Malf bandaid

[Nero07]

Malf seems to be pretty divisive. One of the big problems being underqualified people being thrust into the malf role and then having no idea what to do.

 

I would propose that the player chosen to be the malf gets a prompt asking him if he wants to do it. If he says yes, the round proceeds as normal, if he says no, the round immediately restarts.

[Wildkins]

as discussed in discord I think a much more elegant and less disruptive solution would be to not have malf be a desired role by default because yikes

[Brutishcrab51]

6 minutes ago, Wildkins said:

as discussed in discord I think a much more elegant and less disruptive solution would be to not have malf be a desired role by default because yikes

a better answer would be to just have possible malfs pick from roles that are readied up as the AI. No AI for a malf round? No malf.

[sonicgotnuked]

People shouldn't be ticking on the thing in the first place if they have zero idea how AI works. While the new player restriction coded in is rather nice and reduced in a drop, it would be much better to just give a pop up when they toggle the gamemode saying THIS IS A HIGHLY DIFFICULT ANTAG TYPE AND NEEDS SOME GOOD UNDERSTANDING ON HOW SYNTHETIC WORK. 

[sonicgotnuked]

Also, about the job restriction.. I don't support that. As someone who enjoys designing malf gimmicks, it's honestly the only time I play AI is when I'm malf. We shouldn't open up that rout just because I want to play an antag and go into the roll for it.

[Kaed]

5 minutes ago, sonicgotnuked said:

Also, about the job restriction.. I don't support that. As someone who enjoys designing malf gimmicks, it's honestly the only time I play AI is when I'm malf. We shouldn't open up that rout just because I want to play an antag and go into the roll for it.

Same.  I often get rolled into malf when I'm trying to play something else, and that's exciting. I would not like to be forced to play an AI if I don't want to just to be in the malf pool.

[sonicgotnuked]

Also, by doing this, you'll get an issue with players readying up as AI just for the chance to become malf, then saturating the slot with people who wipe core at round start and get bwoinked. Let's not cause this issue.

[Wildkins]

upon further consideration the best move is probably just to put a warning on the role when you select it

personally i'd also like to see it require AI playtime but that might be a bit more involved and require its own suggestion

[sonicgotnuked]

20 hours ago, Wildkins said:

upon further consideration the best move is probably just to put a warning on the role when you select it

personally i'd also like to see it require AI playtime but that might be a bit more involved and require its own suggestion

It already has a month of restriction via the var required_age = 31

 

[Wildkins]

2 hours ago, sonicgotnuked said:

It already has a month of restriction via the var required_age = 31

 

no i mean that it requires people to have played AI before, not that it requires an arbitrary amount of time from first connection

[wowzewow]

yeah, i've played for like two years and still have not played a single second of AI

[sonicgotnuked]

Yeah, perhaps some AI time would be cool. Maybe like 5-10 hours or something