Goonhub
05-30-2018, 01:33 PM
So building off of the idea of Auras and Aura Damage, I feel like aura health should never be visible to anyone in any form so objective as a number. Rather, it should be visible as hazy shit like the color, brightness, and/or texture of people's auras (if you can see them) and based on how your crystal reacts to that person (if you lack aura-vision, or want a closer read / second opinion)
Lots of extremely vague outputs (eg. "The crystal seems to grow cloudier for a moment..."), in addition to more straightforward ones ("The crystal hums contentedly." probably indicates a healthier aura than if "The crystal rattles anxiously!", for example)
In addition to crystals and drugs, artifacts might be a neat way to enable aura-vision, whether as just a thing that enables it temporarily for anyone who touches it (or permanently but with a longer cooldown on the artifact), a handheld artifact that "scans" for it, or just vanishing as soon as you touch it and permanently rendering your aura visible to everyone.
On the topic of other questionably useful new age medical practices, it's worth mentioning that the chemistry and atmospherics subsystems already fulfill one of the core assumptions of homeopathic medicine (that you can dilute a substance infinitely), so you can in fact dilute medicines down to 1*10^-8 units in ~50 units of water and use a chemmaster to make the solution into homeopathic medicine.
Or for atmospherics, try to convince the HoS that your homeopathic n2o canister (that's 99.998% breathable air) is a good way to calm angry mobs down.
Lots of extremely vague outputs (eg. "The crystal seems to grow cloudier for a moment..."), in addition to more straightforward ones ("The crystal hums contentedly." probably indicates a healthier aura than if "The crystal rattles anxiously!", for example)
In addition to crystals and drugs, artifacts might be a neat way to enable aura-vision, whether as just a thing that enables it temporarily for anyone who touches it (or permanently but with a longer cooldown on the artifact), a handheld artifact that "scans" for it, or just vanishing as soon as you touch it and permanently rendering your aura visible to everyone.
On the topic of other questionably useful new age medical practices, it's worth mentioning that the chemistry and atmospherics subsystems already fulfill one of the core assumptions of homeopathic medicine (that you can dilute a substance infinitely), so you can in fact dilute medicines down to 1*10^-8 units in ~50 units of water and use a chemmaster to make the solution into homeopathic medicine.
Or for atmospherics, try to convince the HoS that your homeopathic n2o canister (that's 99.998% breathable air) is a good way to calm angry mobs down.