Staff arent on 24/7. USA has has problems with lack of staff for a while and this is simply something from lack of manpower. UK staff hop on sometimes to help out but they cannot be relied on.
That’s true, no server has 24/7 staff coverage, including this on. But the solution to that could be limiting breaches to high-pop rounds (e.g. 12+ MTF online, and certain hours of the day where more staff members are present), not banning entire
RP scenarios. If staff presence is inconsistent, it makes more sense to apply those rules instead of permanently removing the option.
Logs are already very clear and precise, there is a limit on what you can do and you have to go up the chain of command, gather opinions and a lot of things before making a decision. Additionally, staff like to wait to bring people into sits so we can talk to them and get their side of the story and they arent always online.
Yes and that’s exactly why they’re effective when used. If it takes time to gather all sides of a story, that’s part of the process. No system is perfect, but that doesn’t justify blanket bans.
Rare breaches are meant to test the Foundation, not exist in perfect control. If something goes wrong once in a while, it’s not failure, it’s a chance to learn and improve how everyone in the site handles the situation, creating
RP scenarios in the future (like briefings, trainings and drills).
Are you seriously calling an SCP-008 breach an rp possibility? Thats one of the worst arguments I've ever heard.
Why? SCPs exist to create tension, fear, and response. Containment breaches are a core part of SCP lore and gameplay (this includes the
SCP-RP server), they're not out of place. SCP-008 is dangerous, yes, but that's the point. So is SCP-076, 682, or even Type-Green in the wrong hands, yet all of those are used in RP and can be breached by Class-D.
Calling SCP-008 breaches “not RP” ignores the fact that RP often involves disaster, escalation, and reaction. A D-Class sacrificing himself to release SCP-008 with high pop, oversight and following the rules could be one of the most intense and interesting, breach the site as seems. It’s all about how it's done.
E-11 aren't known on the UK server to be extremely active, and its not fair for anybody to be guarding the containment chamber 24/7 and getting bored just to protect the chamber from pesky d-class who b-line down there and claim metagame when they get killed for killing half the site staff.
That’s a behavioral issue, not an issue with the concept itself. Nobody is asking for 008 to be freely accessible. A properly set up breach would:
- Require multiple layers of effort (escaping, hacking, navigating),
- Be rare due to the 12-MTF rule,
- Still be punishable if abused.
If a D-Class kills half the site and screams “metagame” when he dies, he might be completely right, he as all the rights to question if he was “metagamed” or not.
Yet again, causing a massive breach and wasting hours of staff time and player time cleaning up some d-class's mess on the daily is NOT roleplay. Causing chaos (to promote roleplay, ie causing crimes and getting tribunalled, etc) and giving the middle finger to server health are completely different.
Yes, under current rules. But if the rule changes to allow 008 breaches under specific conditions, those rules would naturally be adjusted too. Players wouldn’t just go around randomly injecting others it would require planning, risk, and timing.
Also, if a Class-D injects himself, that’s not breaking any rule. That’s playing a deranged, self-sacrificing character, which fits the SCP universe perfectly. A containment breach should be something the Foundation fights to stop, not something that’s never allowed to begin with.
Injecting a member of your team with 008 purposefully is against server rules.
This one should be one of the rules that would naturally adjust, all Class-D members shouldn’t be considered as a team, but more likely to be in a “marriage of convenience”, they would’t be allowed to kill or act against each other for no reason, but if for exemple someone was snitching to the guards or is a trustee with a work permit (what could be seen as betrayal’d by other Class-D’s) it would make them viable to infected with 008.
I’ll go a bit a further and please correct me if i’m wrong here, but I’ve heard people saying that Class-D are part of the Foundation faction, what in my eyes is complete bullshit, despite being in the same faction in the
selecte character menu, I argue that they have very different opinions, objectives and goals, making them completely different “factions”.
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