Puritan Complaint Thread (with some suggestions)

[Dr. Puggers]

Puritan is a trait that makes it much harder for you to get revived, which means there's a real possibility of it being used purely to roll for antag midrolls more efficiently. This isn't THAT bad but I think it's kind of gross and easily fixable
- I'm pretty sure admins are very aware of different methods for antag fishing


Puritan gives 2 points for something that doesn't actually hinder you in any meaningful way. This on top of the previous point makes it pretty Gamer, and I think it could use some rebalancing
- It does hinder you with a chance not to get revived... Doctors will check for puritan and treat you accordingly -usually-. Otherwise, it was a hectic round and that's when the explosion actually matters. You died in the heat of the action and don't get a chance to get back to it.


Thematically (in my opinion) puritan does not make sense. Going off the trait name, you would assume it means that the player's character does not want revival, and has a sort of DNR put in with NT, but instead it makes them violently explode. The other explanation I've seen is that the trait makes the character's genetic code non-compliant with the cloner, but this doesn't make sense either as you still pop out as a human clone, just with a bunch of toxins damage.
- Setting DNR would make it useless, because you still can respawn just under another character. Which still plays into the puritan role, you died and don't get a second chance because doctors messed up.


Puritan, the trait that is supposed to make you not cloneable, does not actually make you uncloneable. Experienced doctor players have on many occasions puricloned successfully, which kind of defeats the entire purpose of the trait
- Have you ever seen doctors do it though? The preparation? I've seen doctors dual wielding syringes and making a break for it. Let the doctors have some exciting things during rounds other than an occasional pancreatitis.

All in all, my two cents is, puritan is a good thing. You still get a chance to be revived and if that doesn't happen, make a new character.
Puritan, after all, is there for players who want to be borged after death. Many medical records have puritans and little messages how they want to be borgs.

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I think the biggest problem with Puritan is the name.

A Puritan is someone who wants to be Pure.. (In this sense uncloned)
But... knowing the lore of SS13, we know this isn't a thing. So by default the Puritan is in fact being fooled.

But I think Puritans as a name is just... wrong.

It should infact be named different like:
"Weak Genetics"
"RNA limited"

Something to indiciate that cloning will have mishaps (and the other things too)
Puritan means something along the lines of: "The charater wants to stay pure and thus cloning/borging/reviving is something they dont' want"
On that sense if you revive a puritan they should go mad.

But if it was named differently like a handicap (since it is).
Like maybe they have something called "Death Gene"
Now it makes sense from a medical perspective that your charater cannot be cloned, borged or revived via SR.
Cause you a gene that works against it.

Maybe some lore about how the cloner actually works and tie in an allergy for it...