Most borg modules have it and it goes through the exosuit (a lizard can hide in this way and be revealed by the health scanner, as previously mentioned abductors too) it makes processes such as holding back a job (referenced by that PR i linked) in command straightfoward without tiptoeing code & already exists for 'angel' race members which are also human mutants in a racially defined context. Such a small change has close to no shortfalls, catpeople also get something else that they want in which is recognition (given they are here to stay eitherway) and as previously mentioned it would solidify headmin ruling they are non-human.
- Code is important because the AI only exists within a thin narrative of the game defined entirely by the code, someones whole perspective detached from the detail & events on the ground, its insensitive to withhold details and finding those details isn't easy as it is.
> If in doubt send a borg to scan/check it out.
Exactly, they claim to be a different race which is partially supported at least in theory by admin ruling them non-human but they are still typically human in all respects = easymode way to scam the system in being edgy & different but also the most privileged based entirely on being human. Its a identical to adding a vulpkin alternative racial skin then saying its a human because its just a cosmetic even though its clearly not human, but under all those layers it can't be discerned it is anything else other than human.
In itself it has no substance other than memes for cosmetic fluff that can get you killed by the AI, under circumstances of being judged as a feature it wouldn't have made the grade as a legitimate (such as when they were taking only *real detailed* race suggestions into github somehow the cats crawled in) race on its own. So you have to ask whether the reasons to making its own race defrauds its conception & current implementation.
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Also, who cares if the AI occasionally mistakes them for being human? The ears and tail are entirely cosmetic, it's not like they're somehow getting an advantage over a standard human.
- Quite literally if your AI 'rule' is true, the AI cannot racially profile without nessecary photographic evidence or record of said being a catperson. I had a little arguement about this before in that if AI is mislead into saving a catperson (contrary to a human in crisis at the same time) its not the OOC's fault but it has failed its directive to properly research its human and mutant-human crew which is time consuming and therefore failed its laws.
They aren't human, you would be pissed if a AI saved a lizard and not you in a railcart scenario not least to say as a conscious decision the AI can't save the lizard as human protection is #1 priority. As i mention in the quote its the AI's RESPONSIBILITY to keep ontop of this
using in-game data, a simple race check would help EVER so much for a lot of situations. Its also unless said explicitly otherwise non consensual to be medically scanned by a borg so players can get around it if they really tried though it might arise suspicion.