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Questionable Ethics Enhanced
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SpaceRat 22 Jan, 2020 @ 7:32pm
Content Suggestion
First of all, great job. This is one of the best if not the best mods I have used.
Please take these unsolicited suggestions as interest in the project and not as critiques. Hopefully these aren't already available through other mods or suggested a hundred times already.

Gene splicing
  • Be-able to isolate and add/remove traits, backstory, etc to a template, scan or body. Basically, an in-game plan carefully mod but requiring in-game collecting.
    Not sure if it should be applied at the body level like the brain scan or multiple templates on the vat or a console to add/subtract them. Possibly original templates require components but copies and upgrades are digital, thus free.
  • Difficulty
    • Adding difficulty levels to research or materials to allow for each successive edit.
    • Obtain 3 genomes templates or bodies with the same trait to isolate.
    • Depending on number of traits in common and difference get a multi trait output of available traits with possible randomness to pick.
Storage
Deep sortable storage locker, carriable device or console to organize templates.
Menus
Scans and Sequences are named or have a quick refernce description of species, gender, name without clicking the info button.
Time sliders
  • Keep them available but allow for presets or researchable speed techs. I dislike tweeking the sliders as it feels like cheating.
    Having a prescribed balance allows for more immersion.
  • Presets: [Easy,Medium,Hard] [Rim-Scientists, Rim-Gaticans, Rim-Kaminoans]
  • Techs: Genome[decrease material cost], Advanced Nanites[boost gestation speed],etc
Mood Modifiers
  • Mood debuf on vat grown colonist was ingenious.
  • Rivalry - Same brain, body or combination as a living colonist causes social rival. Prone to fights with cloned self.
  • Misery - Clone a colonist brain, body or combination after death removes lost colonist debuff, possibly add a slightly less powerful debuff, "Living with pod person"
  • Hive Harmony - Clones like to have other clones of the same type or family memebers around.
Visual Body
Allow for visual body changes from splicing collected bodies.
Degradation
  • To many successive generations or modifications causes genetic defect for them to contract disease, age quickly or die early.
  • Flash Clones
    • Cheap, limited skill caps based on [fighter,worker,researcher] archetype, age quickly or die of defect after time limit.
Cloning age
Ability to choose age or child/adult of clone or save the child/adult in the template
Last edited by SpaceRat; 23 Jan, 2020 @ 8:13am
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KongMD  [developer] 23 Jan, 2020 @ 3:50pm 
Wow, thank you for the detailed suggestions! Gene splicing is definitely something on the development roadmap. Programming-wise I think it will be simple, but I have to figure out how to program the interface for it.

>Scans and Sequences are named or have a quick refernce description of species, gender, name without clicking the info button.
I can probably work this into the next patch.

There are a lot of great ideas here...I'm going to come back to this post when I need inspiration for new concepts or mechanics for the mod :)
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SpaceRat 4 Feb, 2020 @ 11:20pm 
Thanks! I bet the interface could prove challenging. Keep up the good work.

I've had much fun with my genetically engineered seed colonists [Plan Carefully] have been doing very well building a clone civilization and cataloging species they encounter.

I've used [PC] to "Engineer" genders from a single seed gender stock, mostly because I got lazy tracking down both.

This mod has kept my single non cloned colonist with 20/20 vision. Somehow she's managed to get several sets of eyes mangled. What are the odds.

I started using LWM's Deep Storage for templates. However, I wish there was an eject to floor button on it. Applying the brain scan can be tricky, due to the mechanics of selecting a pawn and then context menu selecting a receptive clone for brain imprinting. I just keep my most used brain templates in stockpiles since they are few of them.

Possibly show gender on the start cloning gizmo.
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