Originally Posted by
Dreven
we should just make it so all medical items, attachments and kits are free to get from an open prep vendor so everyone can gear up quickly, and leave more time for actual roleplay between people before deployment. People could waste the 15 minutes or so before drop by doing boxing matches, goofing around, having squad breakfasts etc. Waiting in req is just an artificial loading time and adds literally nothing to the game, its the kind of "static background roleplay" that serves no purpose at all. The kind of RP that CM and SS13 in general is so great for is the character driven, emergent roleplay that comes from people interacting with eachover, waiting in a line to be served by someone literally just feels like you are being forced to be a NPC. This would appease both the roleplayers of the game as they would have more time to do their own thing before drop, and would appease the "no rp gamers" who, quite understandably, just wanna go shoot aliens in a game about shooting aliens. I'm sure alot of people would just gear up quick and go wait on the dropship, and thats fine too, but those that didn't wouldent have to waste time fucking about with busywork for the 10000th time and actually have opportunity to build up comradery and character development with their fellow ungas.