Goonhub
12-31-2014, 10:25 PM
Something else worth mentioning is that the level of communication security officers tend to have with each other is...disheartening, to say the least. Every now and then, when I decide to pick up Detective (the only Security role I tend to play as due to being an unrobust loser), I match occasional pitches into the security frequency to ask the officers what's up. In a good portion of instances, I hear absolutely nothing from a good portion of the officers in the security frequency, or even from the NORMAL radio frequencies. This has been rather troubling, and it's a bit hard to be able to trust Security Officers when they're being dead silent.
I think that something that contributes to this is the fact that the maximum capacity for Security Officers is rather high. As a result of this, unless there's a surge of people playing Security for some reason or another, the vast majority of latejoiners have Security Officer as an option, and as compared to stuff like Botanist or Quartermaster, a lot of people are going to leap at the chance to be an Officer if only because it's the most immediately appealing of all of the presented options. This is veering into my own opinion, and it's an opinion backed up by little actual security experience and thus can be taken with as much table salt as desired, but I think that the security force of SS13 should be smaller but more focused as opposed to the widespread, scattered ragtag group of dudes in red jumpsuits that I've observed.
I think that something that contributes to this is the fact that the maximum capacity for Security Officers is rather high. As a result of this, unless there's a surge of people playing Security for some reason or another, the vast majority of latejoiners have Security Officer as an option, and as compared to stuff like Botanist or Quartermaster, a lot of people are going to leap at the chance to be an Officer if only because it's the most immediately appealing of all of the presented options. This is veering into my own opinion, and it's an opinion backed up by little actual security experience and thus can be taken with as much table salt as desired, but I think that the security force of SS13 should be smaller but more focused as opposed to the widespread, scattered ragtag group of dudes in red jumpsuits that I've observed.