Nudism improovement ideas

Started by zgrssd, July 27, 2021, 01:27:30 PM

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zgrssd

Each Ideology is not only about doing a "thing". But actually being good at doing a thing.
The Vegetarian and Carnivore Memes limit what you can do, but do come with some bonuses to offset it: Better Farming and Ranching yields.

So, Nudism:
Currently it blocks out all physical and thermal protection from being worn without issues.
In fact it even blocks most headslot items, including the ones specific for other memes.
That means it is a penalty, but no kind of bonus to offset it.

Suggestion: See-through material
The simplest way would be to allow them to make see-through clothing. All clothing is explicitly tagged as "conflicts with Nudism requirement". So these clothing pieces would simply not be tagged that way.
They could offer some degree of protection, without being nearly as good as armor.
Naturally it can also not be colored.

Mechanics wise, I would say a special set of clothing. "See-through clothing". They could be made from Textiles (not leathers). And they would require some of the Coloring Plants for the "see-through" treatment. In fact, we could propably mod such clothing in right now.
Of course the big issue here is that the clothing list is already becomming a bit full.

Suggestion: Skin Paste
Given that they show a lot of skin, they should have realy good skin-care!
So why not give them a option to grant their skin inherent protection?

They could make Skin Paste out of plants (again maybe the coloring plant?). That paste could grant their naked skin some protection: One might grant Thermal resistance.
Another might grant Armor Protection (Barkskin?), on top of some thermal proteciton.
That protection should only work if no other clothing is worn on the spot (needs light/exposure to air to work).
If the user also has a Skin Augmentation, it would not add to that - it would be one or the other.

Suggestion: Psionic Forcefield
Members of a Nudism cult subconsciously create a psionic forcefield around their body. it protects them from thermal and damage. That one only works if they do not wear clothing and grows weaker with each piece of clothing (on top of the Mood penalty).

If a purely passive effect seems to good, they might have a "shielding ritual" that applies the effect for a year to every participant.
Colonists, Traders and Raiders should propably start with about 1 Quadrum of running effect left when they enter the map. That avoids any issues with Nudist raiders dying of thermia before they reach the base.

ExampleHat

I especially like the Skin Paste idea.

For the nudist raiders: I just tested a bit and it seems like the only NPCs with the nudist meme can be the nudist tribe you can choose as a faction in the beginning. You cannot give other NPC Factions a nudist meme (the meme editing of other factions in general is rather restricted and doesn't allow the more loony stuff)