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[Balance] [Medical]
About the PR
Recategorizes all existing cloner defects:
"Minor" defects are now things that slightly inconvenience a player, things such as damage on cloning, vocal chord disfiguration, etc.
"Major" defects are now things that highly inconvenience players, such as missing limbs, organs or bio effects such as narcolepsy.
It adds a few new cloner defects:
Baldness (Minor), Deafness (Major), Blindness (Major), Narcolepsy (Major), Plasma Lungs (Major), Rare Mutant Race (Major).
Splits up Brute and Burn damage, and adds Tox damage as individual damage defects.
The weights have been placed low for more harmful effects such as large damage sources.
The biggest change is the change to the defect_count calculation.
Every cloned person now gets at least 2 defects, with a bias to skew towards 2-3.
There's now a 60% chance to roll a minor defect and a 40% chance to roll a major defect.
Why's this needed?
Over the years, there's been a some threads on the topic of cloning being too safe, as well as some conversation on the Discord. The general consensus seems to be that there's a general dislike toward cloning being an easy way to fix a patient without having to specifically engage in any of the medical systems. Doctors will often rather let someone die and have them be cloned than try to save them because it's easier.
Rather than make it harder or add restrictions to clone, this PR attempts to make cloning less "safe". Not more lethal, not more annoying, but being cloned now carries more risk if there isn't a doctor present. The likelihood of needing medical assistance goes up dramatically the more often one is cloned, and even after the first clone you may end up with a disfigured face or a missing arm.
The intent is for cloning to be a last resort that should be used if the patient is already dead, and encourages having someone with medical knowledge nearby that can assist the person, but does so in a way that doesn't require it.
Threads for reference:
https://forum.ss13.co/showthread.php?tid=20207
https://forum.ss13.co/showthread.php?tid=22809
Changelog
PULL REQUEST DETAILS
[Balance] [Medical]
About the PR
Recategorizes all existing cloner defects:
"Minor" defects are now things that slightly inconvenience a player, things such as damage on cloning, vocal chord disfiguration, etc.
"Major" defects are now things that highly inconvenience players, such as missing limbs, organs or bio effects such as narcolepsy.
It adds a few new cloner defects:
Baldness (Minor), Deafness (Major), Blindness (Major), Narcolepsy (Major), Plasma Lungs (Major), Rare Mutant Race (Major).
Splits up Brute and Burn damage, and adds Tox damage as individual damage defects.
The weights have been placed low for more harmful effects such as large damage sources.
The biggest change is the change to the defect_count calculation.
Every cloned person now gets at least 2 defects, with a bias to skew towards 2-3.
There's now a 60% chance to roll a minor defect and a 40% chance to roll a major defect.
Why's this needed?
Over the years, there's been a some threads on the topic of cloning being too safe, as well as some conversation on the Discord. The general consensus seems to be that there's a general dislike toward cloning being an easy way to fix a patient without having to specifically engage in any of the medical systems. Doctors will often rather let someone die and have them be cloned than try to save them because it's easier.
Rather than make it harder or add restrictions to clone, this PR attempts to make cloning less "safe". Not more lethal, not more annoying, but being cloned now carries more risk if there isn't a doctor present. The likelihood of needing medical assistance goes up dramatically the more often one is cloned, and even after the first clone you may end up with a disfigured face or a missing arm.
The intent is for cloning to be a last resort that should be used if the patient is already dead, and encourages having someone with medical knowledge nearby that can assist the person, but does so in a way that doesn't require it.
Threads for reference:
https://forum.ss13.co/showthread.php?tid=20207
https://forum.ss13.co/showthread.php?tid=22809
Changelog
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(u)Glamurio (Ryou)
(*)NT Clone Pods are now less safe to use. In case of defects, please refer to the nearest available doctor.PULL REQUEST DETAILS