Goonhub
09-26-2022, 03:47 PM
Hi, I'd love to chime in from the perspective of an RP player.
Like many people have rightfully pointed out, people absolutely "want to be a monkey", including myself. Being a monkey isn't really "hard mode" anymore, I believe it's an antiquated viewpoint. Many people, especially on RP servers, play monkey characters. The way the system works is super scuffed and is clearly begging for a rework, monkey characters have to shuffle over to genetics every round before they can properly start to RP and it's not very user-friendly. A trait is clearly needed.
That being said, vocal translators have their place, I don't think you should detract from the fact that monkeys have a separate speech as it's part of their identity, but what could be improved is the way vocal translators are implemented. There's honestly no downside in flavor by letting monkeys tinker with mask items to implement a vocal translator in a skull mask. As an RP player, this is just something that allows people to express themselves with their character without being forced not to wear a mask item or suffer the even worse consequence of not speaking. If you find tinkering with vocal translators and masks too strange, then there are other avenues, too. What about allowing vocal translators to be carried in a pocket slot, sort of like how headsets function? You still "nerf" them by taking a slot away, but it's not impacting RP at all.
There's also the route of genetics, a rare genetic mutation called "Monkeyspeak" allows you to speak like a monkey, why not have that mutation work both ways and allow monkeys with that mutation to understand human speech? Or alternatively, just add a "Humanspeak" mutation. Either way, one need not take away the fact that monkeys speak differently to make it more fun and engaging for players. There's a variety of ways to improve the monkey experience and it seems like the only genuine arguments against this are out of tradition or past negative experiences; none that may even be relevant anymore today.
Like many people have rightfully pointed out, people absolutely "want to be a monkey", including myself. Being a monkey isn't really "hard mode" anymore, I believe it's an antiquated viewpoint. Many people, especially on RP servers, play monkey characters. The way the system works is super scuffed and is clearly begging for a rework, monkey characters have to shuffle over to genetics every round before they can properly start to RP and it's not very user-friendly. A trait is clearly needed.
That being said, vocal translators have their place, I don't think you should detract from the fact that monkeys have a separate speech as it's part of their identity, but what could be improved is the way vocal translators are implemented. There's honestly no downside in flavor by letting monkeys tinker with mask items to implement a vocal translator in a skull mask. As an RP player, this is just something that allows people to express themselves with their character without being forced not to wear a mask item or suffer the even worse consequence of not speaking. If you find tinkering with vocal translators and masks too strange, then there are other avenues, too. What about allowing vocal translators to be carried in a pocket slot, sort of like how headsets function? You still "nerf" them by taking a slot away, but it's not impacting RP at all.
There's also the route of genetics, a rare genetic mutation called "Monkeyspeak" allows you to speak like a monkey, why not have that mutation work both ways and allow monkeys with that mutation to understand human speech? Or alternatively, just add a "Humanspeak" mutation. Either way, one need not take away the fact that monkeys speak differently to make it more fun and engaging for players. There's a variety of ways to improve the monkey experience and it seems like the only genuine arguments against this are out of tradition or past negative experiences; none that may even be relevant anymore today.