Rule Suggestion Open Comms Clarification

[Painter]

What does this suggestion change/add/remove:

Spoiler: Requesting Open Comms

Require the Foundation, the Chaos Insurgency, and the UNGOC to request communications with each other before they can start negotiating / communicating / info breaching.

Spoiler: Closing Open Comms

Allow open comms to be closed so that the line can be no longer used. The ranks that can close it do not need to be included as to not be super strict on rules to take away from RP, but in character policies would probably be made for this.

Spoiler: Who Comms can be Sent to / Seen by

When requesting comms with F, CI, or UNGOC, it will immediately be assumed that the comms are to SOP-C/Delta-Command/UNGOC CO and the people who can see those comms. It does not make sense for CI to have a direct connection to chefs, tech experts, cadets, or anyone who's job does not pertain to leaving the facility.

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

Nein!!!! Closest was restricting the comms access with the new comms commands (/o1 /a1 /ia).

Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):

Spoiler: Less Senseless Infobreach RP

CI sometimes gets upset when a raid fails or something or that sort, at least on the NA server, so they go ballistic and decide CI>F SCP-008 O5 Administrator is a good idea. This would cut back on that and make it easier to clean up in RP instead of just mass class-a'ing the site and dismissing it.

Spoiler: More RP to Talking in Open Comms

Foundation has the ability to close / open comms when they feel that negotiations are over / infobreaching is about to happen / CI is just "yapping" in the communications channel.

Possible Negatives of the suggestion:

Spoiler: Closing Comms to Avoid RP

Some minges / evil RPers may close comms so that they don't have to RP with the other faction. They can be dealt with easily by staff though if they are not roleplaying.

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

Suggestion adds a sense of RP to open comms, a place where it is kind of a free for all do whatever you want situation.

 

[Jonas Enry]

this is a us issue we have this already on uk so stuff like that cannot happen

 

[Bill Nye The Guy]

-support the more shit you try to regulate the less fun the server becomes

 

[Painter]

-support the more shit you try to regulate the less fun the server becomes

I fully understand this but there’s a point when any GOI or Foundation should be able to close the comms. On the NA site, Chaos Insurgents will just infobreach whenever they feel like it in OCOMMS and there is nothing we can do. There a point when it just becomes. A nuisance and is no longer fun.

Along with this, regulating OCOMMS has no way of ruining fun. This is a serious RP server after all, it doesn’t make sense that CI would be doing like CI>F guess what chicken butt.

 

[Zen]

This is already a thing on UK. Just doing /oc is visible to everybody, but if you want a specific line like F-CI, or SOP-CI, you can just do "/oc <F-CI> *OPENS COMMS* (Y/N)" and until somebody accepts, any messages sent via that line simply won't go through and aren't visible in-character

 

[Niox]

this is how it works on UK lmfao

 

[Blackknight95]

Suggestion Response

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Hi Painter,

Thanks for taking the time to make a suggestion

We will not be making this a rule, it would restrict potential RP scenarios too often to force people to do something like this. If you would like to make an agreement IC with the factions, go ahead, but we will not make a rule for this.


Kind regards,
Mercer​