Stickymayhem wrote:
jesus christ you're five years late on this debate self-inserting is fucking necessary no player wants to be a man in a box for an hour
my npcs have a lifespan of like five minutes, they appear, say some shit to make it make sense IC and then fuck off while I run the rest of the event
honestly this is the dumbest take i've seen this year well done
I've had to self-insert for my events as well, im not sure how you managed to pull 2-4 words out of my entire complaint and spin it to suggest that was my whole issue but it's fairly impressive. Im not arguing against self-inserting, but that is objectively what you did as part of the premise of your event.
This NPC in particular though had a macro-bomb with the premise that antags were suppose to meet with it at the unique, on-station structure (crew goes hubba hubba!!11!) but supposedly couldnt fight whatsoever or it went off and they got magically proc-call deleted from the ether if that macrobomb failed.
In regards to the comment "no one wants to man in a box for an hour", I know that isnt true because I have people everytime ive ran the shop gimmick want to be a bodyguard who literally just chills in "the box" for the entirety of the round. Again, I could really care less if you should or shouldnt have inserted yourself, I care much more about the shitty premise of the entire event as I described above in my initial post prior to the strawman.