Goonhub
04-08-2015, 03:57 PM
if you have an AI who's enforcing the ProtectStation law and beating up people for busting into medbay (which is a perfectly reasonable thing given the wording of the law), chances are they'll just counter-lawyer right back. For instance, like all suicidal tasks, they could claim they have no specific timeframe required to do so. At that point it's really just simpler for all involved to reset the AI. If they wanted to be chill about it, they would have done so right from the start.
Also frankly the AI/borgs have few non-lethal options for neutralizing people. Pretty much the only alternative is waiting for them to go somewhere secluded and bolting them in, or in the hands of a few skilled AIs, sending them on a one-way trip to the solarium, neither of which is an especially appealing alternative.
And I dunno, it seems like if you just have it built in (but stated nowhere in the game itself) that the only people this really applies to are antags, it turns it into a generic 'kill da bad guys' law, where there's no reason for the Captain not to upload it right at roundstart because there's no chance of it backfiring on him.
Also frankly the AI/borgs have few non-lethal options for neutralizing people. Pretty much the only alternative is waiting for them to go somewhere secluded and bolting them in, or in the hands of a few skilled AIs, sending them on a one-way trip to the solarium, neither of which is an especially appealing alternative.
And I dunno, it seems like if you just have it built in (but stated nowhere in the game itself) that the only people this really applies to are antags, it turns it into a generic 'kill da bad guys' law, where there's no reason for the Captain not to upload it right at roundstart because there's no chance of it backfiring on him.