Goonhub
01-19-2013, 11:29 PM
Some other servers have lawyers, and even on some serious RP stations the lawyers are ignored 50% of the time by security. That's with a playerbase that follows regulations to the letter. If we had a lawyer job here on Goonstation, security would just tell the lawyer to fuck off every single round the moment he opens his mouth, and would just get the HoP to demote him to Staff Assistant before he frees a traitor or some bullshit.
Honestly if I'm playing security and an assistant in a lawyer suit comes up requesting to help a criminal I let them. It's a gimmick. It's not there every round, so I'm more inclined to listen to them. If Lawyer was a job I might abide them for a few rounds, but it would get pretty old pretty quickly, and then we would just reach the point where everyone ignores them simply out of habit.
Idea incoming:
That being said, I'm a little conflicted on the idea overall. While these filler jobs are basically shoehorning someone into doing one particular gimmick - which is unfun, there's not a whole lot to be lost by adding them to the mix. Maybe make a new group in the job selection screen titled "Filler" and have a "Be Filler" option at the bottom near "Be Captain," Be AI," etc. It would default as "No." This means people who don't want to be a filler job never have to be one, and people who do can put those in their preferences.
Everyone walks away happy, as people who want to play filler jobs get to, and people who don't will never have to if they don't want to.
Honestly if I'm playing security and an assistant in a lawyer suit comes up requesting to help a criminal I let them. It's a gimmick. It's not there every round, so I'm more inclined to listen to them. If Lawyer was a job I might abide them for a few rounds, but it would get pretty old pretty quickly, and then we would just reach the point where everyone ignores them simply out of habit.
Idea incoming:
That being said, I'm a little conflicted on the idea overall. While these filler jobs are basically shoehorning someone into doing one particular gimmick - which is unfun, there's not a whole lot to be lost by adding them to the mix. Maybe make a new group in the job selection screen titled "Filler" and have a "Be Filler" option at the bottom near "Be Captain," Be AI," etc. It would default as "No." This means people who don't want to be a filler job never have to be one, and people who do can put those in their preferences.
Everyone walks away happy, as people who want to play filler jobs get to, and people who don't will never have to if they don't want to.