Pirate Market

[Deadvickyart]

I am not very fond of being able to casually buy traitor gear in QM or enticing players to grief sec by making them want to permanently get rid of their baton/taser/revolver by selling it in QM. Though the art is quite good and the selling of solarium keys could be done well if handled like artifacts...

Huge no to encouraging people to harass Security more than they already do

It's a bit of an extreme example, and in most rounds I feel like security would get more out of it than they lose - holding bake sales to buy more armor vests, selling their batons in last ditch efforts to buy flamethrowers to deal with a hostile blob, and removing mechanics-made phasers and laser guns from the round entirely instead of locking them up in a back room forever. I'd actually argue that encouraging shitters to trade their I'll gotten weapons for cash is a better alternative to just having people steal batons and keeping them in their backpacks. If it gets out of hand my suggestion already has a solution, wait 30 minutes at most and order replacement sec gear in the back rooms of security. I'm not 100% on having batons be sold, but I think security needs an easy way to replenish one or two if they get raided. By revolver I meant the syndicate revolvers not the detective's one.



As to the power level of the items, I don't think whitelisting some of the lower cost items (I'm talking about objects like chameleon suits, duct tape and floor crates - not c sabres or bombs) and charging around 50k per telecrystal value would be excessively powerful. The most powerful way to use merchants would still be getting erebite floor tiles from Gragg or uranium/drug based hell poisons from the robot/hand in the diner bathroom, both of which are trivial to reach and incredibly cheap. The rules stop QMs from blowing up the station with erebite floor tiles every round.

I think these traders should be unlocked when you EMAG a cargo console so that it'd be more balanced and wouldn't incentivize non antags to do these things while keeping with the underground black market theme.

Heavily disagree on locking more content behind EMAGs or agent cards. Non traitor antags like gang or vampire should be allowed access to more fun stuff if they're willing to raise funds. EMAGs already get you plenty, anyway.



As for Maddy, haven't put a lot of thought into them. Haven't even done a sprite for them yet. I really do want them to buy adventure zone items though, adventurers should have a chance to sell their loot for cold hard cash. It's also a great way to advertise the loot that's out there. The only reason I see people get the viking armor is to sell it for the bounty in cargo. There could easily be bounties on whips, mars rover parts, or catmandu cats to encourage people to go on dangerous telesci adventures.