Mr Lostman
Assistant
Should traitor virologist be allowed to make plauges when they don't have highjack?
I'd argue that yes they should.
tl:dr
It's a core part of the job. Making an actual crew killing plauge takes effort. Crew are not helpless against it. Starting an infection is not easy. Not all plauges are just you fall over and die.
You need to work with cargo and RnD to get your virus out in any sort of timely matter also you also have to crunch the numbers before hand.
Virologists don't just have an effect all crew button. Creating an infection vector is not easy and simple methods can and will get you lynched. (infecting food, dumping some monkeys around ect).
The game is setup to allow the crew many opportunities to cure a virus. The station starts with two locations with pandemics and a spare board. Also borgs are immune and we have status beds. There are items that make you non infectious and incapable of being inefected the crew is as fault for letting it transmit aswell.
Viro has a selection of indiscriminate weapons that they can almost never use. They are not just your fall over and die. Zombie Plauges, Gorilla Shnanagins, Plasman Genocides ect these are all banned because they can murder large amounts of crew because hey are all indiscriminate(semi in some cases). This stops tot viros from using 95% of what the job has to offer.
Rule referendum when?
I'd argue that yes they should.
tl:dr
It's a core part of the job. Making an actual crew killing plauge takes effort. Crew are not helpless against it. Starting an infection is not easy. Not all plauges are just you fall over and die.
You need to work with cargo and RnD to get your virus out in any sort of timely matter also you also have to crunch the numbers before hand.
Virologists don't just have an effect all crew button. Creating an infection vector is not easy and simple methods can and will get you lynched. (infecting food, dumping some monkeys around ect).
The game is setup to allow the crew many opportunities to cure a virus. The station starts with two locations with pandemics and a spare board. Also borgs are immune and we have status beds. There are items that make you non infectious and incapable of being inefected the crew is as fault for letting it transmit aswell.
Viro has a selection of indiscriminate weapons that they can almost never use. They are not just your fall over and die. Zombie Plauges, Gorilla Shnanagins, Plasman Genocides ect these are all banned because they can murder large amounts of crew because hey are all indiscriminate(semi in some cases). This stops tot viros from using 95% of what the job has to offer.
Rule referendum when?