Goonhub
01-20-2021, 09:50 PM
I feel like the particular items that you can choose are kinda poorly picked/thought out. for instance:
Forensic scanners are already *pretty* readily available. Seems like an abject waste of a point.
Night vision goggles are just sitting in the armory, a lot of players probably *won't* break into the armory to get them but it's still trivial to circumvent buying them which I think is bad. It's a utility point you don't *have* to spend.
First aid kit only contains items that they could go and vend themselves. Again, wasting a point for the sake of getting something you could *already* go grab.
The other items are ~exclusive~ so they don't have that problem, but I still think the power cell is pretty much The Good Choice between them. I feel it has the most actual utility out of all of them, especially since this weakens the starting cell. Being able to reload *more* is pretty strong compared to what all the other items get you.
The morphine injectors say 'capable of holding a dying person over until further medical aid can be delivered' in the description but that doesn't seem to be the case according to the wiki? They just reduce damage slow by a lot. (which, tbf is decently useful, but the tooltip there has misleading info imo).
I'm also concerned that this would lead to a similar effect that nukeops have, where officers spend a good part of the start of the round just trying to figure out what to buy, I enjoy the simplicity of the current implementation of tokens, where you only make *one* choice. With your change, that's suddenly *three* choices, and the choices aren't really even that good or balanced, with a few of them feeling pointless/clutter-y. I don't absolutely *despise* the idea but I don't think it's particularly well implemented in this PR !
Forensic scanners are already *pretty* readily available. Seems like an abject waste of a point.
Night vision goggles are just sitting in the armory, a lot of players probably *won't* break into the armory to get them but it's still trivial to circumvent buying them which I think is bad. It's a utility point you don't *have* to spend.
First aid kit only contains items that they could go and vend themselves. Again, wasting a point for the sake of getting something you could *already* go grab.
The other items are ~exclusive~ so they don't have that problem, but I still think the power cell is pretty much The Good Choice between them. I feel it has the most actual utility out of all of them, especially since this weakens the starting cell. Being able to reload *more* is pretty strong compared to what all the other items get you.
The morphine injectors say 'capable of holding a dying person over until further medical aid can be delivered' in the description but that doesn't seem to be the case according to the wiki? They just reduce damage slow by a lot. (which, tbf is decently useful, but the tooltip there has misleading info imo).
I'm also concerned that this would lead to a similar effect that nukeops have, where officers spend a good part of the start of the round just trying to figure out what to buy, I enjoy the simplicity of the current implementation of tokens, where you only make *one* choice. With your change, that's suddenly *three* choices, and the choices aren't really even that good or balanced, with a few of them feeling pointless/clutter-y. I don't absolutely *despise* the idea but I don't think it's particularly well implemented in this PR !