Goonhub
09-16-2015, 07:43 PM
Well, considering the point of the thread was probably to garner opinions on what the community likes and dislikes, I might as well list some of my preferences. Remember: these are only opinions on what I respect or find boring/distasteful. They are not an attempt on my part to dictate playstyle. Do what you want so long as it's within the rules.
I like:
General:
- Quick, high action rampages so bad they cause an early shuttle call.
- Everything exploded at once.
- Gimmicks like serving people as food, or holding hostages, or being a hitman, or rigging tarot readings to show people their death before you eat them.
- Good usage of job items like the clown car, telegun, maneaters, or genetic screwdriver.
- Good use of social skills.
- Funny or unique AI laws that aren't some version of 'murder everything now'.
- Being hella robust. Note: A lot of people don't seem to know what robust is. Killing lots of people while wearing indy armor, magboots, and stungloves while using 2 eguns, 2 shotguns, and a c saber is not robust. It's being prepared. Taking down the HoS, his cronies, and the HoP while naked and armed with nothing but a battery; now THAT is robust.
Wizard:
- Gimmicks. Doubly so. This is because it can be really hard to run a gimmick as wiz. Especially since wiz is fairly rare and most people don't wanna risk it.
Ling:
- Inciting fear and suspicion through voice changing and well placed stings.
I dislike:
General:
- Uber-cheese. We had a guy who repeatedly built a closed, n2o filled room on z3 with a blocked-in telepad. It was neat the first time, but not being able to do anything gets stale real quick. People also generally dislike cloaked crushers from mechanics, but I don't mind them.
- Turbomurder AIs. Particularly the kind that are so enthralled in killing everything that it invariable winds up killing the one human. Or the ones that abandon the spirit of what could be a fun law just so they can lawyer their way into killing everything with plasma cans and clf3 foam.
- Trying to force a bad gimmick. This actually goes to non-antags too, and is something I can still do if I'm not paying attention. Sometimes gimmicks just don't sell. If it don't sell, then it probably sucks, and will still suck if you get some pity participants.
Ling/Vamp:
- Overuse of weapons. You have natural gifts; use them for pete sake! I get for emergencies or cooldowns, but I'm seeing a trend of these antags using nothing but guns. It just leaves a bad taste.
I hate:
- Holding the shuttle hostage. 90 minutes in and we find the antag running around in the darkness trying to find that last person who happened to go braindead on icemoon 60 minutes prior. Holy crap how bored are you?
Scum tier:
- Being creepy or racist. Naturally. Racism is easy to define. Creepy? Best to avoid anything sexually charged. Stripping someone and melting their clothing? Hilarious. Beating someone with a baton as stand over them naked and screaming "LICK MY SHAFT"? Yeah. That's a creep.
Final note: This isn't how to play. This is just how a single player (me) views player actions. I'm not the whole goonstation community. I'll probably get backlash for having opinions. Eh. People just have different opinions. Strange, huh?
I like:
General:
- Quick, high action rampages so bad they cause an early shuttle call.
- Everything exploded at once.
- Gimmicks like serving people as food, or holding hostages, or being a hitman, or rigging tarot readings to show people their death before you eat them.
- Good usage of job items like the clown car, telegun, maneaters, or genetic screwdriver.
- Good use of social skills.
- Funny or unique AI laws that aren't some version of 'murder everything now'.
- Being hella robust. Note: A lot of people don't seem to know what robust is. Killing lots of people while wearing indy armor, magboots, and stungloves while using 2 eguns, 2 shotguns, and a c saber is not robust. It's being prepared. Taking down the HoS, his cronies, and the HoP while naked and armed with nothing but a battery; now THAT is robust.
Wizard:
- Gimmicks. Doubly so. This is because it can be really hard to run a gimmick as wiz. Especially since wiz is fairly rare and most people don't wanna risk it.
Ling:
- Inciting fear and suspicion through voice changing and well placed stings.
I dislike:
General:
- Uber-cheese. We had a guy who repeatedly built a closed, n2o filled room on z3 with a blocked-in telepad. It was neat the first time, but not being able to do anything gets stale real quick. People also generally dislike cloaked crushers from mechanics, but I don't mind them.
- Turbomurder AIs. Particularly the kind that are so enthralled in killing everything that it invariable winds up killing the one human. Or the ones that abandon the spirit of what could be a fun law just so they can lawyer their way into killing everything with plasma cans and clf3 foam.
- Trying to force a bad gimmick. This actually goes to non-antags too, and is something I can still do if I'm not paying attention. Sometimes gimmicks just don't sell. If it don't sell, then it probably sucks, and will still suck if you get some pity participants.
Ling/Vamp:
- Overuse of weapons. You have natural gifts; use them for pete sake! I get for emergencies or cooldowns, but I'm seeing a trend of these antags using nothing but guns. It just leaves a bad taste.
I hate:
- Holding the shuttle hostage. 90 minutes in and we find the antag running around in the darkness trying to find that last person who happened to go braindead on icemoon 60 minutes prior. Holy crap how bored are you?
Scum tier:
- Being creepy or racist. Naturally. Racism is easy to define. Creepy? Best to avoid anything sexually charged. Stripping someone and melting their clothing? Hilarious. Beating someone with a baton as stand over them naked and screaming "LICK MY SHAFT"? Yeah. That's a creep.
Final note: This isn't how to play. This is just how a single player (me) views player actions. I'm not the whole goonstation community. I'll probably get backlash for having opinions. Eh. People just have different opinions. Strange, huh?