Guard Rework

[Squigga_]

May i state this first. Despite playing many many hours on MCP I've never played any of them as a guard but being friends with guards and being in ts in general with them. Majority come to the consensus that guarding in MCP can be a pain in the rump. My biggest example of this is my good friend Nator. When he first joined guard he was bullied both by the other guards and powerful PvP Players constantly without a chance of getting a break. Staring at the ground to avoid being force baited out because someone has a sword. Personally i'd love to become a guard once i get enough hours and such but the reminder that im essentially throwing away the ability to generate revenue besides the small amount of money the game gives you for guarding.  That being said time to stop rambling and get to the point.

Guards need the ability to "Turn off" Guard mode and just resort to playing as a normal player so they can get personal time to do things as well without being called to C because someone is tormenting the new prisoners again and slaughtering them. Something along the lines of Every 1 Hour of Guarding a 10-15 Min break sorta deal. Enchant,Mine,Smelt Cuz lets be honest the pay-grade is not exactly great for guards.

[HeadlessCowboy]

Some guards get on their alts to play if they don't want to guard at that given time.  I know not everyone has alts so I guess it could be for those players; however, I think this could be abused if the right steps are not taken such as:

1) When the time is up for the "free" time, they automatically get tp'ed back to the guard spawn or somewhere in the prison.
2) Being able to go spend some free time when their friends pvp the crap out of everyone while on their guard account.  I know this is already possible due to alt accounts so maybe we need rules that a person that is a guard if there is "too much" pvp, they have to log into their guard account but this isn't what the op wants to I'll leave it at this.
3) Permissions would have to be reworked for guards to change their own status due to tab showing them being a guard due to traditional prison servers.

Maybe we could have private contractors that guards can "train" for about 2-5 minutes then the guard gets the free time as the private contractor works as a "guard" for that time.  I know this would have to be given to higher ranked guards and to do it to trustable members but this could be like a training exercise for when we do need guards instead of "hiring" them right after all those guards go inactive or before they quit for it being too boring within a week of getting the guard job.

[Squigga_]

There are some holes you can poke through the plan but they really need something. specially with the way some mcp players are

[masterovieOG]

1: don’t become guard if you’re going to play on your alt more.
2: I take 20 minutes everyday to mine and do whatever then also events as my “off duty” time.

Maybe before guards were buffed I would agree but now I think that guards can last longer now which means we do more damage to the prisoner’s Armour which means they’d be more hesisitant to pvp. 

[Squigga_]

1: don’t become guard if you’re going to play on your alt more.
2: I take 20 minutes everyday to mine and do whatever then also events as my “off duty” time.

Maybe before guards were buffed I would agree but now I think that guards can last longer now which means we do more damage to the prisoner’s Armour which means they’d be more hesisitant to pvp.

Yeah thats understandable but i believe its daunting to see that people are constantly messing with you and trying to get you to come to C, anyways we really need to hire guards i barely ever see anyone after events except you ovie

[masterovieOG]

[quote author=masterovieOG link=topic=5781.msg34932#msg34932 date=1532529902]
1: don’t become guard if you’re going to play on your alt more.
2: I take 20 minutes everyday to mine and do whatever then also events as my “off duty” time.

Maybe before guards were buffed I would agree but now I think that guards can last longer now which means we do more damage to the prisoner’s Armour which means they’d be more hesisitant to pvp.

Yeah thats understandable but i believe its daunting to see that people are constantly messing with you and trying to get you to come to C, anyways we really need to hire guards i barely ever see anyone after events except you ovie
[/quote] Ohhhh thanks <3

[Squigga_]

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[LaughNgamez]

It's part of the job, true the burnout is high for guards but we won't be changing it.