FalseIncarnate Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 With the addition of Goonchem and some concerns over holy water abuse in certain round types, the idea of allergies was brought up as a potential addition. Selectable in character creation much like disabilities, allergies are pre-existing conditions that have noticeable, but not unplayable, effects on your gameplay. Essentially, consuming a food / reagent that you are listed as allergic to will induce allergic reactions. Other allergies may be tied to specific actions, like touching animals or being near certain things. In some cases, this may be as minor as some toxins damage, or as major as full on suffocation. Allergies would either be completely uncurable, or would require the assistance of genetics to cure (would require some hefty adjustments to how genetics currently is), and some races would have natural allergies. Examples of potential allergens: Chocolate Nuts (a semi-planned botany addition) Holy Water Caffeine (Kidan natural allergy) Oxygen Medicines (Vox natural allergy) Garlic (another potential botany addition, vampires would be allergic) Pet Dander (petting animals triggers this) Stupidity (randomly triggers, more frequent with brain damage) Pollen (chance to trigger when close to potted plants or hydroponics/soil) BEES!!! (makes bee stings more dangerous) Lactose (milk, cream, cheese, and ice cream) Meat (forced veganism) Comments and suggestions are appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanthelis Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 The biggest issue with food allergies is that each food is not its own reagent, for the most part. Nutriment is Nutriment. All eating a piece of food does is cause you to ingest the reagents in said food. Meat steak, for example, contains nutriment, salt, and pepper. Raw meat is just nutriment. This would necessitate the creation of several reagents to add to existing food items that serve no purpose besides allowing people to be allergic to stuff. The other ones wouldn't be so bad. Bees and whatnot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalseIncarnate Posted April 1, 2015 Author Share Posted April 1, 2015 The biggest issue with food allergies is that each food is not its own reagent, for the most part. Nutriment is Nutriment. All eating a piece of food does is cause you to ingest the reagents in said food. Meat steak, for example, contains nutriment, salt, and pepper. Raw meat is just nutriment. This would necessitate the creation of several reagents to add to existing food items that serve no purpose besides allowing people to be allergic to stuff. The other ones wouldn't be so bad. Bees and whatnot. Yea, a number of these would need new reagents to be possible. Some food reagents can be transferred from ingredient to product, while others are converted. Food allergies would definitely involve tweaking a lot of things, which is why I waited until after goonchem to post the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johannhawk Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 i remember one time when shitcurity was questioning me about my BUDGET insulated gloves and how its only for the engineers, i barely managed to bullshit my way out by saying im allergic to tajarans and need the gloves on to avoid the allergies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fj45 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Yes, this is great, can't wait for someone to find a way to somehow abuse this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDemonic Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I was thinking of suggesting this too, I think it would add a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M3hillus Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Examples of potential allergens:Stupidity > Medusa instantly goes into crit upon round start/joining the station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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