Medic Kit

Tyhm · #1 03-22-2003, 06:08 AM

We've got First Aid Balms, Pep Bread, Healing Potions - nobody uses them, nobody wants them because it's way too much hassle to go into your inventory, find a potion, and use it while fighting a TRex - nor waste one when they could possibly heal for free in a quiet little corner.
This is too bad, as these potions may well save your life (and 4*level plats!)

New kind of bag - Medic Kit, like the "bag" icon but with a red cross logo. Only healing items can go into it, they're used automatically when your health hits 0, maybe highest first (since it IS in battle after all) - you fight a skeleton, it nearly kills you, you heal and keep fighting. THAT'D be worth 50p to me...and I don't even fight anymore! ^_~

Kaiser2 · #2 03-22-2003, 06:49 AM

That is a good idea. It would be useful, auto heal, like you auto-eat when hungry.

Selzar · #3 03-22-2003, 07:00 AM

Yeah but.
I think there should be herbs like heal 25 health, sells for 15 plat, at a local vendor, possibly a new shop, a MEDIC shop, selling the medic bag along with all the other items.

Tyhm · #4 03-22-2003, 09:51 AM

Why herbs? No NPC Shops dude, just buy it off an Alchemist, they'll sell to you for 15 rather than to the shop for 10.

MasterNuke · #5 03-22-2003, 10:44 AM

Healing potions and magic power potions could be made a tad cheaper too hmm? 500 plat for one of either is not what I call good investment....

Kaimetsu · #6 03-22-2003, 10:49 AM

So... wouldn't a person with a hundred full heal items be virtually invincible?

MasterNuke · #7 03-22-2003, 11:01 AM

Good point...

Tyhm · #8 03-22-2003, 11:03 AM

For the first 100 potions, yes, then they become totally vulnerable.

Disabled in Battle Arenas I suppose. But then wouldn't all curative items need to be anyway?

Kaimetsu · #9 03-22-2003, 11:12 AM

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Originally posted by Tyhm
For the first 100 potions, yes, then they become totally vulnerable.

So what we're saying is that people can buy immortality?

Tyhm · #10 03-22-2003, 11:45 AM

What else do you define potions to be?
Should we have them not heal?
Or have a necessarily complicated interface?

It'll have to be a smallish medic kit. Maybe you can only fit in 10 potions max. Maybe only 3, maybe only 1 between reloads.

Kaimetsu · #11 03-22-2003, 07:47 PM

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Originally posted by Tyhm
What else do you define potions to be?

Things that people drink to restore their health. Key word: Drink. You have to drink them. Most potions don't automatically inject themselves into your bloodstream as soon as they realise you've been hurt.

And drinking takes time.

Tyhm · #12 03-22-2003, 08:58 PM

*shrugs* So it'd take time still. Maybe it kicks in when you're at 5. You spend half a second using an item...it'd be cooler if all item use took half a second, not just automatics, so you can actually see your character eating, etc...

Kaimetsu · #13 03-23-2003, 07:23 AM

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Originally posted by Tyhm
*shrugs* So it'd take time still. Maybe it kicks in when you're at 5. You spend half a second using an item...it'd be cooler if all item use took half a second, not just automatics, so you can actually see your character eating, etc...

That's fine, but if you're at 6 and something hits you for ten then you should be dead. No miracle potions jumping in to save your life.

Ghost Pirate · #14 03-23-2003, 09:14 AM

Have potions capable of being caried of your belt like diablo and you press button responding to the proper belt slot.

Kaiser2 · #15 03-23-2003, 04:47 PM

Yeah, or they appear below the status bars and stuff and you can click on them.