Changelings, and why they're just too damn powerful

[Frank_Stein]

1-The lings/ling should be forced to transform into the organism they assorb. It can still transform into stuff it has assorbed in the past but it taken alot more dna points then you earn from assorbing a corspe. This makes shitty bill and father jack less of a free meal but a desperation thing

I like that this solves that problem of the free meals, but there are legitimate reasons to not want to change right way into who you're eating. Like, will the changeling have to pass up an easy target because he's disguised as the captain and doesn't want to spend the DNA points to change back?

2-Lings acid spit and neruotoxin should both cost a bunch of Dna points to use but has no cooldown

Neurotoxin stings are kind of a necessity for the ling, so making them cost something is kinda drastic. The acid spit as it is is pretty powerful. I'm not sure if no cooldown would make it even more powerful even with a cost. I do fully support nerfing it to be more like the spray bottles through.

3-Allow the lings lesser form to include most animal types. I include this because i want to be a bee

Yes, absolutely. Also, let them give them a name or choose one from random out of the pool that creature names are chosen. This should be a stealth ability, and having an obvious monkey name doesn't help.

4-The abomination form should be a perment change. You can also split off your head in this form which will result in a ghost taking control of the body while you run away in the head.The head is easy to kill but is fast and can use nerutoxin sting. It can also crawl down peoples throats if they stand still long enough which allows it the ling to take control of the body instantly

I'm not sure it should be permanent, but I do like the head spider idea. Maybe only if they choose to do the head spider thing.

5-Have it so lings can't use medical chems to heal but make the loud healing ablitiy where you stay awake when you heal but your flesh bubbles and stuff have a longer cooldown and make it free to use.

Eh, I'm not for this.

6-The ling can survive in space but they enter a dead like state unless the spend some dna points to wake themselves up.If they don't have enough dna points they can do this for free but there is a super long cooldown

I think maybe the Ling should just be susceptible to the coldness of space, without really dying from it. Just have them take the same moment penalties, and possibly sometimes get ice cubed.

7-The lings have a hive mind. They get nothing for assorbing each other but they are allowed to betray eachother for their own gains.

Neutral on this. I do agree with taking away the incentive to absorb another ling.

8-If the ling takes too much burn/brute damage its will enter a semi-Abomination state where it is super obvious and has a slight stronger attack (Blade arms!!!) but doesn't have any cool powers and can't consume people. It can revert back to its regular form if manages to heal itself

Against this. Sometimes it would serve the changeling to fake being a normal dead human. And to that I suggest that when a changeling takes enough damage to die, it should give all the appearances of being dead. The player could activate a revival power at the cost of some DNA if and when they choose to. I want to see changelings faking suicide, wiping out genetics when they are taken to be cloned, and then assuming their identity or hiding amongst the monkeys for their next victim.