This is kind of late feedback but only because I legit thought this was a bug because of how dumb it is.
Here's the rationale:
In my experience as a sec main, this has been completely ineffective. I've never once teamed up with another officer just because we were assigned to the same department. If anything, it's created more conflict between officers - more than once I've had to fight the other officer in my department just to get out of the security post. I also don't find "teaming up" (which I guess just means running around together and patrolling the same area?) any more fun than patrolling solo - if I want to chat with other sec officers I can just use sec radio, and patrolling in groups for the combat advantage just feels powergamey. If there's a situation that we actually need to team up for, we can coordinate over the radio.Mothblocks wrote:As a security officer, your survival and fun are greatly increased when pairing up with a fellow security officer.
My solution is to try and encourage, through design, teaming up, while preserving departmental officers.
Anyways here are some problems caused by this change:
1. You have a lower chance of being placed in the department you want. I don't think I need to explain why this is bad, less people are getting to play the role they want to play.
2. Departmental sec posts are still only designed for one officer. There's only one locker and one desk. More than once I've had to fight the other officer over who gets the locker gear at roundstart.
3. Security is less effective. Fewer departments with officers means fewer departments that sec can raid effectively (The HoS does have access, but they're incompetent/dead/a shitter/nonexistent often enough that you can't rely on them). Ironically, one of the big reasons to team up as sec is when one officer has access to the department an antag is in, so you have to group up with them to follow it.
If anyone has experienced positive effects from this change please post (and list the server, too) but for me, on Sybil, it's just been an annoyance.