Goonhub
04-20-2020, 07:24 AM
I don't believe removing self surgery entirely would so much see a surge of interaction with doctors, more that it would lead to a decrease in self-surgery overall and that anybody who continues doing it would more likely try to grab the first person they see to get them to help.
In my personal experience, it's extremely inconsistent whether there's doctors hanging around medbay who aren't already doing their own thing. The sort of person who currently self-surgeries is not, I believe, the sort of person who would usually bank on that inconsistency and who would try to get the attention of doctors if they are present. Consider also that you can do surgery with nothing more than a bar table and utensils.
That being said - I believe making self-surgery more difficult per your initial proposal would be the best way to go. As it currently as, trying to self-surgery all your limbs without using meds until you're finished with all of the limbs is a formidable challenge; I believe that level of difficulty could be extended to being the difficulty of doing one limb alone. With preparation, of course, it'll be easier, but at that point it'd be easier for most folk to just get a doctor to help. Without preparation, it'd be very dangerous to do just one limb - but still possible, especially with just meds it's easy to get your mitts on. More fumbles are the best way to do that; perhaps with also dealing more brute and/or bleed if doing self-surgery specifically.
As for item arms, the blacklist should, imo, be greatly expanded. I think the best place for the mechanic would be utility items + silly stuff (instruments, rubber duckies, useless gadgets) + chainsaws being the possible attachments, and excluding weapon items. If memory serves, the blacklist as-is covers wizard staves and some nukie weapons.
In my personal experience, it's extremely inconsistent whether there's doctors hanging around medbay who aren't already doing their own thing. The sort of person who currently self-surgeries is not, I believe, the sort of person who would usually bank on that inconsistency and who would try to get the attention of doctors if they are present. Consider also that you can do surgery with nothing more than a bar table and utensils.
That being said - I believe making self-surgery more difficult per your initial proposal would be the best way to go. As it currently as, trying to self-surgery all your limbs without using meds until you're finished with all of the limbs is a formidable challenge; I believe that level of difficulty could be extended to being the difficulty of doing one limb alone. With preparation, of course, it'll be easier, but at that point it'd be easier for most folk to just get a doctor to help. Without preparation, it'd be very dangerous to do just one limb - but still possible, especially with just meds it's easy to get your mitts on. More fumbles are the best way to do that; perhaps with also dealing more brute and/or bleed if doing self-surgery specifically.
As for item arms, the blacklist should, imo, be greatly expanded. I think the best place for the mechanic would be utility items + silly stuff (instruments, rubber duckies, useless gadgets) + chainsaws being the possible attachments, and excluding weapon items. If memory serves, the blacklist as-is covers wizard staves and some nukie weapons.