Goonhub
10-20-2020, 05:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-20-2020, 05:44 AM by Mouse. Edited 1 time in total.)
Have the captain spawn with a little tutorial book that explains things, like, no, you can't order the AI to kill people for kicks, no, you can't murder people for kicks, yes, security is perfectly within its rights to arrest you if you commit crimes, and for the love of god any law that is overridden flat out does not exist stop using override as a nonantag!
Other options: remove the captain's egun entirely, instead give them the saber by default and add a stun mode to it.
The thing is, there are three separate complaints all getting merged together here.
There are complaints that antag captains are overpowered.
There are complaints that nonantag captains use the role to grief, and by virtue of their access and gear are very good at ruining the round.
There are, theoretically, complaints that captains flat-out don't know enough about the game to actually play. I say "theoretically", because, while they haven't been voiced here, this was one of the major reasons for the security timegate. (That timegate was also meant to cut down on sec griefing but it... hasn't really done that. While that situation has improved to some extent I suspect that's mainly due to the rather large number of new HoSes that have been added within the same time frame. The rest of the improvement would be good security not having to spend time teaching officers how to play the game and being able to devote that time instead to dealing with bad security. 13 rounds simply isn't enough time to weed any but the most egregious shitters out)
The extent to which each of these problems is a problem is different. The possible solutions to each of these problems are different.
Personally I expect the second problem is the one that the most players will agree to be a problem, and the one that most players will identify as the most pressing problem. I don't think a timegate will solve it.
Other options: remove the captain's egun entirely, instead give them the saber by default and add a stun mode to it.
The thing is, there are three separate complaints all getting merged together here.
There are complaints that antag captains are overpowered.
There are complaints that nonantag captains use the role to grief, and by virtue of their access and gear are very good at ruining the round.
There are, theoretically, complaints that captains flat-out don't know enough about the game to actually play. I say "theoretically", because, while they haven't been voiced here, this was one of the major reasons for the security timegate. (That timegate was also meant to cut down on sec griefing but it... hasn't really done that. While that situation has improved to some extent I suspect that's mainly due to the rather large number of new HoSes that have been added within the same time frame. The rest of the improvement would be good security not having to spend time teaching officers how to play the game and being able to devote that time instead to dealing with bad security. 13 rounds simply isn't enough time to weed any but the most egregious shitters out)
The extent to which each of these problems is a problem is different. The possible solutions to each of these problems are different.
Personally I expect the second problem is the one that the most players will agree to be a problem, and the one that most players will identify as the most pressing problem. I don't think a timegate will solve it.