Goonhub
02-01-2017, 12:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-01-2017, 12:46 PM by Mordent. Edited 2 times in total.)
Again, as a new player you're going to have to refer to the wiki anyway. Opening up a GUI popup is still going to be a "WTF?" moment.
If you do surgery even occasionally I believe you should be able to remember the steps. How hard is "scalpel-saw" repeated until success for removing something (works for limbs, hearts, butts, heads, and brains - the only variable here is the target and the intent, the former being obvious and the latter being pretty much the only variable), with the exception of eyes?
If your patient is bleeding out before you've started surgery, fixing that is the first priority (and if they don't know that "suture" or "synthflesh" is the way to do that without looking at a wiki then a GUI isn't going to help). For "elective" surgery, you have time to prepare. Part of that preparation should be familiarizing yourself with the process (presumably via the wiki).
If the patient starts bleeding out during surgery, I refuse to believe that a GUI would help here.
If we're adding the option to stuff things into people's chest cavity/head then I don't understand why this has to be more complicated than "drag object to patient who has the relevant body part cut open". Removing an object could simply be applying an open hand to the patient with the relevant body part cut open, causing a list to pop up asking what to remove (or just remove one thing at random as you rummage about trying to find what you're after). Examining the patient while next to them and with them cut open should show a list of what's inside them.
The complication only really comes here if you start adding more organs (e.g. kidneys, liver) or letting you do surgery on lungs.
Surgery has such a low skill ceiling as it is that I personally am totally okay with elective surgeries requiring you to remember more complicated steps.
If you do surgery even occasionally I believe you should be able to remember the steps. How hard is "scalpel-saw" repeated until success for removing something (works for limbs, hearts, butts, heads, and brains - the only variable here is the target and the intent, the former being obvious and the latter being pretty much the only variable), with the exception of eyes?
If your patient is bleeding out before you've started surgery, fixing that is the first priority (and if they don't know that "suture" or "synthflesh" is the way to do that without looking at a wiki then a GUI isn't going to help). For "elective" surgery, you have time to prepare. Part of that preparation should be familiarizing yourself with the process (presumably via the wiki).
If the patient starts bleeding out during surgery, I refuse to believe that a GUI would help here.
If we're adding the option to stuff things into people's chest cavity/head then I don't understand why this has to be more complicated than "drag object to patient who has the relevant body part cut open". Removing an object could simply be applying an open hand to the patient with the relevant body part cut open, causing a list to pop up asking what to remove (or just remove one thing at random as you rummage about trying to find what you're after). Examining the patient while next to them and with them cut open should show a list of what's inside them.
The complication only really comes here if you start adding more organs (e.g. kidneys, liver) or letting you do surgery on lungs.
Surgery has such a low skill ceiling as it is that I personally am totally okay with elective surgeries requiring you to remember more complicated steps.