Blob Balance - Limit the # of nuclei

[Xeram]

I understand the blob hate in this thread, but it's a vicious cycle. People don't find fighting the blob to be fun so they suicide, causing people who fight the blob to not have fun fighting the blob since they can get overwhelmed easily, making them commit suicide in future blob rounds. Fighting the blob can actually be a tense and exciting experience for both the blobs and the players.

Every blob round I've had where I ended up consuming the station was because only one, maybe two people would actually try to fight me at once. If the crew works together, forming squads and advancing on two or more fronts then even powerful blobs can be defeated. Remember, the blob overmind can only be in one place at a time.

This.

The main problem with blob, (Aside from it happening on lowpop rounds and being able to spawn close to people as long as they don't have line of sight), is that people hear blob and they just fuck off forever and don't help deal with it because they think blob is impossible to fight.

If you're fighting the blob head on where it is focusing, yes it is almost impossible to fight why are you trying to fight an entire blob where it is currently focusing you nerd.

When blobs expand they inevitably have to let their nucleus out of sight, people seem to treat blobs as "Gotta fight the entire blob" instead of "Gotta kill the blob's nucleus" It's actually really easy to sneak up on a blob's nuclei if it's busy fighting somewhere else as its trying to spread. Not to mention that with a little work, toxins and telescience can achieve their dreams of justified nuking of portions of the station by sending bombs to nuclei, most likely with some AI help.