Content Suggestion Cognito hazard and SCP-096 change

[Ratman99]

What does this suggestion change/add/remove:
Make it so that muiltple cognito hazards are spawned when they are, and its randomly selected and a code 4 is triggered when they do spawn.
Make it so the documents spawn facing upwards and perhaps try to put some of the other ones on random terminals, or on corkboards etc.
Add some more random congito hazards, so far i have only see 096, and that mary jane one. Perhaps make a assortment of instant death ones, something hunts you down ones, ones that kill you if you keep looking at them and ones that once you look at them you will die over time, so need to seek medical aid.
note, NOT SUGGESTING SCREAMERS
Maybe have staff randomly place some around on cork boards, if they cant be made persisent, in the code 4.

SCP idea/s:
A fake terminal broken screen thats a cognito hazard.

<br>Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
Yes, but i belive my one is a expansive change to cognito hazards, vs a specfic SCP's
<br>Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):
May make it less metagamable.
Gives more incentive to look at, and for documents
Lets them be a actual threat, vs a mild annoyance thats easily metagamable.
Gives more weight to departmental audits to root out potential cognitohazards.
<br>Possible Negatives of the suggestion:<br>
Disruption to server if a dozen people get 096-1'ed or other lethal cognito hazard
Coding/implementation hassle
<br>Based on the Positives &amp; Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:
The point of cognito hazards is they are kind of hidden in plain sight, and get you when you least expect it, this should elevate them to being a unexpected horror, vs a mild nuisance, and may give people more incentive to actually look at/for, and also chance to be exposed to them.

 

[Emilia Fοddg]

Make it so that muiltple cognito hazards are spawned when they are, and its randomly selected

+Support
I think that if you hack 096's containment box or breach tool it, it should spawn a ton of pics. Because even though 096 is a popular breach, that's because you can just break open the doors and get it to wander - With no real reason to spend your time hacking the box or using your breach tool. If you add this layer of strategy to it, it could make choosing to breach 096 more interesting.

and a code 4 is triggered when they do spawn

Auto codes are a TERRIBLE idea.
-Support

Make it so the documents spawn facing upwards

+Support

perhaps try to put some of the other ones on random terminals

Being able to put 096 pics on terminals is (hopefully still) planned,
having them appear randomly, I don't know. I guess it could be something that could only happen to broken terminals? Which could encourage people to seek out ETS to fix them. But even then, some terminals are in spawn areas and I don't know how good of an idea that is. Could be a manual flag type thing like I talk about below with corkboards

or on corkboards

+Major Support
Pics appearing on corkboards where there's space for them could be fun and interesting, especially since the bucket removes the pic so there's no real reason to not hide them in plain sight like this.

I think what would be needed to achieve this is a manually applicable flag to corkboards by Sr. Admin (as some corkboards are in spawn areas such as RSD or E-11 bunks, and would not be appropriate for an 096 pic), and then I guess it would have to check for any valid blank space for an 096 pic to be placed? Then try to place the pic. If it fails, it falls back to default spawning.

That honestly sounds like PAIN to implement, but if it interests devs enough to attempt, I wholeheartedly encourage it. But I imagine this specifically will be denied because of that implementation complexity

Add some more random congito hazards, so far i have only see 096, and that mary jane one.

+Support

instant death ones [...] ones that kill you if you keep looking at them

-Support

something hunts you down ones

Eh, GMs can already do this - I did an event like this when I was GM, but I wouldn't mind more tools to be made for GMs to help with these kinds of events. Maybe special GMObj flags?

and ones that once you look at them you will die over time, so need to seek medical aid

+Support

Maybe have staff randomly place some around on cork boards

+Support
Please allow Staff to randomly breach 096 at their whim

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There's good ideas here.

 

[Walter Smoth]

Eh, GMs can already do this - I did an event like this when I was GM, but I wouldn't mind more tools to be made for GMs to help with these kinds of events. Maybe special GMObj flags?

does he know?
GMs have a lot more tools than they did when you were a GM, you'd be surprised on what we can do

 

[Mad_Max_000]

+Support

More random C4 anomalies? yes, please.

~% chance of seeing SCP-2156 on a computer screen
~% chance of SCP-3626 spawning in your hand

~% of SCP-2358 spawning on the "department" corkboard