Struggling with Escalation rules with Antag

[SalmonidJester]

From personal experience, HOW you rogue the AI is another thing that plays into escalation in this case. I played a round in the last month or so where an inspector came in, and since my original antag plan fell through I decided "oh, i'm just gonna target the inspector since i'm the acting captain." Instead of inserting a huge kill law or a complete subversion law, I put in a law that specifically ONLY targeted the inspector. Then, when I eventually had met the inspector in the bridge, I was able to have the borgs come into the room and ominously lock the doors with by random chance a vampire who was ALSO going to kill the inspector. That wouldn't have happened with a generic kill law, and is i'd say probably more interesting of a law for the borgs to follow than a subversion law. Later in the round, I upgraded it to a kill law when a admin decided to spawn in a nanotrasen hitsquad and we were about to get in a shootout, because then it ACTUALLY made sense, we were brazenly taking over the station at that point.

Most of the other people in the thread have said much of exactly what I already think on escalation and how to do it, make your presence known and your intention to your target, whether its a singular person, a department, or the entire station.