We make TERRIBLE suggestions and come up with horrible ideas (Round II)

[TheZoneWizard]

Give it a heart and let us hope it ends up on the “To Do” list.

Feel free to add to the idea, as always.

I like the idea of providing your own crap. Maybe make the suggestion and the doctor gives a lower price?

[mentos046]

Feline mutants involuntarily purr at high morale and cannot stop it. Because they’re larger than the average housecat it’s loud enough to attract zeds.

Canine mutants die from eating chocolate.

[Tom_The_1st]

Fish mutants should start to die as if drowning when not in water.

[mentos046]

Canine mutants must stop what they’re doing to chase any moving car they see. They also take noticeable morale debuffs for being in a room with a vacuum cleaner, and gain equally noticeable morale buffs from the destruction of mail carrier clothing items.

Both canine and feline mutants take morale debuffs that increase with time when inside a Veterinary Clinic.

[TheZoneWizard]

Dogs should bark at creatures at a percentage roll. This in turn garners attention from other creatures making a morale roll to fight or flight behavior.

[redxlaser15]

That actually makes a lot of sense. I suspect that at least 95% of all dogs would do that.
But not my beagle. We was too nice. He was a complete moron, but very nice and jus a generally awesome doggo. I miss that guy

[FurryDegenerate]

Another idea: When a pet dog dies, you get crippling morale debuffs

[redxlaser15]

In my opinion, that seems more realistic than getting sad when you kill a zombie child (who wanted to bite your face off).
I can understand someone being upset when they aren’t used to killing things in general, but I don’t care if it looks kinda like a child, it’s no more of a child than an adult is. An adult is just a child who grew up, but a zombie child is just a child that was already killed and now has started to rot and I wants to kill you.

[redxlaser15]

We should also add head crabs and head crab zombies.
Those skinny super rotted ones made me just go ‘nope’ when playing Halflife 2 for the first time. It has some horror elements, sure, but it isn’t in general a horror game. THEN YOU GIVE ME THESE THINGS!

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/aliens/images/e/eb/Half-Life_2_fast_zombie.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090730195408
Speedy little nightmare fuel that you first find in a place called Ravenholm which is so dark and gloomy, with poison headcrabs and a bunch of random dead littering the ground.

I still deeply desire to play Half-life 3 though. In the future, if I do well enough in the game development industry, I will try to buy the right to make a third from Valve unless they really do make another.

EDIT: sorry if anyone has nightmares from seeing that. I can’t figure out how to blur an image on the phone.

[Trigon]

Let’s expand nutrition and vitamins. If you don’t eat meat your character randomly screams about it unprompted and gives you a breakdown of the health, environmental, economic, and social benefits of veganism. It would also make the vegetarian mutation more realistic.

[TheZoneWizard]

As I cried over my late hamster. That was this year. So having a dog, which more than likely lived longer would suck for the longer bond. Not especially hurting less. Just more time = memories. I can relate.

Makes me think of all of us pet lovers. Having NPC friends and pets perhaps have a morale debuff when they die would make sense. Unless the NPC was programmed to be an AceHole or something.

[FartOfSteel]

Is this possible?

[FurryDegenerate]

Wrong place to post, that’s a great suggestion, not a terrible one!

[TheZoneWizard]

Not to sound sarcastic. But if is isn’t how’d you pull it off?

I assume you refer to the lighting?

[OzoneH3]

There’s a proof of concept for this kind of lighting on git. https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/23996

[Malkeus]

stalled since june due to performance issues. too bad. We need a maths wizard to save us!

On topic: I want lightning strikes to start fires, kill monsters and create fulgurites on the beaches. And a new item effect for all conductive items, double for polearms, umbrellas etc, that makes you more likely to be struck in a storm. Trees too. And an artifact effect that summons lightning out of the clear blue sky. And some flapjacks

[redxlaser15]

Can’t forget the flapjacks.

[TheZoneWizard]

Maple house often has pancakes. =D

[NotaRobotcat]

An actual nuke that when set off instantly destroys everything in a 15 map tile radius(goodbye city) and turns it into a toxic radioactive hellscape where monsters galore could spawn getting denser and more powerful the closer to the epicenter you get.

[TheZoneWizard]

Fast Draw Holster for “Over-Under” Double Barrel Shotgun sawn barrel + stock. Not the standard side by side barrel gun. For practical purposes, the over-under remains rather flat to the person. Where as the side barrels have the grip in a jut out position.

While a pistol is clearly lighter. A leg holster for a weapon like this would be pretty useful for that extra 2 shots of CQC BLAM BLAM MOFO!! YEeA BOI! xD