Allow aliens to buy a firefighter upgrade

[ghost]

Currently, aliens need to downgrade to adv granger to remove fire, leading to a huge loss of evols, and not rewarding humans if they kill such alien.

I propose to let aliens buy an upgrade to spit on fires to remove them, but not be rewarded from that if they are not grangers.

Disclaimer

Ideas without a related problem issue and lacking explanation or depth are closed after a certain time.

[necessarily-equal]

I am unconvinced this would be a good solution. Mostly because of this: who would buy something that you could have for free? Do we really want any alien form be able to spit? Roleplay-wise aliens have so many forms, and they exploit the strengths of each — except suddenly they all can get that same power?

As part of a discussion that might get us to a better proposal, I can see some UI question/problem: from a key binding point of view how do you express the "firefighting" command? Ex. adv goon already has attack on left click, charge for pounce on right click and highly (team) damaging barbs on middle click. Adv mara has attack on left click and zap on right click, so maybe middle click with some non damaging thingy could be it. But that means making barbs harmless to other aliens (I'm fine with the idea though)

[ghost]

I am unconvinced this would be a good solution. Mostly because of this: who would buy something that you could have for free?

It's not for free currently: when you devolve, you loose evolution points.

[DolceTriade]

You don't lose them. They are queued, they come back slowly.

[ghost]

You don't lose them. They are queued, they come back slowly.

Nope. You only recover most of it, not all.

[Viech]

I think this idea is far too complex to both implement and use (needs a key bound) for the value it provides.