Make genetic instability scale according to the mutations

[BaneOfGiygas]

encourages people to actually leave the lab

Wasn't the whole point of all this to make them actually do their job? Doesn't that entail doing the exact opposite of that thing?

The problem here is that, for a while, geneticists have never really been required to leave their lab. This itself is not an out-and-out problem, but it's the level of detachment from the rest of the crew that's the REAL problem, here. It's not very common for a geneticist to be paying attention to the radiochat while doing genetics research, and the longer a geneticist remains detached from the goings-on of the station, the more cranky they'll get when people barge into their office, the more likely they are to miss corpses, and so on and so forth. It's just the nature of the job and the workspace. Some geneticists avoid this, but they're far and few between.

Geneticists have an all-time low motivation to actually do their job now that it's come to this. People are actively antagonizing them, the ONE ASPECT of the job that drew them to it in the first place has been shot in the kneecap, and even the admins seem to hate them, from the tone of the changelog. What reason do they have to clone people? To keep people from being pissed off at them? Why even bother playing the job anymore at that point?

Hence my previous observation regarding the rather worrying lack of geneticists after basically everyone's been complaining about them. This is, indeed, a bit of a problem. Those complaints were rather justified in most cases, but still, people who antagonize helpful geneticists (unless they're actual antagonists) are being shit.

I don't want to be turned into a meatcube for trying to gain all the accents, for fuck's sake, man.

No one does, that's silly.