AmoryBlaine Posted February 7, 2020 Posted February 7, 2020 Remove raiders, put their shuttle at the Merc base, let Mercs choose what ship they want, or if they want both. Remove the name 'Mercs' and rename it as "Visitors." Better diversify the equipment and clothing available at the merc base.
AmoryBlaine Posted February 7, 2020 Author Posted February 7, 2020 Honestly, the base should have more in common with a costume room, than an actual base. It's an area for planning, not for actually playing in. You start there, you formulate the gimmick, the objectives, the equipment, then you leave.
GreenBoi Posted February 7, 2020 Posted February 7, 2020 If I saw this in the past, I would've agreed, but I think I'm kinda leading on no now? Raiders lets you do and show off resourcefulness in a gamemode where you don't get much help past rng. Stresses you to do stuff and be ready on the spot, while Mercs just get everything handed to them and then told "go play"
AmoryBlaine Posted February 7, 2020 Author Posted February 7, 2020 4 hours ago, GreenBoi said: If I saw this in the past, I would've agreed, but I think I'm kinda leading on no now? Raiders lets you do and show off resourcefulness in a gamemode where you don't get much help past rng. Stresses you to do stuff and be ready on the spot, while Mercs just get everything handed to them and then told "go play" That's exactly the problem. Both have a subtext as to how they operate, which forces those selected into a fairly narrow choice. The idea behind this, is to eliminate these understandings of how the roles are played and taking things a step back so the players understand that it's more about creating their own narrative with a vast amount of equipment and means to ends. I would like to think that this sort of open-ended gamemode would be preferable to el classico off-station antags. Frankly, I would wrap Ninja into this as well, and move the small shuttle they have to the merc base as well, and allow it to land on the station like the rest of the shuttles. I'm sure plenty of us have done solo gimmicks as ninja and found it fairly lacking in the options as to how we can approach the station. The opening of any group is fairly important. So being forced into teleporting aboard railroads the ninja into being an intruder, whereas a shuttle can recieve clearance, ect.
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