Tauka Usanake Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Okay, new suggestion. Shadow people are useless and functionally broken, but mainly because they don't have any GOOD functions. It's something in the game but doesn't have any uses, maybe only existing due to a port and nothing more. Shadow people are similar to shadowlings, correct? They heal in the dark, die in the light, so they might have some relation to shadowings. However dying in the light isn't very good for anyone. I'd suggest than they keep their light damage or whatever, might not matter anyways, but cast darkness around them kind of like the cult constructs so they won't die right away or at all to just standing somewhere. Not a lot of darkness, but their tile keeps them safe from damage while surrounding tiles just mark that they are there. Maybe giving them dark vision wouldn't hurt either (unless that's what "darksight = 8" gives them) as they are creatures of the dark. I mean you have this transformation available but you give it no practical use, in fact make it a death sentence for anyone who wants to use it. Might as well remove it instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProperPants Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 This is the first I've heard of shadow people. Are they even something that happens, or are they passengers on the adminbus waiting for their next stop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacemanspark Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 This is the first I've heard of shadow people. Are they even something that happens, or are they passengers on the adminbus waiting for their next stop? Xenobiology can turn people into them with a certain slime extract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamania Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 ^^^ As Spark said. That, and there is literally no reason to make someone a shadow person, other than for an interesting way to kill them, I guess? I don't know. Its literally pointless right now, until some changes happen to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keroman Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 I've definitely considered using the green slime mutation toxin (the stuff that turns you into a shadow person) as a means for hijacking the shuttle. Much like an engineer could go around with powergloves and the tesla wired into the grid to provide enough power to turn someone into a pile of bones, you could run around with the mutation toxin in a syringe gun. Anyone who gets hit turns into a shadow person, and since they're generally in a lit area of the station they'd quickly die and become a pile of remains. Hit enough people with that. Use emp-nades (from yellow slime cores) to take care of synthetics. It'd be a pretty neat way of hijacking the shuttle really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tauka Usanake Posted March 12, 2016 Author Share Posted March 12, 2016 Inducing a quick death is the only use shadow people can be said to have. That's fine and all, sure but utterly dumb. It's a race, a species or at least treated as one. I'd like to see it get some treatment and be made useful. Otherwise fine, it might as well be considered a chemical that slowly turns you into dust. I mean if there is no other use for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pazneria12 Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Id love it to get some sort of use, because its got a HUGE downside and litterally no upsides, I think it should atleast be able to see in the darkness its trapped in, and perhaps get a few minor darkness related powers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTSAM Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 I recommend the implementation of light-reflective clothing that can be crafted and help out shadowpeople. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProperPants Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 light-reflective clothing This is the first thing that popped into my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tauka Usanake Posted March 13, 2016 Author Share Posted March 13, 2016 light-reflective clothing Light REFLECTIVE? You might as well say retarded, and I mean that in the proper sense, not the insulting one. [spoiler2]however much they could be shared[/spoiler2] If that's your idea then you might as well live in a dark body suit. Then again being able to see out of it would be another thing... My idea still stands. Let them emit a shadowy area around them and give them dark vision, maybe only limit them to seeing in the dark so that their vision is limited when in lighted areas. Maybe give them glowing eyes too, if you can make an overlay for it like constructs. I'd personally like if their eye color is the only thing they keep when someone transforms but that's already asking for a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTSAM Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 wiw mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tauka Usanake Posted March 15, 2016 Author Share Posted March 15, 2016 wiw mean Don't make me feel bad, I'm not going to have feels over what I said. We don't need a race that acts like plasmamen anyways, requiring a special suit to exist. And when or where are you going to get one when these guys don't even exist until you Science enough into them? And if you says any kind of suit then show me a diona in one and not die due to not being in direct light. I still <3 you though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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