Pirate Market

[Deadvickyart]

Using telescience to generate money for the station instead of using it to powergame? Madness!

Jokes aside, I'd very much like to see that kind of thing. The more departments that are encouraged to work with cargo for benefits, the better. Cargo can provide every department with supplies so giving them something to offer cargo and encourage interaction is great.

I do however agree with the consensus that batons should not be part of the trading, whether that be selling or buying, for many reasons.

For what it's worth, cargo can already purchase all of security's gear at any point with the cardlocked boxes (including armory gear) and open the crates with a pod or explosives, and a merchant in the diner already sells most of what the Security Surplus Store does except for the batons/riotshields/riot nades(although that merchant does have lethal equivalents). And they're avaliable at all times, the merchants in my suggestion are only around 25% of the time each.

Also I'd like to mention that one of the cargo traders already buys human brains with the implicit understanding that you're permanantly removing someone from the round to make money for the department, and engineering can do a similar thing with shoving people into the furnaces to power the PTL laser. Losing your batons and tasers because you slipped on a banana peel near some cash-hungry quartermasters is pretty mild in comparison.

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early draft of Mad Maddy's portrait. Going for a roided up space-wrestler look. Goon's wrestling lore is powerful but shamefully lacking on in-game representation.