Goonhub
08-02-2016, 02:00 PM
So I was writing 
about access and IDs and the HoP and I had an idea: what if you could get into a place with written permission of a sort?
Thus comes the idea of "access slips"/"access passes". Essentially, these would function as name-less, bank-less, access-only ID cards that a given department (perhaps a head, perhaps just someone with access to the printer) could print and give to a person, allowing them access into that department/possibly certain machines without having to fuck with their ID. In turn, you could, say:
- Area access could be programmed room-by-room for a department (think the HoP console but limited to the responsible computer's area)
- Access passes clip on to your ID to grant extra access (some electromagnetic stuff) and can then be removed; beat someone up and steal all their hall passes
This wouldn't completely invalidate the HoP, since you'd still need area power to the machines, some small amount of resources, ID permission to use the fabricators, and at the end of the day an ID with all the stuff baked in is more space- and time-efficient than carrying around a wallet full of hall passes. But, it provides a way for spacemen to do something nice for each other and help promote cross-interaction between departments without relying on the HoP/tabling someone and using his computer since he left the card in it*
(*If you do this while I am HoP & at the computer I will personally put your ID in the garbage)
about access and IDs and the HoP and I had an idea: what if you could get into a place with written permission of a sort?Thus comes the idea of "access slips"/"access passes". Essentially, these would function as name-less, bank-less, access-only ID cards that a given department (perhaps a head, perhaps just someone with access to the printer) could print and give to a person, allowing them access into that department/possibly certain machines without having to fuck with their ID. In turn, you could, say:
- Give someone preferential healthcare treatment in return for their donations to Medbay
- Sell someone preferential healthcare treatment in return for their "donations" to Medbay
- Allow test subjects & research assistants in without having to open the doors for them all the time
- Distribute access passes to able-bodied crewmembers in order for them to access valuable station-repair elements, without some jackoff running in and stealing it all because you bolted the doors open instead
- Be a jerk and toss out free cards to assistants so they crowd your department as a traitor so as to distract from the evil things you're doing
- Area access could be programmed room-by-room for a department (think the HoP console but limited to the responsible computer's area)
- Access passes clip on to your ID to grant extra access (some electromagnetic stuff) and can then be removed; beat someone up and steal all their hall passes
This wouldn't completely invalidate the HoP, since you'd still need area power to the machines, some small amount of resources, ID permission to use the fabricators, and at the end of the day an ID with all the stuff baked in is more space- and time-efficient than carrying around a wallet full of hall passes. But, it provides a way for spacemen to do something nice for each other and help promote cross-interaction between departments without relying on the HoP/tabling someone and using his computer since he left the card in it*
(*If you do this while I am HoP & at the computer I will personally put your ID in the garbage)