[MERGED PR] Mobification and rework of the man-eating plant

[Lord_earthfire]

Its trivial to get hell chem mixrs in botany to splice into them. Amd the design says 300+hp is possible.

A single macro phaser can deal 300 in all 5 shots if they land. That would mean a minimum of 12 macrophasers hitting 60 shots without missing costing 120,000 credits.

A problem this substantial would in all likelyhood not be engaged with. Do we want to create a mechanic to make people not engage?

Becausw if i was faced wirh 12 300 plus hell chem stun monsters id just builld a wall and pretend they weren't there, or pod nerd

The thing is, getting hellmixed spliced in works only with 50% of the seeds (because of recessive plant gene rng). And splicing in a high enough yield is only possible with 50% of these. And then you haven't touched potency or endurance, so they will be glass cannons.

While yes, getting a single stat or a chemmix spliced in the maneater is possible, it is extremly hard to get multiple stats to high levels. The botany mechanics themselves prevent most of the insanity.

Besides, if a traitor wastes 12 TC and 40+ minutes and is countered by just walling off an area, i consider that an easy win, really.

And this is exactly how they are designed to work. They are very slow. And they are meant to challenge the normal way the station you would engage critters. If using phasers or stuns would prove effective, i would need to find a way to make it harder to kill them that way.

Flamethrowers are the way to go against them. They got better coverage against mutliple and deal more damage over time than macro-phaser. And they are hella lot cheaper to get.

I am currently adding in that atrazine is a very viable counter to them. It deals 3 instead of 2 damage each tick against plant-critter-mobs and will apply on touch only to plant-mob-critters with a skinpen value of 0.3. This way, splashing 60 units on a baseline maneater is enough to kill it.