Goonhub
07-03-2018, 09:21 AM
I enjoy them from time to time but I’m not as big a fan of them as others. The event-related things that turn me off the most:
- Lazy, contextless obstacles like wordlessly spawning a Martian army or filling the station with an ocean of sulfuric acid. A good admin gimmick should at the very least give people the tools they need to deal with it, or ample warning to gather such tools.
- ‘I pressed a button, come see’ ‘haha that looks fun my turn’ and then it’s impossible to get an actual round for the next three hours, because it’s a mess of twelve different admins frantically pressing buttons in an attempt to outdo each other while the server lags to a halt
- Speaking of trying to antag around gimmicks, it’s often impossible to do so because there’s a good chunk of admins who become irritated when their gimmick is not the centerpiece of the round and take measures to recenter it, usually via smiting anyone who tries to actually deal with the problem or escalating it until it becomes a threat impossible to ignore.
- Popecrunch.
- Lazy, contextless obstacles like wordlessly spawning a Martian army or filling the station with an ocean of sulfuric acid. A good admin gimmick should at the very least give people the tools they need to deal with it, or ample warning to gather such tools.
- ‘I pressed a button, come see’ ‘haha that looks fun my turn’ and then it’s impossible to get an actual round for the next three hours, because it’s a mess of twelve different admins frantically pressing buttons in an attempt to outdo each other while the server lags to a halt
- Speaking of trying to antag around gimmicks, it’s often impossible to do so because there’s a good chunk of admins who become irritated when their gimmick is not the centerpiece of the round and take measures to recenter it, usually via smiting anyone who tries to actually deal with the problem or escalating it until it becomes a threat impossible to ignore.
- Popecrunch.