I know we don’t like to player-timelock features, but I think an exception should be made here.
Junior Execs shouldn’t be able to initiate a handshake at all, and have sweaty palms if they return one.
Normal handshakes for the average pencilpusher.
But robust, firm gripped handshakes, that show both sides as equals really need reserved for whitelist holders and plat CLs. That much power is too easily abused.
Special consideration for synths, do they have the warmth needed for a good handshake? Newer gens only for robust shakes, perhaps?
Bro, I totally get you. Do you know how awkward and LRP it is to go *’reaches out for a handshake’? The other person now has to open up me, and start typing, meanwhile your character hasn’t moved a bit, it is all text! And what if the other player misses your me text?! Your imaginary hand is just out there being ignored. Do you just run in shame? Do you spam it x24? The deal is ruined!
….oh, this isn’t acid goop. Well in that case if it was restricted to only CL so other players don’t fuck up in the field offering a handshake instead of dragging teammates to safety, I guess it is harmless? Other players would have to know how to react to CL too, and the information CL can do this has to spread somehow. Seems like a lot of work to add some immersion RP.
handshake can just replace fistbumps for CLs, they should canonically be incapable of even fathoming the camaraderie and human connection required for a fistbump because they’re soulless corporate machines who simp for quarterly profit reports