The Good Sec Thread(tm)

[btek]

im a dummy

yar har fiddly dee dee

Ok, I read a few pages and I still stick to what I said. You're all trying to get security to act "proper". The way I've always seen it, there should always be ambiguity in this game. I mean sure, there's the basic facets of what to do as a security officer but what doesn't get them banned should be a learning experience. Being a security officer is like a sword of Damocles. There's all that power but comes at the cost of going horribly wrong for you based on your own decisions. If everything is premeditated then where's the fun?

If someone's read the rules and knows how to handle a job such as security in a semi-competent fashion, then they'll know what to do and what is the wrong thing to do.
Granted, my rule on brig times should be and is hopefully elaborated on in the thread.
But those rules are the rules that are there to not get you in trouble. Everything else is up to the security officer to figure out what to do while not breaking any other fundamental rules on this server.

this seems like a bad way to think. aiming for 'people start off really shitty but get better' just seems worse than aiming for 'some people start off as sensible, decent security officers and get better(and some are still shit anyways, but we tried!)'.

How about "inexperienced"? Gaining experience is still a huge part of ss13. No one just starts "good". I'd rather have an experienced security officer rather than some insufferable greenhorn jackass who tries to emulate "the good cop".

How about I put it this way: "These security officers were hired by nanotrasen. They're rent-a-cops. Paid dirt cheap. They only do their jobs grudgingly because they don't want to be fired. Any of the finer points in their job, they believe it's within their rights to choose how to do it. Some serious RP for those of you fans out there.