A little Question and Answer Thread.

[ferriswheel1]

What exactly can you do about telesci metagangs? You know the type - 4/5 players teaming up several rounds in a row, one of them usually joining as HOP/Cap and granting the rest all-access at roundstart, before they rob mechanics and sec blind and spend the round looting the adventure zones. Attempting to stop them usually results in them promptly getting released and tossed in the brig yourself, and then rounds go on for hours because they hold the shuttle hostage until they get what they want. It's not really true metagaming and certainly the sol nerds would never have gotten as far as they did without some degree of coordination, but the same few nerds doing it every round with impunity gets old.

Christ, these people are the reason Telesci gets bombed so much and has such a bad reputation, this and non-traitors who use telesci to steal everything not nailed down. I'm of the opinion that telesci should work around the round length, rather than the round being extended for telescientists benefit. If you haven't accomplished what you wanted to when a shuttle call is needed, then anything else should be left to the next round. It's ruining telescience for others as people will now bomb the mainframe simply because they've seen some shitty behavior from scientists in the past.