Goonhub
06-03-2015, 01:04 PM
This idea has merits but it has the same problem as miscreants have.
Nobody really follows miscreant objectives, at least from my experience. It's that while it's a fun little encouragement to try something else, often when I roll I ignore if I am a miscreant as "trying something else" gets a little stale and ironic when it suggests to become a "snake oils salesman" or "establish nightclub in a shady area" over and over. If I want to try something else or even be a little mischievous, i'll do it anyway and I won't look for permission from the game to do so.
And it'll be the same problem with this. You'll have people spawning as sec and they'll see that "tomatoes are illegal" and immediately ignore it because they know if they try and enforce this, that it'll cause absolute chaos. And if they feel like causing a little chaos anyway, they'll arrest someone for tomato throwing without the game telling them that they can and just make up a reason on the spot for doing so, like gross misconduct or something. That's what I'd do anyway, but I don't.. much.
Ultimately, yes this could be fun but these open ended things where people have a choice to ignore it, well, they'll be ignored. I'm not saying that we should or shouldn't have space laws, although I'm against the idea of concrete space laws on one hand yet love space trials on the other so advice from me is questionable at best.
Nobody really follows miscreant objectives, at least from my experience. It's that while it's a fun little encouragement to try something else, often when I roll I ignore if I am a miscreant as "trying something else" gets a little stale and ironic when it suggests to become a "snake oils salesman" or "establish nightclub in a shady area" over and over. If I want to try something else or even be a little mischievous, i'll do it anyway and I won't look for permission from the game to do so.
And it'll be the same problem with this. You'll have people spawning as sec and they'll see that "tomatoes are illegal" and immediately ignore it because they know if they try and enforce this, that it'll cause absolute chaos. And if they feel like causing a little chaos anyway, they'll arrest someone for tomato throwing without the game telling them that they can and just make up a reason on the spot for doing so, like gross misconduct or something. That's what I'd do anyway, but I don't.. much.
Ultimately, yes this could be fun but these open ended things where people have a choice to ignore it, well, they'll be ignored. I'm not saying that we should or shouldn't have space laws, although I'm against the idea of concrete space laws on one hand yet love space trials on the other so advice from me is questionable at best.