Bottom post of the previous page:
Alright. I get 90% of the players probably hate xenos, mostly for valid reasons, but please hear me out on this.For the past umpteenth rounds over the past MONTH that a xeno egg has spawned in xenobiology, from my experience, without fail, someone, somewhere, came to immediately fill the containment room with plasma and burn it.
Yes, I know xenos are intended to be round enders, and yes, they will probably escape containment somehow regardless if precautions aren't taken, but it's gotten to the point where I have not yet seen a round in a month where the xeno egg actually survived for more than 10 minutes. Why is this event even included if players are 99 times out of 100 (which it's rare to begin with) are just going to toss aside and destroy it?
I'm not saying it's straight up metagaming (because the crew knows xenos are dangerous and antags), but this feels a lot like the whole replacing the plasma pipe in atmos to cripple the AI. Bad comparison given the circumstances, I'm aware, but the similarities are there.
They could just refuse to feed the egg until they're prepared, and even if they do feed it early, the only natural problem they have is running out of power for the shield generators. A competent xenobiologist would already have yellow slime cores by this time and could easily replace the APC's cell, making power a nonissue. This applies even if engineering is absolutely awful. Even in the event that noone wanted to be a xenobiologist, then the egg could just sit in the chamber the entire round and nothing would change from normal.
Despite what I might've implied, I'm not saying the crew should be forced to take care of it. Just that as far as this summer has been the crew has essentially 100% chosen to not take care of it. Round ending events from admins are objectively more common than any xenobiology egg even birthing one facehugger. Please tell me I'm not the only one that thinks this is kind of annoying.
tl;dr:
Maybe it's the salt over this whole thing talking but I feel the xeno egg spawn in xenobiology should either just be removed or some policy set on not just immediately purging it because as it is it feels like it doesn't really exist at all. It's insane how often it's just incinerated to save the crew stress. It's killing one of the already few ghost roles that usually occur in a round, and making the entire chamber built to do this exact one thing also completely useless.