Goonhub
08-07-2023, 02:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-07-2023, 03:51 AM by cyberTripping. Edited 1 time in total.)
Inspired by a post in the chicken soup thread. This one is pretty self explanatory.
Sleepers kinda suck. They serve their intended function well enough, keeping people in light crit somewhat stable for triage and the like, but the good points end there. You're knocked out while they're operating, completely cutting you off from interaction or at least seeing whats happening around you. If there was a real bad triage situation in medbay, I think I'd prefer to be left dying on the floor rather than stuffed into a sleeper, because at least then I can actually perceive the game.
Sleepers seem to be more often used, though, for addiction treatment. Addiction makes you puke your guts up and get random slows, which is extremely annoying. The way you treat it is by getting taken out of the round for several minutes, typically with your addiction ending halfway through and still having to sit it out, not that you'd notice because you're not gonna be tabbed into the game anyways.
My suggestions are:
Sleepers kinda suck. They serve their intended function well enough, keeping people in light crit somewhat stable for triage and the like, but the good points end there. You're knocked out while they're operating, completely cutting you off from interaction or at least seeing whats happening around you. If there was a real bad triage situation in medbay, I think I'd prefer to be left dying on the floor rather than stuffed into a sleeper, because at least then I can actually perceive the game.
Sleepers seem to be more often used, though, for addiction treatment. Addiction makes you puke your guts up and get random slows, which is extremely annoying. The way you treat it is by getting taken out of the round for several minutes, typically with your addiction ending halfway through and still having to sit it out, not that you'd notice because you're not gonna be tabbed into the game anyways.
My suggestions are:
- The easy way: Add tickboxes or something to end the timer early if the patient rises out of crit or is cured of addiction. These cases are the two most common times you'll be sleepered, and once you're recovered you should be able to immediately get back into the game without either relying on a doctor hovering over the panel to monitor progress (which defeats the entire point of the sleeper) or getting lucky.
- The hard way: Simply keep people conscious during sleeper treatment. This is hard because it requires changing its emag effects, and probably messing
with how it's turned on or off as well since a timer would make less sense. This would greatly improve the experience, however.
- Reduce the time needed to treat addiction by a considerable margin. If someone is in medbay for treatment, its because they don't want to bother waiting it out. They already went out of their way to go to medbay rather than continue what they were up to, so it really should be way faster.