Goonhub
12-05-2024, 03:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-05-2024, 06:18 PM by cheekybrdy. Edited 3 times in total.)
I'm seeing a bit of retreaded ground here so I'll pull up some context on what got the alternate books changed from being bibles with a dev quote regarding the previous attempt, https://github.com/goonstation/goonstation/pull/15132.
"I think I said this in the Discord already but I'll say again here: I don't personally (this is my opinion and not an Official Dev View) like the idea of adding lots of reskins to Bibles, since Bibles have tons and tons of unique mechanics tied to them. They kill you instantly if you fart on them, have shared storage, can contain the chaplain's gun, "heal" people, and can damage two specific antags (one of which can't even hold the thing without giving themselves away and taking damage). I think an item with this many important features tied to it should have very consistent visuals, and I don't think making it less clear which item is/isn't a holy book that does all these things is worth the RP potential, especially when you can already make custom books."
This while not concrete at the time of its writing it was acted upon and is used as the basis for the changes here. Seeing contradictory dev quotes here now so pinch of salt for current dev opinions, but this is just meant to port the bible neutralisation to the "gameplay book" and leave the rest as flavour for the reasons above. I can see the current name I've proposed being a bit touch on the nose though, I'd say "Holy Texts" but I think that might be /tg's current name for it.
"I think I said this in the Discord already but I'll say again here: I don't personally (this is my opinion and not an Official Dev View) like the idea of adding lots of reskins to Bibles, since Bibles have tons and tons of unique mechanics tied to them. They kill you instantly if you fart on them, have shared storage, can contain the chaplain's gun, "heal" people, and can damage two specific antags (one of which can't even hold the thing without giving themselves away and taking damage). I think an item with this many important features tied to it should have very consistent visuals, and I don't think making it less clear which item is/isn't a holy book that does all these things is worth the RP potential, especially when you can already make custom books."
This while not concrete at the time of its writing it was acted upon and is used as the basis for the changes here. Seeing contradictory dev quotes here now so pinch of salt for current dev opinions, but this is just meant to port the bible neutralisation to the "gameplay book" and leave the rest as flavour for the reasons above. I can see the current name I've proposed being a bit touch on the nose though, I'd say "Holy Texts" but I think that might be /tg's current name for it.