I might be as of late a unpopular RD IC with my tactics and my personal house policies, but having to deal with the sheer amount of intruders and invaders into science is staggering, as they literally seep out of the walls, before now i've had miners already inside or deliberately break and entering in order to 'help themselves' to the goodies they feel 'obliged' to have.
Even police officers (without a armband and id access) with jobs to be doing barge into R&D or any other science department with no good reason or invitation to use the machinery there, strangers take up xenobio and robotics (without authorisation or access) because 'they know how and its taking too slow' by often hacking a door, slipping through existing ones or vandalising the lab.
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> I understand people ARE competent with science and get frustrated with the slow progress of science, but people will willingly MOONLIGHT and not do their jobs to instead pursue meta-boners in doing scientists (no matter how competent/incompetent's) jobs for them. Its the scientist's and RD's job to get better and the experience is being robbed from them
> Also i know R&D consoles can be locked, but its often more trouble than its worth as people will go to EXTREME lengths to get access, even by stealing id or hissy-fitting and destroying the console in retaliation to force people to reset (risking all unsynced research)
I think there should be more enforcement of science being as much a restricted area as engineering if not a little bit more in order to keep the integrity, its MORE secure than engineering by design but the attitude of security and server culture is that its as public (and breaking the windoors that are hard to replace and require a engineer to configure to fix) as anywhere else besides having three or four seperate ID signatures required alone locked inside a self inclusive department! Not to mention the incredibly dangerous machinery/objects inside, and a ID requirement to just walk through the main door.
I've already had wheelings and dealings with invasive squatter fellow command staff in the past, who were frog-marched out of there by admin thankfully so there is some admin policy to departmental invasion to a extent but its not too familiar to this discussion.
Such a lack of clear policy on the matter will just have to make me take my RD responsibilities to a new level and outright start locking down my department and applying punishment since it cannot be controlled. Ill have to just get a e-gun and start shooting tresspassing heavily armed officers who want to muscle into my department on the basis of having the upper hand on stun based combat vs the RD's local (i miss the e-gun) telescopic baton (which is nerfed and only truly effective ironically for hitting people lethally with, not ejecting them out of my department, a improvised battery stun prod would be better but that's so crude).
I distinctly remember - Act antag, be treated as antag and i intend to reinforce that on department invaders.