Make Survivors a Job instead of just Random Chance.

[mcalexev]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):
My suggestion is simple. Instead of making survivor a minor opt-in thing, make it a job role instead so we players have the option to spawn in as a DEFINITE survivor instead of praying about being picked that round.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):
It'll give us an even wider variety of job roles and it'll allow players access to another way to contribute to each round besides charging in guns blazing as a marine or working aboard the Sulaco.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):
As previously stated, I think it'd add another way to play through a round instead just deploying on the Sulaco. It'd allow players to get into tense, hard survival action while they await the arrival of the marines, being likely to die or be captured before they arrive.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):
Again, it'd just be the simple case of adding a new job option.

[johners12345]

Gonna go ahead and just give this a big
-1

There is no need for it to be a job.. It is supposed to be a of chance thing such as a special role.. This is also so we can monitor them.. Just.. No.. From me.

[Pillow]

-1 for a general chose like marine things because that would not even end well. Plus what you seem to want is already a thing with the special role toggle for survivor that picks a few people out of those who have it toggled randomly.
tl;dr its already a thing, basically

[YummyToast]

>Everyone spawns as a survivor
>Everyone dies
gg -1

[Biolock]

I'd be ok with it if there was a cap on the amount of survivors there are. Like maybe there are ten roles to be filled in, and then you can choose how badly you want to be them in the job panel. Though it seems kind of unnecessary since the current system isn't really broken.

[Thrain]

It would probably need to be a non-late joining job slot, sort of like how cyborgs use to work on baystation. But other than that, it seems like a fine way to choose who is a survivor and who is not. Not only that I think admins can adjust the number of open slots for jobs in-game, so that would let them set the number pre-round-start if they want to switch up the normal round balance or something.

[Lostmixup]

I'd only like this because I wouldn't randomly spawn in unexpectedly as survivor and immediately get pissed because I was just going to do the equivalent of nothing the whole round. The pref makes it so you'll never know when you spawn as one, at least with this you could set it as a "high" "low" or "med" pref.

[Dyne]

>Everyone spawns as a survivor
>Everyone dies
gg -1

>Everyone spawns as survivor
>Aliums ded before marines land
gg -1

[Lostmixup]

There would obviously be a limit just like with jobs now.

[YummyToast]

I kinda think I can +1 this. But at the same time the current system we have implemented works just fine. If you don't want to be a survivor that round you set the deal to [No] if you do you set it to [Yes] so I don't see why this is needed.

[apophis775]

NOPE chuck Testa.