Doctor Archive
Thread: Give medcenter Functionality
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Sturngard_Blastshield
Thu Sep 16, 2004 8:21 am
#1
I dont like the idea that as a doctor, I get a better injury treatment bonus while outside of a structure using my 110 rating droid than I do inside a static city medcenter or player city medcenter.
I would like to see a bonus (or penalty) that would encourage Docs to use the medical centers in cities. This would help clear out some of the people who camp in front of the Coronet starport and cause much of the lag in that city.
Give us a reason towork with patients in the Theed, Coro, or Bestinemedcenters. They could be pretty interesting and fun places for medical professionals to game. At this point, I have no reason to work in my own player city medcenter because I can buff in the cantina where the dancers are rendering the med center completely useless.
PaxEternus
Thu Sep 16, 2004 8:48 am
#2
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I totally agree with you, someone in a Med Center ('speciall a player one) should be better at treating wounds and buffing than someone with their droid out - just makes more sense.
I totally agree with you, someone in a Med Center ('speciall a player one) should be better at treating wounds and buffing than someone with their droid out - just makes more sense.
KamaKuro
Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:21 pm
#3
Totally agree with this.. but I am sure there are other petition threads already in circulation..
MasterNerfSlayer
Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:48 pm
#4
We are trying to get this changed but I think the devs see it as a "it's working, it's not a priority fix" issue for now. They're redoing buffs and so forth in the combat revamp, I'm sure they will address this at the same time, and I'm sure we'll all jump on them if they don't.
Marzuk147
Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:04 pm
#5
The bad part about this? Currently most wounds are healable in just a couple minutes by a novice medic (15 points only) with decent Wound Bs. Docs dont get to heal wounds that are what makes them docs imo, we just get to buff.
I can make a Wound pack that will heal 1000+ wounds, but its not usefull when I rarely see anyone with a wound over 200.
I can make a Wound pack that will heal 1000+ wounds, but its not usefull when I rarely see anyone with a wound over 200.
Eyedun
Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:20 am
#6
yep, along with tumblers this is one of the other major "wrong" things with Dr/Medic. The best buffs/healing should take place in a med center.
90 droid : 100 med center : 110 player med center and possibly 120 player med center in medical city.
90 droid : 100 med center : 110 player med center and possibly 120 player med center in medical city.
kirstar
Fri Sep 17, 2004 1:03 am
#7
the biggest change they could make would be to make med centres remove of half the delay on med use.
also I dont think that a med centre should make droids useless, other wise your mifffing the DE's
maybe droid should stack with MC for bonuses
IlyaMasool
Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:01 am
#9
Very fine idea!
I too would like to see med center get some.
First, I'd like to see it giving bonus of 120% or even 125% to bring more master doctors into the med center. I know most of you'll say unfortunately that'll also bring professional buffers into the med center and their client making either theed med center or cornet med center looking like cornet spaceport, but thats the decision we'd probably have to make as community and convince the dev that we are right.
In case I got lost the decision is either to keep the med center deserted except for newbie tumber healer, or filled with master doctors and buffers and their customers.
Second thing would be to see a vendor in the med center that only list med items. PLUS it links ALL the med center vendor together so that any med in that vendor can be bought from any other vendor in med center across galaxies. This may allow the newbie doctors who don't usually carry around wound B's to buy one on the spot if someone ask for heal. Plus this might give newbie doctors to sell their "stinky-B's"
Finally, since tumbler issue is all the rage, why not prevent any non-healer related action inside med center? You already can't enter med center if you are in combat or have TEF (that still true? haven't check in while) so why not prevent any non healing action from being performed inside the med center? If it is big med center like one in theed with multiple floors, this restriction can be limited to first floor with all the beds. Maybe they can move all the buffers upstairs as well.
I too would like to see med center get some.
First, I'd like to see it giving bonus of 120% or even 125% to bring more master doctors into the med center. I know most of you'll say unfortunately that'll also bring professional buffers into the med center and their client making either theed med center or cornet med center looking like cornet spaceport, but thats the decision we'd probably have to make as community and convince the dev that we are right.
In case I got lost the decision is either to keep the med center deserted except for newbie tumber healer, or filled with master doctors and buffers and their customers.
Second thing would be to see a vendor in the med center that only list med items. PLUS it links ALL the med center vendor together so that any med in that vendor can be bought from any other vendor in med center across galaxies. This may allow the newbie doctors who don't usually carry around wound B's to buy one on the spot if someone ask for heal. Plus this might give newbie doctors to sell their "stinky-B's"
Finally, since tumbler issue is all the rage, why not prevent any non-healer related action inside med center? You already can't enter med center if you are in combat or have TEF (that still true? haven't check in while) so why not prevent any non healing action from being performed inside the med center? If it is big med center like one in theed with multiple floors, this restriction can be limited to first floor with all the beds. Maybe they can move all the buffers upstairs as well.
schway
Fri Sep 17, 2004 8:19 am
#10
what about giving the doc who owns the hospital some sort of bonus. the doc should be familiar with the place since his/hers.
Marrow1
Fri Sep 17, 2004 8:42 am
#11
Stop the madness.......
Look, if you want to buff, heal, or what ever in the med center please just do so. However, please don't force the rest of use who actually like to go out in the world and play to be stuck in the freakin med center.
Just ask any dancer how much it sucks to be stuck, day after day, in the same silly place.
As for making med centers the best place, you may want to rethink that. Just imagin how may buff bots would pop up if the med center became the best place to buff. Currently many players will seek out a live doc becuase they can get a higher buff from them because a droid, whos battery can not be recharged while afk, is the best buff tool.
Doc's would soon find themselves in the same situation that entertainers are in where buff bots get more buisness than live atk players. This would just stink in my opinion.
Also think about the logistics of working a buff line in a cramped med center. Boy would it be a mess.
Finally, just how much fun do you think it would be to try to get a buff if you had to visit med centers to get a buff rather than just being able to hit up a doc anywhere.
Sorry, but I like things just the way they are.
SakeO
Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:14 am
#12
Hmm, speeds up the lines and reduces the number of doc lines in the starports. I like it and really do not see any way to really abuse it. It still leaves droids with their advantage, which is a good thing. I thinkit might increase the healing timer about 20% before implementing it but, good idea. i think having more than tumblers in the med center would be a definite improvement.
SakeO
IlyaMasool
Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:39 am
#13
Marrow1 wrote:Stop the madness.......Just ask any dancer how much it sucks to be stuck, day after day, in the same silly place.......Finally, just how much fun do you think it would be to try to get a buff if you had to visit med centers to get a buff rather than just being able to hit up a doc anywhere.Sorry, but I like things just the way they are.
Lotsa excellent points.
Well Dancers get stuck in Cantina day in and day out because that is all they can do. There is not much call for dancing in middle of combat. Unless you see main purpose of doctor as buffing people for money, I don't see why you would get "Stuck" in med center.
In fact, if you ARE a buffer, aren't you stuck in cornet spaceport day in and day out?
As for problem of Buffbot, check out the Entertainer/Dancer/Musician forum. Dev are working on to fix the problem of buff bots. Plus, the only reason buff bot work is so that you can set up a house, charge a price for entering then buff anyone who walks in. If anyone set up a buffbot in med center, all they are doing will be giving out free buffs. Dancers/Musician can afford to do this since it doesn't cost them anything to buff, but once some buffbot doctor waste crate or two of buff and get nothing for em, they'd stop.
Now over crowded med center is a mess and I don't have any idea for that. It would be mega annoying tho if something isn't done but I don't see this as deal breaker. yet.
And why can't you continue to get the doctor's buff anywhere? You get 110% with droid, and you cap at 120% with droid and food. So you get 120% at med center without food maybe 130% if the cap is gone. You feel HAVE to visit med center for that extra 10%? if you do, then you already feel you HAVE to visit the cornet spaceport to get the "best" buff anyway so whats extra 10 steps to cornet med center?
I don't know, maybe there is something I am over looking and it would be horrible to move the current "buff zone" from cornet spaceport to cornet med center but I can't think of one yet.
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