Combat Medic Archive
Thread: Poll: What do CMs think of this?
1. Split the poison types intotwo or threedifferent catagories ( i.e. action poison1, action poison2, and action poison3) Each poison would have a different base component but the same delivery system. They would also target the same HAM bar.
2. The base component can only be crafted by CM's of sufficient level (this can be tweaked to balance out the dabbling vs. master CMs)
3. Give doctors a schematic to create an anti-poison injection. This schematic uses the base poison component plus an injection casing (casing will be crafted by the doctor).
4. Doctors can then use to anti-poison injection to reduce the DoT effect of the base component poison it was crafted from (either reduce the damage or the time between damage ticks).
5. The anti-poison injection is a preemptive measure and cannot be used during combat.
6. Only one anti-poison injection can be used on a player for the duration of it's effect (no double injections).
Any feedback would be appreciated. As always, please keep flames and off topic responses to a minimum. Thanks 
Master Dragger, Drunken Friar[Ooops. Double post. I deleted this one. ]
Message Edited by Houdani on 03-25-2004 06:05 PM
Essentially, this boils down to an innoculation that only CM's can make (and use) but requires a subcomponent from a Doc. I think it's a pretty OK idea, but considering how CM's hate relying on Docs to make nice high quality ALS subcomponents for ranged stims, I think this may lead to a bit of bitterness.
I think this may better be served as having the CM's supply the subcomponent to the Doctor, and let the Doctor administer the cures. This would allow a different profession to counter the CM, rather than a CM countering a CM.
H.
(Note: The HAM changes have been removed from Publish 8, according to JustG's state of the game post.)
Houdani wrote:
let the Doctor administer the cures. This would allow a different profession to counter the CM, rather than a CM countering a CM.
That's it exactly. The base component for the poison and the innoculation is exactly them same, but only a CM may craft it. The delivery systems are theonly difference(i.e. ranged AoE is for the CM and preemptive anti-poison buff is for the Doc). Also since the CM would have access to two or three different types of poison, this doesn't completely negate the effectiveness of chemical warfare on the battlefield. It would turn into more of a guessing game for the CM to decide which poison to use.