Make duplicants not take rad pills when they don't need them.

[oconzer]

I recently started to make tons of rad pills since radiation was changed to require them to do anything space wise, and I've noticed that my duplicants are popping rad pills when they don't have any radiation to clear from their systems (or certainly not enough that the rad pill is wasted). Can you please change rad pills so dupes won't take it until they are at a minimum radiation that the rad pill can clear so they aren't wasting them.

[Sasza22]

Rad pills use the vitamin pill logic so dupes use them as prevention rahter than cure when they work as both. Ideally there should be threshold you could set above which dupes take the pills but if they used them at the first radiation sickness symptoms it would be ok as well.

[Gwido]

A cool solution could be to make a new building, the radiation checkpoint.

There will be no access restriction to this building, it will just have to be placed in a way where many duplicant pass, like the entrance of the mess.
If it detect a set amount of radiation, the rad checkpoint sends green signal, that could be linked to a door or a standard checkpoint used to restrict access to pills storage.

 

not sur if my idea is clearly explained. :P

[goboking]

45 minutes ago, Gwido said:

A cool solution could be to make a new building, the radiation checkpoint.

There will be no access restriction to this building, it will just have to be placed in a way where many duplicant pass, like the entrance of the mess.
If it detect a set amount of radiation, the rad checkpoint sends green signal, that could be linked to a door or a standard checkpoint used to restrict access to pills storage.

 

not sur if my idea is clearly explained. :P

Wouldn’t that create a loop of the duplicant trying to get the pills, being blocked by the automation, doing something else, then repeating the cycle?

[oconzer]

At this point I'm starting to feel like all the dupes in this game are druggies as they find a pill and they pop it (Either that or they think the rad pills make them radical?), but its getting annoying. 1 pill out of 50 made are making it to my rockets. That is with only 24 dupes in a colony (granted only 1 apothecary station).

[Gwido]

3 hours ago, goboking said:

Wouldn’t that create a loop of the duplicant trying to get the pills, being blocked by the automation, doing something else, then repeating the cycle?

Why ?

If you think dupes will be blocked become the rad checkpoint stops sending the green signal, then ... -> buffers !