So last day I was digging up some sandbags and with the latest auto-digging feature, I not only didn't had to destroy my sanity and fingers, but also had some time to chit-chat. Inadvertedly this caused some nice RP moment with my fellow diggers which later during the round ended up with a cool partnership before we got out ass whopped by xenos.
So I was thinking, what other things could be implemented, where you are "forced" to stand still for 1-2 minutes while you do something useful, but it's not overpowered. Things like:
- soldiers could clean weapon for 30 seconds, making your first 5 shots 100% accurate. Use the currently useless cleaning oil.
- engineers polishing cades, making them reflect 1 spitter acid. Same way as with sandbags, they should be able to polish 3 at the time so the DOT won't 'stick' to it.
- medics could move around their batteries to get some defib charge, or organize their bag for a little extra random medicine in one of the bottles.
So instead of pinging people for LRP, why not give them something to do while they are waiting and they have literally nothing else to do...just talk.