Goonhub
04-12-2015, 02:04 PM
the biggest issue with spy and the thing that made it "rev but with 6 teams" was the fact that every spymaster got 5 permanent implants. That means that in any given round there were on the order of 25 people with a license to kill. That's a recipe for chaos and rampages, even if you take the rampage items out of the PDA. What happened every round, basically, was that for the first 10-20 minutes the spies would build a team, and then the teams would deathmatch.
Here's my suggestion: If the spymaster wants permanent mindslaves he can buy for 6 crystals like everyone else. What he gets for free is a kind of Manchurian Candidate stealth brainwashing thing.
Let's disguise it as a pen, because I'm lazy and can't think of anything else right now. So you click on the pen and you get to set 2 things: 1 is an item or codephrase that will activate the implant later, and 2 is an action that you want the implantee to perform. Then you go poke someone with it. Nothing happens to them until they see the item or get the codephrase. When they are activated they become a mindslave for 5-10 minutes with the only goal of completing the action they were programmed to. You can't give them more orders, they are only a mindslave to performing their preprogrammed action. And while you could program them to "follow every order Joe Schmoe gives you" then they know who you are and when the very short duration of the implant wears off they will be shouting your name to the whole station.
also there should be limited charges on it I guess but if you're unfortunate you should be able to have multiple spies brainwash you and then activate you for different things at the same time because it would be funny
I think this would lend itself more to Spy Vs. Spy type fuckery rather than "get 5 buddies, give them lasers and shoot every motherfucker you see"
Here's my suggestion: If the spymaster wants permanent mindslaves he can buy for 6 crystals like everyone else. What he gets for free is a kind of Manchurian Candidate stealth brainwashing thing.
Let's disguise it as a pen, because I'm lazy and can't think of anything else right now. So you click on the pen and you get to set 2 things: 1 is an item or codephrase that will activate the implant later, and 2 is an action that you want the implantee to perform. Then you go poke someone with it. Nothing happens to them until they see the item or get the codephrase. When they are activated they become a mindslave for 5-10 minutes with the only goal of completing the action they were programmed to. You can't give them more orders, they are only a mindslave to performing their preprogrammed action. And while you could program them to "follow every order Joe Schmoe gives you" then they know who you are and when the very short duration of the implant wears off they will be shouting your name to the whole station.
also there should be limited charges on it I guess but if you're unfortunate you should be able to have multiple spies brainwash you and then activate you for different things at the same time because it would be funny
I think this would lend itself more to Spy Vs. Spy type fuckery rather than "get 5 buddies, give them lasers and shoot every motherfucker you see"