Partially Accepted Scranton Reality Anchor Cooldown Change

[Zen]

What does this suggestion change/add/remove:
EITHER

• Remove the cooldown to place Scranton Reality Anchors (they already have a cooldown to dispense, this is a double cooldown)

OR

• Add a new, clearly visible HUD element when you have an SRA on you (not just held in hand - when you have one at all) that appears when you are on placement cooldown, showing how much time you have remaining

Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
Not that I could find.

Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):

• (Removing cooldown) Removes the bizarre double cooldown that just makes things more complicated than they need to be
• Prevents situations like this bullshit
• (Removing cooldown) Stops enforced mixing - where I have to say "I can't place one" even though there's no RP explanation as to why, I just magically can't place it and have to wait a few minutes
• (Showing cooldown) Allows you to actually plan and consider your actions, rather than just hoping you're off cooldown. I can now know I can't place one ahead of time, so I don't assume I can and then get everyone killed because we didn't use someone else who was off cooldown.

Possible Negatives of the suggestion:

• (Showing cooldown) Literally none
• (Removing cooldown) Balance considerations
  • You already have a dispenser cooldown, this is just a second, unnecessary cooldown.

Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:
Either of these options would be a massive improvement and prevent dumbass situations where people get themselves and others killed because they can't place an SRA and didn't know before they tried to.

 

[Joris Kilotoviz/London]

+Support for the visual indicator of how long you have until the cooldown is off

-Support for Cooldown Removal, as this could make jobs which spawn with an SRA more powerful

 

[grunger]

Until something similar is implemented, you can just attempt to place anchors out of range or on walls/roofs to keep track of the remaining cooldown duration.

 

[Niox]

The reason there is a placement cooldown is for jobs (E.G. GOC R&D, GSD SCU) that already have a SRA on spawn, so that SCP's don't get nuked to death by anchors

visual indicator would be very cool though yes yes
+/-Neutral

 

[fyzar]

• (Removing cooldown) Stops enforced mixing - where I have to say "I can't place one" even though there's no RP explanation as to why, I just magically can't place it and have to wait a few minutes

"its charging up"

+support for showing timer

-support for removing dispenser cooldown, some jobs spawn with it

 

[Zack Baker]

+Support
didnt even knew this existed where there is a cooldown for placing it

 

[Aphex]

Wouldn't this get fixed if we remove the cooldown AND removed all scrantons from jobs that spawn with them? I understand why it wouldn't make sense but a cooldown for something that already has a cooldown is kinda ridiculous.

-/+ Neutral

 

[Bananolas]

+Support
To the indicator to see the colldown
-Support
Removing the colldown would make 8837 solo breaches so easy to deal with same for tg but he can work around it a bit

 

[Evil]

+support to the indicator to see cooldown
-support on removing cooldown
tactics are a thing.

 

[Trusty]

+Support for TIMER
-Support for COOLDOWN REMOVAL
As much as I'd love for the cooldown to be gone, it's there for a reasonable reason of giving reality SCPs a chance lol. I LOVE the timer idea, though!

 

[Verlocity]

Suggestion Partially Approved​

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Hi @Zen ,

Thanks for taking the time to make a server suggestion.
The Content Team has chosen to partially accept your suggestion for the following reasons.

Reasons for Accepting & Denying:
We as content feel the cooldown removal is a good idea and that it should be removed. However, the cooldown should still exist for when a Reality Bender uses destabiliation ability.


Your suggestion will now be locked and marked as partially accepted.​