2021-11-22 22:34:32 | bs_sage | Fighterslam
Powergaming, failure to roleplay. As the Captain, started going around with their SWAT suit and Antique Laser Gun for no IC reason on green alert.
One thing that he left out is I took the paraplegic trait. the one that means people can click you off your chair and render you unable to fight. the one that makes you move at a quarter the speed of everyone else. This is what is known as powergaming I guess. I pick up the 2 items at the beginning of the round so if for example a nuke operative tries to grab my disk, I stand a non-zero chance of winning an engagement. I have been doing cripple captain for a while and no other admins took issue with it (at least not enough to boink me)
I didn’t put it in ban appeals for a reason. Its something funny that happened. I did technichally break rules so don’t really mind the warning. I just think its weird you can be considered a powergamer while taking a trait that quite literally cripples your character
I coulda sworn i posted it in general. The reason i made the post was to see if I am crazy for having this opinion, and clearly most people think differently from me so I guess mission accomplished
It would be funny if the prosecutor aimed the said gun to the juries.
(speaking of jury, its funny how the host is an american but we dont use jury system, cant imagine how player report/ban appeals would go if we use it)
The simplest explanation I can offer is that it isn’t about power level at all. It’s about reasoning.
The legs are irrelevant as they are part of your character.
You have no reasoning to get a swat suit besides “I have to be prepared for antags”. It’s not about the suit making you a bigger threat, it’s about you having no true reason to take it. Not having working legs is not a compensation. They balance out your power but power is not important here.
Compare to miners/explorers. They can be seen in the middle of the shift with guns, heals, artifacts, etc. These are pretty strong, but they have an actual reason to have them, thanks to their jobs. Similarly, security has extremely powerful gear, because they’re security - they have a reason to have these items for their jobs of apprehending people.
TLDR - Even if you’re a fat nugget man, taking suits or weapons unless warranted is stupid. Likewise, even if you have combat traits, nanites and augments, you can still take a suit on alert.