Mutation category expansion: experimenting on NPCs derail

[KA101]

@nickspaceman

[quote=“Stretop, post:1, topic:8641”][quote=“Closet Pankin, post:481, topic:3755”]Why not make it that with a high enough cooking and other relevant skill, you could design tier two mutagens? Discover and develop them yourselves after your character has become familiar with mutagens. I don’t mean the character design them yourselves, but have a wide range of premade ‘hidden’ mutations that your character can design based on the new world, with more specific and ‘exotic’ mutagens such as salamander, wasp, snake, etc.

I suppose that mutagen design requires extensive experimentation. Where would you gather test-subjects for this?

@Closet Pankin

Also, how do shock zombies do mad zaps? Never understood that.

Via implanted CBMs.[/quote]

maybe use npcs?[/quote]

XEDRA conducted unethical and body-impinging research. I feel no need to let the player do the same.

(There already are non-purifiable mutations. I don’t advertise them as such in-game, but they exist.)

The current crafting system kinda requires folks to know what they’re making, so the closest we can currently get to a PC-driven research program would be making Obfuscated Mutagen_Foo and letting the player take notes…which only works until the info finds its way onto the wiki and forums.

So yeah, currently not feasible.