Down with coloured pens.

[Jboy2000000]

Pretty much, yeah, why are coloured pens a thing? They spawn in, in IA, cargo, the library, places where you might need paperwork done, and thats good, but why COLOURED pens? Two out of the three places I mentioned are places where paperwork should be expected to be filed. Paperwork thats going to go to central command, it should be professional, done in black ink, but as far as I know, only one black pen spawns outside of a PDA, and thats in cargo, so you're stuck using the pen you're given, and I didn't even know we were given pens in our PDAs for at least a month after I started playing. So, maybe cut coloured pens from cargo, IA, some other places, and give them black pens instead.

[Guest Menown]

I have a custom item, so does ForgottenTraveller, that is a pen with red, blue, and black cartridges in them. We could just make the default pens have this function, so that we can implement this.

[Frances]

Wait, why?

People have black pens in their PDAs. What exactly is the issue you have with colored pens here, summed up in one sentence?

[Jboy2000000]

Corporate forms shouldn't be filled out in red or blue pens, I wouldn't have any problems at all if they weren't given to IA and cargo. It really irks me when I see cargo forms written in red.

[Guest Menown]

Whenever I have a cargo form written in red, it's a copy-only form. Meaning that form exists only as a base for copying, Jboy.

[Jboy2000000]

Thats you, the number of people I see that actually hand out papers drawn up, posted, and given away without being copied is still high.

[Frances]

Corporate forms shouldn't be filled out in red or blue pens, I wouldn't have any problems at all if they weren't given to IA and cargo. It really irks me when I see cargo forms written in red.

So you basically want to remove colored pens from the game because some people are using them wrongly?

[Jboy2000000]

Corporate forms shouldn't be filled out in red or blue pens, I wouldn't have any problems at all if they weren't given to IA and cargo. It really irks me when I see cargo forms written in red.

So you basically want to remove colored pens from the game because some people are using them wrongly?

 

So, maybe cut coloured pens from cargo, IA, some other places, and give them black pens instead.

[Frances]

That's the only place where I really know they are, though (besides in the morgue - another place for forms - and the bar).

Wouldn't it really be better to just ask people not to write forms in red?

[Jboy2000000]

They also spawn, both red and blue, in the library, I think in the chapel and MAYBE the kitchen. Theres plenty of places, like those, where its fine if they spawn there.

[Frances]

But I don't understand what's the exact issue with them spawning inside of cargo or in the IAA office. Should they be used to write full forms? No, but they probably have other uses (annotations, informal communication). If the problem is that idiots are using them to write full forms, they should just be taught not to write forms with them. Don't take away a man's steak because a baby can't chew it.

[Guest Menown]

Aurora. Where we argue what kind of pens people use.

This can't be a serious topic. Please tell me it isn't serious.

[Jboy2000000]

I just wanted coloured pens taken away from some places, I didn't think it would turn into an argument.

[Xelnagahunter]

Most legal forms can be written in either black or blue, and red for any negative remarks and the like is typical, even in government offices. I don't see the issue.

[Guest]

Everyone calm down, company use blue or black as a standard for forms and documents, red is usually used as attention grabber and a mark of warning on documents.

I honestly don't see a reason to change this. It's a pen.

[Guest]

..I should totally write on forms in crayon to make people reeeeee

[Vittorio Giurifiglio]

I honestly read this as "Down with Coloureds"

[Guest]

you would.

[Crescentise]

Could be worse. Could have misread it as 'Down with coloured penis'... which I totally didn't misread it as. >_>

[Jakers457]

The outrage is Tumblr level.

[Guest]

The thread derailed and I don't see a reason for the change.