Cloning is Too Easy
Created by: Shadowmech88
There's no fear of death in the game, because as long as a person's body gets found, they can be brought back to life with a few clicks. Cloning is certainly necessary at some point because of the rare cases of people who get 500 burn damage or something like that, but the existence of defibrillators means that most patients are revivable with meds+bloodbacks+surgery. But hardly anyone ever does this because the cloner is easier with no penalty. I think at the very least, the cloner shouldn't be there at round start, and should be a max-research machine that the mechanic has to build for Medbay. That's not much since Science has research+minerals 20 minutes into most rounds, but it's a start. Mainly I just think cloning should be changed so that it's a LAST resort, rather than a first one. Make bringing people back to life a little harder than operating a microwave.
Maybe people would be more afraid of dying if it'd send them on Medbay's wild ride instead of them just having to be popped into the cloner and then into cryo.