/tg/Station 13

Okay, I admit it - I've redtexted, I'm fucking salty, whatever. This is an issue that I want to adress.

Swarmers. The little mechanical creatures, whose purpose is to consume the station and replicate themselves. Consume. Replicate. Not validhunt. Not deny greentext. Their weapons are supposed to be a weapon of self defense - yet often I see swarmers denying crew (and antags especially) the ride on the shuttle and going for a ride to Centcom, despite their laws commanding them to consume the station. My latest round with hijack the shuttle objective ended in my loss, because literally all of my victims got back into round as swarmers and were salty as fuck about me killing them. I didn't interfere with their work, I didn't kill any of them, but they decided to continuously attack me and make sure I won't be able to reach the shuttle in time. Even from a logical perspective it doesn't make sense - with humans away, it should be easier to eat the station.
So, with that in mind, do swarmers even need to follow their laws? Or do they get a free reign to do whatever they want?

tl; dr - I've redtexted, pls fix.

Swarmers (and drones) on the shuttle when it launches should automatically get a one week permaban from both servers.

Atlanta-Ned wrote:Swarmers (and drones) on the shuttle when it launches should automatically get a one week permaban from both servers.

"one week" "permaban"

Yeah okay

Atlanta-Ned wrote:Swarmers (and drones) on the shuttle when it launches should automatically get a one week permaban from both servers.

Pick up a drone, then get onto the shuttle with it. It can't escape if it doesn't get lucky with RNG. Suddenly, ban.

Saegrimr wrote: "one week" "permaban"

Yeah okay

Bah, perma as in no appealing.

TheNightingale wrote:Pick up a drone, then get onto the shuttle with it. It can't escape if it doesn't get lucky with RNG. Suddenly, ban.

Sucks to be that grief machinedrone, then.

I dunno what you lot think "replicate" and "consume" mean but I'd say invading the shuttle to go spread and eat a new station to be pretty damn appropriate

Basically stop being so salty.

Oh stop being so salty, I read that story that round sounded hilarious.

Yeah swarmers don't give a fuck, they're there to consume everything, not just the station

It'd be really weird for a long-dead race to make a robot, the only goal of which is to eat one specific station that won't exist for thousands of years

Consume, replicate, repeat until the masters says so.

No master = no stopping

No killing of any living beaings, keep them contained in the station for later resource consumption.

In the end

I'm salty that I got screwed by an antag the thread.

Maybe next time actually fight against the swarmers instead of letting them grow in number.

The swarmer text is pretty much just flavor text as far as I'm aware. They're free to consume as they will. Also it makes sense they'd want to swarm to the next station that they could.

Yeah swarmers are antagonists, unlike silicons or drones their "laws" are just fluff so git gud.

Pretty salty tbh fam

Obvious shitposting