Rufus

I do see where you are coming from on this issue, however escalation wouldn't necessarily be the proper term for this, I would say this is mainly related to rp standards. That being said there is a pretty large disconnect from the combat systems in game and attempts to rp. Most of the time in sec vs antag, there is a feed back loop that just leads to both sides not wanting to be cheated out of their round, so they move to handle things quickly/not rp situations out. A good example of this was just the other day for me, where I had an office come up to me asking for a search after I had just grabbed one of my objectives. Given I had tools from a surplus crate include a dsword, rather than murder the officer I had chose to try and rp the situation out, trying to talk and holding a grenade with the intentions of rping out a one time walk away bomb threat. Needless to say my talking was interrupted by two silent baton hits and a wordless walk to the brig. When questioned about why a solo officer would charge a bomb threat, the responses were in line with "I'm not afraid of death", and "I've been hit with worse", which truly is peak rp. Case in point, the current system is in a feed back loop of sec wanting to red text at all costs with no sense of self preservation, and antags going hard and often cutting down sec when possible. I do think that there should be something set in place to fix this system, which I am curious to hear ideas for.

As far as this topic goes I think there should at least be some large red text added at the start of the round for AI's and borgs that reads something along the line of "Remember that you are not security, while you are able to assist when asked, do not willingly go hunting down EOCs or go bolting them in areas". There have been far to many rounds where I have seen AI or valid hunting borgs single handedly ruin rounds for antags, and while some of it comes down to the skill of the player like with how Gatchapod said, not every situation is escapable and 90% of players will not have the skill to do so. A recent example that comes to mind for me was when I was being chased by a borg who flashes me so I cant see, while running from five to six sec officers, then while trying to escape down the hall the AI bolts every door, leaving me at a dead end with the only way out now being to go through all of security. This is not fun gameplay to have to deal with. There have also been far too many borgs that I see while spectating going around valid hunting mid rounds, such as a medical borg attacking a bio hazard nest with no crew inside, alone in toxins. Or another example being an engineering borg welder bombing a xeno nest before the bio hazard alarm was even sounded, borgs chasing down antags to flash spam them, etc. While alot of this comes down to the player I feel that valid hunting silicon's are way more common than normal crew because of possible "crew harm", and having to deal with valid hunters that don't slow down when they are hurt, can bolt and shock doors to prevent escape, and in the case of the ai only being able to be delt with IC by attacking highly secure and defended areas far out of your way normally. end of the day I just think something should be done because bottom line, its not fun gameplay.

I have seen EOCs get off the hook several times for different reasons in normal game play, it just depends on what;s going on. Massive bio hazard threats to the station can see perma prisoners being released to help the crew on probation, I have seen perma prisoners get out on parole for things such as good behavior or miners that found s class on lava land being let out on parole, capital crimes can request a trial from the magi, and there is always the possibility of them breaking out/ someone else breaking them out of perma.