Goonhub
06-27-2014, 03:17 PM
We've all seen the ice cream flavors that wait at centcomm for those lucky enough to escape alive with enough time to spare to eat them. The ones that can be flavored ANY chem, even the secret/unmakeable ones. What I think would be cool is if the trader on the syndie listening post would sell individual cones, each random just like the ones on centcomm, smuggled illegally to aid in mischief. Obviously they would have to be either ludicrously overpriced, or if it was an added npc require a payment more.... Valuable to the traitor. The reason I suggest this as a traitor addon rather than accessible to all crew is mainly because it would facilitate some more interesting traitor shenanigans while hopefully preventing regular crew people from using it as an opportunity for flooding the station with werewolves/zombies etc, and I think steep pricing would be a good way to give traitors some amazing possibilities without having them ascend to godhood every round. I love the addition of the ??? Pills and the hobo wines, but I'd love to see a difficult (and not exploity) way to obtain a substance that truly could be ANYTHING. Or hell, there could be other ways to make it balanced. Maybe only a certain number are in stock per round, or maybe the merchant only takes traitor telecrystals as payment. But think of the possibilities: a wicked doctor with a syringe gun finds painbow fluid in his ice cream cone! Or maybe a simple animal loving traitor happens upon ice cream that causes people to explode into beagles!
I know technically you can obtain some random ice creams, but as it is now it is incredibly time consuming and feels more like an exploit, and attempting to do so as an antagonist more often than not will just lead to you wasting most of your round. Essentially what I am suggesting is offering those who can best make use of it (traitors) a legitimate method of gambling with chemical roulette, at high enough stakes to not detract from the value of poison bottles/stimpacks and with restrictions in place to prevent having every single player fishing for superchems every round. I'd love to see it become available, as a potential enhancement for traitor gimmicks rather than a replacement.
I know technically you can obtain some random ice creams, but as it is now it is incredibly time consuming and feels more like an exploit, and attempting to do so as an antagonist more often than not will just lead to you wasting most of your round. Essentially what I am suggesting is offering those who can best make use of it (traitors) a legitimate method of gambling with chemical roulette, at high enough stakes to not detract from the value of poison bottles/stimpacks and with restrictions in place to prevent having every single player fishing for superchems every round. I'd love to see it become available, as a potential enhancement for traitor gimmicks rather than a replacement.