Goonhub
04-07-2020, 07:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2020, 07:51 AM by Ion Mage. Edited 1 time in total.)
Interesting idea. I always thought that cloning kinda trivialized death for those who know to get scanned. Perhaps make it so the odds of a defect appearing increase with each successive cloning, so a persons first death isn't -too- big a deal, but then those jokers who love taking advantage of my hippocratic oath and constantly suicide time and again right after getting out of the pod finally have a consequence to deal with.
Also, yes to making it likely when people come out of the cloner too early.
Such a game mechanic opens up the possibility of a geneticist traitor doing sabotage. Every time I do it with the existing gene power module, it basically gives me away as an antag the moment its found, because who else put the module in there in the first place? But if these defects could occur naturally, said sabotage has a chance of not being immediately found out, they could just think it was a natural occurence.
Also, for all this to work, the defects would need to be tough to remove somehow, since the cloner is either literally in or at least adjacent to the genelab, trivializing removing regular genes.
Also, yes to making it likely when people come out of the cloner too early.
Such a game mechanic opens up the possibility of a geneticist traitor doing sabotage. Every time I do it with the existing gene power module, it basically gives me away as an antag the moment its found, because who else put the module in there in the first place? But if these defects could occur naturally, said sabotage has a chance of not being immediately found out, they could just think it was a natural occurence.
Also, for all this to work, the defects would need to be tough to remove somehow, since the cloner is either literally in or at least adjacent to the genelab, trivializing removing regular genes.