Let Medics See Health

[Stroodle]

Name: Stroodle

RP Rank: CSM

Suggestion: Allow medics to see other players health.

Implementation: When medics (people on medic jobs) look at somebody they are able to see their health as a percentage (doing it like this prevents commando droids and the like from being metagamed with a glance)

Lore: As a trained and practicing medic you should be able to access most of a troopers condition by looking at them

Workshop content if applicable: Require Development
(If no workshop content, suggest a developer or put "Require Development")

Other: By allowing medics to see health it makes a medics life easier. The ACE Report system is unknown by many and used sparsely. If medics are allowed to see player health they can easily make decisions on who needs healing and what tool to heal them with (Bacta Kit or Syringe) without cluttering comms and banking on the fact that people know what an ACE report is. Overall this would make a great quality of life change that would disadvantage no one.

[Eclipse]

-1

Honestly, cool suggestion if it could work. I just don't think it could be developed well or implemented well.

Lets say that people on medical jobs, constantly, can see player health above their other troops heads. This means the server has to constantly be running checks to see peoples HP and send it back to the player (if I am not mistaken) which would cause a fair amount of lag. Having the server box always be communicating with the server to the players back to the server then to the player again would presumably cause lag. I would like someone with more know how to correct me if I am mistaken but I believe thats how it works.
Lets say that you need to go up to someone and manually do something to them to check it. Lets say you hold C and click health status. That still seems like it wouldn't solve anything. You could just go up to them with a bacta kit, left click, and see if they aren't full. If its manual, it's just quicker to scan by clicking left click on people with your bacta kits.

I am pro this suggestion if it could work on the first way without lag. If it couldn't and we have to settle for the second way I think it's dumb. I'm going to -1 for now but I would change my vote if it could work without lag. I just don't think it could right now so I will cast my vote according to that.

 

[Black]

-1 not needed. medics are getting defibs soon so i wanna see them how it changes them and than consider other suggestions tbh

[Paladin_]

-1 as far as my knowledge of lua coding goes, it's almost impossible to create a feature like that for a specific job. Also in my opinion it's more fun to use the communication in game to use medics with shit like ACE reports. 

[Conrad]

-1 my chief concern is the dev time or money to get this done. Maybe if something exsisted for it we could have a different talk but honestly having to get it developed ourselves just makes me think it’s not worth it. We should be putting our time and money towards more impactful things for player experience (or getting ready for sandbox

Edited August 27, 2021 by Conrad

[Baron]

-1 just be good medic and check up on people. stop being lazy ezpz.

[Hanz]

It would be cool if it existed and if you find something and update the suggestion I will +1 but since it will have to be developed I would rather just not spend the time for something not really needed. Also this could cause meta gaming in PVP situations (ex. shooting someone you know is low hp over someone who is higher, Likely to happen for BH on the medic job)

[Maxwells]

-1 Im not going to the deny this but this has been up in my mind for a long time I even coded it and everything. However I disagree because for RP purposes a medic should not be able to tell the current amount of HP you have. 

On 8/27/2021 at 7:54 AM, Conrad said:

-1 my chief concern is the dev time or money to get this done. Maybe if something exsisted for it we could have a different talk but honestly having to get it developed ourselves just makes me think it’s not worth it. We should be putting our time and money towards more impactful things for player experience (or getting ready for sandbox

This is a 5 minute job lmao. Not really but i mean it wouldnt take a long time

On 8/27/2021 at 7:50 AM, Paladin_ said:

-1 as far as my knowledge of lua coding goes, it's almost impossible to create a feature like that for a specific job. Also in my opinion it's more fun to use the communication in game to use medics with shit like ACE reports. 

No it is possible.

Edited August 30, 2021 by Maxwells

[Comics]

Dude, I've gotta tell you about this shit. I only found out about it today. this will change your exprience as being a medic


it's called actually fucking talking to your troops. 
IN-FUCKING-SANE I know. I think you should give it a try

-1

Edited September 3, 2021 by Comics

[Piff]

-1 i mean a better thing would be let medics know if someone needs healing or not, not show them their health, cause that prevents medics knowning if someone is low or not and just generalizes that someone needs heals

[Xuen]

Ace reports are under rated im neutral on this.

[Guac]

-1

Why are we actively trying to remove the little amount of RP medics still have? 

[Captain Shrike]

+1 would be rally helpful if medicing other battalion's Troopers

[Maxwells]

Unfortunately, this suggestion has been DENIED.

If the same suggestion is submitted again within 60 DAYS of this post it will be automatically denied.

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