Roller bed and pill bottle tweaks.

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Roller bed and pill bottle tweaks.

Post by Dions » 29 Apr 2017, 11:15

Summary: Rollerbeds being attached to armor like weapons, and pill bottles being usable on patients. Aims to ease the burden of medics constantly having to pick up, drop, and rummage through containers without implementing juggling.

Benefits: Having thought about it, I don't see this drastically increasing a medic's healing capacity, and thus doesn't throw off balance. Would just be a simple quality of life improvement for medics, but also, to me, a very much needed one. Having to drop your rollerbed to open a pill bottle and get a tramadol pill for your otherwise ok patient is a chore, both of these changes would alleviate a lot of headache.

Details: With the pill bottle change, I'm seeing just clicking on a patient with a pill bottle to dole out a single pill. This would still have the speed penalty of feeding someone a pill.

As for the rollerbed, a medic could choose to either clip a specialized lightweight rollerbed that cannot be operated upon, or a weapon, to their armor. This helps the medic to be ready to assist with wounds on a patient already in a safe place while still having their rollerbed safely on their person.
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Re: Roller bed and pill bottle tweaks.

Post by contactdenied » 29 Apr 2017, 13:30

+1 for the pill bottle change, roller beds shouldn't be that much of a problem for people since they can carry it in one hand or drag it with them.
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Re: Roller bed and pill bottle tweaks.

Post by Ikmalmn » 30 Apr 2017, 08:29

I disagree with making pill bottles that simplistic since it very much feels very abusable with medics able to carry a shit ton of pill bottles with all the empty inventory slots. You also can't mix other pills together.

Though I'm very much ok with equipable rollerbeds.
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Re: Roller bed and pill bottle tweaks.

Post by Dions » 30 Apr 2017, 12:42

Ikmalmn wrote:I disagree with making pill bottles that simplistic since it very much feels very abusable with medics able to carry a shit ton of pill bottles with all the empty inventory slots. You also can't mix other pills together.

Though I'm very much ok with equipable rollerbeds.
I don't see its abuse potential, doesn't give medics any more pills, or speed anything up in the long run. just eases the carpal tunnel of opening a container to open a container to take out a pill to feed to someone every time someone needs a tramadol (which is always). Also i was thinking the bottles just work like pez dispensers with the pills working on a first in first out basis. Maybe doing it this way also has a chance to spill pills, or give too many. Whoops! Even clicking on a pill bottle with an empty hand and it popping a pill out would be a godsend!
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Re: Roller bed and pill bottle tweaks.

Post by Sleepy Retard » 30 Apr 2017, 12:51

ONE SUGGESTION PER TOPIC. Make multiple topics, if you have multiple suggestions.

That being said, I do agree with both. I hate having to hold my rollerbed, since it gets in the way of pills, and I hate dragging it along with me since I get pushed and have to go repull it. The pill bottles working like a pez dispenser would save a lot of time, and it make me not want to die. It's a quality of life feature that just saves the clicking on the pill bottle, pulling out a pill, putting the pill into the guys throat and putting the bottle back in your fanny pack.

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Re: Roller bed and pill bottle tweaks.

Post by Ikmalmn » 30 Apr 2017, 19:34

Dions wrote:Even clicking on a pill bottle with an empty hand and it popping a pill out would be a godsend!
Hmm, when you put it like that on how it works, I guess I'm up for the ride in this. A pez dispenser. Instead of whatyou meant originally. Though it's going to be needing some new spriting of course. Hopefully our spriters have some free time.
Maybe doing it this way also has a chance to spill pills, or give too many. Whoops!
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