Sightld2 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:55 am
Someone can be a drain on admin resources and popular at the same time.
Don't you think it's also possible that someone who plays Security (and AI) is also more likely to get ahelped? They are jobs most likely to get involved with conflict.
I honestly have to commend Jeff for continuing to appeal and play on Manuel, because if an admin said some of the things that they said to Jeff towards me, I would feel so alienated and unwelcome that I wouldn't bother. I'd just leave.
I can't help but find it unbearably sad that there are many shitters that actively ruin peoples rounds that run around scot free, yet someone who actively tries to make peoples rounds better (for both antags and crew members) is constantly scrutinized instead.
I sometimes play security with Jeff, since he's been teaching me how to better defend myself on the station and also the ropes of security as a job. One round that sticks out to me the most was when there were revs and we infiltrated cargo with around 5 revs (cargo techies and shaft miners). Stun cuffing the revs wasn't working out because there were too many of them, and we ended up in a pretty intense fight that lead to their deaths. After the mindshield implants arrived, we implanted all of the revs and dragged them back to medbay. There was only one rookie doctor on staff, so Jeff recruited me and a few others to perform basic surgery, giving instructions and doing a large part of the legwork himself.
Thanks to that, all of the ex-revs were able to be rejoin the round, and didn't have to sit it out because there was only one doctor who was really struggling in the first place.
No one ahelps to leave praises or commendations for people. It's not about a popularity contest - people like Jeff because he is actively doing what he can to make the round better for both antags
and crew alike. In fact, this is something rarely seen from most HoS players.
Security/HoS will always have a bad reputation no matter what, even if you play a silly mall cop. Because people relate them to real life police, or people feel upset that they were caught as an antag even if there was valid escalation and a story. And no matter what, there's going to people who sign up for the role because it's a position of power that allows them to powertrip.
Maybe I don't have the clairvoyance of an admin, I haven't dived through all of Jeff's logs, I never saw what he was like when he was a newer player that originally got all the notes he did in the past. But I can say that I have never personally seen Jeff powertripping. I have seen many secoffs/HoS's powertrip, but not Jeff.