Option of Toggling Arrivals Shuttles Off During Several Ocassions

[GreenBoi]

Picture this:

 

An antagonist of irrelevant-quality has made an announcement about Odin being down/destroyed/Aurora is left uncontacted and is doing their hardest to keep out plotholes so crew will believe them, but somehow- people keep coming from the Odin! How the hell is the crew meant to ignore this? How does it make sense a person coming from Odin won't know what's going on if it's SO BIG it's happening outside the Aurora? Sure, you could say the announcement is fake, but what if the poor guy really DOES want to make the crew give a shit or have the Odin be dead?

 

The proposal is a switch that allows Admins and Malfs to toggle arrivals shuttles. This wouldn't have to tell ingame characters or people OOCly- and, to prevent confusion, you could add a small note in the join menu saying something like "under special circumstances, you will wake from cryogenics no matter your option," this will make extreme situations where Odin is cut-off much more bearable and make sense. Why doesn't the newly-arrived crewmember not know something bad is happening out in the universe? Because they literally just woke up from cryo and wasn't doing anything else earlier!

 

Another thing that I think would make sense would be preventing arrivals shuttles once the code is raised to Red. The station is LITERALLY being threatened- why would you want extra people to get involved, especially when they can't leave?

 

[WickedCybs]

I like the idea, though something to consider for the case of the Odin being destroyed is that in the end the crew is going to be transferring/evacuating there barring escape pod use or Arrivals getting totalled, and sometimes even then. Something like the arrivals shuttle just not arriving on Red is a good starter at least.

[Peppermint]

I think this would be especially good for rev rounds, as it's really hard to give a shit and riot when you're going home in two hours.

[MattAtlas]

This is quite possible and easy to code. Would have to wait until landmark shuttles are in however.

[Carver]

Maybe the antag should pick less of a dumb gimmick. If you're going to say 'Oh the Odin is fucked up', you'd better have the resources behind you to send a fucking Syndicate strike team to the Odin, instead of assuming every wannabe Corporate Spy can take down such a major NT locale.

As for Red, there's also an argument to made for not waking crew from cryo as well during Code Red for their own safety. If it's dangerous enough to exclude shuttles, it's dangerous enough to keep people under ice.