Goonhub
12-20-2021, 11:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-20-2021, 11:22 AM by AlyasGrey. Edited 1 time in total.)
To expand on Filthy Steve's concept of having an actual reason to use something like this, I could see it's application specifically on blobs if we wanted to change the win condition from expanding to 500 tiles to forcing evacuation and preventing the station self-destruct.
The charge would have to be located in the same place every round, be unmovable and only be able to be triggered by a special shuttle call command that sets a timer to detonate after the shuttle leaves.
Downsides I can pretty much guarantee would be even more incentivizing of immediate shuttle calls on blob rounds and people engaging in the compelling gameplay of building lots of reinforced walls around the charge before calling.
Outside of that concept, which I managed to completely talk myself out of thinking might be fun... a station self-destruct really does just end up being a mechanic that is only useful to antagonists but also just pushes command antags even farther up the power curve than they already are. It's also a single round ending action with little fun gameplay for most of the crew that probably end up being excessively trivial to pull off.
And that's without even going into the massive self-antag potential if it's use isn't somehow locked behind a purchasable traitor item, which then begs the question of explaining why exactly Nanotrasen would have something that works that way in the first place.
The charge would have to be located in the same place every round, be unmovable and only be able to be triggered by a special shuttle call command that sets a timer to detonate after the shuttle leaves.
Downsides I can pretty much guarantee would be even more incentivizing of immediate shuttle calls on blob rounds and people engaging in the compelling gameplay of building lots of reinforced walls around the charge before calling.
Outside of that concept, which I managed to completely talk myself out of thinking might be fun... a station self-destruct really does just end up being a mechanic that is only useful to antagonists but also just pushes command antags even farther up the power curve than they already are. It's also a single round ending action with little fun gameplay for most of the crew that probably end up being excessively trivial to pull off.
And that's without even going into the massive self-antag potential if it's use isn't somehow locked behind a purchasable traitor item, which then begs the question of explaining why exactly Nanotrasen would have something that works that way in the first place.