Chaznoodles Posted November 6, 2016 Posted November 6, 2016 It'll result in certain groups of people muting people they don't like over comms if so, I can tell you that. which will be dealt with by IA, muting people for no reason would be a abusing work privileges and would get you fired from any secure station. muting someone is an IC action which can be dealt with by IC means Why give them the means to mute to even abuse it? Keep it where it is, a powerful tool in responsible hands.
UnknownMurder Posted November 7, 2016 Posted November 7, 2016 It'll result in certain groups of people muting people they don't like over comms if so, I can tell you that. which will be dealt with by IA, muting people for no reason would be a abusing work privileges and would get you fired from any secure station. muting someone is an IC action which can be dealt with by IC means Why give them the means to mute to even abuse it? Keep it where it is, a powerful tool in responsible hands. We get it. You don't like it. As for you, Conservatron, I think I like your way of this thinking.
Chaznoodles Posted November 7, 2016 Posted November 7, 2016 We get it. You don't like it. What did this add to the conversation, exactly, other than further displaying your dislike of me? I don't see what purpose this serves in regards to the discussion.
Conservatron Posted November 8, 2016 Posted November 8, 2016 In the end, muting someone is an IC action that would be dealt with in an IC manner with penalities ranging from fines, demotion, and job ban. You wouldn't argue against an engineer being able to build walls because they could wall someone they don't like in, so saying it could be used by a shitler isn't a good argument against the core concept. There are good ideas, and this is an opportunity to have IC communications experts on station. things communication technician allows: minor events with communications consoles, more indepth events with telecoms, more varied way for antags to plan and act on their objectives, possible coordination between multiple antagonists to take down a singular target (one communications technician mutes a target just before the other kidnaps, now you can take them alive so they don't call for help like a madman) The benefits far outweigh the possibility that someone immature would abuse the role
Bedshaped Posted November 9, 2016 Posted November 9, 2016 I don't think this is a good idea. As long as the telecoms is on a satellite this is a bad idea. Someone adding a 'pirate talk' script is funny once. Someone adding some kind of word replace script every round is going to be mind numbingly frustrating. Especially when they can only be gotten to by the Captain, CE or RD. They essentially have a free pass to do what they want and I don't have much faith the admins will step in to stop them, for fear of "ruining the joke" or something. Telecoms should always be an afterthought for the station. The CE and the RD have access, because if there's a problem, they drop their main duties and go fix it. Someone who's entire station role is sitting on a satellite alone will get bored and they will start "making jokes", running stupid scripts they found online and muting people. ICly this can't be policed because of the geography of where the satellite is and OOCly I honestly don't trust the staff to police it out of fear of being unpopular.
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