Goonhub
05-22-2013, 02:16 PM
I don't like the idea of requiring a person to come in alive to be scanned and get cloned, but that would certainly make the process easier.
What if we keep the DNA scanning process we have now for live people; pop into a pod, geneticist presses a button, and off you go, content in your new-life insurance policy. If you come in already dead on the other hand...
It should be difficult to obtain someone's DNA, harder depending on the cause of death. Beaten to a pulp? Get some blood, try to work with that. Burned to death by welders? Cut him open, try and get a marrow sample or something. Death by toxins? I dunno, pump him full of anti-toxin to try and neutralize it and get a stable sample or something?
Likewise, if someone is killed by a changeling, it'll be impossible to clone them, seeing as there's no DNA left in them at all, and should be difficult for vampire victims, seeing as there's no readily accessible blood left in them.
Also, we might want to remove the ability to clone husks that were injected with a new UI and/or SE. That always felt like something of an exploit whenever I did it.
Of course, if we made it impossible to clone the already dead, it'd give Robotics more of a job, so there's that.
What if we keep the DNA scanning process we have now for live people; pop into a pod, geneticist presses a button, and off you go, content in your new-life insurance policy. If you come in already dead on the other hand...
It should be difficult to obtain someone's DNA, harder depending on the cause of death. Beaten to a pulp? Get some blood, try to work with that. Burned to death by welders? Cut him open, try and get a marrow sample or something. Death by toxins? I dunno, pump him full of anti-toxin to try and neutralize it and get a stable sample or something?
Likewise, if someone is killed by a changeling, it'll be impossible to clone them, seeing as there's no DNA left in them at all, and should be difficult for vampire victims, seeing as there's no readily accessible blood left in them.
Also, we might want to remove the ability to clone husks that were injected with a new UI and/or SE. That always felt like something of an exploit whenever I did it.
Of course, if we made it impossible to clone the already dead, it'd give Robotics more of a job, so there's that.