Happy Tim

And you know, even violent objectives might be fun if the game encourages the more subtle approach than just simple beating someone with an e-sword to death. But I think it's cool to get more options. I like to assassinate, from time to time, but I can see a niche for those solutions. If we want to trully create a medium RP playerbase instead of "I'm unsure of whatever I RP or just robust". There is a very subtle difference here..

Nothing suspicious here... just couple of borgs, having fun...

Yes, because medbay doesn't have anything to do and just spends all the rounds stoned. As for your second opinion, I'd say it won't be worse than super-bullshit-SR-magical-resurrection. This IS making antag's life harder. And playing a medical staff member less fun. Having someone dedicated to get rid of people, who.. let's say... break in to the ORs during operations, or steal medpacks, or just slip you when you're attending a pateint because it's all damn funny... That sort of thing, you know? That's the thing that medbay guard should deal with.

Glad that you tested it. I think it shows that there is a niche for such job. And yeah, I'm not saying that the medbay is the only place that would need such bodyguard-ish service, but it's one of the places that needs it the most. Also gives sec more time to focus on actual antags and not being forced to chase greytide that are breaking stuff in medbay. Medbay guard isn't meant to be lethal, the priorities that this class should have is just keeping the patients and medical staff safe from troublemakers.

That's the word I was looking for! It would provide an alnternate option for being able to deal with troublesome patients without the need of calling sec. I'd say an Orderly wouldn't even need to put people in cells, rather keeping them away from medbay. Sec is supposed to be police of sorts, and we all know how hectic life on the station can be on red (or even blue) alert. Many times, even if the officer manages to get to medbay it's often too late, the damage is already done. As ZN23X stated, in calmer times such person could assist in basic medical aid, or even sit at the reception. Dunno, I feel that there is a niche for that. Especially, that many people don't play security, because it has a certain pressure and responsibility to it. Orderly feels less stresful on the longer run.

Tried that, didn't met with much of enthusiasm on sec's part, really.

So maybe I can blame it on how often I play a Doctor, but the sheer amount of uncooperative patients can be overwhelming. And sure, you can just ignore them, but the Hippocratic oath makes you feel uneasy. That's why I'm wondering - how hard would it be, to actually add a muscle with a stun baton to the medbay? Not your typical, everyday sec (they have lot to do without having to chase a guy who stole the soap from medbay), but instead just a guy dedicated to... let's say making troublemakers at medbay more cooperative? What do you guys think? Good idea/Bad idea?

Some of the parts of the medbay feel criminally underused, while psychologist, having a potential that it has, could be utilized more. Maybe make him more helpful in healing addictions? It's kinda funny how easy it is to heal addictions these days, and that way you can give the role SOMETHING to do.

It depends on how you look at things. At the current level of population of Paradise it is kinda obvious that greytide is gonna to be a substantial part of it. No matter of what would you do, there is simply not enough roles to accommodate all the people. And yes, Rage Cages can be a pain in the ass for the medbay and security, but frankly... I preffer them breaking their own faces, instead of breaking equipment on the station. And as Birdtalon mentioned, it's bad when they force you to participate, bu other than that... ...in general, I see an ambition to improve the RP aspect of the server, and in that matter consequences for such behavior should be more ICly, rather than OOCly, really. This touches on whole different problem - IC punishing. On how brig should be reworked, on how perma and labor camp should be used more often with such large population in mind... ...and on how they should still provide something to do, instead of making people go ssd, despite being punishment.

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