Goonhub
08-02-2023, 02:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-02-2023, 03:00 PM by cyberTripping. Edited 2 times in total.
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I'm in favor of farting being decoupled from engineering because its exceptionally uninteresting mechanically, which makes its requirement for high-level burns even more annoying. That being said, I'm against the wholesale removal of farts.
I feel like the suggestion of a "fart disbelief" type trait is an absolutely excellent idea, especially if farting is mechanically sectioned off from the TEG. Have the trait entirely hide the fart emote and, if possible, change the fluff of certain mutations for that client. While it would be some effort to cover the mutations, it could be implemented piecemeal over time, and it would be trivial to implement the most important part first (silencing and hiding the basic fart emote). This would let players averse to farts seamlessly opt-out of seeing/hearing them without requiring farts to be totally removed for everyone else. Broader things like the fart azone could be left alone, since they're basically already opt-in, decreasing the total amount of work required.
I feel like the suggestion of a "fart disbelief" type trait is an absolutely excellent idea, especially if farting is mechanically sectioned off from the TEG. Have the trait entirely hide the fart emote and, if possible, change the fluff of certain mutations for that client. While it would be some effort to cover the mutations, it could be implemented piecemeal over time, and it would be trivial to implement the most important part first (silencing and hiding the basic fart emote). This would let players averse to farts seamlessly opt-out of seeing/hearing them without requiring farts to be totally removed for everyone else. Broader things like the fart azone could be left alone, since they're basically already opt-in, decreasing the total amount of work required.