Doctor Archive

Great idea--you're right, we don't change minds by posting here. While we won't chnage those players who just philosophically think if you choose to be a doc you choose to serve everyone who "needs" help...we can maybe educate a few players who are pretty clueless about why their demands on docs (combat meds or medics)can be out of line...

You covered the main ones, but here are a few more...

(1)If you are friends withsomeone withdoctor/combat medic/medic skills, please respect that they may not want toplay the "healer's role". [partially or at all]in a group battle or hunt. If you invite someone to group b/c you want adedicated healer, please explain that to them.

(2) Remember there are no veterinarians..if you have pets, please keep them healed yourself and do not expect those with healing skills to do it for you. Pet food cures pet wounds, and pet stims are available to heal pet damage.

(3) Please do not hold back from using your own medic skills in battle if there is someone with higher level healing skills in your group, unless you're asked to do that by someone wanting medical experience.

(4) Please think very carefully before giving up medic skills. Even if you have good friends who are medics, doctors, combat medics, or you have more than enough money to get buffs, remember that other players just aren't always going to be around or willing to help you out.

(5) Please remember that medic centers and camps can heal wounds and that anyone with novice medic skill can use the Wound Pack B's that heal over 100 points of wound damage at a time (available at most med stores). Please also remeber that disease and poison do wear off.

(6) Please appreciate that anyone playing a healing role in battle is spending their resources to help you...outside of first aid, almost every other skill a healer does uses crafted med goods.Some of these med goods are rare or in short supply, others are not.

Yeah, people in SWG seem to assume tht te other person is automatically a jerk. The recent threads from docs, and people abused by docs have this in common... everyone thinks the other person is a jerk for crimping their play style.

Most people aren't jerks, they just want to play the game. Working together to form some kind of understanding is good. You may want to post this in a general forum where more non-docs can see it.

Not much use to me, because I am actually a Jerk

-T

this goes a lot on what i believe as well. the general populus thinks that because you are a doc, you should drop what you are doing and take care of them.

Honestly, I have not had much of a problem with this tho. As a doc, I will buff on request or if I anounce that I will buff. I make much more money selling enhance packs on my server than I do actually DOING the buffs. People are becoming much more independent (which will change with pub 7 when med use 90 packs will suck), and like the idea of buffing themselves over standing in a "mile long line" to get average buffs.

A lot of people dont understand that there is a HUGE variance in effectiveness of enhance packs. My better packs (not best) run about 870 power. With med droid and +25 wound treatment, I can hit pretty close to 3300 on a high enhancement (I read once on these boards that wound treatment bonuses and med droid dont make a difference in enhancements, but ever since pub 6, I quit wearing my +25 pants because they decayed out, and I havent hit anything over 2800.) When my customers come to me and say that they are getting 2800/3000 enhancements from my packs and want to buy more, I rejoice. This is my buisness and I love to see it thrive.