Genetics: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

[Roomba]

I honestly have -never- seen a geneticist that refused to clone people because they wanted to focus on research.

Just off the top of my head, playing as the AI in just a few rounds over the past couple of days, I've had to handle requests to bolt genetics shut for most of them, as well as a geneticist trying to toolbox the HOP for breaking in to clone a corpse because he refused to acknowledge its presence. I'd very much like to know who these paragons of virtue are, because I've never seen them.

And the reasons for bringing stability on have been already mentioned earlier in the thread. (Hint: people got tired of being killed by invisible TK hulks every round.) Genetics was ludicrously overpowered without the stability mechanic, and any workaround would just lead right back down that road. If the best defense is 'well I didn't see it so it can't have been that bad', there's a mountain of complaints regarding genetics right around that time, which probably isn't a coincidence.