Goonhub
01-12-2013, 12:49 AM
You know, on one hand I kind of agree with btek. Incompetent Sec can be amazing sometimes. Some of the funniest shit I've seen has been because Sec was full of bumbling retards. And having a competent and intelligent Sec team is great and working in such a team is probably one of the most fun things I've ever done in this game, but only if the criminals are a match for them. And a round where both Sec and the Antagonists are both very good at their jobs is rare. The problem is that if the Antag is an idiot then they'll get caught by a good Sec team right away even they aren't really trying. A round with Good Sec and Bad Antags is the least fun kind of round. If the Antag is good and Sec is bad then he'll have free reign to enact whatever horrible schemes he has in mind. If they're both bad then you get to watch a kind of hilarious comedy where people keep fucking up in retarded ways. And if they're both good you can get a pretty cool dynamic going on. But if Sec is good and the Antag is bad, then shit tends to end quickly. As an Hos, I've had this happen to me a lot:
"Hey, HoS, I caught a guy with an esword."
"Alright, keep a lookout for-"
"Nah, he's already cuffed and in the brig."
"Oh, well don't kill him, maybe we can think of something fun to-"
"Sorry, he committed suicide right after I cuffed him."
"Oh, well, uh, good job, I guess! There's still like 6 minutes left before we can call the shuttle, so I guess we should hit the bar or something."
The thing is that it's kind of a permanent problem just with the way that this game works. The person who gets made an antag is totally random and the people who get made Sec are also totally random, so you're rarely going to have a perfect match between them. And since Sec is a 4-man team that (theoretically) works together while Antags tend to be on their own, it's just much less likely that you'll get one person capable of taking Sec on unless Sec is staffed mainly by complete retards, in which case they might as well not exist except as mobile stun baton dispensers.
"Hey, HoS, I caught a guy with an esword."
"Alright, keep a lookout for-"
"Nah, he's already cuffed and in the brig."
"Oh, well don't kill him, maybe we can think of something fun to-"
"Sorry, he committed suicide right after I cuffed him."
"Oh, well, uh, good job, I guess! There's still like 6 minutes left before we can call the shuttle, so I guess we should hit the bar or something."
The thing is that it's kind of a permanent problem just with the way that this game works. The person who gets made an antag is totally random and the people who get made Sec are also totally random, so you're rarely going to have a perfect match between them. And since Sec is a 4-man team that (theoretically) works together while Antags tend to be on their own, it's just much less likely that you'll get one person capable of taking Sec on unless Sec is staffed mainly by complete retards, in which case they might as well not exist except as mobile stun baton dispensers.