Goonhub
06-03-2021, 11:30 PM
While at the end of the day I won't really care if piss is in or out, I'm looking at it from the development point of view and what value it has right now.
As of now (that I know of), pee is used in saltpetre and as a gross liquid chemical to harass people with. Piss floods, piss balloons, piss in drinks, superheated piss. The few people that use toilets to pee will find that cameras tag you for public urination more often than not and even if you pee in a toilet, it just makes a puddle on the ground. Since the need has been long removed, what exactly is the value we have of keeping piss? While yes, we can just keep it as a gross funny liquid and ingredient for saltpetre, its abused frequently enough and really only has negative and creepy uses for it that griefers and newbies mess with. The argument to just ahelp people is fair enough, but plenty of things have been removed regardless of that argument.
Instead of piss floods, we have a lot more features to flood the bathrooms and cause a bigger mess.
Instead of piss balloons, you can do all sorts of fun chemical balloons. Acid, glitter, whatever you want.
Instead of piss in drinks and having to ahelp people, we can just.. skip that.
Instead of superheated piss to be purposefully weird and gross, you can just use sewage or vomit I guess?
Saltpetre can have its recipe adjusted, triplepiss can still be a thing.
On the one side that wants to keep piss, we could spend developer time to add features and rework piss and all sorts of PR ideas. Inability to flood with it, kidney damage, toggles to disable things, etc. The sky is your limit here, but is it worthwhile in the end considering how barebones piss as a mechanic is?
On the other side that doesn't want to keep it, we can just axe a feature with little value to stop people being creepy with it. Ahelping people repeatedly for the abuse of a feature that's only really there to BE abused isn't particularly exciting.
So from my point of view, piss is a feature that's been slowly reduced and neglected and at this point there'd be little harm in removing it if people don't like it. It can always be reimplemented if people REALLY want to rework piss and make all sorts of PRs, but I feel like there's better things to work on, seeing as nobody has bothered to bring poo back.
As of now (that I know of), pee is used in saltpetre and as a gross liquid chemical to harass people with. Piss floods, piss balloons, piss in drinks, superheated piss. The few people that use toilets to pee will find that cameras tag you for public urination more often than not and even if you pee in a toilet, it just makes a puddle on the ground. Since the need has been long removed, what exactly is the value we have of keeping piss? While yes, we can just keep it as a gross funny liquid and ingredient for saltpetre, its abused frequently enough and really only has negative and creepy uses for it that griefers and newbies mess with. The argument to just ahelp people is fair enough, but plenty of things have been removed regardless of that argument.
Instead of piss floods, we have a lot more features to flood the bathrooms and cause a bigger mess.
Instead of piss balloons, you can do all sorts of fun chemical balloons. Acid, glitter, whatever you want.
Instead of piss in drinks and having to ahelp people, we can just.. skip that.
Instead of superheated piss to be purposefully weird and gross, you can just use sewage or vomit I guess?
Saltpetre can have its recipe adjusted, triplepiss can still be a thing.
On the one side that wants to keep piss, we could spend developer time to add features and rework piss and all sorts of PR ideas. Inability to flood with it, kidney damage, toggles to disable things, etc. The sky is your limit here, but is it worthwhile in the end considering how barebones piss as a mechanic is?
On the other side that doesn't want to keep it, we can just axe a feature with little value to stop people being creepy with it. Ahelping people repeatedly for the abuse of a feature that's only really there to BE abused isn't particularly exciting.
So from my point of view, piss is a feature that's been slowly reduced and neglected and at this point there'd be little harm in removing it if people don't like it. It can always be reimplemented if people REALLY want to rework piss and make all sorts of PRs, but I feel like there's better things to work on, seeing as nobody has bothered to bring poo back.