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[MERGED PR] Lowers the space of fanny packs to 5
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(05-15-2021, 07:50 PM)DimWhat Wrote:
(05-15-2021, 07:42 PM)penny Wrote: I still don't see an explanation for this.
Who is impacted by this, how does the meta change, why do you want the meta to evolve this way?
What is the purpose of nerfing them?

Fanny packs are completely and entirely better than all other belts in the game (aside from the CE's belt). For example: Security belts have the special ability of being able to hold security weapons among other small items yet the fannypack can hold all the items a security belt can as well as large items such as space suits. They functionally negate anything special about any other belt in the game due to their ability to be an exact copy of a backpack but on the belt.

The thing about mechanic filling a niche is that there's domains, and the one here that defines our scaling is mostly- rarity.
Below the belt, there's the tool slot! It holds a small item.
At the base item, a toolbelt, it holds small items.
The base domain, these are all over the station.

The next domain is common job specific belts- these fill a special niche. These are assigned to groups of people with design expectations about how and why they will use the belt.

The next domain is fanny packs- we'll think about the clown fanny pack and the station fanny pack separately.

The domain of the clown fanny pack is to give a more powerful belt to one single person on spawn, with the expectation that no one could possibly know what they're going to do with it.

The last fanny pack the last domain; is just the domain all of this is build around- rarity.
The tool slot is not devalued by its old belts because I don't always have a tool belt. It's the least rare.

My tool belt isn't devalued because of job specific belts, because my tool belt is the belt I have.

And my job specific belt isn't the devalued by the fanny pack because I don't have one.

Point of all this is that things in their own domain and things balanced by rarity don't negate from each other until you have one.

Being able to get a better tool belt than ones you SPAWN WITH is completely reasonable, why shouldn't there by an upgrade path if there's only a couple on the station?


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RE: [PR] Lowers the space of fanny packs to 5 - by penny - 05-15-2021, 08:17 PM

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