Goonhub
07-10-2024, 05:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-10-2024, 08:12 AM by Egregorious. Edited 8 times in total.)
(07-10-2024, 03:41 AM)Soleil Wrote: Absolute worst case scenario you have to wait 120 seconds for the scramble cooldown and there's at least two GeneTek scanners on most maps
The absolute worst case scenario is more like the only geneticist available is new and several people want the scramble cooldown. Now there's a bunch of people waiting in several minutes of pointless queue, and a new geneticist feeling bad because a bunch of disparate crew members are yelling at them to purchase the Radiation Emitters upgrade in a very out-of-character fashion in the first few minutes of the round.
I think my issue boils down to the scramble button being on an unlock time and cooldown. I simply do not like the idea of moving something that is provably consistently something people will do at roundstart onto an annoying cooldown. I think it promotes uninteractive wait times, and the upside that it might discourage people to powergame something that isn't super powergamey in the first place just doesn't seem worth it.
As someone who ends up playing genetics somewhat frequently, my experience is roundstart is the time you least need to encourage people to interact with it. If people come to genetics at all it's usually the first 10 minutes anyway.