Goonhub
08-14-2024, 02:58 PM
Writing my last comment of the PR here as well:
Death isn't scary anymore, and I think it's causing problems both on a mechanical level as well as with people's attitude. It's hard to feel intimidated when you can be cloned easily with no repercussion. "Fresh" scans are probably the most common, so I'm not sure if that change alone would do much. The average person dies less than once per round I'd argue, and dying more than once should really make itself shown.
That being said, I do love the idea of implementing a way for geneticists to make the cloner more safe. Maybe they could spend some of their time researching cures for cloner defects, or have ways to easily remove them. Perhaps the recently revived person could go and get their defects checked at cloning, as an extra pit stop or something.
Death isn't scary anymore, and I think it's causing problems both on a mechanical level as well as with people's attitude. It's hard to feel intimidated when you can be cloned easily with no repercussion. "Fresh" scans are probably the most common, so I'm not sure if that change alone would do much. The average person dies less than once per round I'd argue, and dying more than once should really make itself shown.
That being said, I do love the idea of implementing a way for geneticists to make the cloner more safe. Maybe they could spend some of their time researching cures for cloner defects, or have ways to easily remove them. Perhaps the recently revived person could go and get their defects checked at cloning, as an extra pit stop or something.