Goonhub
12-07-2015, 10:46 AM
Makes sense! And either way it's great to have the discussion and get these ideas out there. I like where your mind is going with this.
To clarify what I meant by absorbing and infecting with the ling, the victim would still be alive and you would simply have "taken control" (mindslaved) their body. Similar to how it was in "the thing" where multiple people are essentially infected by the same creature and function as separate parts of a whole. The need for murder in the case of infection would only be in situations where the person is fat and can't be absorbed or as a means of escaping a dangerous situation. But I can see where you're coming from.
My hopes would be that it would force people together and to actually perform tests on folks to see who is a ling. And the situations where someone has been tested but now comes back infected and is trusted into the group... etc. I can, however, see it being exploited and turned into a killing spree.
Getting away from that and back toward your sabotage ideas. Would the objectives need to be job specific? Otherwise, it would be obvious right away when you've got a doctor attempting to break into the engine and clip wires, smash things, or leak plasma. Perhaps I'm just not knowledgeable enough with the game mechanics but I feel like a lot of this would require tools and would eliminate the need to be a changeling.
To clarify what I meant by absorbing and infecting with the ling, the victim would still be alive and you would simply have "taken control" (mindslaved) their body. Similar to how it was in "the thing" where multiple people are essentially infected by the same creature and function as separate parts of a whole. The need for murder in the case of infection would only be in situations where the person is fat and can't be absorbed or as a means of escaping a dangerous situation. But I can see where you're coming from.
My hopes would be that it would force people together and to actually perform tests on folks to see who is a ling. And the situations where someone has been tested but now comes back infected and is trusted into the group... etc. I can, however, see it being exploited and turned into a killing spree.
Getting away from that and back toward your sabotage ideas. Would the objectives need to be job specific? Otherwise, it would be obvious right away when you've got a doctor attempting to break into the engine and clip wires, smash things, or leak plasma. Perhaps I'm just not knowledgeable enough with the game mechanics but I feel like a lot of this would require tools and would eliminate the need to be a changeling.