Having to spend time searching for the server shouldn’t be a thing.
Have a sec officer stand guard near it or something instead, weld the doors and block the windows. But having to try find a needle in a haystack while also not getting killed by the crew is just not fun for the antag.
If nukies declare war, the station goes and builds barricades all over the place and prepares. But if ninja gets spotted they can’t block 1 door and have someone guarding it?
Either give a pinpointer that actually works to point to it (last time I was ninja, the pinpointer was pointing to nothing, i followed it in case it was pointing to the server and just lead to empty corridor) or make it so its not allowed to hide the server outside of science part of station.
This is one of those things that should be solved mechanically, if it’s a notable problem. Make it more difficult to relocate such improtant infrastructure. Is there even a valid reason to deconstruct or unanchor an existing server?
Afaik the pinpointer should be pointing at the R&D server. If it doesn’t, that’s a bug.
As for mechanical enforcement: it might not be feasible, but something like a pathfinding algorithm (ignoring doors) could be used to ensure the R&D server is never fully blocked off, and if it is then it won’t receive points/be able to get new research. Don’t know how feasible that is.
I don’t remember the replay code, but the pinpointer was pointing to an empty corridor on the east side of the station.
Once the round ended and OOC was enabled, they revealed that it was hidden in Sec, unanchored.
I don’t know if is just some edge case bug that caused the pinpointer to point it wrong. Sorry if I can’t provide more info.