Seiga made a good argument for removing this on our Discord. Essentially, due to a lack of a viable x-card for hypnosis (so far), the only real safety tool for hypnosis is LOOC. This works fine for hypnoflashes, which are almost unusable unless you get someone at your mercy and in private, where you can easily ask consent and do something else if you don't get it. Hypno grenades are intended to cause chaos by hypnotizing as large a group of people. This makes it functionally impossible to actually coordinate asking consent (because you'd need everyone to both respond and... just stand there and take it anyway?). This near-uselessness, along with its high cost, mean the hypno grenade is a poor fit for our server. So, it's gone.
Changelog
:cl:
del: made the hypnosis grenade unobtainable
/:cl:
About The Pull Request
Removes hypnosis grenades from all uplinks.
Why It's Good For The Game
Seiga made a good argument for removing this on our Discord. Essentially, due to a lack of a viable x-card for hypnosis (so far), the only real safety tool for hypnosis is LOOC. This works fine for hypnoflashes, which are almost unusable unless you get someone at your mercy and in private, where you can easily ask consent and do something else if you don't get it. Hypno grenades are intended to cause chaos by hypnotizing as large a group of people. This makes it functionally impossible to actually coordinate asking consent (because you'd need everyone to both respond and... just stand there and take it anyway?). This near-uselessness, along with its high cost, mean the hypno grenade is a poor fit for our server. So, it's gone.
Changelog
:cl: del: made the hypnosis grenade unobtainable /:cl: