by Ketrai » Fri Jan 11, 2019 2:32 am
Note that despite playing on an off, including high profile roles from time to time. I have not seen a single thing to do with pirates. I've yet to hear anything during those low-med pop shifts I play on. As is customary for the fennec anyways, to miss every single detail of an event going on, usually due to timezones. I find it funny that I didn't even catch a hint of this kind of stuff despite it being ongoing for months. So I can only offer my thoughts. I'd probably offer to play an antag myself, if not it's because of the fact that it's rare for stations around my timezone to even reach a decent pop of 20 anymore. With a skeleton shift it's better to just be consensually evil. Pref-consensually so. If you catch my drift.
The ai usually being tattlers has been a problem prior to this event anyways. When you want to do anything mildly illegal, such as breaking into medical to get a saw for a scene or something, or even more harmless than that, steal one of the many spare shovels from mining. Chances are the ai is just zipping around on camera hyperspeed, blinking from one camera to the flipping other to keep track of every single crew member constantly. And then they start to scream for security. It's basically the same as skipping roleplay, and just going full on mechanics. Sure, you're a sentient AI box that doesn't have anything else to them but a messaging server, a heap of cameras, and holopads. Because those are your main tools/features, don't mean you should just full on marry em. Those holopad thingies? Why don't you pop in front of some crew, and ask them annoying philosophical questions that could only be generated by something not truly human? You don't have to be a massive killjoy, I swear some AI just cruise around them cameras constantly to be a killjoy, not to look for anything interesting.
It doesn't even work on this server anyways. We don't have that many people, and unlike other stations, we don't create a flipping mess all the time either. There's no common slime chaos in xenobio to watch out for like other servers, there's only a few antags, usually lone ones. So picking them out of what could potentially be a mass of antags, isn't that hard. Catching all one-twelve or some ludicrously high number of antags doing the bad at the same time is virtually impossible. But if there's only one? Now that makes your job very easy now doesn't it? Especially with the rest of the crew being tame, as there's little reason to cause a ruckus... Someone breaks a camera? Well that can only be one of the known 5 troublemakers. It's a new face? Fuuuu, antag alert. Security get that bastard whilst I just lock them in at hyper speed. You know what, I'm going to be the best model of hal 9000; and just silently message security whilst locking down all the doors in a 20 metres radius, and silently broadcast. "I'm sorry dave-" as I reverse the air flo-.
Anyways, I think you get the point. Allow people to have their fun a bit. I don't really see how this is that much different from validhunting but on a legal way.