[+][OOC-Chat] Staff Just Johnny: I will forget.
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I also think the "%N's skin does not look right" blurb when it's not active should include, "The color seems like it's been sapped out of %p complexion, leaving %o with an unnatural pallor."
Same goes for wigs and lenses which don't obey @skintone.
If this nano was boosted to help with disguise without it being blatantly obvious to others when you have it, it would be a 100% staple for me. I think it's super bad-ass theme wise too.
Perhaps it can get a bigger debuff for the stats it debuffs? I'm not entirely sure how it works but if it could be made more viable (compared to the other no-brainer ones) I'd be over the moon. I'm all for debuffs if this gets stronger!
Con me please. That would be gorgeous.
I think Ephemeralis summarizes it best with his comemnt: "This would be sick if it like, allowed you to ICly alter skintone on the fly and attain a passive first-level disguise a la hairstyler stuff via a coded toggle. You're definitely not going to recognize your chum on the street if he's changing his skin colour and hair colour on the fly via what is essentially chameleon mods."
This combined with the anonymized surname camouflaged i.e. a camouflaged bakalaka has been the discussed solution on ooc-chat. Factoring disguise in is a curious proposition. I like the idea of the @describe of the cyberware to not be visibile IF you use it to change your skintone but there should to be a "tell" in my opinion - the eyes strike as the most obvious. Maybe everyone who gets this nano has cat eyes, snake eyes, or whatever...something easily concealable with contacts or mirrorshades but a sort of foic sop for corpsec/wjf to check with high risk personnel. I'm also not entirely against having it be only detectable via the hella underused nanogenic scanner.
Metachrosis depigments your skin when not active. It is intentional that people who have it look weird all the time. I believe there are some associated stat changes, and the @lp at the end can be cleared but does not go away any more than someone looking muscular after they get muscle grafts does.
And I'm not just pulling this out of my ass, I wrote a lot of this stuff.
Whether you imagine that as someone's skin shifting to try to look like the people around them or the pattern/pigmentation just making them colored like the background and hard to ID is up for debate.
I like the suggestion of having the eyes be a tell, which could be covered with contacts.
Not for not being noticed slamming down brews in the pub.
Your character has taken a nanogenic to massively mutate the largest organ on your body. Just because a lot of people don't tend to play up the effects of their other nanogenics doesn't mean that you should not be doing so, in my mind. If you get muscle grafts, your character should look physically buff even if they might not be the strongest chum on the yard. People with synaptics can role play being extremely dexterous, or with pheromones, alluring.
I don't think we should be taking steps to lessen the potential for RP around people's chrome and cyberware, rather, we should be encouraging people to do more to that end as I mentioned above. Cyberware is flash, cyberware is cool, and I like to ICly take opportunities to talk up people having things that are not aesthetically pleasing, such as dermalweave, because even though you're butt-ugly, armored skin is novahot!
Plus looking all pale and weird is cool. Style over substance, chummers.
I get that. but something that is meant for subterfuge but being visibly seen by anyone that looks at that character because it can't be hidden in a way that would feasibly work just doesn't sit right with me one it's usage. You getting your face punched in by someone with the other is not so uncommon, but you're spot got broken into an you talked to someone with depleted pigment skin a few days ago..
There is just too much meta from my take on it, and non-combat primary characters have enough to deal with already. I'd be curious if the admins took a look to see how much of the player base may be using it as opposed to the nanos and cybernetics that you can hide.
