Goonhub
03-12-2013, 07:43 PM
If you jail people, you're playing wrong.
For small crimes, cuff somebody and give them a stern lecture/good YELL in the nearest room.
If they have stolen something important or from other players, take it away and return it.
If they have done something wrong out of inexperience, explain to them.
The time it takes to do the above is usually punishment enough.
When do I brig? If I catch someone attacking people over and over, and they have already been given a chance.
When they are actively ruining other people's game, not committing some silly "crime".
If it is a traitor, for a couple of minutes as a sort of punishment and "rehabilitation" (yeah, right).
The more time you spend in the brig, while you're sec, the less people you have a chance to help out (and, yes, they do remember); and more likely it will be that you have to face a few riotous dumbasses.
The current brig works well, and the lack of automatic timing requires you to decide whether the time spent watching an inmate would be better spent elsewhere.
For small crimes, cuff somebody and give them a stern lecture/good YELL in the nearest room.
If they have stolen something important or from other players, take it away and return it.
If they have done something wrong out of inexperience, explain to them.
The time it takes to do the above is usually punishment enough.
When do I brig? If I catch someone attacking people over and over, and they have already been given a chance.
When they are actively ruining other people's game, not committing some silly "crime".
If it is a traitor, for a couple of minutes as a sort of punishment and "rehabilitation" (yeah, right).
The more time you spend in the brig, while you're sec, the less people you have a chance to help out (and, yes, they do remember); and more likely it will be that you have to face a few riotous dumbasses.
The current brig works well, and the lack of automatic timing requires you to decide whether the time spent watching an inmate would be better spent elsewhere.