Content Suggestion Allow cabinets to be hacked by other factions

[Tense]

What does this suggestion change/add/remove:

Allow cabinets for all factions to be hacked by other factions (CI can hack foundation cabinets so documents can be read and vice versa)

Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:

Not that I saw

Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):

This allows for more roleplay opportunities mainly for DC, DEA and assessment teams as instead of having to kidnap, kill or brute force information it can be found from just finding the right opportunities to access files locked away and with no one ever knowing. as well as other RP opportunities that I'm sure people will come up with

By making cabinets hackable it takes away the possibility of someone just running up to F3 for example and reading every doc in 0.5 seconds it would take time, risk and coordination.

This also puts less threat on people of interest from being kidnapped so often (OSA, ECA, SA, CL4) as currently this is basically the only way to find anything out and this would add a different route to go about it and both route can work in conjunction with one another

Possible Negatives of the suggestion:

There's a potential that this gets abused on low pop where no one can do much about it but possible a minimum player count to hack them could work

Document stealing but I believe there's a rule or OOC agreement on not stealing docs and just making copies

Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:

It just makes sense this would allow for multiple RP opportunities to all factions. As well as create a new kind of investigator play style to factions instead of just forcing your way into somewhere or kidnapping the same people every time

 

[Hazbudda]

-support
This would just cause so much doc stealing and would ruin long term rp

 

[Critical]

Is it not possible to make a biometric card with the card printers and access cabinets like that? Can't remember if that was removed as a feature. If it was removed then that is a shame, if it wasn't removed just do that

 

[ArcherOfLegend]

Is it not possible to make a biometric card with the card printers and access cabinets like that? Can't remember if that was removed as a feature. If it was removed then that is a shame, if it wasn't removed just do that

A change was made a while ago where CI couldn’t get biometrics access from cards anymore

 

[Evan]

+/- Support

I think instead of them being able to steal the documents, it only lets them read them. This will Foundation be able to read documents in CI and GOCs drawers. Let’s GOC read CI and Foundation docs. Let’s CI read GOC and Foundation documents.

Edit: iirc this has been suggested many times

 

[Dennid]

No

 

[IGNVexary]

+/- Support

I think instead of them being able to steal the documents, it only lets them read them. This will Foundation be able to read documents in CI and GOCs drawers. Let’s GOC read CI and Foundation docs. Let’s CI read GOC and Foundation documents.

Edit: iirc this has been suggested many times

I think this would be cool +/- Support

 

[Abu Muhammad]

+/- Support

I think instead of them being able to steal the documents, it only lets them read them. This will Foundation be able to read documents in CI and GOCs drawers. Let’s GOC read CI and Foundation docs. Let’s CI read GOC and Foundation documents.

Edit: iirc this has been suggested many times

i support this statement

 

[Tense]

I think this would be cool +/- Support

I didnt say we should be allowed to steal documents i agree you should only be allowed read them

 

[Emilia Foddg]

This is something that's been suggested a lot, but in terms of recency, we had this a couple months ago:

Denied Thread 'Document Stealing From Cabinets'

Apr 17, 2026

What does this suggestion change/add/remove:
This suggestion would add the ability to "hack" document cabinets bio-locked to GOIs or locked to certain clearances for a random document in the entire cabinet.
As it is now, the only way to get documents to steal from other GOIs is taking them off a bulletin board or printing a document from the SCIPNET that is without a doubt wildly outdated and has probably been printed and "stolen" a million times.

Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
I have no idea.

Possible Positives of...

• teeheeNero
• Replies: 11
• Forum: Resolved

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The stance given by Content here is:

We wish to further discuss this internally, however, we don't wish to continue with the aspect of hacking as a solution for this.

There is a desire to implement content-based methods to allow factions to steal each others' documents, however they're explicitly against hacking as the go-to method for it.

Honestly, I like Zen's solution here:

Just make it so that instead of actually stealing documents, you can scan them to create a copy. Best of both worlds.

Hack cabinet, get a copy of a document instead of stealing it outright, that way you don't get the negative impact of document stealing.

Give it a population minimum to prevent low-pop theft, then give factions a way of checking if anyone's been hacking their cabinets lately to enable long-term ramifications - If it was completely undetectable, GOC could simply send in assessment teams to stealth copy all of Foundation's documents and they wouldn't be any wiser. Having a way of detecting it enables RP ramifications in that instance.

To be honest, that's probably the best route to go here.
+Support

 

[Avery Snow]

+Support for being able to read the documents after hacking.
-Support for being able to take the documents, It would be annoying to make a bunch of documents, just for them to get shredded or taken.
Or instead of taking, a copy could be made. That would be interesting. That way the document is not lost and can still be used, but the benefit of the information is gained.