Destiny & RP on Goonstation

[BaneOfGiygas]

Not having an arm or leg is debilitating. Not being able to set up the engine when everyone else has fucked off/is absent doesn't make the game more interesting (doubly so when there is a piece of paper with explicit instructions for doing so).

If your arm is missing or the engine lays dormant because the engineers are too busy dicking around in space, that shouldn't be your cue to swoop in and set up a hellburn, that should be the cue for the respective heads of staff to yell at their subordinates for not doing what they're damn well supposed to do. If the respective heads of staff are dicking around, that's when the captain should yell at them, and so on and so forth.

The problem with people doing each other's jobs is that it drastically decreases the need for people to do their jobs. Why be a medic when everyone can perform self-surgery? Why set up the engine when the janitor can hack into the room and do it themselves? Why play security and patrol the station when you've got a sea of greyshirts with the same amount of dexterity around antagonists? On main Goon, no one really cares if you're doing something wildly beyond your job description, which is one of the chief reasons why main Goon is such chaos. But in order to distance Destiny from that kind of bedlam, the guidelines are in place to prevent people from getting into that sort of thing.

"Do whatever, so long as you make a token effort at RP"

"A token effort at RP" implies that the only reason one would bother to even put up the appearance of RP is so they have an excuse to do something they otherwise wouldn't be allowed to do. That's exactly the kind of mindset that brews anarchy, vigilantism, and other things Destiny does not or at the very least should not tolerate.