Goonhub
01-22-2015, 01:34 PM
If I'm being perfectly honest I agree that the whole stability thing should get the boot, too, but I was hoping sucking up to whoever put it in in the first place would make it easier to get it toned down at least.
Like seriously, if I'm trying to get a bunch of powers, I basically don't stop trying to get more, because that's the fun of it. You see what you can get before the round's over, so you can show off on the shuttle. By the time you've gotten many good ones (basically, as many as you could reasonably fit under the -100 limit anyway) the round's usually almost over. It's rare that you can accumulate a shitload of powerful mutations unless everything's falling in your favor (nobody's actively trying to murder you, someone's put money into research, and you can actually find more than two or three good ones without frantically scrambling monkeys at a lunatic pace - most of which just plain doesn't happen).
You have to really work to get those kinds of results. Like someone said, if someone's willing to put that kind of effort into their research (assuming they actually balance it by cloning people), why punish them for it? Incentives for cloning have already been added and haven't even had time to let the paint dry yet, so why add punishments to discourage research?
But whatever. It feels like arguing that's a moot point at this point so I'll just be happy if it's at least made more manageable so I can be a disco skeleton.
Like seriously, if I'm trying to get a bunch of powers, I basically don't stop trying to get more, because that's the fun of it. You see what you can get before the round's over, so you can show off on the shuttle. By the time you've gotten many good ones (basically, as many as you could reasonably fit under the -100 limit anyway) the round's usually almost over. It's rare that you can accumulate a shitload of powerful mutations unless everything's falling in your favor (nobody's actively trying to murder you, someone's put money into research, and you can actually find more than two or three good ones without frantically scrambling monkeys at a lunatic pace - most of which just plain doesn't happen).
You have to really work to get those kinds of results. Like someone said, if someone's willing to put that kind of effort into their research (assuming they actually balance it by cloning people), why punish them for it? Incentives for cloning have already been added and haven't even had time to let the paint dry yet, so why add punishments to discourage research?
But whatever. It feels like arguing that's a moot point at this point so I'll just be happy if it's at least made more manageable so I can be a disco skeleton.
BaneOfGiygas Wrote:Combine this mutation with Cold Resistance and you basically have changeling-level spacewalking powers. This also lets you completely ignore plasma and other harmful chemicals in the atmosphere. This is not an insignificant ability.It's also an ability one can duplicate with a space suit (Nassa suit in particular) and internals. Useful for little more than being more fashionable when you spacewalk. Getting a space suit and internals also takes significantly less effort (anaerobic metabolism is pretty damn rare from what I've seen).