Lings and acid

[herpmcderp]

Lings should be immune to other lings acid. This is because a ling wouldnt fall victim to his own poison from his own species lings should also be able to see there other lings so they dont attack each other.

[david2222121]

There's a mechanic in place that when a ling eats another ling, he gains all the DNA his meal had eaten ontop of the normal ten points(or is it just the amount of DNA they had? I can't remember). Besides, letting there be a risk of your changeling buddies turning on you after a heated battle and devouring you to secure their place as apex predator counter-balances the fact that two coordinated lings are exponentially more deadly than two lings simply wreaking havoc.

[Wrazzy]

I agree with David, the best thing you could do as a ling is devour another one and claim all those juicy points. Also toxi spit is like a blast of acid to the face, no matter what you are you're not going to be immune to that.

[Preid]

I don't really see the point of enforcing ling cooperation, it's just as much fun to see the antagonist tear each other apart as it is to see them work together.

[Sundance]

Steps resist an acid spray as a ling.
Step 1. Horror form asap
Step 2. Resist stun
Step 3. Immediately get back up
Step 4. Annihilate other changeling or attempt to do so.

The resist stun is actually some form of rejuvenate. The problem here is either you:
1. Don't have enough DNA to fight another ling, and you essentially got wrecked.
2. Accepted defeat the minute you got spat.

Ling is fairly balanced at the mo', which is surprising as alot of stuff isn't. *cough* vampire *cough*

[Cogwerks]

a ling wouldnt fall victim to his own poison from his own species...

Why would you assume this?

lings should also be able to see there other lings so they dont attack each other

No. Changelings are competing with eachother, they're not a team unless they feel like playing that way at their own risk.

[Captain_Bravo]

Yeah, that's just blatently false. Lots of species in nature can succumb to their own venom, scorpions kill other scorpions all the time. Just because a chemical is produced by a creature doesn't mean the creature is immune to it, that's why they have specialized venom sacks. I guarantee you if you took stomach acid from a dude and splashed it in his eye he wouldn't be immune to that shit.

[Marquesas]

Most changelings are ready to cooperate, really, but you usually end up spitting at eachother and stinging eachother to death before you realize that the other dude is one.

[Dauntasa]

there should be some kind of secret ling signal you can turn on/off

Like if you're a ling you can hit a button and with it turned on all other lings who examine you get a "you detect changeling pheromones coming from Steve Butts"

Whether they decide to respond in kind and work with you or murder you and eat you for sweet, sweet DNA is up to them, but if you want to take a chance and turn it on you can.

[icarus]

we could do what /tg/ does and give the changelings a hive mind with codenames (they're all named Mr. Alpha, Mrs Beta, etc)

[Wrazzy]

there should be some kind of secret ling signal you can turn on/off

Like if you're a ling you can hit a button and with it turned on all other lings who examine you get a "you detect changeling pheromones coming from Steve Butts"

Whether they decide to respond in kind and work with you or murder you and eat you for sweet, sweet DNA is up to them, but if you want to take a chance and turn it on you can.

I was thinking of that. An option to put out some sweet pheromones alerting other lings of your presence, can get you a buddy but will probably get you eaten.

[Captain_Bravo]

Isn't that basically identical to the idea a while back to allow traitors to turn on or off their sunglasses-vision? Did that ever get implemented?

[Shoddy]

Changelings are predatory lifeforms from somewhere in deep space, they don't work together because they are constantly trying to get DNA in whatever means possible, and if there is competition, they must die.

Basically lings are sentient aliens who eat like animals.

besides, its pretty fucking sweet when the guy you just ate as your seventh turns out to be a changeling full of 10 other people.