Goonhub
05-04-2018, 07:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-04-2018, 08:05 PM by kyle2143. Edited 5 times in total.)
Doctoring is one of my favorite things to do in SS13. Especially when you come across the more interesting things like heart disease and blood loss, or doing surgery. It's already pretty robust, but it can always be MORE robust. Here are a couple of idea's I've had and stolen from elsewhere, some of them I'm planning to code myself and I wanted to try and find out if my ideas are shit before I waste my time:
1. Change the recipe for Antihol slightly. Right now it is just charcoal + ethanol. And since ethanol is in the bloodstream of anyone who is drunk, giving them an antitox pill is the same as giving them an antihol pill and as a consequence, nobody uses antihol.
2. CPR should have a chance to do brute damage when brute is over a certain amount of health. Right now CPR is completely without detriment, it just lowers OXY damage very quickly pure and simple. In real life you're breaking ribs or cracking people's sternum.
3. Operating on patients without wearing surgical gloves should have a chance to do tox damage to the patient, or a chance to give them a bacterial infection. Similarly, operating without a surgical mask(or active internals) like cutting open their chest or head should have a chance to infect the surgeon with something. Mostly I want Pathology to have more usefulness to the station. (I'd also like someone to write a good for dummies article about it to make it easy for newbies so they are less scared to try it)
4. Latex gloves should be single use or decay over time until they are destroyed. Taken partially from this thread. IRL Latex gloves are shit, you can't really take them on and off and on again and again. They should be a resource and, maybe medical fabricators should be able to make them from some material.
5. Syptic Powder should be nerfed, in the amount of BRUTE damage it heals. I'm pretty sure that IRL Syptic Powder is just used for blood clotting. Which is funny since in ss13, Spytic Powder is not really the best way to stop bleeding. I think bandages, synthflesh, or a new nerfed version that only heals BRUTE would make more sense as standard BRUTE treatment
6. Blood Types should really matter. This is something I've wanted for a long time and I think might be one of the next things I attempt. I think being given the wrong bloodtype should do significant OXY and TOX damage, so doctors will have to check, capture someone with O- blood that they can steal blood from for the round. Or maybe chemistry should be able to change bloodtypes with the right combination of chemicals.
7. With regards to bloodtypes, I also want an Dialysis machine that would be capable of filtering out all contaminants from a person's blood. Sort of like a slower, safer version of Pentanic Acid(sans radiation treatment). I'd need a sprite for it since that would definitely be beyond my ability to draw. maybe make it 1x2 with a chair attached?
8. Cardiopulmonary bypass machine, for making Heart Surgeries safer. Or for the daring crewman who wants to attempt to complete his duties without any heart, just like those cold heartless cyborgs.
9. Violently removing an IV bag should cause you to start bleeding severely.
10. fix pathology microscope textbox. It's cumbersome. I either want to get rid of it and let you change the distance with right click, or do something.
11. While inside a sleeper, you can select some sort of "distress" option to let people know you're in there and need help.
12. I've heard that on TG station, healing brain damage requires brain surgery. I don't know how it's done exactly there, but I like the idea of surgery to fix brain damage. Mannitol is too easy.
13. Meth is not nearly addictive enough.
14. Surgical circular saws should have an on and off function. They must be on to perform surgery, and they also do more damage in combat while on. Should have a short charge, and rechargers in robotics and the operation room.
Well that's all I have off the top of my head. Let me know if you think any of them or terrible or you have more ideas.
1. Change the recipe for Antihol slightly. Right now it is just charcoal + ethanol. And since ethanol is in the bloodstream of anyone who is drunk, giving them an antitox pill is the same as giving them an antihol pill and as a consequence, nobody uses antihol.
2. CPR should have a chance to do brute damage when brute is over a certain amount of health. Right now CPR is completely without detriment, it just lowers OXY damage very quickly pure and simple. In real life you're breaking ribs or cracking people's sternum.
3. Operating on patients without wearing surgical gloves should have a chance to do tox damage to the patient, or a chance to give them a bacterial infection. Similarly, operating without a surgical mask(or active internals) like cutting open their chest or head should have a chance to infect the surgeon with something. Mostly I want Pathology to have more usefulness to the station. (I'd also like someone to write a good for dummies article about it to make it easy for newbies so they are less scared to try it)
4. Latex gloves should be single use or decay over time until they are destroyed. Taken partially from this thread. IRL Latex gloves are shit, you can't really take them on and off and on again and again. They should be a resource and, maybe medical fabricators should be able to make them from some material.
5. Syptic Powder should be nerfed, in the amount of BRUTE damage it heals. I'm pretty sure that IRL Syptic Powder is just used for blood clotting. Which is funny since in ss13, Spytic Powder is not really the best way to stop bleeding. I think bandages, synthflesh, or a new nerfed version that only heals BRUTE would make more sense as standard BRUTE treatment
6. Blood Types should really matter. This is something I've wanted for a long time and I think might be one of the next things I attempt. I think being given the wrong bloodtype should do significant OXY and TOX damage, so doctors will have to check, capture someone with O- blood that they can steal blood from for the round. Or maybe chemistry should be able to change bloodtypes with the right combination of chemicals.
7. With regards to bloodtypes, I also want an Dialysis machine that would be capable of filtering out all contaminants from a person's blood. Sort of like a slower, safer version of Pentanic Acid(sans radiation treatment). I'd need a sprite for it since that would definitely be beyond my ability to draw. maybe make it 1x2 with a chair attached?
8. Cardiopulmonary bypass machine, for making Heart Surgeries safer. Or for the daring crewman who wants to attempt to complete his duties without any heart, just like those cold heartless cyborgs.
9. Violently removing an IV bag should cause you to start bleeding severely.
10. fix pathology microscope textbox. It's cumbersome. I either want to get rid of it and let you change the distance with right click, or do something.
11. While inside a sleeper, you can select some sort of "distress" option to let people know you're in there and need help.
12. I've heard that on TG station, healing brain damage requires brain surgery. I don't know how it's done exactly there, but I like the idea of surgery to fix brain damage. Mannitol is too easy.
13. Meth is not nearly addictive enough.
14. Surgical circular saws should have an on and off function. They must be on to perform surgery, and they also do more damage in combat while on. Should have a short charge, and rechargers in robotics and the operation room.
Well that's all I have off the top of my head. Let me know if you think any of them or terrible or you have more ideas.