Chada1 Posted July 23, 2020 Author Posted July 23, 2020 (edited) 3 minutes ago, MoondancerPony said: Potassium chloride only works if overdosed. It's not a medication, just a precursor. Potassium chlorophoride is intended to be a more potent version that works without having to overdose someone on it; giving it more features kind of misses the point. Those won't be changed, DW, also ty ? the new side effects will be coming on the other drugs, not those. by 'The other' I meant the one that's still on the list. Edited July 23, 2020 by Chada1
Chada1 Posted July 23, 2020 Author Posted July 23, 2020 The list has been updated with the new chem, we're replacing Chloral Hydrate with Lasorexant.
MoondancerPony Posted July 23, 2020 Posted July 23, 2020 12 hours ago, Chada1 said: The list has been updated with the new chem, we're replacing Chloral Hydrate with Lasorexant. Personally, the name Lasorexant makes me think it's somewhere between an expectorant and Lasix (a brand name for a certain diuretic); this drug name makes me feel like it's going to make me cough and pee. I'm not sure of an alternate name, though; in Dracula it's referred to as "the modern Morpheus", referring to the god of sleep, but then the go-to would be "Morphine" and that's... already a thing. I could see Somnine or a variant thereof, perhaps, referring to the father of Morpheus in Roman mythology, Somnus? Polysomnine - It's a more potent drug than soporific, so "poly" could help imply that. Somniplem, somnidon, somniplone, somniclem, - All formed from combinations of IRL sedative (Z-drugs, if you're wondering) suffixes, but not using any real ones; "-plem" and "-don" are from "-(pi)dem" and "-plon", "-plone" is from "-clone" and "-plon", "-clem" is from "-(pi)dem" and "-clone". This makes them feel vaguely familiar without letting someone make undue comparisons to real drugs based off of the name. There are several other combinations you could make from those suffixes, but I removed some of them due to being too close to IRL suffixes for other things, like "-done" being too similar to "-ridone" for antipsychotics and "-(z)odone" for antidepressants. Personally, I'm a big fan of polysomnine and somniclem; if you're willing to include IRL suffixes, somniclone is a cool name too.
Chada1 Posted July 23, 2020 Author Posted July 23, 2020 15 minutes ago, MoondancerPony said: Personally, I'm a big fan of polysomnine and somniclem; if you're willing to include IRL suffixes, somniclone is a cool name too. IRL suffixes are fine so long as it's not an already existing drug ? We're using a ton in our current list. Also these names are being considered rn and I'm open to changing Lasorexant to something else (I haven't even PRed it yet.) I think it'll be changed to Polysomnine, that's a really good name and makes it more clearly a sedative too.
Chada1 Posted July 24, 2020 Author Posted July 24, 2020 (edited) As of now the PR has been updated with all of the new drugs (And many of the old) updated descriptions. Seeing as a large portion of advanced medicine requires phoron to create, and phoron was discovered in the 2400's, it makes sense that most of the new medicine would be discovered after phoron. (Which is a thing represented in the descriptions as of now) The next step is for me to proceed to adding new side effects to everything which will mostly be new flavor messages that you receive while on the drugs. Edited July 24, 2020 by Chada1
Skull132 Posted July 24, 2020 Posted July 24, 2020 14 minutes ago, Chada1 said: The next step is for me to proceed to adding new side effects to everything which will mostly be new flavor messages that you receive while on the drugs. YES PLEASE. I have wanted medicine to have more complex interactions with each other for SO FUCKING LONG. Thank you chada. tho please put that into a different PR so we can merge this one without waiting too long.
Chada1 Posted July 24, 2020 Author Posted July 24, 2020 7 minutes ago, Skull132 said: YES PLEASE. I have wanted medicine to have more complex interactions with each other for SO FUCKING LONG. Thank you chada. tho please put that into a different PR so we can merge this one without waiting too long. The credit so far doesn't go to me but thank you, there are lot of medical players helping me expand everything rn. ? And I could, the descriptions/names could go in first and then the effects after.
Chada1 Posted July 24, 2020 Author Posted July 24, 2020 (edited) As of now the PR is in its final form, I'll add side effects in a later PR to each of the new drugs, and their descriptions are improved like 10fold, the people who were worried about a basis should really read them, they're amazing. The PR is up for review and it's just awaiting the devs/etc. Edited July 24, 2020 by Chada1
Chada1 Posted July 26, 2020 Author Posted July 26, 2020 As of now, this is merged, side effects will be coded in at a later time, and also the full new lore descriptions *may* find themselves on the wiki in a non-invasive way in the near future too.
Chada1 Posted July 27, 2020 Author Posted July 27, 2020 This can probably be moved to the projects subforum since it's in code and everything and just needs to be expanded.
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