Ailments

[Brokyn]

In Live, is the possibility for common (to even not-so-common) ailments to be inflicted upon the masses too much to hope for? Things like the common cold, influenza, congestion/allergies, menstration (haha), sore throat, and maybe even STDs -- who wants to code that system? -- at some point?

The main reason I ask is for another avenue of medicine to open up to some of the non-medics; folk remedies. Surely medics would be the best at concocting the mixtures needed to relieve the symptoms, but it'd give an actual reason for some non-medics to train skills like medicine and any other new skills are planned for them in Live.

--William
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[Brenton]

Well...if you going to implement random ailments like common cold....why not on character creation give characters random genetic flaws. Like a weak heart...or kidney failure eventually. And medics can fix them =D
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[HR-Trevor]

This is a skill list I threw together recently for Medics in the skill system for "live". This is not final. I do not expect many will be available on day one. I'm only publishing this to give you an idea of what we'd like to do with medics, which goes far beyond just making a use for a medicine skill.

Cosmetic Surgery (physical features)

Cybernetic Surgery (cyber sockets and neural implants)

First Aid (bleeders, antidotes)

Genetics & Mutation (permanently alter aspects to give bonuses that are offset with negative side effects)

Internal Surgery (cybernetic organs / skeletons)

Medical Devices (basic healing techs with)

Medicine (general medical knowledge)

Remedies (create general remedies with restorative effects)

Therapy (massage etc)
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[Tugor]

Oh thats cool.
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[Brenton]

Oh wow....those are all seperate skills? Are medics supposed to only really train a few of them? So you have diversity of classes, or does the new XP system all for them all to be kept current.
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[HR-Mickey]

I played a game once five or six years ago that featured sicknesses like the common cold and rabies (if you were attacked by an infected animal mob). During a ten-hour-long levelling stint, I'd noticed that for a long while, my character kept sniffling, coughing, and shivering uncontrollably. I thought nothing of it and happily played on, travelling far and wide in a variety of fashions to get experience. I found out later I'd had some bizarre sickness that I picked up about half an hour after logging on. I'd infected all of the active playerbase from interaction, about 70% of all creatures in the game, and even some staffmembers that had been invisible to test new ship routes. The game had to be reset to a period before everyone caught the contagion because it was too CPU intensive to hunt each and every instance of the ilness down, and I'd never been more proud of myself as a player in my entire life.

The End.
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[Tugor]

Haha thats great. . .you created an epidemic.
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[HR-Trevor]

That's hilarious.

To you, Brenton: The new skill system works more along the lines of games like DR, Asheron's Call, etc. in that you can actively choose to dump a lot of training into one skill or a couple skills... or you could even out your training into many skills. For a Medic, you're probably going to choose a few of those things you wish to be really good at in most cases, but some people may try to be well rounded and will be somewhat mediocre at all of them. It's going to be your choice to make by choosing where you allocate training. Since there will be no caps, you will be unrestricted in how you train.

But, keeping in mind skill costs go up as you train them more, I doubt many people will go for skill regimens that are super narrow.
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[Brenton]

So....if a medic put all of his general experience as well as specific pool experience into those medic'ing skills, how much better than just mediocre would he be? Or were you refering to that when you were describing a medic trying to train all of them.
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[HR-Trevor]

When I said mediocre I meant someone who chooses *many* skills beyond what would be deemed essentials. It's not a black and white thing you can just rattle a number off on though.
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[SolitaryTurnip]

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