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[Sundance]

I feel exactly the same way. It's not going to take a "trial" or "test" round to figure out that people know how to break into things and the armory looks real easy for anyone to break in and steal all the guns.

I'd rather the armory be frequently broken into and consequentially deserve actual monitoring instead of just sitting there completely unused in about half of most rounds. It also goes the other way, giving the station the ability to hastily smash their way into the armory to help combat a major threat in the event that a HoS isn't present, which is a lot more often than you might think. It gives the armory a purpose aside from "that place that Heads of Security have access to and also gets broken into by traitors with emags".

Hey man if you want more people running around with guns shooting people all the time and want one security officer to constantly guarding the place all round. Then more power to you. But I think it's easy to see why that's not so fun. I rather a traitor with a emag break in then having some random person with common tools take all these powerful guns.

I'd rather not there be a "trial" period as that to me sounds more like "A painful time to be security until a coder may or may not notice" period

I'm fairly middle ground here. While I agree that the armory shouldn't be a emag only zone, I also agree that the armory should be far more secure than it is currently, and that does NOT involve security guarding it 24/7 because security in this map will already be stretched thin as is. Really what it needs is a hardcoded gun-buddy system, a lockdown system that shuts the person in similar to Sierra Madre vault in F:NV. It should be difficult to break in, may require you to disable systems or use explosives. Currently I can see experienced players waltzing in there with no qualms.
People need to realize that even if there was an officer guarding it, then once the person breaks in, that officer is already not equipped for the person who clearly now outguns him with a bag full of guns.