The hygiene meter kind of stinks

[Kotlol]

Maybe tie it to antags somehow, like dogs and changelings could smell your stink and track you by it etc. Would be a crap shoot as to who you could track of course, but it would give an incentive to stay fresh. Tie it in somehow with the wraith plaguebringer path? Maybe add some infections that you can get when you get a bleeding wound while dirty and not going immidiately to wash yourself. (Not full blown pathology again, god no, but simple syndromes) Perhaps some antag items designed to mess with stinky people, just spitballing here, but maybe large flies that only go after dirty people, aggressive cleaning methods like a firehose you could connect to water tanks etc.

Could also add an item to say the medvend that's like a deodorant that you can spray on yourself to lessen it.

Though I do agree with others that the showers are too few and too spread out so fixing that should take priority before adding any incentives that would impact the game play in a more major way.

This stuff is what I would want 100%.

Ways to manage, a downside of being tracked by smell and more.