Goonhub
03-19-2023, 01:19 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-19-2023, 03:48 AM by rdcb. Edited 1 time in total.)
Agree with Zamujasa. Especially confusing for new medical players who don't know what any of the words mean, categories seem too broad.
Consider: "Welcome back, you had 12e6+5 burn damage, how?" vs "Welcome back, you had fatal burn."
First sentence seems more descriptive y'know? Second just feels like "yeah you burned to death, okay." That kinda number could be the one thing that impressed a new player enough to stick around.
Do doctors HAVE to slap someone on a surgery table just to estimate how much longer they're gonna have to mend someone, or whether the number's big enough (see: players rolling very well on oxy rng) that it's not worth mending at all? When all the surgery tables are taken and there's 5 people in fatal condition at the lobby, how do you triage them? Seems like a unnecessary nerf + mechanic difference between classic/rp to me.
The issue of constantly using health numbers seems more of a player-side issue, not mechanic-side imo. Maybe extra specification in the rules instead? "Please try to RP scanner readouts with appropriate terminology."
...Or maybe both? 2 lines, one for numbers, another for damage level?
EDIT: One other thing I forgot to mention- autopsies! I know quite a few people like to do autopsies, which is good for both general RP and sec investigations. As of right now I don't think most morgues have surgery computers. So if you wanted a more descriptive report than what the scanners have, you'd need to do it out in the operating theater proper. What patient would want to see a doctor openly slicing up corpses in medbay? This would be a hindrance to a perfectly fine RP bit that helps other departments.
Sure, you could just add them to the morgue, but really this whole no-rp med issue could be solved with an extra line in the rules and community self-regulation like the azone loot clause. No need for extra PRs, scope creep or general inconvenience for med players/coders.
Consider: "Welcome back, you had 12e6+5 burn damage, how?" vs "Welcome back, you had fatal burn."
First sentence seems more descriptive y'know? Second just feels like "yeah you burned to death, okay." That kinda number could be the one thing that impressed a new player enough to stick around.
Do doctors HAVE to slap someone on a surgery table just to estimate how much longer they're gonna have to mend someone, or whether the number's big enough (see: players rolling very well on oxy rng) that it's not worth mending at all? When all the surgery tables are taken and there's 5 people in fatal condition at the lobby, how do you triage them? Seems like a unnecessary nerf + mechanic difference between classic/rp to me.
The issue of constantly using health numbers seems more of a player-side issue, not mechanic-side imo. Maybe extra specification in the rules instead? "Please try to RP scanner readouts with appropriate terminology."
...Or maybe both? 2 lines, one for numbers, another for damage level?
EDIT: One other thing I forgot to mention- autopsies! I know quite a few people like to do autopsies, which is good for both general RP and sec investigations. As of right now I don't think most morgues have surgery computers. So if you wanted a more descriptive report than what the scanners have, you'd need to do it out in the operating theater proper. What patient would want to see a doctor openly slicing up corpses in medbay? This would be a hindrance to a perfectly fine RP bit that helps other departments.
Sure, you could just add them to the morgue, but really this whole no-rp med issue could be solved with an extra line in the rules and community self-regulation like the azone loot clause. No need for extra PRs, scope creep or general inconvenience for med players/coders.