Goonhub
12-08-2014, 02:53 AM
Before I get into replies, I made a post here in a blood system-related thread about vampires that I'd love input on.
I've got sprites for a blood processor, I just need to code the thing. The blood processor will, with current plans, accept beakers of blood and plasma, remove all non-blood reagents from supplied blood, and spit out bags of Generic Universally Donatable Blood via plasma space magic. It'll take a little time, but it sorta bypasses the current issue of blood types and large donations.
Another option for donations that I'm considering is being able to attach an empty syringe to a bloodbag and attach that to someone, filling the bag. I'd have to drop the total volume of the bags significantly, but- aaaaAA WAIT WHY DO THEY HOLD SO MUCH ANYWAY, FUCK (they currently hold 500u which is uhh, the same amount as a person. the bloodbags hold as much blood as a person does. an entire person's worth of blood in each bag. what was I thinking aaaa I'll fix this asap)
Anyway, for that, blood type and other reagents would have to come into play. Probably I'll make the bags useable in-hand to switch between donation and transfusion modes.
As for bandages and sutures, you guys are right that there's not much reason to use bandages if you have access to sutures at the moment. I always wanted sutures to be the preferred option, but if they're too easy to find and making bandages useless, I'll fuss with numbers a bit. I like bandages too much to make them totally useless!!
I've got sprites for a blood processor, I just need to code the thing. The blood processor will, with current plans, accept beakers of blood and plasma, remove all non-blood reagents from supplied blood, and spit out bags of Generic Universally Donatable Blood via plasma space magic. It'll take a little time, but it sorta bypasses the current issue of blood types and large donations.
Another option for donations that I'm considering is being able to attach an empty syringe to a bloodbag and attach that to someone, filling the bag. I'd have to drop the total volume of the bags significantly, but- aaaaAA WAIT WHY DO THEY HOLD SO MUCH ANYWAY, FUCK (they currently hold 500u which is uhh, the same amount as a person. the bloodbags hold as much blood as a person does. an entire person's worth of blood in each bag. what was I thinking aaaa I'll fix this asap)
Anyway, for that, blood type and other reagents would have to come into play. Probably I'll make the bags useable in-hand to switch between donation and transfusion modes.
As for bandages and sutures, you guys are right that there's not much reason to use bandages if you have access to sutures at the moment. I always wanted sutures to be the preferred option, but if they're too easy to find and making bandages useless, I'll fuss with numbers a bit. I like bandages too much to make them totally useless!!