Cloning: A Discussion

[Nerkson]

I play mostly on RP, where things don't usually tend to be as chaotic as they are on Goon 1 and Goon 2. With that said, I have been keeping my ears open and listen to what other players say, and I hear a lot of discussion around cloning.

Cloning is, to put it mildly, extremely powerful.

The (somewhat obvious) benefit of cloning is being able to bring back anyone, at any range, from death itself (barring Puritans, DNR, Kudzupeople, Braindead, Rotted, and Changeling snacks, but there are solutions to almost all of these). 

Despite these benefits, most people simply opt to not even get cloned - the number of shifts I've had where even 1/2 of the crew was cloned is on the low side. Cloning even has a complete system to make cloning easier, by adding chemicals to the cloning pod that speed up cloning and let the clone walk out fully healed already.

My Ideal vision of cloning:

• A last ditch effort to bring back individuals, and not something done casually because a staff member is bored and keeps chugging the Bo-jack for fun.
    To put it bluntly, cloning enables people to be really risky with no real downsides.
  
• A procedure that works all the time, but has obvious downsides. Such downsides could be : easier chance of having organ failure, tacked-on traits like slip hazard or two left feet.
  

Let me know what you think.