Goonhub
12-14-2014, 12:46 AM
Okay, this is only tangentially related to the specific topic of this thread, but still goes in with the theme of being about problems with genetics.
I just recently played a round with legendary levels of genetics shittery. I was the traitor, though this was very lowpop so I wasn't too keen on doing much actual traitoring and instead tried out the wrestling belt for the first time. Basically everyone was deadset on genetics, with one person in particular going to very extensive lengths to ensure that he had every superpower evar, puttering around the station with a Port-A-Gene in tow.
Circumstances led to my untimely demise, and instead of my corpse taken to genetics and cloned, it is instead looted for the wrestling belt by aforementioned person to bolster his overpoweredness even more and to brutally murder someone who accidentally destroyed one of the Port-A-Genes. For clarification, this new wielder of the wrestling belt was not a traitor.
And so he went around, boasting about how many superpowers he had, blatantly lying about the effects of a particular mutation to the people in the genetics lab proper, and not lifting a single finger to help them after someone else destroyed all of the genetics consoles, all while going to very great lengths to ensure that he was able to keep the Port-A-Gene away from everyone else ever, going so far as to go off of the station entirely. With the Port-A-Gene.
And I never got cloned.
It seems that the intended use of the Port-A-Gene is to have the Geneticists get out of the lab, but it's really being used for everything but that purpose. Any asshat who comes out of a cloning pod can nick one of the Port-A-Genes on their way out of the lab and hold it hostage, and the fact that two of the three biggest assets to Geneticists are now mobile and easily stolen is going to make them even MORE reluctant to let anyone in. Geneticists were paranoid enough about having some idiots stab the monkeys or mash keys on the computers on their way in and/or out of the cloning area, and now they have to worry about the computers THEMSELVES being stolen.
The new genetics abilities combined with the portability of their computers, therefore, drastically increases the likelihood of Geneticists just fucking this shit entirely and holing themselves up in some far-off corner of space where they can acwuire superpowers without anyone bothering them ever again...or, even worse, having some random douchenozzle swipe one of the Port-A-Genes to do the same thing.
tldr: Port-A-Genes aren't helping anything, and a case could be made saying that they're doing the exact opposite.
I just recently played a round with legendary levels of genetics shittery. I was the traitor, though this was very lowpop so I wasn't too keen on doing much actual traitoring and instead tried out the wrestling belt for the first time. Basically everyone was deadset on genetics, with one person in particular going to very extensive lengths to ensure that he had every superpower evar, puttering around the station with a Port-A-Gene in tow.
Circumstances led to my untimely demise, and instead of my corpse taken to genetics and cloned, it is instead looted for the wrestling belt by aforementioned person to bolster his overpoweredness even more and to brutally murder someone who accidentally destroyed one of the Port-A-Genes. For clarification, this new wielder of the wrestling belt was not a traitor.
And so he went around, boasting about how many superpowers he had, blatantly lying about the effects of a particular mutation to the people in the genetics lab proper, and not lifting a single finger to help them after someone else destroyed all of the genetics consoles, all while going to very great lengths to ensure that he was able to keep the Port-A-Gene away from everyone else ever, going so far as to go off of the station entirely. With the Port-A-Gene.
And I never got cloned.
It seems that the intended use of the Port-A-Gene is to have the Geneticists get out of the lab, but it's really being used for everything but that purpose. Any asshat who comes out of a cloning pod can nick one of the Port-A-Genes on their way out of the lab and hold it hostage, and the fact that two of the three biggest assets to Geneticists are now mobile and easily stolen is going to make them even MORE reluctant to let anyone in. Geneticists were paranoid enough about having some idiots stab the monkeys or mash keys on the computers on their way in and/or out of the cloning area, and now they have to worry about the computers THEMSELVES being stolen.
The new genetics abilities combined with the portability of their computers, therefore, drastically increases the likelihood of Geneticists just fucking this shit entirely and holing themselves up in some far-off corner of space where they can acwuire superpowers without anyone bothering them ever again...or, even worse, having some random douchenozzle swipe one of the Port-A-Genes to do the same thing.
tldr: Port-A-Genes aren't helping anything, and a case could be made saying that they're doing the exact opposite.