08-16-2024, 02:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-16-2024, 02:09 PM by Snoid. Edited 2 times in total.)
(08-16-2024, 11:27 AM)Glamurio Wrote: Okay, from the feedback I'm gathering that most people agree that cloning as it is right now has issues, but some don't feel like defects are the way to go. I'm more than happy to tweak defect intensity or rarity, as well as obviously ways to treat it.
For those of you who do not think that defects are the way to go, what methods would you prefer?
Longer respawn times? A more involved process of scanning / cloning? I'd really like to hear feedback. In my mind, giving someone disabilities is a middle ground between removing them from the round longer and returning them to the round at 100% capability.
an idea i sat around for 20 minutes brainstorming to come up with is some kind of "cloning whiplash" sickness. where once you get cloned, give or take the usual defects youre fine for a while (exact time threshold pending but imo maybe 10-15 mins), but after a bit then you get a cloning sickness that debilitates you to an unspecified extent and requires treatment at med if you dont wanna deal with it. time threshold and how heavy the effects are would obv ramp up the more times youve been cloned.
ideally this means that if you get emergency cloned like theres a rampage or nukies going on then you CAN function as good as you currently can, but once that whiplash hits then youre gonna need med help, so all cloning instead of healing is gonna do is delay the medical assistance they need. the main benefit of this is that its very predictable, you can function NOW so you have time to prepare for when the effects kick in.
also for extra fun i think it would be nice if there were multiple flavors of the whiplash you could get, like one gives you a few bad mutations suddenly, one could put some poison in you, set you on fire randomly, etc. but i think all of them should do some minimum amount of tox, just to put more pressure on med that if youre wantonly cloning instead of saving then you ARE gonna run out of charcoal
edit: also mindhack cloned people optimally should be immune to this cuz that would suck ass