Clone bay pretty underpowered

[Wobbin Wiwwiams]

So basically what just happened to me was I had a semi-decent ship, clone bay and all that. SO I see a station that is on lockdown from a disease and such, so I send in a crew member to try settle it down. In the end one of my guys gets the disease and we have to leave him on the station.

Then it says "Your crew decides to cancel the clone to avert the risk of the disease spreading throughout the ship, its the only way" and I'm left here wondering... how illogical this is.

What kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ cloning system would KEEP THE DISEASE? Surely there would be a way of removing the disease, or going to a previous version of that person before they entered the station and just tell them what happened. But no, appariently the clone system would keep the disease that killed the person.

Thats basically like saying "SO you got shot in the head and died ay? well we're just gonna clone you back in with the bullets lodged in your head, that all G?"
Rofl wtf is this?

[Skinny Pete]

It's an annoying encounter that kills your dude even if you have a clone bay. I think this is one of the dumbest pieces of flavor text in the game, so I basically agree with you.

[Aepoh]

Clonebay is like windows 10. It updates even when you need it not to.

[Playerjjjj]

Wait, what? I know the event you're talking about, and I'm 99% sure the reason why you don't clone the crewmember is that he's still alive. He stays behind on the infected planet to wait for a cure. You can't clone someone who's already alive. I think you misread the event text.

[Aepoh]

Originally posted by Playerjjjj:

Wait, what? I know the event you're talking about, and I'm 99% sure the reason why you don't clone the crewmember is that he's still alive. He stays behind on the infected planet to wait for a cure. You can't clone someone who's already alive. I think you misread the event text.

Wrong event

[Playerjjjj]

Originally posted by Fusion:

Originally posted by Playerjjjj:

Wait, what? I know the event you're talking about, and I'm 99% sure the reason why you don't clone the crewmember is that he's still alive. He stays behind on the infected planet to wait for a cure. You can't clone someone who's already alive. I think you misread the event text.

Wrong event

Oh, right, the infected station, not the planet. My bad. Yeah. that one's pretty BS.

[anarcher]

They don't specify what the infection is. It could be xenomorphs.

[Ryuu]

Clone bay is pretty overpowered, so i guess they decided to push some events when it doesn't work, and the Medbay is better.

[Wobbin Wiwwiams]

Originally posted by anarcher:

They don't specify what the infection is. It could be xenomorphs.

How would cloning him bring on xenomorphs xD

[Ryuu]

http://ftl.wikia.com/wiki/Blue_Options#Clonebay
I think not all uses are described, where's the giant alien spiders??

[Danny]

Back up DNA bank...

[Ryuu]

Aaand?

[L4z3r]

Clone bay does allow you to survive most events that kill crew

[Ryuu]

Yeap, it's overpowered.

[Bob the Builder]

While this event is pretty BS, it's a bit of a stretch to call it "overpowered". If you have a boarding crew it's actually extremely useful, since you can just send your crew to their death and just make more.

[Ryuu]

Exactly, there's no reason to use medbay if you have a teleporter. And if you buy Reconstructive teleport - you're golden.