Goonhub
07-24-2021, 08:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-25-2021, 12:33 AM by Mordent. Edited 3 times in total.)
Asking for a list of what's okay and what's not okay is kind of missing the point. It very much reads as trying to get a quote for "an admin said I am allowed to get this piece of equipment" to use as justification for grabbing that piece of equipment every round, regardless of your role, e.g. if an admin said "flashes are okay" then having one of those in your pocket most of the time, whether you're a department head, staff assistant, roboticist, engineer...
The vast majority of RP players do not have problems with powergaming. RP is not about winning, it is about the story, the journey, the "friends you make along the way". It is okay to lose and to die. In the vast majority of cases, death is barely even a delay. A lot of the time, you'll be cloned very quickly. A bunch more of the time someone will find your body soon enough and bring it in (maybe even the person who killed you).
To put it another way: antagonists are supposed to have an advantage against an individual crewmember. An antagonist on the RP server should be able to interact with crew in an antagonistic way that, as a player, you may identify as them being an antagonist for, but that doesn't give you leeway to pull out your "whitelisted" piece of equipment and dunk on them with it.
The best form of self-defense, 95% of the time, is to run away. Run somewhere public, run screaming, run towards security or some area of the station that you know is probably staffed. The remaining 5% is still situational, and even then most of the time you probably shouldn't have weapons outside of the tools of your job. Breaking this and being better equipped for no reason means that an arms race develops, where antagonists have to come at crew more lethally if they don't want to lose and die themselves.
Sure, if there have been announcements of some weird activity aboard, bodies found, etc. then you might want to take more precautions. The best precautions are simply not going anywhere alone, or going for a tour of maintenance for no reason. Stick to well lit hallways, stick in groups, enjoy the fearmongering and rumors being spread. Heck, if you as a player know who the antagonist is, buddy up with them for "safety"; the in-character betrayal is all the sweeter.
So yes, I would say for you, personally, a good rule of thumb is "don't have any equipment your job wouldn't normally have". And no, "all of the loot in the adventure zones" is not what scientists normally have, nor do (RP) scientists walk around with beakers of deadly chems ready to use or whatever. Play to play, not to win. There are so many opportunities to be had from losing that by powergaming at all you're really missing out on a good chunk of the RP experience (and denying it to others).
The vast majority of RP players do not have problems with powergaming. RP is not about winning, it is about the story, the journey, the "friends you make along the way". It is okay to lose and to die. In the vast majority of cases, death is barely even a delay. A lot of the time, you'll be cloned very quickly. A bunch more of the time someone will find your body soon enough and bring it in (maybe even the person who killed you).
To put it another way: antagonists are supposed to have an advantage against an individual crewmember. An antagonist on the RP server should be able to interact with crew in an antagonistic way that, as a player, you may identify as them being an antagonist for, but that doesn't give you leeway to pull out your "whitelisted" piece of equipment and dunk on them with it.
The best form of self-defense, 95% of the time, is to run away. Run somewhere public, run screaming, run towards security or some area of the station that you know is probably staffed. The remaining 5% is still situational, and even then most of the time you probably shouldn't have weapons outside of the tools of your job. Breaking this and being better equipped for no reason means that an arms race develops, where antagonists have to come at crew more lethally if they don't want to lose and die themselves.
Sure, if there have been announcements of some weird activity aboard, bodies found, etc. then you might want to take more precautions. The best precautions are simply not going anywhere alone, or going for a tour of maintenance for no reason. Stick to well lit hallways, stick in groups, enjoy the fearmongering and rumors being spread. Heck, if you as a player know who the antagonist is, buddy up with them for "safety"; the in-character betrayal is all the sweeter.
So yes, I would say for you, personally, a good rule of thumb is "don't have any equipment your job wouldn't normally have". And no, "all of the loot in the adventure zones" is not what scientists normally have, nor do (RP) scientists walk around with beakers of deadly chems ready to use or whatever. Play to play, not to win. There are so many opportunities to be had from losing that by powergaming at all you're really missing out on a good chunk of the RP experience (and denying it to others).