# We make bad suggestions and come up with horrible ideas

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [September 18, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101 "2013-09-18T17:15:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Catfoodbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee59a6/32.png) [@Catfoodbob](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Catfoodbob)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/641 "2014-12-19T04:34:13Z")

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Is the goo the cure to cancer ?

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**Author:** ![SiegeLion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/siegelion/32/351_2.png) [@SiegeLion](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/SiegeLion)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 5:48am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/642 "2014-12-19T05:48:25Z")

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Come to think of it, yeah, I guess the blob would prevent terminal illness with that odd habit of causing it’s host to repair almost fatal damage, despite needing its host to eventually die  
Which is why I suppose it’s reasonable you don’t develop cancer from bathing in radiation all day long.

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 7:12am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/643 "2014-12-19T07:12:46Z")

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Kinda. Needs your brain to stop exerting that pesky control over your body so it can move in. But a destroyed body isn’t that useful.

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**Author:** ![RAM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@RAM](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/RAM)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 10:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/644 "2014-12-19T10:36:06Z")

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But massive structural failure is not really as much of an issue for blobs as it is for most other things. Speaking of, you should be able to inject globs for instant full-heals!

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**Author:** ![SiegeLion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/siegelion/32/351_2.png) [@SiegeLion](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/SiegeLion)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 11:25am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/645 "2014-12-19T11:25:01Z")

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Not to take the thread off topic, but wouldn’t the blob easily be able to just kill its host, given that it’s able to move around the body, couldn’t it just cut off the oxygen supply to the brain and kill it that way?  
Obviously it wouldn’t because that would be awful gameplay wise, which is why I feel like I should suggest that the blob slowly cuts off your oxygen supply and kills your character within 10 minutes of starting the game.

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**Author:** ![SiegeLion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/siegelion/32/351_2.png) [@SiegeLion](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/SiegeLion)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/646 "2014-12-19T11:26:45Z")

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Double post just because.

> [@RAM](#):
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> But massive structural failure is not really as much of an issue for blobs as it is for most other things. Speaking of, you should be able to inject globs for instant full-heals!

Actually, the idea of being able to inject small amounts of blob for a small, over time, heal would actually be a good suggestion. Assuming that would fit in lore wise, since adding mechanics related to blob is heavily constricted by the lore.

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**Author:** ![RAM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@RAM](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/RAM)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/647 "2014-12-19T18:37:43Z")

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Heh, if blob turned you into a hulk, then the increase in components would tax the brain, probably leading to a reduced intelligence, until brain-death…

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/648 "2014-12-20T01:57:10Z")

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> [@RAM](#):
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> Heh, if blob turned you into a hulk, then the increase in components would tax the brain, probably leading to a reduced intelligence, until brain-death…

Circulatory/respiratory systems, more so. Reduced oxygen supply might be an issue as HUGE has air problems and it’s not up to the size of a Hulk. So yeah.

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**Author:** ![Keyreper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/keyreper/32/163_2.png) [@Keyreper](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Keyreper)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/649 "2014-12-20T02:51:48Z")

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zom-mer-bear, why was this never added? they used to pop out of the rivers enough to be a thing!

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**Author:** ![Slax](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/slax/32/5385_2.png) [@Slax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Slax)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 5:41am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/650 "2014-12-20T05:41:40Z")

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Frogger mode.  
Landmines everywhere. Well, 90% of everywhere.

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**Author:** ![Muaddib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/muaddib/32/392_2.png) [@Muaddib](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Muaddib)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 11:00am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/651 "2014-12-20T11:00:31Z")

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Blob syringes? For that heavy-duty healing when you barely survive getting nuked by tankbots. Of course, injecting yourself with Blob does horrible things to your health, even if it restores your hitpoints.

First it heals you, then the Blob inside your (growing larger) tries to kill you. Basically a very serious “drug” debuff, maybe with pain? If you overdose, you just straight up turn into a zombie.

You feel as if your lungs are trying to suffocate yourself!  
You’re sure! Your lungs are trying to sufocate you!  
You die… and rise up as the undead!

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**Author:** ![SiegeLion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/siegelion/32/351_2.png) [@SiegeLion](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/SiegeLion)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/652 "2014-12-20T13:20:36Z")

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IIRC The blob will only retain a set ‘dormant mass’ so any extra blob injected into a creature would just leave the body by some means. Although I slightly worry how.

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**Author:** ![Catfoodbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee59a6/32.png) [@Catfoodbob](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Catfoodbob)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/653 "2014-12-20T18:12:23Z")

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Gatling-Gun + Chain lightning + Plutonium=Atomic Chaingun

Diamond + laser pointer = lightsaber… .good thing there arn’t any laser pointers

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Letto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@Lord\_Letto](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Lord_Letto)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/654 "2014-12-20T19:41:28Z")

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[quote=“Catfoodbob, post:653, topic:3101”]Gatling-Gun + Chain lightning + Plutonium=Atomic Chaingun

Diamond + laser pointer = lightsaber… .good thing there arn’t any laser pointers[/quote]  
Until someone adds them, could be useful to craft more Weapon Mods, Mainly a Homemade underbarrel laser sight

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**Author:** ![EditorRUS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@EditorRUS](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/EditorRUS)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/655 "2014-12-20T20:13:38Z")

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[http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=7581](http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=7581) - translation

I remember someone raised a topic about dirty clothes and being not clean. I’d been doing nothing then, and suddenly there came an idea - what if we teach our character to… poo?  
Crap JUST can’t attract zombies, especially if you step in that. Especially in the darkness.

You went on the hunt, having gathered some rocks, rotten zombie flesh, attached yourself to the position where you can’t be seen, in short you decided to be a sniper and by throwing rocks make zombies’ life worse while grinding “throwing” skill for yourself. And you stepped in a pile of shit. In short you went for gold, returned with shit. Zombies smelled you 'cos it was necessary for you to watch your step (perception was too low - we didn’t notice little wonders)

You are sitting lost in thought, old builds of the game burned in your heart it’s normal when you have your pants taken off and run far away having your ass on the view of everyone and I am sure it MUST leave on the scent map very long track of pleasant smell. It’s the only thing that’s not there yet before it’s true hardcore mode. _/me blinks_ Isn’t that so? 😉 I don’t think anything more hardcore can’t be come up with. Dirty undershirts is way too easy. Biological desires - that’s what makes the game.

And no need to come up with new tricky to describe zombies. We can leave common zombie, maybe shockers too. Having that mod life won’t appear honey.

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**Author:** ![Muaddib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/muaddib/32/392_2.png) [@Muaddib](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Muaddib)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/656 "2014-12-20T20:27:26Z")

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Imagine running away from zombies, slipping on dogshit, and getting torn apart because you slipped on poo.

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**Author:** ![RAM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@RAM](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/RAM)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/657 "2014-12-20T20:52:32Z")

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Butchering a zombie should already stink you up enough to make most scent-related issues irrelevant…

Although the game does need skunk zeds with enhanced scent-glands…

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Letto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@Lord\_Letto](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Lord_Letto)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/658 "2014-12-20T22:44:31Z")

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[quote=“RAM, post:657, topic:3101”]Butchering a zombie should already stink you up enough to make most scent-related issues irrelevant…

Although the game does need skunk zeds with enhanced scent-glands…[/quote]  
death by scent

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**Author:** ![RAM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@RAM](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/RAM)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/659 "2014-12-20T23:20:17Z")

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It wouldn’t need to be harmful in any way, it would be sufficient if it just caused +100 pain, -100 morale, and made every entity in the bubble hostile and converging upon your position.

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**Author:** ![Valpo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valpo/32/341_2.png) [@Valpo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valpo)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/we-make-bad-suggestions-and-come-up-with-horrible-ideas/3101/660 "2014-12-21T16:33:37Z")

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i can t see the not harmfull in all of this.

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