Doesn't make sense that colonist spawn without id.

[username123]

LV-624 is an archeologycal colony of W-Y, in that colony there are not only archeologist and miners, but doctors, botanist, security officers, enginners, chefs, robotist etc ...
When marines land on LV-624 and they turn on the engine to have energy in the colony and when they try to open per example, a science or medbay airlock, they simply can't because they do not have access, marines only have access to the civilian airlocks, like the airlocks of the chapel, fitness, dorms and some other buildings which means that the colony works with ID based airlocks which means that the colonist need to use an identification to open those airlocks, if they require an ID to get in their offices and do their job, why they spawn without an ID? Even when a colonist manages to fix the engines by himself and the engineering building is powered, they can't get out because they do not have an ID, they can't even get in Tcomms without hacking the airlocks, which brings the next question: Why colonist do not spawn without an ID when they clearly need one to work in the colony?

[lucashunter608]

I think exactly the same, i also think marines should get dog tags and colonists get IDs

[Sadokist]

Yea i've thought that before. doesn't really make any sense.

[completelynewguy]

Only reasoning I could fins is that the survivors lost their IDs in the chaos.

[Mephiliso]

It seems pretty arbitrary that survivors don't have an ID, but if I had to guess, I'd say it's because IDs would mean they get free roam of the place when the power's up and it protects them from the sentries.

[moff_lockwood]

I usually take an ID off the nearest dead npc colonist. They don't have much access, since most of the doors in the colony are set to need ALL rather than ONE from a list of different civilian access levels. As far as I know, there are no badges that ever meet the criteria for those doors (and not ID's made on the ship, those can't be set to most of the different civilian access categories using the logistics terminal). It's easy to reprogram the access criteria though for the engineers if they bother to pull out the airlock electronics. Actually, ERT badges might work on them... those work on everything aboard the Sulaco except the one airlock to get from the shuttle they arrive on into the ship if they take too long and let it close on them.

Being at risk of getting shot by smartguns and turrets as a survivor though is something I'm torn on. They would have Wey-Yu badges, and by default the marines probably would have them set friendly, but colonists are allowed to act crazy so I dunno how I lean on starting them with IDs or not.

[Mech__Warrior]

I usually take an ID off the nearest dead npc colonist. They don't have much access, since most of the doors in the colony are set to need ALL rather than ONE from a list of different civilian access levels. As far as I know, there are no badges that ever meet the criteria for those doors (and not ID's made on the ship, those can't be set to most of the different civilian access categories using the logistics terminal). It's easy to reprogram the access criteria though for the engineers if they bother to pull out the airlock electronics. Actually, ERT badges might work on them... those work on everything aboard the Sulaco except the one airlock to get from the shuttle they arrive on into the ship if they take too long and let it close on them.

Being at risk of getting shot by smartguns and turrets as a survivor though is something I'm torn on. They would have Wey-Yu badges, and by default the marines probably would have them set friendly, but colonists are allowed to act crazy so I dunno how I lean on starting them with IDs or not.

Maybe the sentry guns could be coded to not shoot at those that spawn on the sully but I'm not sure how that would actually work code-wise. Maybe give all players that spawn on the sully a tag or something.

[Nick123q23]

Yeah this doesn't make much sense that colonists don't have access to their colony