Goonhub
01-19-2013, 11:09 PM
I don't like this idea, honestly. Let's just take Clown as an example.
Clowns basically just run around, trip, and mess with people. This is literally what a Staff Assistant can do in 1 minute with the clown suit in Crew Quarters. The HoP will hand him a Clown ID 9/10 times. People will probably refer to him as "the clown" on sight.
So why not have someone spawn as the clown and save that bit of time? Because all you're doing is setting someone's gimmick out FOR them. I like to run around popping Hyperzine dressed as "MAIL CLOWN" and "delivering hilarity." That's a gimmick I do when I feel like it. But if I spawn in as the clown without actively wanting to be a clown, I'm just going to flush my clothes down disposals and get a job change, because I don't want to be a fucking clown. If I want to be a clown, I just have to rush crew quarters for the outfit. There's just no reason to have people spawn in as the thing. Just because you're the ACTUAL Space Lawyer instead of just an assistant dressed like one is not going to make people any more likely to listen to you. There is no filler job gimmick you can't pull off as an assistant that you could pull off if only your ID started set to the filler job.
Not only that, but people are used to wanting the special outfits for their own gimmicks/vanity purposes. If you make people spawn with them on, they're going to get knocked out and stripped in about 2 minutes.
Clowns basically just run around, trip, and mess with people. This is literally what a Staff Assistant can do in 1 minute with the clown suit in Crew Quarters. The HoP will hand him a Clown ID 9/10 times. People will probably refer to him as "the clown" on sight.
So why not have someone spawn as the clown and save that bit of time? Because all you're doing is setting someone's gimmick out FOR them. I like to run around popping Hyperzine dressed as "MAIL CLOWN" and "delivering hilarity." That's a gimmick I do when I feel like it. But if I spawn in as the clown without actively wanting to be a clown, I'm just going to flush my clothes down disposals and get a job change, because I don't want to be a fucking clown. If I want to be a clown, I just have to rush crew quarters for the outfit. There's just no reason to have people spawn in as the thing. Just because you're the ACTUAL Space Lawyer instead of just an assistant dressed like one is not going to make people any more likely to listen to you. There is no filler job gimmick you can't pull off as an assistant that you could pull off if only your ID started set to the filler job.
Not only that, but people are used to wanting the special outfits for their own gimmicks/vanity purposes. If you make people spawn with them on, they're going to get knocked out and stripped in about 2 minutes.