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Qustinnus wrote:

Stickymayhem wrote:Making you worse at combat is just a bad idea with moodlets. It doesn't make any sense to me.

A depressed mood should have consequences, but movement is a dumb one. Maybe it can slow actions and work, instead.

I think a better thing to do would be to make sadness infectious. Being around depressed people makes you feel worse, thus you'll avoid the depressed people, making them feel isolated and giving an actual mechanical consequences that makes far more sense than "Sad people are slow". A noticeable description "X looks bummed out, and it's bumming you out" would work. Once depressed, you can get happy pills in medbay (It's the future), or some good samaritans can try to cheer you up at a temporary expense to their own sanity.

A sanity stat would represent this all much better. Low mood begins to damage your sanity pool. Lower and lower sanity brings more psychological problems down to 0, which can result in a coma, suicide, or whatever else. These effects should take at minimum 30 minutes to present themselves severely, giving longer rounds some purpose, and giving people a reason to create things that cheer the crew up.

A Cthulhu style sanity system would be far more interesting, mechanically engaging, and realistic than a basic mood indicator.

Hell I'll help design it. I've run a shitload of mythos systems.

I dont want consequences of mood to be purely visual, If the downside is "you make other people sad" it wouldnt be good enough because everyone could be sad but nothing would change, plus AoE effects suck. What I do like is the idea of sanity where you gain or lose it based on your current mood and making it long term instead oc short term. However 30 minutes is a tad too long.

Grazyn wrote:If anything you should really add Prozac, it would also be educational because binge-eating isn't a healthy solution to depression, self-medication is.

Grazyn wrote:If anything you should really add Prozac, it would also be educational because binge-eating isn't a healthy solution to depression, self-medication is.

oranges wrote:no suprise to see robustin and stickymayhem, both who play the game only to win and kill other people trying to get this system watered down.

Grazyn wrote:If anything you should really add Prozac, it would also be educational because binge-eating isn't a healthy solution to depression, self-medication is.

Dr_bee wrote:

Grazyn wrote:If anything you should really add Prozac, it would also be educational because binge-eating isn't a healthy solution to depression, self-medication is.

This is a good idea. Other servers have anti-depressants as a fluff chem but with moodlets you can actually make it functional.

Make anti-depressants reduce negative moodlets by a small amount to simulate them and give them a slow depletion rate, and possibly give both med-bay and possibly security a roundstart supply.

cedarbridge wrote:

Dr_bee wrote:

Grazyn wrote:If anything you should really add Prozac, it would also be educational because binge-eating isn't a healthy solution to depression, self-medication is.

This is a good idea. Other servers have anti-depressants as a fluff chem but with moodlets you can actually make it functional.

Make anti-depressants reduce negative moodlets by a small amount to simulate them and give them a slow depletion rate, and possibly give both med-bay and possibly security a roundstart supply.

Instead of making it remove the moodlets themselves, just make it suppress them. Since that's what you generally expect from anti-depressants. They don't generally cure the issue, they just suppress them until the user snaps. Give med anti-depressants that suppress negative mood (but don't increase past "meh" and then have the full negative mood reapply when their dosage runs out and they forget to take their meds or renew their prescription.

oranges wrote:no suprise to see robustin and stickymayhem, both who play the game only to win and kill other people trying to get this system watered down.

Lumbermancer wrote:But...what do they do? Are they related to the "scared of words" meme that have been plaguing me lately?

Lumbermancer wrote:I took no traits. And whenever Snake joins the match, I get scared if he talks over radio. It killed me at least once.

Stickymayhem wrote: happy pills

Selea wrote:how about brain surgery to remove moodlets?

cedarbridge wrote:

Selea wrote:how about brain surgery to remove moodlets?

Best you should get in that regard is a frontal lobe obliteration.

Lumbermancer wrote:Fair enough. But you people are talking about some kinds of effects, while all moodlets do for me is change colour based on how the fuck up am I.

DemonFiren wrote: How about that one magnetic surgery shit in The Expanse that turns you into a sociopath who autistically attacks anyone messing with whatever he's obsessing over but otherwise completely incapable of developing feelings for others?

Dax Dupont wrote:ERP moodlets when

Limey wrote:tie cargo mood to stock market payout

Shaps-cloud wrote:

Limey wrote:tie cargo mood to stock market payout

Forced suicide if a stock you invested 10k credits in goes bankrupt

Durkel wrote:Requesting a moodlet for clowns and mimes to correlate to their costume.

If a clown takes of his shoes or mask they get a negative and they remain on they get a positive and the same goes for the mime if they remove their mask.

Luke Cox wrote:Quick question about these, can they be used as a means to implement various status effects?

Xhuis wrote:Made a wiki page for this, for what it's worth.

Luke Cox wrote:Suicide at depressed mood level or riot

Qustinnus wrote:New PR has been merged, please leave feedback on the changes made!

Stickymayhem wrote:

Qustinnus wrote:New PR has been merged, please leave feedback on the changes made!

why no links

bandit wrote:objection to current system: irl depression makes you eat less, not more

Stickymayhem wrote:More/Less appetite is a symptom. Weight Gain/Loss is a symptom. More/Less Sleep is a symptom.