Goonhub
07-03-2020, 05:27 PM
A medical role with 2-3 openings that specializes in bringing patients from outside of medbay and bringing them to medbay while giving them basic treatment to keep them alive until then.
ID has partial Medbay access along with some extra basic stuff, such as partial access to other departments so they have an easier time getting to patients. May or may not have NanoMed access, because let's be real, med runs out of essential supplies enough as is, though it might be a good idea to at the very least still let them use the Port-a-NanoMed for when a case is uber-fucked.
Has special lockers in medbay storage (or whichever room would fit best i guess) that contains some essential equipment for Paramedicing (is that a word? it is now fuck you)
Starting equipment includes:
-A doctor jumpsuit, possibly modified to stand out from regular docs? idk
-ProDocs (obviously)
-A Paramedic suit OR a "Reinforced" variant with higher resistances.
-Paramedic Boots, aka galoshes but reskinned to fit their other clothing; can't save people if you keep slipping on their blood and guts!!!
-A medical belt, prefilled with basic supplies (because medbay can run out of supplies even at roundstart as it is)
-A pocket flash, for dealing with particularly violent patients (or their murderers)
In their Special Lockers to stuff in their Doctor Backpack (or Doctor Satchel, if they're cool):
-Spare belts, backpacks, headsets, basic equipment that every job locker spawns with, the standard affair basically.
-A gas tank of air mix and a gas mask, for obvious reasons.
-A body bag or several, also for obvious reasons.
-A crowbar or two, to get past those pesky fire doors or to pry open unpowered doors.
-A basic first aid kit, along with random specialty first aid kits.
-A new item: A deployable roller bed (not just parts because that's neither cool nor immersive) that can be deployed quickly but still take a bit to fold back up, and doesn't have as much of a movement speed decrease from pulling a live person or corpse, or potentially none at all! Could possibly have an IV bag or another new item (listed below) attached to it for ease of use? Of course, they can also just use the body bag if they really wanted to.
-A new item: the Emergency Respirator Kit. Essentially, an item that's internals that are less awkward to put on someone else. Runs on a rather small tank of oxygen (100-200kpa max?), and the mask can be put on the patient after a short action bar, also replacing whatever mask they previously had on. Could potentially have the special magical effect of healing small amounts of oxygen damage and capping losebreath, though not as powerfully as something like salb or perf. Appears as a medical-looking respirator hooked up to a small device with a smaller air tank attached to it. Tank can be removed and device additionally modified by using it inhand, mask can be detached and used by clicking on it with the other hand. Mask yanks back to the item similarly to phone handsets when too far from the patient it's attached to. Could maybe be attached to the special roller bed? Could also have some nefarious uses for antagonists. *cackles in traitor* No it can't be put in belts.
In their prefilled medical belt:
-Two boxes of brute and burn patches, respectively. Has ten 15u patches each. (make your own damn mendors assholes, seriously its not hard)
-An empty hypospray.
-A syringe.
-50u bottles of epinephedrine and charcoal.
-A "Low Power Defibrillator", an offshoot of the standard defib that has slightly faster recharging but lower healing power, just enough to get someone to medbay where the real shit is.
-A pre-upgraded health scanner, for scanning health and seeing how fucked up the Captain's liver really is.
-A new item: the Lifesign Scanner. A quirky device exclusive to this job (and the MD gets one too, because hes the cool doctor who makes all the rules and gets all the cool stuff) that's probably extremely awkward to use irl and will beep at the user (or send messages to their PDA if set up correctly, potentially!) whenever somebody nearby either goes in critical condition or dies. When used inhand, it will show more exact locations and distances to dead/dying people, as well as names and maybe even if any other people are near them. Intended to encourage players playing the job to... actually do their damn jobs and not be Budget Doctors, and to incentivize player empathy by making people in need of help easier to locate by the right people. Appears as... well, use your imagination, because I can't!
Why should this be added?
I feel like a job whose purpose is to just bring people who need treatment over to medbay, stocked with equipment to keep them alive until a doctor can treat them, would generally not only be good to have in general, but also be a job inherently meant to counter player apathy. A lot of people don't seem to really give a shit about seeing or hearing someone dead/die/dying, and this job's main purpose is to assist anyone who might be dead or dying who couldn't or can't get to medbay on their own. Only having partial Medbay access is to keep them from being Budget Doctors and staying in medical without doing their job, and to instead go out there and patrol the station for anyone who might need help. The Lifesign Scanner is also meant to drive this purpose home: using it in medbay would be redundant; it's the one place on the station where you'll expect to see a lot of dead or dying no matter what kind of round it is. It'd really shine outside medical, where dead or dying people will be much less likely to get the help they need.
In short, the Paramedic is meant to be a medical job that does their healing and saving outside of medbay, for the most part, healing smaller wounds and bringing more critical cases to medbay, while not having access to the same equipment as regular doctors and not being budget doctors. Meant to encourage helping other players and counter player apathy.
ID has partial Medbay access along with some extra basic stuff, such as partial access to other departments so they have an easier time getting to patients. May or may not have NanoMed access, because let's be real, med runs out of essential supplies enough as is, though it might be a good idea to at the very least still let them use the Port-a-NanoMed for when a case is uber-fucked.
Has special lockers in medbay storage (or whichever room would fit best i guess) that contains some essential equipment for Paramedicing (is that a word? it is now fuck you)
Starting equipment includes:
-A doctor jumpsuit, possibly modified to stand out from regular docs? idk
-ProDocs (obviously)
-A Paramedic suit OR a "Reinforced" variant with higher resistances.
-Paramedic Boots, aka galoshes but reskinned to fit their other clothing; can't save people if you keep slipping on their blood and guts!!!
-A medical belt, prefilled with basic supplies (because medbay can run out of supplies even at roundstart as it is)
-A pocket flash, for dealing with particularly violent patients (or their murderers)
In their Special Lockers to stuff in their Doctor Backpack (or Doctor Satchel, if they're cool):
-Spare belts, backpacks, headsets, basic equipment that every job locker spawns with, the standard affair basically.
-A gas tank of air mix and a gas mask, for obvious reasons.
-A body bag or several, also for obvious reasons.
-A crowbar or two, to get past those pesky fire doors or to pry open unpowered doors.
-A basic first aid kit, along with random specialty first aid kits.
-A new item: A deployable roller bed (not just parts because that's neither cool nor immersive) that can be deployed quickly but still take a bit to fold back up, and doesn't have as much of a movement speed decrease from pulling a live person or corpse, or potentially none at all! Could possibly have an IV bag or another new item (listed below) attached to it for ease of use? Of course, they can also just use the body bag if they really wanted to.
-A new item: the Emergency Respirator Kit. Essentially, an item that's internals that are less awkward to put on someone else. Runs on a rather small tank of oxygen (100-200kpa max?), and the mask can be put on the patient after a short action bar, also replacing whatever mask they previously had on. Could potentially have the special magical effect of healing small amounts of oxygen damage and capping losebreath, though not as powerfully as something like salb or perf. Appears as a medical-looking respirator hooked up to a small device with a smaller air tank attached to it. Tank can be removed and device additionally modified by using it inhand, mask can be detached and used by clicking on it with the other hand. Mask yanks back to the item similarly to phone handsets when too far from the patient it's attached to. Could maybe be attached to the special roller bed? Could also have some nefarious uses for antagonists. *cackles in traitor* No it can't be put in belts.
In their prefilled medical belt:
-Two boxes of brute and burn patches, respectively. Has ten 15u patches each. (make your own damn mendors assholes, seriously its not hard)
-An empty hypospray.
-A syringe.
-50u bottles of epinephedrine and charcoal.
-A "Low Power Defibrillator", an offshoot of the standard defib that has slightly faster recharging but lower healing power, just enough to get someone to medbay where the real shit is.
-A pre-upgraded health scanner, for scanning health and seeing how fucked up the Captain's liver really is.
-A new item: the Lifesign Scanner. A quirky device exclusive to this job (and the MD gets one too, because hes the cool doctor who makes all the rules and gets all the cool stuff) that's probably extremely awkward to use irl and will beep at the user (or send messages to their PDA if set up correctly, potentially!) whenever somebody nearby either goes in critical condition or dies. When used inhand, it will show more exact locations and distances to dead/dying people, as well as names and maybe even if any other people are near them. Intended to encourage players playing the job to... actually do their damn jobs and not be Budget Doctors, and to incentivize player empathy by making people in need of help easier to locate by the right people. Appears as... well, use your imagination, because I can't!
Why should this be added?
I feel like a job whose purpose is to just bring people who need treatment over to medbay, stocked with equipment to keep them alive until a doctor can treat them, would generally not only be good to have in general, but also be a job inherently meant to counter player apathy. A lot of people don't seem to really give a shit about seeing or hearing someone dead/die/dying, and this job's main purpose is to assist anyone who might be dead or dying who couldn't or can't get to medbay on their own. Only having partial Medbay access is to keep them from being Budget Doctors and staying in medical without doing their job, and to instead go out there and patrol the station for anyone who might need help. The Lifesign Scanner is also meant to drive this purpose home: using it in medbay would be redundant; it's the one place on the station where you'll expect to see a lot of dead or dying no matter what kind of round it is. It'd really shine outside medical, where dead or dying people will be much less likely to get the help they need.
In short, the Paramedic is meant to be a medical job that does their healing and saving outside of medbay, for the most part, healing smaller wounds and bringing more critical cases to medbay, while not having access to the same equipment as regular doctors and not being budget doctors. Meant to encourage helping other players and counter player apathy.