03-09-2017, 04:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-06-2017, 09:55 AM by Firebarrage. Edited 2 times in total.)
Polymorph is a fun and entertaining spell, but I really think it needs to have at least some way to be undone. While there is a chance that you might get turned into something fun and useful there is a much higher chance that you will get turned into something useless and then die in a way that permanently removes you from the round. As I see it being polymorphed in its current state can be a worse fate than being cluwned - at least they have hope through cloning or borging.
What I think should be done is to make polymorphed crewmembers reviveable in the same way that a cluwne would be, e.g. "You cut into the Space Goose's head, and a human sized brain falls out. How the heck did that fit in there?!"
EDIT: Sundance posted a solution that got a good amount of support, here it is
Polymorph combined with fireball makes for flaming dead unrecoverable animals littering the station. I had a round of few days ago as a wiz and really did a number on a pretty populated server. Here's my opinion that could balance it out:
- buff animals health across the board. Its not fair to be spawned as a bird to be crushed by a door, as funny as that is. Like sure, get crushed by the door but maybe you shouldn't die from it?
- increase likelihood of spawning as something dangerous, like a spider. This would mean wiz has a chance of it backfiring on him if he's not careful.
- increase the cooldown. Not by much, but even now it recharges too quickly.
- allow brains to be extracted from butchered critters. Literally knife em to get their pelt/etc but also will produce a usable brain.
What I think should be done is to make polymorphed crewmembers reviveable in the same way that a cluwne would be, e.g. "You cut into the Space Goose's head, and a human sized brain falls out. How the heck did that fit in there?!"
EDIT: Sundance posted a solution that got a good amount of support, here it is
Polymorph combined with fireball makes for flaming dead unrecoverable animals littering the station. I had a round of few days ago as a wiz and really did a number on a pretty populated server. Here's my opinion that could balance it out:
- buff animals health across the board. Its not fair to be spawned as a bird to be crushed by a door, as funny as that is. Like sure, get crushed by the door but maybe you shouldn't die from it?
- increase likelihood of spawning as something dangerous, like a spider. This would mean wiz has a chance of it backfiring on him if he's not careful.
- increase the cooldown. Not by much, but even now it recharges too quickly.
- allow brains to be extracted from butchered critters. Literally knife em to get their pelt/etc but also will produce a usable brain.