01-25-2024, 04:46 AM
(01-25-2024, 03:12 AM)Mordent Wrote: Imo: cyberorgans in the roboticist's manufacturer, doctors rely on a range of synthorgans from botany.
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"Doing the above every round sounds tedious" - so don't. Cloning exists, and if it doesn't then ship people who die due to organ issues to robotics for borging.
With the possible exception of highpop roleplay which has a higher chance of having roboticists just idly standing around in robotics, just cloning is what it will boil down to 99%, which honestly I'd hate to see. Roboticists are infrequent, and your suggestions wont change that because their work will still be not much and heavily inconsistent. I think organ transplants are the coolest part of doctoring, and I'd hate to see it boil down even more to "just clone them", it's a very cool system I don't think doctors should have to go through 3 hoops to do them. Im for encouraging roboticists to do organ transplants when available, but I'd prefer doing that by making cyberorgans better then viscorgans instead of requiring roboticists.
To keep on that note, I wouldn't be opposed to making viscorgans objectively even more worse. Currently their only downside is lower health which is meh, meaningless in practice. Some type of stamina reduction from them could be fun, the descriptions I made for them try to convey them as shady and unreliable and I wouldn't be opposed to leaning into that mechanically (ie the viscorgans are sapping nutrients away from you). This will probably be in the form of a status effect that lowers your stam that way you're constantly reminded of that thing inside of you. Also emagging them leading to continual health decay sounds fun as well that way you can sabotage people with emagged viscorgans.
Also synthorgans are kinda useless in general right now, the idea of you being able to eat them and (after a one minute ish action bar), them replacing your organ seems fun and gives them a unique use was one I liked, though that's outside of this prs scope.
Also floating this idea here because it was floated on discord, what would be the thoughts on making some cyberorgans (heart and lungs) require CON-3 ie clarentine.