Goonhub
07-01-2016, 03:10 PM
That wouldn't change much, as it's still pretty easy to tell is a changeling/vampire is eating by having two figures present in maintenance on the same tile with one laying down. (Well, its the only time you'd find people like that on goon)
It'd maybe work if people who were laying down were invisible, but at that point you question the usefulness of being able to see through walls if you're not going to prod at every person who stands still in maintenance. (Which at that point crosses the boundary of shit behavior.)
There's also the problem of Byond being unable to truly hide people's names, so while you can't see who everyone is, you can still know who everyone is.
Seeing people through walls is just a broken mechanic that's hard to balance if it's easily available every single round. (I say "easily available" because there is an X-Ray vision mutation.)
That said though, thermals need help. I currently consider wearing them worse than wearing nothing right now. You get no benefit from wearing them (Cloakers are rare as hell and the AI/borgs can see them.), and you only get the detriment of being more vulnerable to flashes. I don't even know if the flash-drawback is still a thing or not anymore, because no one wears thermals, and the people who do tend to be sec during extremely specific and rare circumstances, so I've never seen a person with thermals get flashed.
It'd maybe work if people who were laying down were invisible, but at that point you question the usefulness of being able to see through walls if you're not going to prod at every person who stands still in maintenance. (Which at that point crosses the boundary of shit behavior.)
There's also the problem of Byond being unable to truly hide people's names, so while you can't see who everyone is, you can still know who everyone is.
Seeing people through walls is just a broken mechanic that's hard to balance if it's easily available every single round. (I say "easily available" because there is an X-Ray vision mutation.)
That said though, thermals need help. I currently consider wearing them worse than wearing nothing right now. You get no benefit from wearing them (Cloakers are rare as hell and the AI/borgs can see them.), and you only get the detriment of being more vulnerable to flashes. I don't even know if the flash-drawback is still a thing or not anymore, because no one wears thermals, and the people who do tend to be sec during extremely specific and rare circumstances, so I've never seen a person with thermals get flashed.