Harvesting mechanoids for parts

[Tumuel]

I think it's great that you can get scyther blades from mechanoids as crappy replacement hands, or as pretty deadly weapons.

The logical conclusion of this is that you should be able to harvest lots of other bits too, like eyes, legs and ears (and smell sensors for noses, I am quite annoyed that the only way to cure a missing nose is healer mech serum).
To balance it in the game it would be behind a reasonably big research barrier, and also have various effects depending on the prosthetic.
I'm thinking most prosthetics that come from mechanoids would be worse than the bits they replace, but have other features, much like the scyther blades.
Light sensors for example might have worse sight than normal eyes but also improve shooting accuracy (because of built in targeting systems or whatever).
Legs might have faster movement but less carry capacity, or vice versa.
There are mods that let you use AI persona cores to put inside people's brains (always a bit strange), how about using mechanoid artificial brains in some way?

The other thing you could do is make it so that mechanoid based prosthetics are disturbing to colonists (both the people who use them and everyone else) there's already a "disfigured" effect in the social tab, and mood bonuses/penalties for bionics already exist too, it would work similarly to those.

Now that the game is in beta this is the sort of thing that will be added a lot more (from what I understand).

On the topic of prosthetics; you should really be able to craft basic prosthetics in the game; if you can make powered exoskeleton armour and assault rifles, making a simple prosthetic arm (or something to wear over your missing nose so that people stop hating you for being disfigured) shouldn't be beyond your capabilities.

[Vlad0mi3r]

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