New brig

[Harmony]

Coding Difficulty: Extremely easy.

Scope: small change

Balance: Prisoners can leave their cell when they finish their time

Why: In case no one is available to take the prisoner

 

my explanation: the button opens when the time ends, the blast door closes after a while (like normal doors)

[IK3I]

If there's no officer monitoring the area to release them, then there's also no officer there to stop them smashing the glass door open and pressing the button. It would be better to just hook the blast doors directly into the cell timer if you wanted to do this, but a dedicated one way door would be the superior option, like turnstyles in Oracle Genpop

[ZN23X]

All of sec gets a radio notification when timers are up. Even if comms are down. This is the wardens job.

Shoulda been here for the old brig when the cells were less visible and there weren't radio notifications on brig timers.

If theres nobody around to let you out do what the rest of the station does. Pester the AI.

Plus the blast doors kinda look like crap.

[Harmony]

3 minutes ago, ZN23X said:

All of sec gets a radio notification when timers are up. Even if comms are down. This is the wardens job.

Shoulda been here for the old brig when the cells were less visible and there weren't radio notifications on brig timers.

If theres nobody around to let you out do what the rest of the station does. Pester the AI.

Plus the blast doors kinda look like crap.

if there is not an AI? or few security officers? make work a lot easier

 

[ZN23X]

Doesn't happen often enough to be worth making the brig lobby look that awful.

[Sonador]

1 hour ago, ZN23X said:

Doesn't happen often enough to be worth making the brig lobby look that awful.

I think it looks fine, personally.

[FoS]

Honestly this probably will just make officers ignore prisoners even more than already happens since then they don't have to be responsible for the people they've arrested. It just feels like it would encourage officers to neglect/ignore prisoners because "the cells will let them out automatically anyways"

[GunDOS]

Personally I’m with @ZN23X on this, it’s only useful in very rare circumstances. And makes the whole place look kinda crappy imo.

[ZN23X]

Here's a more mechanical reason this can't fly.

The grilles between the lobby and cells is shocked. When someone's attempting to break out it can sometimes go unnoticed when the brig is busy.The repeated sound of shocks once you get to the grille help let security know when you are breaking out. Plus can kill you if you aren't an antag with self healing abilities. 

With this new setup you are one windoor away from freedom. People who are both antags and non antags try to break out frequently, far more frequently than people accidentally get left in the brig for an extra few minutes after thier sentence is up.

If you want to argue sec needs to do a better job watching prisoners, work sec for a few hundred hours and you'll see that sometimes its just too busy. Or too much of sec is dead. Especially when you frequently have non antags pushing the limits of nearly self antagging added on top of the actual antags chaos, and criminals who will literally kill themself because they can't wait the 5 minutes for thier sentence to be up.

Edited April 9, 2018 by ZN23X