Goonhub
03-20-2023, 06:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-20-2023, 06:22 AM by Kubius.
Edit Reason: adjust a wording
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Bringing this in here from elsewhere:
I think one possible way to explain it is "54% healthy" means an assessment of the odds your condition will deteriorate on its own if unattended, with 0% (crit) being "you Will Not recover unless action is taken".
The health numbers are an abstraction of more detailed physiological damage, and it makes sense that something capable of analyzing that physiological damage would provide you with sufficient detail of that abstraction.
I have an alternate idea to try and achieve the goal I think this is going for: Require medical training to interpret the results of an analyzer scan at full precision (barring cyborgs). IMO, this would more properly work into that abstraction - a medically trained eye would be able to pick things out on scans that a layman couldn't, but anyone can see "leg broken" or "skin seared off".
I think one possible way to explain it is "54% healthy" means an assessment of the odds your condition will deteriorate on its own if unattended, with 0% (crit) being "you Will Not recover unless action is taken".
The health numbers are an abstraction of more detailed physiological damage, and it makes sense that something capable of analyzing that physiological damage would provide you with sufficient detail of that abstraction.
I have an alternate idea to try and achieve the goal I think this is going for: Require medical training to interpret the results of an analyzer scan at full precision (barring cyborgs). IMO, this would more properly work into that abstraction - a medically trained eye would be able to pick things out on scans that a layman couldn't, but anyone can see "leg broken" or "skin seared off".