Liaison Responder

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): A role that has the specific job of replying to liaison faxes, and can even provide support or give objectives with admin approval. Will also allow liaison to actually receive faxes instead of talking to himself.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): Allow the liaison to give and receive faxes from a weyland worker or central head. As is, multiple people, including myself, have most likely tried playing a liaison, and gotten little luck with receiving any response. It's no one's fault, as for mods and mins, they have important jobs, and can't just focus on a singular person, as they have to enforce rules for the entire server. This would simply allow a person to act as a responder for the liaison, so the role doesn't feel so dull.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): A z-level or room somewhere on an existing z-level, that is inaccessible. It would be designated like a locker in a way, that the responder does not count towards round end count, and if all the humans die, the aliens still earn their hard fought victory. The room would be modeled as some sort of corp HQ, complete with fax machine, food, computers, scanners, and possibly even a console to send assistance. Said console would of course have to be admin granted for use, or if their is no staff on, it is designed like the distress beacon, and only activates after a certain condition. This response would likely be PMC's, or on a very rare occasion, weylands extremely lethal (AND EXTREMELY ILLEGAL) combat synths, which would have to work on a "do not be seen" basis, as they are of course, at this point in the timeline, illegal.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): A small z-level or portion of the map that is sanctioned off. Runs off the same code that makes it so that anyone in a locker or space does not count towards round end.

[Dingle]

This could be a pretty cool whitelisted role.

Maybe you could could have AI kind of vision (with all of the regular AI controls removed), instead of a separate room; the idea being that you represent not only the surveillance crew but also the command chain that makes the cheeki breeki sneaky decisions. It'd also liven up the role a little for whoever would be playing it.

I could see it becoming pretty frustrating trying to figure out what's going on relying only on security cameras and trusting the Liason's faxes. From my interactions with the staff's RP of Yutani, it's implied they are all seeing and have many spies to keep them updated on what's going on.

[Artouris]

+1 if its whitelisted

It'd be a boon to the people who play corporate liason without any admins or mods on at the time. The problem is 50-90% of the gameplay/RP for liason comes in writing faxes and stuff like that. It really sucks if you dont have anything on the admin side to keep you updated. Also it'd probably get some of the people who just ghost to observe rounds to possibly contribute somehow. Because it amounts to ghosting but with a respond to Liason button. I think it'd be neat.

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

I feel I should state a few things with the way the reply's are going. For one, if this did become a whitelisted role, I feel it would be best if we had a page on the forums, dictating missions that can and cannot be given. For example, Elimation of survivors? Fine. Overload the SM Core? Not fine. The point is, it would be basic guidelines of what is and what is not allowed, if we were to make this whitelisted, as whitelisting you should have a little more freedom to do things, than just replying, as half the fun of faxes is getting a mission.

Secondly, the we-yu synths, I should probably clarify on. They would have an unbelievably low chance of being the selected re-enforcement. And even then, they would have a number of 1-3, as they are UNBELIEVABLY expensive, and they have a better chance to be seen in large numbers, which can't be allowed. They would come equiped with decent armor, and perhaps either special weaponry, or black ops exclusive gear, like the gear seen in the AVP 2010 game. But do keep in mind, the synths are not the topic of the suggestion, rather an add on if you will. The topic of this suggestion is the fax responder role itself.

[Solacian72]

I've actually had the task to shoot the SM into space one time as a survivor. I feel like for certain situations, some tasks would be good, and in other situations, they would be bad.

[Boltersam]

I feel I should state a few things with the way the reply's are going. For one, if this did become a whitelisted role, I feel it would be best if we had a page on the forums, dictating missions that can and cannot be given. For example, Elimation of survivors? Fine. Overload the SM Core? Not fine. The point is, it would be basic guidelines of what is and what is not allowed, if we were to make this whitelisted, as whitelisting you should have a little more freedom to do things, than just replying, as half the fun of faxes is getting a mission.

Secondly, the we-yu synths, I should probably clarify on. They would have an unbelievably low chance of being the selected re-enforcement. And even then, they would have a number of 1-3, as they are UNBELIEVABLY expensive, and they have a better chance to be seen in large numbers, which can't be allowed. They would come equiped with decent armor, and perhaps either special weaponry, or black ops exclusive gear, like the gear seen in the AVP 2010 game. But do keep in mind, the synths are not the topic of the suggestion, rather an add on if you will. The topic of this suggestion is the fax responder role itself.

Look at this guy, using logic!
depends how much power people want the responder to be given, if it's just limited to missions, or he has the power to send operatives to assist the Liason, this seems like an interesting role that I could kill some time with, so, +1erino.

[Minijar]

Writing liaison reports is one of my favourite things to do, don't take that away from me.

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

Writing liaison reports is one of my favourite things to do, don't take that away from me.

If you're serious, where have you been, and can I keep you?

But in all honesty, admins and such will STILL be able to do their reports, this role will simply exsist so that we have a better chance of actually getting faxes, considering how busy everyone always is making sure no one's a chucklefuck on the server. Hell, for all we know, admisn and mod sent faxes when there is this role on the round would come from weyland himself, that would be interesting.

[Minijar]

I usually always respond to liaison reports of there's effort in it, not three word reports. Also I try not to write when other mods and such are on as they hold authority on these things.

[Seehund]

Thing with this role is, it would probably get UNBELIEVABLY BORING in the long run, or am I wrong?

Can't see how this would keep any fun value, honestly.

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

Thing with this role is, it would probably get UNBELIEVABLY BORING in the long run, or am I wrong?

Can't see how this would keep any fun value, honestly.

I like to imagine it would keep the fun value, as it would allow players to actually have some sway on how the liaison acts. And on the fact of it being boring, that's only if theirs no liaison who faxes you. As someone who plays liaison quite alot, it's the same situation for liaison. if no one faxes you/ no admin mod responds, it's a living hell of boredom.

[username123]

Thing with this role is, it would probably get UNBELIEVABLY BORING in the long run, or am I wrong?

Can't see how this would keep any fun value, honestly.

Just like predators :^)

[forwardslashN]

-1
As others have pointed out, a whitelisted role where you just sit around and answer faxes all round sounds like a recipe for suicide.

[Feweh]

I use to respond to Liaison reports ALLLLL THE TIME.
But after months of it I can't be bothered anymore, its the same shit everytime with the same reports from Liaison.
Honestly it's become a chore... and half the time the Liaison is incompetent as fuck.

[Boltersam]

-1
As others have pointed out, a whitelisted role where you just sit around and answer faxes all round sounds like a recipe for suicide.

I would whitelist to be that role. Simply because I have literally nothing more interesting to do with my time, and being like the 911 responder seems cool to me.

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

I use to respond to Liaison reports ALLLLL THE TIME.
But after months of it I can't be bothered anymore, its the same shit everytime with the same reports from Liaison.
Honestly it's become a chore... and half the time the Liaison is incompetent as fuck.

This is understandable, as haf our playerbase has shown to be incompetant a good amount of the time. However, for those of us who enjoy being liaison, this unneedingly punishes us, as we are a role focused on rp, and getting objectives and jobs from weyland, allow us to progress the rp in some direction, instead of trying to take something into our own hands, and get banned for a reason or another. If you could find a way to have pre-spawn jobs for liaison spwn in, differing each round, that would most liekly also be acceptable.

[Feweh]

I totally agree with you, when i first became staff i hated how the other staff never responded to the liaison.

But after responding to 100s of them i just cant be bothered anymore. I think i might just prepare a generic template and answers to reply to Liaisons for now on. At least then its better than nothing

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

I totally agree with you, when i first became staff i hated how the other staff never responded to the liaison.

But after responding to 100s of them i just cant be bothered anymore. I think i might just prepare a generic template and answers to reply to Liaisons for now on. At least then its better than nothing

Better yet, make multiple templaets, spin a wheel, and watch the madness ensue when they get a mission that is "Subvert command staff and sabotage comms"

[ShortTemperedLeprechaun]

Bumping this from the dead.

[Enceri]

low-key +1 for whitelisted, I would personally love to reply to liaison faxes.

[Halinder]

This seems like a great role for mentors who just want to chill out and stay kinda-sorta involved while also just aghosting around.

[Mook476]

+1 Great idea

[forwardslashN]

I don't think we're doing this for reasons I've stated earlier in the thread. CLs will eventually have more to do, but it probably won't be such as outlined here. This is denied.