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[Descan]

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_{Now I want to mod in a mutation category "Ubermensch," like Alpha but more (over-the-top) Nazi. Somehow. Cannibalism?}

[Angle]

Add in some mutations that make you really good with NPC's, preferably in a really troubling fashion. What Ubermensch would be complete without the ability to dominate their inferiors?

[Majestic7]

Why did I have the mental image of hordes of naked Hitlers swarming you while shouting angrily? Every time one dies the rest eat its body, until finally you are facing one MEGA-HITLER!

edit: or maybe you could start as a clone of Hitler with the effect of everyone hating you since you are literally Hitler.

[Descan]

Hrm. Yeah, I don't play with NPC's so I wouldn't know what would be fun/balanced with that.

_{It's amazing how well balanced the game is considering the method of development...}

[Fniff]

You know, I could see the Cataclysm scientists trying to clone Hitler. Multiple times.

[Descan]

It's bad enough to come across your old characters corpse in a world, but at least in-game you have no reason to think of it as anything special.

Imagine being Hitler and coming across a corpse of Hitler, complete with all the changes a normal game of cataclysm brings.

It'd be enough that he wouldn't need a Walther PP to blow his mind.

[BigD145]

One hundred coding monkeys banging on 100 typewriters...

I can only see Cata scientists trying to clone Einstein or Newton or Hawking. Hawking in a chickenwalker!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW-p8s_HCCo
"If you are looking for trouble, you found it."

[Fniff]

It's bad enough to come across your old characters corpse in a world, but at least in-game you have no reason to think of it as anything special.

Imagine being Hitler and coming across a corpse of Hitler, complete with all the changes a normal game of cataclysm brings.

It'd be enough that he wouldn't need a Walther PP to blow his mind.

Worse: imagine being Hitler walking out of a weird lab and trying to restart the Nazi regime... Only to learn that two other Hitlers were way ahead of you and are now leading opposing factions to dominate the wasteland. Now Hitler is forced to team up with a cloned Stalin in order to win the War of the Two Cloned Hitlers.
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This idea is property of Fniff Co™.

One hundred coding monkeys banging on 100 typewriters...

I can only see Cata scientists trying to clone Einstein or Newton or Hawking. Hawking in a chickenwalker!

Eh, I could also see them trying to clone anyone interesting they have DNA of. Maybe they start making combinations.

Spoiler: CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT: CODE BLACK (click to show/hide)

Location: XEDRA Office Party, 2 days prior to Cataclysm
Subjects: Head Researcher [REDACTED] and Subject #44

[Majestic7]

They could clone Hitlers as a way to circumvent ethical concerns on experimenting on human beings. Surely doing horrible experiments on the-guy-who-is-literally-hitler is okay? See, there is even a great reason for it!

[FArgHalfnr]

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I'm naming my next character Hitler just so I can find his corpse later. I will make him suicide in a LMOE shelter if I find one for the historical accuracy.

[Aseaheru]

Spoiler: Things that where in the last stable version (click to show/hide)

Meteorology! Featuring all-new thermometer, barometer, and hygrometer, as well as an all-inclusive weather station.(Although, I dont think it really did anything)
Aiming! You can now spend time when aiming a ranged weapon to improve your accuracy with it.
The patented DeathCam™! You can now watch what happens after your epic death: is anything left of you after that massive fire burns itself out?
Rifle straps! Mount one on your gun and just wear it when you're not using it.
Some cars have alarms now, and you can try to bypass the alarm and unlock the controls.
Tanning with trees! Blackjack oaks now spawn, and can provide tanbark.
Wool and felt are now usable materials.(I think this was in .A)
Butchering can now be used to cut up items, too. Also, you can now salvage _all_ the things (in a tile) in one keypress.
Item descriptions now tell you what you know you can craft with them. No more wondering what those stupid copper tubes are good for.
Gun mods aren't just a free-for-all when reaching marksmanship level 1 anymore -- instead, they each have different skill requirements to install.

I am rather certain that all of the above items where in, in some form, either .a or .b, which is slightly interesting.

[azmodean]

It's amazing how well balanced the game is considering the method of development...

I'm not sure what your impression of our development process is, but there are only three people actively merging changes, and we keep a pretty tight reign on balance issues.  If someone makes a pull request with major balance implications (including myself) it's scrutinized pretty closely and there's a lot of discussion about how it's going to impact the player before it gets merged.
Then once a change is in experimentals, we do pay attention to reports of things being imbalanced (though that often has to be taken with a grain of salt, because the most common report is "X killd meh, pls nerf").
Community developed doesn't mean free-for-all

[Descan]

That makes sense then.

On another note: How hard would it be to re-jigger crafting and split it into two (under the hood) categories, one "set it and forget it" and the other "needs continued attention"?

I ask because while it makes sense for tailoring or tinkering with electronics or smithing to take all your attention and you can't do anything else, cooking and certain recipes in other categories make less sense. Like cooking bone broth, or boiling water. You're just putting water on a fire, with something in it. What prevents you from reading a book or tailoring your clothes while it processes, whatever the task is?

[Blaze]

I've been thinking of doing something like that, it's all possible under json by the use of "delayed_transformation" or the slightly less tidy "auto_transform" tag. The issue is the time it takes is fairly substantial.

If possible, we could have a number of some of us semi-modders root through the various recipe/item jsons and add them. I'm afraid I don't have the time to do it alone.

[ChairmanPoo]

edit: or maybe you could start as a clone of Hitler with the effect of everyone hating you since you are literally Hitler.

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