this thread for relevant prior discussion.
I don't intend to discuss wider ranging overhauls to the system, I don't really think I have anything useful to add on top of what's been mentioned before. Just a little thing that's still been irking me.
I don't think we should be writing off Jailbird charges because they happened "off-station" or they're outside our scope. They're in our records system, they've been set to arrest on our system, our department is tasked with dealing with them.
This does not mean that Jailbird charges should be chased to the ends of the earth every single time. They didn't actually "happen" in an OOC sense, we were gonna need to triage them out anyway because they're not as impactful on the course of the round. It doesn't mean we can't roleplay them as a system glitch or a mistake or whatever. I've taken to putting them on bail pending a trial if there isn't a lot of drive to push the scenario further. I just think it doesn't make sense that we can write them off as not our problem IC when we get wanted posters printed and records data changed with each character.
The impact of a cultural change like this, honestly? I don't think it amounts to all that much. It could be a pet peeve overblown. Dunno!