Goonhub
07-21-2015, 07:14 AM
When you''re playing sec, assuming you're planning to play by the rules you're meant to capture someone, stick them in the cells then let them go. Except people shy away from this for one very simple reason, being left to your own devices in the cells are boring.
One of the things that is intended to happen which would make sec much more effective is that when a staff member is being brigged is they're supposed to be given their orange uniform and have their shit searched for anything incriminating, but this never gets done as due to the limitations of both the UI and BYOND as an engine, this takes so long that it can take longer to get someone out of their clothes piece by piece and put them in orange than the time they would be brigged for.
I therefore suggest an item that automates the process. It will only accept either documented staff (those with a job and an ID) if their record is set to incarcerated (accomplished by scanning the perp with the hand scanner when bringing them in. Undocumented staff will be accepted regardless. The machine will suck all their clothes and possessions into an evidence locker. They will then be spat out wearing prison orange and the corresponding shoes, the machine won't remove cuffs or the ID if the perp has one. Then they can be brigged as necessary.
This streamlines a part of the game currently limited by UI mechanics. When a character is ejected from the prison there should be some sort of vending machine near the brig door that will vomit out their belongings upon insertion of their ID card (people incarcerated without an ID will just get a claim ticket). This minimises dead sec time.Often when somebody is arrested they sit in the brig for 3 minutes then return to what they were doing. They aren't scanned or documented because these actions are often just too slow and it gets pretty awkward. A shakedown machine would mean a suspect would spend less time bucklecuffed in the brig office with staff stunningt him every 20 seconds just to be sure and would mean that sec staff can actually do something security...ish with a suspect instead of just brigging them and forgetting them, it could also be the first step in changing the act of brigging from weird meta moderation to a more proggessive act of "detention while we figure out if you're a threat or not"
thougthts?
One of the things that is intended to happen which would make sec much more effective is that when a staff member is being brigged is they're supposed to be given their orange uniform and have their shit searched for anything incriminating, but this never gets done as due to the limitations of both the UI and BYOND as an engine, this takes so long that it can take longer to get someone out of their clothes piece by piece and put them in orange than the time they would be brigged for.
I therefore suggest an item that automates the process. It will only accept either documented staff (those with a job and an ID) if their record is set to incarcerated (accomplished by scanning the perp with the hand scanner when bringing them in. Undocumented staff will be accepted regardless. The machine will suck all their clothes and possessions into an evidence locker. They will then be spat out wearing prison orange and the corresponding shoes, the machine won't remove cuffs or the ID if the perp has one. Then they can be brigged as necessary.
This streamlines a part of the game currently limited by UI mechanics. When a character is ejected from the prison there should be some sort of vending machine near the brig door that will vomit out their belongings upon insertion of their ID card (people incarcerated without an ID will just get a claim ticket). This minimises dead sec time.Often when somebody is arrested they sit in the brig for 3 minutes then return to what they were doing. They aren't scanned or documented because these actions are often just too slow and it gets pretty awkward. A shakedown machine would mean a suspect would spend less time bucklecuffed in the brig office with staff stunningt him every 20 seconds just to be sure and would mean that sec staff can actually do something security...ish with a suspect instead of just brigging them and forgetting them, it could also be the first step in changing the act of brigging from weird meta moderation to a more proggessive act of "detention while we figure out if you're a threat or not"
thougthts?