Goonhub
10-22-2020, 03:27 AM
I'm of mixed opinions on this. On one hand, the blood loss from limb surgery is one of the most common deadly mistakes I see rookie doctors make, and also the #1 leading cause of death from self-surgery. On the other hand, thats really it for potential complications, and once you know hemostats/filgrastim/blood packs, thats easily accounted for.
Spitballing ideas:
Have the various surgery steps take actual time to perform. It takes longer to inject someone with a syringe than it does to saw someones ribcage open currently. Maybe even have a floating timer-meter for it.
Make it so theres actually a complication for not using anesthesia. Perhaps a reflex from the pain can cause the patient to shove/punch the doctor at the worst moment, causing a fumbled operation step. Would make self-surgery much harder too, which has always been a pet peeve of mine on the RP server.
Unclean instruments could cause some kind of infection. This would preferably be treated like an illness, not a pathogen, treatable via spaceacillin or somesuch. Who would ever have imagined doctors had a valid reason to care about hygiene?!
Spitballing ideas:
Have the various surgery steps take actual time to perform. It takes longer to inject someone with a syringe than it does to saw someones ribcage open currently. Maybe even have a floating timer-meter for it.
Make it so theres actually a complication for not using anesthesia. Perhaps a reflex from the pain can cause the patient to shove/punch the doctor at the worst moment, causing a fumbled operation step. Would make self-surgery much harder too, which has always been a pet peeve of mine on the RP server.
Unclean instruments could cause some kind of infection. This would preferably be treated like an illness, not a pathogen, treatable via spaceacillin or somesuch. Who would ever have imagined doctors had a valid reason to care about hygiene?!