A Small Addition to UFO Mastery

[light tartan]

UFO Mastery is alright, cus it can be used as a hangout spot, but beyond that there isn't much to it. The problem: most people just reset after becoming alien. The solution: Make it so UFO Mastery users can temporarily grant their aliens ANY ability that they themselves own, and the alien can use it until they die, or leave the game. Because UFO Ability requires the damn operator badge, most people who not just it, but also its Mastery probably also have a LOT of other abilities. This modification give new players an incentive to remain as an alien. Not to mention, that for a new player, it would be a donwright magical experience when you get lucky enough to find a mastery UFO. As a final note, in order to balance this, and prevent UFO mastery users from spawning like, 10 different plasma users, this new power would have restrictions, in the form of player limits, and some abilities being outright blocked. I will list them below.
Restrictions: Only one alien can have Plasma, stardust, railgun, berserker, quantum, cosmos, OR pirate (meaning one instance of one of these abilities) No God Punch, no Custom, 2 DOS limit (2 instead of 1 because the dynamic of a DOS team is cool, and 2 is the second lowest number) No Hivemind (bc UFO mastery itself is the minion master here) 1 HOJ limit.
(If you have your own ideas for modifications to these restrictions, please do share them, as you might see me add them to this list)

Btw, if anyone saw the original version of the post and are wondering why it's gone, I accidentally nuked it xd

[sharp turtle]

rip

[light tartan]

thanks for coming back to re-like it. Greatly appreciated.

[sharp turtle]

ja

[light tartan]

No offense to the OP, Its a really neat idea, but there is no way in hell this thing actually gets added: https://discord.com/channels/922921165373202463/1329869343848140923
Mine is much more simple, is arguably more fun, and would (hopefully) be a lot easier to code.

[sharp turtle]

in the OP’s words, “not all of these should be added, just at least one or two”

so…you are completely wrong.

[light tartan]

Thanks for the clarification, I guess I just missed that.

I think both my and their ideas have their merits. I won't say my idea is better than their's, because obviously that'd be biased.

That being said, in my opinion Something like that would be better suited for hivemind than for UFO Mastery.

My take: Hivemind should get minion classes, and then my idea goes to UFO. Once again, share any thought you have.

[haughty rock]

so it changes the user’s ability upon being aliened?

sounds kinda more annoying than being aliened normally

[light tartan]

They would get to choose between their chosen ability or the ability assigned to them by the UFO user

[haughty rock]

i kinda like the gimmick with hivemind right now where passives stay

it gives brickbattler 2 free abilities

[tidal mist]

this is NOT simple

[light tartan]

Oh?

[tidal mist]

this would probably be the same difficulty to code as mind control

if not more difficult

[light tartan]

Fuck, I didn't think about that.