Doctor Archive

Whether or not this is an original idea I can't say as I don't read the boards much but here goes.

When a patient goes to be healed by someone they have to select an option that they agreed to be healed so that no one can heal them without their permission first and foremost. Once they agree to it the system needs to have a set fee for being charged for a heal based on the amount of wounds being healed. This should be fairly easy since it keeps track for the xp so it should be able to just take that number and add a coefficient to calculate your total bill. The system should then generate a bill for the patient and give the patient a fixed amount of time to pay that bill. If the bill goes unpaid, the doctor should then be notified that his client has skipped out on payment. The doctor should then be able to go to the closest bounty hunter terminal and be able to create a bounty on the player who skipped out on his bill. Once the BH has tracked the patient down and added some wounds of his own, the money should be deducted from the patients bank account. I feel this solves the problem of doctors and medics not getting what they deserve, helps add a little bit of spice to the game by giving BH's something different to do, and also helps solve the problem of novice medics taking up all the patients for free since people will be getting billed the same, so they have to decide if they wanna pay the same price for quick heals or slow heals. I also feel that this shouldn't apply to damage heals since that would take away from the ability to heal in combat. It should only apply to the treatment of wounds, poisons, and diseases. Let me knowwhat you guys think.

Sounds ok, but alot of people have mentioned ideas about charging, since we can now put a number on how many wounds they have / we can heal and therefore charge for.

The only problem is that for every one person using this system of pay-per-heal there will be 10 others doing it for free.

Personally I dont see the devs changing the system any time soon, and heals will allways be a goodwill kinda thing. The only thing I would see changing anything would be medic missions, then medics could get money & xp from NPC's and therefore be more willing to heal for free since they have a source of income.

Well hopefully if this worked you wouldn't be able to heal for free since it would automatically generate a bill. Theoretically you could just let the bill lapse and not pay it I guess. Then again to get around that you could always make it so that if the bill lapsed the BH mission would be generated automatically and so you'd get paid as long as a BH took the mission and succeeded. In the long run most people would pay cause they'd get tired of being killed by bounty hunters all the time. So there'd be no more free healing, period.