Unique Survivor Roles

[Gentlefood]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): With all the talk of potential changes to survivors and the map in general. I thought it might be beneficial to have some survivors spawn in as 'unique' jobs. These jobs could include, but are not limited to: Administrator of the Colony, Weyland-Yutani Research Head, Weyland-Yutani Representative, or perhaps Head of Security.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): Improved survivor gameplay. More things for the Corporate Liaison to do. Add survivors who may not be fully cooperative with the Marines. Give reasons for survivors to want to stay planetside and not just SSD on the Sulaco.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):

These roles could be given objectives and have (secondary) win conditions based on who they were before the colony was overrun. Some of these roles could be 'in league' with the Weyland-Yutani Corporate Liaison and try to cover up Weyland-Yutani's involvement, or the opposite and try to bring it to light. The easiest secondary objectives to give them would be for them to obtain certain items scattered throughout the colony. Research Papers, Blueprints, security footage/records, etc.

In the map's current incarnation these roles would be a bit more limited. But should the "Elevator Colony Z-level" idea go through (even as an alternate map) I could see these roles being beneficial to gameplay and overall enjoyment, especially of survivor roles.

These roles could also start with different, unique gear. This gear could give them an edge in accomplishing their objective, or just general survivability. Weapons for the HoS, Medical Supplies for the Research Head, Covert Gear for the Representative etc.

The roles could also have unique spawn points and IDs which give them access to areas and gear other survivors might not have.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): Coding, Mapping Optional.

[TopHatPenguin]

+1 we need this really badly.

[Sebro]

+1 You know you want it people.




Also it adds variety and new clothes and stuff I guess.

[UnknownMurder]

As long as Elevators goes through with this.

+1

[K0NFL1QT]

+1
This would be so sweet.

[Dyne]

+1, very interestin and RP-promoting.

[RadiantFlash]

+1, Most certainly agree with this.

[apophis775]

Planned.

[Caryl]

I agree, +1

[Wesmas]

They dont all have to be fancy. Having janitors, cargo crew, doctors, researchers and security would flesh out the characters. It would make the survors back stories more interesting and give command an idea what to do with them.

[Wickedtemp]

Honestly, I don't even care. As long as they spawn with an ID, ANY KIND OF ID so they don't get killed by those turrets on the drop-ship...

[ChickenShizNit8]

This MIGHT be a bit complicated, but here is a list of jobs and roles that a survivor COULD spawn as if Staff want to go into this much Detail. We could stretch these roles out to make a much more intensive Role play experience when marines come in contact with them.



COMMAND Colony Director
Research Director
Head Medical Officer
Wey-Yu Private Security Commander
Chief Engineer Medical

Doctor
Nurse Security
Wey-Yu Private Security Officer
Wey-Yu Private Security Enforcer ((Riot Unit)) Engineering

Engineer
Engine Operator
Drill Operator Civilian

Janitor
Cook
Cargo Dispatcher
Misc. Worker
Researcher Special

Wey-Yu PMC Operative ((Dispatched to kill the aliens, failed))
Liaison
UNCM Admerial
Specials would most likely be used for Admin Events BTW....

[WyattH]

tl;dr version, I can see these jobs being valid based on evidence on map(for simplicity,brevity using sulaco version titles):
Clown, CT, QM, Bartender, Chef, RD, HoP, CO, Sec, Janitor, Chaplain, MT, CE, telecomms engineer, CL, Roboticist, Anomalist, Chemist, Xenobiologist, Rsr, Doc, Surgeon, Botanist, Miner.

-what follows is just my rough thoughts and ideas based upon what is on the map itself




Body evidence on the map itself

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1 chef in river
2 miners north of river
1 scientist in med dome - presume doctor (1 remains)
7 scientists in research dome (5 remains)
1 clown in fitness dome (1 remains)
0 in botany (1 remains)
0 in engineering
0 in telecomms
1 corporate stoogie in internal affairs dome
0 in secure storage dome
0 in robotics dome (3 remains)
5 in nexus - 3 scientists 2 minors 2 remains

Jobs it looks like there were in nexus going clockwise from north

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Female dorms - clown
Quartermasters/cargo domes - cargo techs and QM(planetside equivalent of RO)
Canteen - bartender -from the bar
Kitchen - chef -obvious
Command offices - research director, head of personnel, commandant - all from their doors/APCs
Security - security/police
Toilets - Janitor
Chapel - chaplain
Men's dorm - nothing special from what I can seen

Jobs apparent from other domes

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Engineering dome - chief engineer (based on his room) regular engineer as well
Telecomms dome - telecomms officer/specialist
Corporate/internal affairs dome - Corporate stooge/officer/worker/employee whatever you want to call it
Robotics dome - roboticist or 'mechatronic engineer' if you wanna stay away from 'robots'
Research/science dome - anomalist (from the anomaly scanners), chemist (from the dispenser), xenobiologist (obvious), researcher (non-specific scientist)
Med-dome - doctor, surgeon, nurse, psychiatrist all work
Hydro dome - botanist
Fitness dome - clown/mime (from the dead clown there)
Mining - miners

[Azmodan412]

+1. Due to spawning with Chaplain gear as Survivor, would make sense said sad survivor was some scientist.

[James5734]

I will never understand why people always try to take away freedom of backstory from survivors.

[Swagile]

holy bump batman

this is still a good suggestion, though