Goonhub
07-10-2024, 01:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-10-2024, 02:10 AM by Egregorious. Edited 5 times in total.)
I cannot attest to how powergamey it is or isn't, but I absolutely love Mildly Mutated for roleplay purposes right now. I take synth limbs just for the offchance I get Vestigial Ballistics and get to spend the entire round crying out in pain as my arm constantly explodes off only to stick it back on like lego.
Being able to somewhat pick-and-choose when a mutation enhances or diminishes the round for you is kind of key with it in terms of RP. Getting Ethanol Production and heading to medbay at the start of the round to do patient RP just to see how experienced the doctors are is fun. Spending the entire round drunk or dead from alcohol poisoning is not as fun.
A lot of mutations are department-specific as to how impactful positively or negatively they are. Being a chef or mailman that can only say 'butt' is hilariously fun for a round, because most people can pretty much infer what you're trying to say when you're doing your job. Whereas being a gimmick role or department head - someone who's job RP largely lives and dies on being able to communicate somewhat succinctly - can ruin the round for you.
One of the problems I'd foresee with giving them Reinforcer is, as you mention, you're not removing the ability for people to powergame with it, you're just taking the onus off of medical doctors prescribing mutadone and moving it to the Geneticist's scramble cooldown - encouraging a wait time and possibly an uninteractive queue. Which I think is just introducing annoyance more than it solves a problem.
I think if you're really scared of powergamey uses for Mildly Mutated, consider just blacklisting all the 'best' mutations. If the biggest issue is people asking for mutadone, instead stick some 5u mutadone pills in the public med vendor. I personally enjoy it as a roleplay-enhancer-randomiser, and if it were difficult to remove the mutation when it makes the round difficult to RP I would probably stop taking it. Whereas the powergamers probably wouldn't stop taking it, they'd just demand a scramble from genetics.
Being able to somewhat pick-and-choose when a mutation enhances or diminishes the round for you is kind of key with it in terms of RP. Getting Ethanol Production and heading to medbay at the start of the round to do patient RP just to see how experienced the doctors are is fun. Spending the entire round drunk or dead from alcohol poisoning is not as fun.
A lot of mutations are department-specific as to how impactful positively or negatively they are. Being a chef or mailman that can only say 'butt' is hilariously fun for a round, because most people can pretty much infer what you're trying to say when you're doing your job. Whereas being a gimmick role or department head - someone who's job RP largely lives and dies on being able to communicate somewhat succinctly - can ruin the round for you.
One of the problems I'd foresee with giving them Reinforcer is, as you mention, you're not removing the ability for people to powergame with it, you're just taking the onus off of medical doctors prescribing mutadone and moving it to the Geneticist's scramble cooldown - encouraging a wait time and possibly an uninteractive queue. Which I think is just introducing annoyance more than it solves a problem.
I think if you're really scared of powergamey uses for Mildly Mutated, consider just blacklisting all the 'best' mutations. If the biggest issue is people asking for mutadone, instead stick some 5u mutadone pills in the public med vendor. I personally enjoy it as a roleplay-enhancer-randomiser, and if it were difficult to remove the mutation when it makes the round difficult to RP I would probably stop taking it. Whereas the powergamers probably wouldn't stop taking it, they'd just demand a scramble from genetics.