Add surgical drapes, please

[KingOfThePing]

Hello it's me again, y boi,

 

okay so fully clothed surgery is silly, it's been forever. Asking people to put on gowns gives often strange looks and sometimes is not possible to ask them because they have a million broken bones. So I propose surgical drapes, you know, these covers that go onto the surgery patient so all stays clean and sanitary. If not used an infection risk could be added to the surgery. Or failure chance, whatever sounds better. It can be done in two ways: Just apply them in general and then surgery away or target a specific limb and apply them. I don't know what I would prefer, let's hear your input.

 

Please end fully clothed surgery, thank you.

[MoonTruther]

I like the current system, adding a surgical drape is just an extra step in my opinion. 

 

adding steps to already existing stuff =/= adding new content

[KingOfThePing]

HRP is also about immersion, to some degree. Surgery preperation already includes only two steps: Wash your hands before you do it and wear gloves + mask. Operating in a fully clothes person, with webbing, toolbelt, etc. is just immersion breaking. It's a single step more, hell, make it optional, if you want to uphold that argument. It adds a tiny bit to surgery, which is already unrealistic as it is.

[Resilynn]

There are surgical aprons and caps available in the loadout, there are hospital gowns outside surgery, so that those who WANT those extra steps and that immersion can have them.  You shouldn't force everyone into taking 20 steps to do their part in the game because you want it when it's already an option for you.

Edited August 25, 2019 by Resilynn

[DaTimeSmog]

Surgery is already a pain in the ass and despite me saying that medical is the LRP hell of this server, I can understand why people rather want to get back on their feet quickly rather than wait for 20 different steps to be done only to then semi slowly recover.

[KingOfThePing]

2 hours ago, Resilynn said:

There are surgical aprons and caps available in the loadout

I'm not sure what this has to do with what was proposed.

2 hours ago, Resilynn said:

there are hospital gowns outside surgery

Which is why I said and I explained why they are never used.

 

2 hours ago, Resilynn said:

when it's already an option for you.

It's not, really?

[Resilynn]

9 minutes ago, KingOfThePing said:

I'm not sure what this has to do with what was proposed.

Which is why I said and I explained why they are never used.

 

It's not, really?

Use the hospital gowns outside of surgery.

[KingOfThePing]

They are never used for the already stated reasons you should probably know best:

 

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Asking people to put on gowns gives often strange looks/outright refusal or "Why?" and sometimes is not possible to ask them to put them on themselves, because they have a million broken bones.

 

[VisVirific]

While I like the suggestion, I think it'd maybe best to utilize the Hospital Gowns as pointed out in this thread. It'd be incredibly nifty if the Gowns also added a bonus to surgery (++speed since there's no clothes to hinder, +accuracy, -infection chance, or something along these lines) so it'd be a huge motivator for players to take the extra step of using them, although probably keep the gown-less/drape-less surgery as it currently if the bonus were added.

[Nantei]

I don't like the idea of forcibly slowing down medical any more. It's nice when medical has the time to go through all these steps, but people shouldn't be forced to sit through it, especially while unconscious. I don't particularly like roleplaying with medical, just my own personal thing, but I have seen several surgeons put people into the drapes and such. If people don't want to do this, don't force them to. If we were going to do something like this I would rather we just actually made the medical drapes special in a way similar to what @VisVirific stated.

[KingOfThePing]

8 hours ago, VisVirific said:

It'd be incredibly nifty if the Gowns also added a bonus to surgery (++speed since there's no clothes to hinder, +accuracy, -infection chance, or something along these lines) so it'd be a huge motivator for players to take the extra step of using them, although probably keep the gown-less/drape-less surgery as it currently if the bonus were added.

That's a counter-suggestion I can get behind. Very good. I can see why people don't like "slowing down" surgery, despite me not really agreeing with them, medical in here was called LRP, this here is just one of soon-to-come suggestions to turn this for the better.

 

Also, maybe just dont expect to be in and out of the medbay in a fly, so we can RP more. Medical is not only LRP because of it's players but at least equally so because ot it's patients.

[LordPwner]

I can get behind the bonuses that way if medical is swamped and there are six IB cases, one does not have to go and get one person all undressed and redress. If they can't spare the time.  but also benefit to do HRP, I like Vis' suggestion :3