08-07-2016, 11:53 AM
One thing I really dislike about NanoMeds is that you can't top them up. If you haven't got enough silver sulfadiazine to hand and there's a massive plasma fire, you have to dig into its reserves.
Sure, you should simply solve this by synthesising common meds in advance, but what if doctors could swipe their ID to unlock the NanoMed (portable or otherwise) which would a) allow others to access its contents without ID (useful in an emergency) and b) allow you to top it up (to starting values) with the relevant supplies?
One of the bonuses of the NanoMed is that you know what you're getting is the real-deal, so I think we should keep that consistency (only the right compounds can be used to resupply with), but if you want to go a step further you could make them hackable (either via wirecutters/multitool or emagging), which could:
This probably isn't so important on the anarchy non-RP server, as rounds don't go on long enough to eat into supplies, but pretty often on LLJK1 I find the NanoMeds exhausted of styptic, silver sulfadiazine, and atropine.
Thoughts?
Sure, you should simply solve this by synthesising common meds in advance, but what if doctors could swipe their ID to unlock the NanoMed (portable or otherwise) which would a) allow others to access its contents without ID (useful in an emergency) and b) allow you to top it up (to starting values) with the relevant supplies?
One of the bonuses of the NanoMed is that you know what you're getting is the real-deal, so I think we should keep that consistency (only the right compounds can be used to resupply with), but if you want to go a step further you could make them hackable (either via wirecutters/multitool or emagging), which could:
- Obscure the names of its contents (e.g. "Styptic powder patch" -> "**y**i* ****e* p**c*") which would make emergency treatment much harder.
- Hide the names of its contents entirely but keep the order/colouring the same to give people a chance to guess if they're familiar with it.
- Shuffle the order (optionally in combination with one of the others), again making emergency treatment harder (especially in combination with name obscurity)
- Randomise the output entirely (within the same basic groups, bottles/patches/pills)! You wanted a bottle of antihistamine? Hope this oculine helps.
- Let you load the wrong thing into a slot (for particularly devious folks)
This probably isn't so important on the anarchy non-RP server, as rounds don't go on long enough to eat into supplies, but pretty often on LLJK1 I find the NanoMeds exhausted of styptic, silver sulfadiazine, and atropine.
Thoughts?