Goonhub
01-16-2021, 07:35 AM
From doing patho a couple of times now (and not doing so before it was disabled), I'm pretty happy with how it works and what you have to do. My main concern is that the vague hints + need to cross-reference the wiki makes it rather easy to get mistaken about . The saving grace of toxins or artlab is even if you fuck up majorly as a non-antag the worst you'll reasonably do is blow one large hole in the station or set the place on fire. I do remember thinking that you could add reagents to a dish you're examining by using the beaker on the microscope, but even when I added to the petri dish I didn't find the message I was supposed to get. (I ended up going off the pathogen computer labelling it good that I had the right symptom)
Maybe aside from beneficial symptoms we could also do with more neutral stuff, so there's more wiggle room to not accidentally worsen a round.
It seems a quite difficult mechanic and I feel like if we were to see a pathologist job (rather than a med research one), it'd better be timegated because newbies aren't going to be able to wrap their heads around this as their introduction to goon.
Also have people tried curing pathogens they made yet? I did it yesterday, and although it was only one time and one person it took a long while for my stage 4 virus to recede completely.
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With regards to your earlier wondering about how to combat escalating bad paths (akin to canbombs), maybe a tally/indicator of how bad your pathogen is estimated to be could be useful somewhere.
Maybe aside from beneficial symptoms we could also do with more neutral stuff, so there's more wiggle room to not accidentally worsen a round.
It seems a quite difficult mechanic and I feel like if we were to see a pathologist job (rather than a med research one), it'd better be timegated because newbies aren't going to be able to wrap their heads around this as their introduction to goon.
Also have people tried curing pathogens they made yet? I did it yesterday, and although it was only one time and one person it took a long while for my stage 4 virus to recede completely.
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With regards to your earlier wondering about how to combat escalating bad paths (akin to canbombs), maybe a tally/indicator of how bad your pathogen is estimated to be could be useful somewhere.