Goonhub
01-15-2024, 02:12 PM
While I can see the point a bit in how it can be disrupting to RP, I dont really find I experience that disruption terribly much in practice. I think the 'shaming' thing so far hasn't gotten too negative, and it's pretty light anyway - heck, if anything 'people will call you smelly' is the main counterpoint I've seen given when I've floated the idea vaguely of hygiene having a gameplay impact.
Personally, I feel it really does add to RP for me, though - not just that, but also the feeling of immersion in the game. I enjoy how it makes me wash my hands as a doctor, how it makes me seek out the showers, even with no others around - it makes my character feel like a person much more than a sprite in a computer game. I feel like the stinklines are a pretty innocent way to motivate someone to take care of the need without forcing you to, and I think I've met way more people on my way to/from the showers than it's ever disrupted RPs for me. Heck, I think I've probably had as many laughs from washing someone in the laundry machine as the times I've felt it's really pained me in my RP.
Not only that, but I think the fact the hygiene stat motivates keeping a clean station is a huge plus, too.
One thing I do think sounds like a wonderful idea though is having freshly laundered clothing tie into it - if your clothes stayed laundered for a longer while and stopped any decay to your hygiene, we'd have neat conversations around the laundry machines happen occasionally, and there'd be a better way to take care of it long-term.
And I also 100% agree that the speed you get dirty at in icky chems feels reaally overtuned sometimes - it's no fun for a single surgery or slip in a blood puddle to immediately send you to the showers, even though that may be a bit realistic. So I'd definitely be up for seeing that adjusted a bit. But hygiene in general, I'd honestly be sad to see go.
Personally, I feel it really does add to RP for me, though - not just that, but also the feeling of immersion in the game. I enjoy how it makes me wash my hands as a doctor, how it makes me seek out the showers, even with no others around - it makes my character feel like a person much more than a sprite in a computer game. I feel like the stinklines are a pretty innocent way to motivate someone to take care of the need without forcing you to, and I think I've met way more people on my way to/from the showers than it's ever disrupted RPs for me. Heck, I think I've probably had as many laughs from washing someone in the laundry machine as the times I've felt it's really pained me in my RP.
Not only that, but I think the fact the hygiene stat motivates keeping a clean station is a huge plus, too.
One thing I do think sounds like a wonderful idea though is having freshly laundered clothing tie into it - if your clothes stayed laundered for a longer while and stopped any decay to your hygiene, we'd have neat conversations around the laundry machines happen occasionally, and there'd be a better way to take care of it long-term.
And I also 100% agree that the speed you get dirty at in icky chems feels reaally overtuned sometimes - it's no fun for a single surgery or slip in a blood puddle to immediately send you to the showers, even though that may be a bit realistic. So I'd definitely be up for seeing that adjusted a bit. But hygiene in general, I'd honestly be sad to see go.