Colorblind (One eye)

[RyanW]

Is being colorblind in one eye only a meaningful disadvantage? I ask, because my setting has invented cybernetics, but not color photography.

[Anthony]

Mostly no? Though if the cybereye has other enhancements you could presumably apply it as a 10% limitation to those enhancements.

[Dustin]

I'd allow it as a -1 point Quirk.

[sir_pudding]

Wouldn't your brain just interpolate it as color vision anyway?

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by RyanW

Is being colorblind in one eye only a meaningful disadvantage? I ask, because my setting has invented cybernetics, but not color photography.

One of two things would happen. Either the conflict between sensory inputs would cause sensations like pain or dizziness that would need an eyepatch to correct or, and more likely the brain would just fill in the colour input with it's imagination and the input from the eye that actually has colour vision. My night vision is actually terrible in one of my eyes and great in the other one. I have to cover the good eye to notice.

[gruundehn]

How often are you going to use JUST that one eye? I would say that using both eyes, with one color-blind, would give a duller and more washed-out color vision. That might be a Quirk but that would be all in my opinion, unless the character is in an industry where shade of color are important.

If you have to use the color-blind eye a lot, then I would say the maximum would be about -10%. Just an opinion.

[mr beer]

I probably consider it below resolution in points terms but if I was feeling generous, it's -1 points.

[Purple Haze]

Colour vision is to a great extent a product of neurology. If one was born that way, and both eyes were otherwise equivalent, one would likely never notice it. It would certainly be worth less than a point.

[Bruno]

Either your brain is going to "look" out the other eye a lot, or you're going to see desaturated but still perfectly good colours. It's going to be a better situation than "normal" colourblindness almost all the time, and that's only a quirk. So this is a quirk at best.

The disadvantage "Colourblind" is present in humans, but it's very uncommon.

This would be a good excuse for Chronic Pain, though, giving you headaches.

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Mostly no? Though if the cybereye has other enhancements you could presumably apply it as a 10% limitation to those enhancements.

That's probably the best solution, possibly with the quirk to represent the possible little nuisances (colorblind peripheral vision on one side, art doesn't look quite right, losing the use of the good eye gives you One Eye and Colorblindness).

Originally Posted by Bruno

This would be a good excuse for Chronic Pain, though, giving you headaches.

This setting's cybernetics already assume Chronic Pain is very possible. The interface between nerves and clockwork is hit-and-miss.