Goonhub
07-19-2015, 07:01 PM
I will say what I said when I was asked about this recently:
Security doesn't need a belt to do its job.
Engineering needs a belt because there are six standard tools as well as building materials and fire extinguishers and god knows what else that they need to juggle.
Mining gets a belt because they need room to fit their explosives, their hammer, their laser drill, their scanner, and they need it all somewhere that isn't a backpack that would fill up a hand slot.
Security needs a taser, a flash, a pair of handcuffs or three and their PDA, and that's about it. They can have more but it's not a requirement of the job. They don't NEED a belt because they aren't impeded. I am not arguing against the idea of giving security their own inventory item, but the servers I've seen secbelts on also have a shitload more tools to perform security tasks with than us because security in other servers is downright over-prepared for threats.
And consider how this could be abused. Do you really want a belt that anyone can wear, that can be stolen and filled with energy guns and used to keep the hands free of some spacesuit-wearing psychopath/vigilante? We don't really need a Space Punisher around the station, we get enough of that shit with the players who DON'T have a super convenient security utility belt to make their shittery easier.
Security doesn't need a belt to do its job.
Engineering needs a belt because there are six standard tools as well as building materials and fire extinguishers and god knows what else that they need to juggle.
Mining gets a belt because they need room to fit their explosives, their hammer, their laser drill, their scanner, and they need it all somewhere that isn't a backpack that would fill up a hand slot.
Security needs a taser, a flash, a pair of handcuffs or three and their PDA, and that's about it. They can have more but it's not a requirement of the job. They don't NEED a belt because they aren't impeded. I am not arguing against the idea of giving security their own inventory item, but the servers I've seen secbelts on also have a shitload more tools to perform security tasks with than us because security in other servers is downright over-prepared for threats.
And consider how this could be abused. Do you really want a belt that anyone can wear, that can be stolen and filled with energy guns and used to keep the hands free of some spacesuit-wearing psychopath/vigilante? We don't really need a Space Punisher around the station, we get enough of that shit with the players who DON'T have a super convenient security utility belt to make their shittery easier.