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Traitor lite

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2020 9:52 pm
by XivilaiAnaxes
This possibility belongs in code ideas but I thought I'd run it through here first.

Ss13 has a lot of mechanics that don't see use because they're either banworthy as non antag but a complete waste of time as antag. Minor grief viruses for example.

If you go for surgery you basically know your doc isn't going to do anything fishy because if he was an antag he wouldn't be sitting in his department doing his job fixing you up.

My idea is what if we added a more minor form of traitor where basically the goal is to be as much of a dickhead in your job as possible without killing people.

Example from earlier - as a doc maybe if a dead guy comes in for treatment you harvest his organs becaise you're a sick fuck and have a small collection going instead of just fixing him. You don't actually have a greenbelt objective to go for so you have freedom in your minor antag gimmick but its stilla ban if you leave medbay to go on a murder spree.

I think it would add a lot of the minor paranoia aspects that tend to fade away as you get more used to metaing the game. Also more regular crimes for sec to look into as opposed to 'shit gotta kill the mass murderer again'.

Thoughts?

Yeah nevermind I forgot that Bagil was a thing, locking this.

Re: Traitor lite

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2020 10:13 pm
by Tlaltecuhtli
there is nowhere in the rules that prevent you from doing minor grief, just accept ic consequences if you get beaten, brigged or spaced, surgery is kinda meh it has no in-depth for malpractice, only thing u can do is fail brain surgery to cause traumas, do it as clown if u like this kind of things

Re: Traitor lite

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2020 10:16 pm
by XivilaiAnaxes
It's my understanding that unless you're a clown it falls under rule 1. Especially with the virus example.

Re: Traitor lite

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2020 10:26 pm
by Tlaltecuhtli
if u steal the organs for like cargo bounties its fine, if you do it cause the you dont like the dude as he punched you 5 min ago its fine, if you are using organs for your eldritch flesh god cult its fine,if you are going to sell him his stomach once he revives as lawyer its fine, if you are clowning around its fine, you cant break rule 1 if you arent breaking rule 0

Re: Traitor lite

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2020 10:33 pm
by oranges
why would you add validhunters to the game?

Re: Traitor lite

Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2020 10:57 pm
by annoyinggreencatgirl
XivilaiAnaxes wrote:My idea is what if we added a more minor form of traitor where basically the goal is to be as much of a dickhead in your job as possible without killing people.
This succinctly describes how a fair amount of the playerbase already behaves.

Re: Traitor lite

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:51 am
by stan_albatross
annoyinggreencatgirl wrote:
XivilaiAnaxes wrote:My idea is what if we added a more minor form of traitor where basically the goal is to be as much of a dickhead in your job as possible without killing people.
This succinctly describes how a fair amount of the playerbase already behaves.
and if you are playing on certain servers it describes how absolutely everyone plays

Re: Traitor lite

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:59 am
by cacogen
How could you think this was desirable in any way

Re: Traitor lite

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 11:35 am
by Screemonster
some of my favourite traitor stories are the ones where they get an easy steal objective or something and complete it early on and just do their regular job while they try to think of a gimmick then someone is an asshole to them and they make their gimmick "dunk on this one asshole in particular"

Re: Traitor lite

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 11:46 am
by pugie
Why not just softgrief people as nonantag?

Re: Traitor lite

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:19 pm
by Misdoubtful
This sounds a lot like Goon Miscreants. Which were disabled and then re-enabled with new objectives.

Has objectives like shoe stealing, making a second bar, doing petitions and protests, unionizing, throwing parties.

Also has ones about making money, starting gangs, being a nuisance, spying on people, stalking people, and more.

Mostly just gimmicks, and mostly stuff people already do here.

Just a frame of reference.

Re: Traitor lite

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:52 pm
by wesoda25
Bit silly innit?

Re: Traitor lite

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 3:04 pm
by remanseptim
blood brothers except you can't kill anyone and you're alone

Re: Traitor lite

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:52 am
by Coconutwarrior97
This seems less like policy, and more like something that belongs in the idea subforum. So we'll move this there.

Re: Traitor lite

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:23 am
by XivilaiAnaxes
Excuse me but I locked this.