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Make genetic stability less shitty - Lady Birb - 06-25-2017
Right now, the genetics stability system is, if you will forgive my crassness, completely fucking bullshit. If you have even slightly less than 100 stability, than your mutations will backfire more often than they work, making injectors completely fucking useless and making certain mutations like synchronized biomass manipulation completely fucking suicidal to use. I would go as far as to say that the old system where having very low stability would instagib you is better because at least under that system you would have to be abusing injectors for any of the negative effects to occur. I have a few potential (heh) solutions for this:
- Make the negative effects not occur until you are below 50 stability. Now you can take one of the really good mutations like SMES human or optic energizer without all of your mutations suddenly becoming more useless than a clown who takes their shoes off.
- Add a drug or medicine that helps negate it. This would probably have to be difficult to make, have negative side effects, and/or be very addictive to balance it out. It could work by either outright restoring genetic stability without removing mutations, or just stopping the negative effects of low stability from occurring as long as you have it in your bloodstream, forcing you to keep taking it if you want to go on a superpowered murderspree.
- Make empowered/synchronized/whatever versions of mutations already in your potential not cost stability. I don't see why it isn't already like this, considering that after the change to genetic stability, as I mention above, synchronized biomass manipulation is going to instakill you just as quickly as the non-synchronized version. Feels more like an oversight than anything.
RE: Make genetic stability less shitty - Frank_Stein - 06-25-2017
Number 2 is something I've been clamoring for awhile.
I'm not the hugest fan of backfiring powers as much as I was for cronenberging into a horrible non-human mutant.
RE: Make genetic stability less shitty - awfulworldkid - 06-25-2017
If you aren't the (only) geneticist, a good geneticist should be adding chromosomes into you directly (with the scanner) instead of using injectors with the same genes as your potential. The other two, on the other hand, are VERY needed.
RE: Make genetic stability less shitty - Maegor - 06-26-2017
(06-25-2017, 03:59 PM)Lord Birb Wrote: [align=justify]Forcing you to keep taking would be more interesting
- Add a drug or medicine that helps negate it. This would probably have to be difficult to make, have negative side effects, and/or be very addictive to balance it out. It could work by either outright restoring genetic stability without removing mutations, or just stopping the negative effects of low stability from occurring as long as you have it in your bloodstream, forcing you to keep taking it if you want to go on a superpowered murderspree.
RE: Make genetic stability less shitty - New525 - 06-26-2017
It would be nice to have some way of slowly dispering a chem into yourself were it addictive
RE: Make genetic stability less shitty - Camnui - 06-26-2017
(06-26-2017, 11:42 PM)New525 Wrote: It would be nice to have some way of slowly dispering a chem into yourself were it addictive
the two standard ways are injector belts and vap-o-matics IIRC
RE: Make genetic stability less shitty - cyberTripping - 06-27-2017
I'm now imagining mutants who have traded things like vision and stability for raw power, wearing vapor masks and VISOR goggles to make up for their new weaknesses.
Yeah I'm keen on this idea.
RE: Make genetic stability less shitty - babayetu83 - 06-27-2017
i dont really like the idea of being reliant on a chem
why cant the stability system just be made to not be unfun
RE: Make genetic stability less shitty - Maegor - 06-27-2017
(06-27-2017, 03:44 AM)babayetu83 Wrote: i dont really like the idea of being reliant on a chem
why cant the stability system just be made to not be unfun
Because superpowered hulks are not really fun. -Maegor
RE: Make genetic stability less shitty - Ed Venture - 06-27-2017
(06-27-2017, 07:39 AM)Maegor Wrote:(06-27-2017, 03:44 AM)babayetu83 Wrote: i dont really like the idea of being reliant on a chem
why cant the stability system just be made to not be unfun
Because superpowered hulks are not really fun.
Says you.
RE: Make genetic stability less shitty - Lady Birb - 06-27-2017
(06-27-2017, 07:39 AM)Maegor Wrote:(06-27-2017, 03:44 AM)babayetu83 Wrote: i dont really like the idea of being reliant on a chem
why cant the stability system just be made to not be unfun
Because superpowered hulks are not really fun.
That is what mutadone darts are for.
RE: Make genetic stability less shitty - YoukCat - 06-27-2017
(06-27-2017, 07:39 AM)Maegor Wrote:(06-27-2017, 03:44 AM)babayetu83 Wrote: i dont really like the idea of being reliant on a chem
why cant the stability system just be made to not be unfun
Because superpowered hulks are not really fun.
I for one like superpowered hulks
RE: Make genetic stability less shitty - Maegor - 06-27-2017
(06-27-2017, 01:59 PM)Lord Birb Wrote: That is what mutadone darts are for.Well it is hard to hit them when they can run faster than the dart but I do not think this is the right place for this discussion.
RE: Make genetic stability less shitty - Noah Buttes - 06-27-2017
(06-27-2017, 03:25 PM)Maegor Wrote:(06-27-2017, 01:59 PM)Lord Birb Wrote: That is what mutadone darts are for.Well it is hard to hit them when they can run faster than the dart but I do not think this is the right place for this discussion.
Then the problem is that darts are too slow.
RE: Make genetic stability less shitty - atomic1fire - 06-27-2017
(06-27-2017, 04:11 PM)Noah Buttes Wrote:(06-27-2017, 03:25 PM)Maegor Wrote:(06-27-2017, 01:59 PM)Lord Birb Wrote: That is what mutadone darts are for.Well it is hard to hit them when they can run faster than the dart but I do not think this is the right place for this discussion.
Then the problem is that darts are too slow.
Add mutadone grenades.
Or perhaps just give chemistry grenade casings back.
Mutadone grenades would at least serve a dual purpose of bulk healing rad mutations and serving as area denial weapons for rudelord mcrampage.