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"name": "Senior Citizen",
"description": "You haven't seen this much blood since the war. The whole world's gone crazy! They ate your grandkids! But dagnabbit, you'll make them all pay for what they've done.",
"points": 0,
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"points": 0,
"points": -8,

added bad traits have total -14 points, needs more bonus points.

BADKNEES: -2
BADBACK: -3
BADHEARING: -1
BADCARDIO: -4
SLOWRUNNER: -3
HYPEROPIC: -1

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Senior Citizen start is akin to Abandoned hospital patient start - they're both supposed to be challenges you take, expecting and knowing they are going to suck in some way, but doing them anyway just to prove how skillful you are as a cata player.

Abandoned scenario starts you off at 8 points gained assuming you start with default survivor profession. The default trait assigned, Frail, earns you an additional 10 points.

That's a scenario that starts you with -18 points with no effort on your part. It does not have any "bonus points" assigned. It is in the mainline vanilla game, unchanged and uncontested.

-14 is less than the -18 of an already existing scenario .

Senior Citizen starts with a walking cane - it was at least implied you're supposed to be mobility-challenged due to advanced age and its rigors on calcified joints.

I added reasonable negative traits that make sense for the profession - bad knees, bad back, out of shape, slow running, far sight. It is now the challenge it was likely always intended to be.

I could've gone with myopic, or no vision impairment entirely - and still would've given the player less points than the abandoned scenario and its one default trait.

I will reiterate once again - a person chooses to be a senior citizen because they are doing a challenge run.

If they wanted a no frills profession with no point impact at all, they'd just pick the default survivor who starts with a cutting tool and a smartphone - actual survival gear.

My changes make the senior citizen have a reason to exist - because currently it is just bloat as a profession.

"traits": [ "BADKNEES", "BADBACK", "BADHEARING", "BADCARDIO", "SLOWRUNNER", "HYPEROPIC" ],
"items": {
"both": {
"items": [ "tobacco", "pipe_tobacco", "ref_lighter", "socks", "dress_shoes", "knit_scarf" ],
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