Expansion idea: Healthy Hygiene experience

[Griv99]

Hi, long time player!
I've been thinking how little germs, medicine, doctors, etc affect my typical playstyle and wanted to share some of my brainstorming: Either incorporating some of these in to a patch or a larger expansion

Mechanics

Expand Dupes lifespan options

• Giving Duplicants a lifecycle would add another element to balance out for those that seek additional challenges, or custom play
• Option for life span could range from 100, 250, 400, 500, Unlimited
• There could be a cloning building in the medical research tree, this building should scan a current duplicant, allowing their skills/traits points saved, then they could be reprinted fresh as a new dupe (same skills, life cycle day reset to 1).
  • This would give players a new option enabling life cycles could attract a hardcore play option. Or  folks could  recycle and keep their most efficient dupes, or simply turn it off. The important thing is player choice.
  • Devs could add 'celebration of life', and or have a more comprehensive 'period of mourning' (see death option below)

Provide Death Option(s)

Something more than a headstone. Each dupe could have preferred method of departure, similar to "joy" or "stress reactions"

• Buried- Current only option.
  • Provide More headstones options, elaborate or simple.
  • Graveyard. Create a special room, (With Décor requirement- dupes who visit can reflect on a previous friend- visited during downtime only
• Crematory- Dupes can be sent to the crematorium, turned into____? (ie 1 kg ash/charcoal)
• Shot into space, (for those astronomers, pilots, space enthusiasts and scientists). 
  • a tougher mini quest, but could be a neat objective/achievement
  • a memorial wall for those who earned specific honors.
• Returned to the Earth - a more natural/spiritual request (ie in a park/reserve).
• Medical research- taken to new building 'operating table', 'for science'! - maybe give doctors skill ups.

Healthy Eating

• Food should plays an important role in health. Not just Morale. A Healthy diet, can promote minor buffs (Athletics, Strength, etc), as well as give a permanent boon extending a dupes life cycle.
• On the other hand, eating mushbars and other unhealthy food, or the same thing day after day, should degrade dupes abilities (reduced science, Doctoring, operating, rocketry)

Shower(s)

• Buff so it’s more relevant
• Lower heat
• Add more décor
• Add a more substantial morale bonus, (+4) from +3
  • provide a few more skins and sizes (maybe a group shower)

Rads – and a logical rework. ‘It’s not a Tumor’

• First off, Yes, there should be Rad sickness, but there should be more to it than
• Untreated, dupes should have their life expectancy reduced, based on rad exposure, as well as exercise and quality of diet (high/low fiber).
• Tumor (Benign/Malignant) should be a status/condition given to Dupes after several cycles exposure to high rad levels. They first should have a tag like "weird growth" until they get a check up. Again feeding into the benefits of doctors and health
• Tumors could slowly advance reducing a dupe’s cycle by a %, until time catches up to them, and they die.
• Tumor should be treated in a new building, operating table, and remove the tumor. This should stop all tumor debuff’s, and possibly reverse some of the damage caused.
• Iodine Pills should be a prophylactic that reduces Rad assimilation by x% (maybe 30-75%, needs play tested).
• Gives another recipe for doctors to make other than rad pill
• Rad pills should stay but take less resource .5 kg coal, or potassium iodide (new recipe).

 

Checkups

• Doctors should be able to have checkups on dupes during down time, or active time.
• Only way to diagnose a weird growth to "benign" (ignore) or "malignant rumor" (operate)
• This would give Doctor dupe a versatile use other than treat dupes who were scalded in hot gases

Exercise

• Should provide temporary bonuses to athletics’ and strength. When used often, would provide permanent buffs.
• Many players already incorporate some sort of gym prison to power level athletics, this could add a more reasonable option

Upgradable Vent

• Upgrade in place a ‘vent’ or ‘high-pressure vent’ to filter out germs
• Allow insert of new item (HEPA filters) to remove germs, turn polluted oxygen to oxygen.

Emergency Medicine

• Dupes that died within .5-1 cycle should be able to be ‘revived if brought to an operating table, and AED used (new item below). No penalty to revived dupe
• Dupes should be able to be brought back to live within 1-2 cycle (with 'dain bramage' debuff), perhaps some penalties...

Skills

• Skills should have more application. Currently after your 10^th skill point, it doesn’t mean much…
• Add a Morale dump,+1, +2. +3 morale, for say 2, 5, 8 skill point investment.
• Add an option to invest skill points into a large project, maybe a 'colony wonder', or 'super project'
  • Perhaps these super projects help with some builds that are not new player friendly (petro boiler, sour gas boiler, rocketry, rare resources) 
    • The player should select the project and get some level of assist based on their request

More choice with Demolier

• Can we have others come, (change stats, compositions)
• more or less shots to destroy
• other asteroids targetable

New Elements

·         Charcoal – byproduct of Wood burner

New Items

• Cloning building
• Iodine pills
• Surgical/Operating table: needed for serious wounds, remove tumors
• HEPA filter- charcoal, plastic, cotton fiber, refined carbon
• AED- see below
• Bunk beds
• Gaming table – seats 4-6, can be used to eat on, or play tabletop games. Either Mess hall, Great Hall or Rec Room
• Musical instrument(s) add some sound to a room (drums, guitar, bass, keyboard)
• Treadmill
• Free weights (1-2 dupes) spotter and exerciser, they switch
• Pull up bar
• Exercise bike 
• Karaoke machine 2-4 dupes to jam out. Needs placed near instruments

Doctor Outfit

• Provide bonus to doctoring- reduce chance of catching + spreading sickness -95%
• Provide an animation that they mask up when helping dupes (treating, surgery, checkup, autopsy)

AED

• New craftable item – requires renewable battery, plastic,  copper.
  • Needs charged after use
• Used to bring a ‘incapacitated’ dupe back to life with 1 hp.

New Rooms

• Rename old room called clinic, similar requirements, cut mess table, toilet needs. 12-64. (Bonus provides better treatment for injuries)
• Hospital allows a much larger footprint to design, 32-120 tiles, (Bonus less likely to spread disease, best treatment for injuries)
• Isolation ward – a small room with mess hall, bathroom, sleeping area 12 x 64 (place to send dupes who are sick) (Bonus -zero chance to spread disease).
• Exercise room/Gym -place to place gym equipment (exercise bike, treadmill, free weights, pull up bar), good down time activity
• Music studio- place for instruments, music and downtime

Mod Incorporation

• Incorporate Ronivans mods into the game.

Add and incorporate several QOL mods: (sorry if some have already been assimilated)

• ‘Wounded go to med bay ‘
• ‘Queue for sinks’
• ‘Drywall hides pipes’
• Supply closest
• Ronivans legacy
• Bigger Camera Zoom out
• Build Over plants
• Show Building ranges
• True Tiles (texture mod)
• No Drop (by Ony)
• Blueprints
• more Bionics mod

Adjustments

Metal Refinery Lower to 1k energy, produce more heat,

• or create an upgrade to Metal refinery that is more energy efficient, prettier design

Arcade cabinet

• Lower to 1k power, building requirement add glass and plastic

Ceiling light

• rename to light, allow to rotate all directions

Increase Stability

• Stop having mods break start up
• Reduce lag
• Improve game calculations