When the necronomicon recharges, it lets out a giant message onscreen. I thought this was only to the owner of the book, but it sends it to EVERYONE around as long as they can see the container it’s in.
Think it’s a bit harsh. Ideally should show the message to whoever is wearing the bag/backpack only, or whoever bought the book in the first place. OR at the very least don’t show the message when it’s in any kind of container. Basically means you can never walk around with necronomicons in your bag - people cant help but metagame it, but I don’t blame em.
Edit: it also shows the message even if it’s in a storage implant, that one especially sucks
If they just question you about the book/power surge or tell sec to check your belongings I think its fine to keep, or you are simply tired of farming easy ahelps because some guy goes “OMG I FELT POWER SURGE SEC KILL THE CHAP NEC USER NAO rushes you with cleaver”?
It’s moreso to stop metagaming, while people can choose to ignore it, it’s sometimes quite hard to ooc, especially w/ something like Holoparasite whispering for instance as well. The real issue is I think it goes through fog of war / vision too since it’s just a text popup. Makes it very hard to hide em even if they aren’t on your body.
I agree although I’m not sure of an elegant solution with the current tools. The biggest thing recently is I noticed it being commented on while it was in a storage implant lol
A similar change for “local text instead of global text” was applied a good while ago to telecrystals being added to a pda uplink, which was bad because well it outed you.
Much the same as this.
Should be easy enough to find that PR and do a similar change.
