New Rule: APC Slashing

[Davidchan]

Suggestion Title:Disallow APC slashing

Summary: Cutting the APC cuts ALL power to the remove, disabling everything. The Aliens are not electrical engineers and should not understand why it's important. Destroying them is only compounding our Atmos problems as killing the APC kills the scrubbers and vents attached to it.

Benefits: Aliens should have no understanding of what APCs do or why they are important, and thus largely ignored. Destroying them also makes breaches worse, since the vents can't refill rooms that are breached or scrubbers can't pull the hot/over pressurized air from rooms from explosions or ruptured tanks..

Details: It's become very common practice for starting aliens and early hatches to run amock on the station, going from area to area destroying as many APCs as they can pausing only long enough to heal up on weeds. Even areas there is no Hive, monkeys or any interest of the aliens, you'll find slashed APCs. Destroying lights is just fine, the aliens prefer darkness and excel in it, but they aren't engineers and have no understanding how these wires, box and glass tubes work together to make everything in the room work. This is on the same level as full stripping marines or having marines running around in hardsuit helmets or biohoods before first contact is even made, it shouldn't be allowed unless the aliens see Marines fucking with an APC, something that never happens anyways. Our Atmos problems are only made worse by aliens destroying the Atmospheric's APC preventing the pumps from working, as well as local APCs preventing scrubbers and vents from doing their job. Welding a vent may prevent the system from adding air to a room, but slashing an APC also prevents it from pulling unsafe air out.

Implementation: Add a new ruling to discourage it just as we do full stripping and slashing Gas Canisters, give out tempbans/xeno bans for players who intentionally go around destroying APCs and potentially permanent bans for ones who do it after being told not to.

[Rahlzel]

Not likely ever going to happen - it was one of the key behavioral elements in the very movie we're basing the game on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrjFuTb ... be&t=5m19s

An argument could be made to make vents and Air Alarms not use power for the sake of airflow.

Furthermore, it's actually a disadvantage to aliens when slashing APCs as it allows marines to enter the area with only a crowbar.

[HighwaterOffical]

In some large areas (See: Brig) no normal human being wants to slash EVERY light in the entire area, slashing APCs disables the lights.

Perhaps if you don't want aliens to slash APCs, you could give them some other way (See: Light Breaking Scretch) to break all the lights without going one by one by one to each of them.

[warwolf0315]

In some large areas (See: Brig) no normal human being wants to slash EVERY light in the entire area, slashing APCs disables the lights.

Perhaps if you don't want aliens to slash APCs, you could give them some other way (See: Light Breaking Scretch) to break all the lights without going one by one by one to each of them.

Oh that would be a neat little ability for one of the other castes to have perhaps runner. It could even break flashlights

[Kreydis]

Oh that would be a neat little ability for one of the other castes to have perhaps runner. It could even break flashlights

Marines would die so fast it wouldn't be funny. Everyone would use flares instead of flashlights end of story

[apophis775]

hilariously enough, the marines have semi-control over this. If you wanna stop aliens from APC slashing, wire the singlo directly into the grid, and they will get insta-killed when they slash one.

[Kreydis]

hilariously enough, the marines have semi-control over this. If you wanna stop aliens from APC slashing, wire the singlo directly into the grid, and they will get insta-killed when they slash one.

same goes for the idiots who fix things without insulated gloves. (Engineers without engineering job title!

[Infernus]

Denied.