I pick quirks to try bypass them and get all the cool quirks, like freerunning or light step, and pick species that negate the negative quirks, like IPC blood defiency
If you pick smoker, then instantly start grinding cigarettes into patches so you can avoid smoking during the round, and pick prosthetic limb and immediately get it replaced by a surgeon, you are powergaming.
Picking quirks only for positive benefits and then picking a species which negates any negative quirks you have selected is powergaming dude.
You’re not playing this as a game, you’re playing this as something to min/max.
Did i also mention I have a couple of hours as each head role, and if quirks like that are so detrimental they make 1 incompetent, Why should they exist?
Because most players want to spice their rounds up a bit by adding a small amount of artificial difficulty.
These players are intelligent enough to realize that turning themselves into a paralyzed lump of meat hopelessly addicted to illegal drugs will result in a negative experience to themselves, and that if they do it as a head of staff will result in a ban.
If you’re using the quirks system in bad faith to make the round harder for other people, you will be banned.
Quirks are for giving yourself a quirky character to play around. One with benefits and faults.
If you want to be a blind head of staff, go for it. You’re going to have a rough time, but it’s by choice. If you want to be paraplegic, it’s the same - you’re giving yourself a disabled character by choice to make the round more interesting for yourself.
If you combine all of the negatives at once, you’re not trying to make an interesting character, you’re meming and intentionally being a worthless waste of space for the sake of the meme.
Yea haha, I was called the ‘Diversity Hire’ when I went in as a Blind, parapalegic catgirl HOS.
To be fair, the round forced me to stay around sec a lot more than I would’ve and routinely check cams and find things I normally would miss. 10/10 would diversity hire again
Pretty sure bob(admeme) gave me cookies for surviving too
Fine if you do it in LRP if you really wanna MinMax, because it is an environment where RP is made de facto effectively disregarded. So a system to enhance ones RP really can be used however you want.
Exploiting the system in MRP, however, just makes the system that’s meant enhance RP pointless when it should matter. It should be part of developing an interesting backstory or allowing you to walk off the beaten path past >300 hours of experience or the like.