Goonhub
12-06-2023, 07:14 AM
Fundamentally I dont really like the argument regarding this encroaching on robotics' domain. Roboticist is at its core already a pointless job and it needs a fundamental design pivot to something actually interesting (see https://forum.ss13.co/showthread.php?tid=21751 for discussion on that). The existing robotics mechanics of "terrible revive that you suicide out of and borg time waster" is just not fun and not worth trying to preserve.
What I'm more concerned about is buffing the already extremely powerful ability of cloning to prevent anyone from dying ever. As it stands, anyone who wants to kill someone for more than like 20 seconds necessarily needs to disable the cloner in some way, which usually entails just exploding it. I feel like implementing this change and also removing prescans would strike a good balance where a person is almost always revivable if their body is found but is almost never revivable if their body is not found (would probably require changing explosions as well so that any strength explosion does not gib all corpses).
What I'm more concerned about is buffing the already extremely powerful ability of cloning to prevent anyone from dying ever. As it stands, anyone who wants to kill someone for more than like 20 seconds necessarily needs to disable the cloner in some way, which usually entails just exploding it. I feel like implementing this change and also removing prescans would strike a good balance where a person is almost always revivable if their body is found but is almost never revivable if their body is not found (would probably require changing explosions as well so that any strength explosion does not gib all corpses).