Critters and radstorms

[phyvo]

Mmm, the radiation status effect doesn't deplete naturally in critters? That sounds like a bug, rad storms really shouldn't be messing you up 10 minutes after they happen, they don't do that with humans ime.

I actually had not considered that it could be bugged, I thought that I was stuck with the radiation mutation and it kept on making things worse. But perhaps it's bugged too? Hard to tell since I didn't have a health implant.

. Under no circumstance should players get stuck in a handicapped not-quite-dead state for 10 minutes like I was. Basic medicine did not help.

suicide succumb

If you consider /suicide /succumb to be an acceptable game design solution to the problem, then would you also be fine with all humans in radstorms being subject to the same treatment, that is, spending an inordinate amount of time helpless but not really dead unless they type /suicide /succumb? Because that's the implicit logic that you are using.

If all I wanted to do was solve my own personal issue then suicide succumb would be an acceptable solution. But from a design perspective it's a band-aid at best. Players routinely play antag critters or become critters by other means and I feel that it is the responsibility of the game to not put these players in this kind of extended handicapped situation, especially when that situation is caused by a random game event (rad storm) rather than something that was crafted by a player intentionally to be as crappy as possible (like nuggeting people).