So, will characters be able to self heal minor wounds and bleeders that are tended after a long time?
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Naw...didn't think so.

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"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

<<One of the three things that Towint wanted to work on was 'natural healing.'>>

I think that's when we heal people without our clothes on.


Illcram the Evil Empath

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>This heart stopping moment has been brought to you by the numbers 2 and 0 and the letter 7

Letter 7? Illcram's been slipping you some juice, hasn't he?

~Xoine

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"Too often we...enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
-- John F. Kennedy

<<I think that's when we heal people without our clothes on.>>

I was under the impression you did that already, Illcram? grin

(Don't usually post here, but couldn't resist)

-Laelia JS

Folks,

The DR2 conversations don't really belong here. They belong in the DR2 category... although I haven't yet requested a topic set up there for the healing system changes. Honestly, I'm not ready for it, yet.

I did review thoughts and plans for DR2 Healing Systems at SimuCon - no, I'm not going to review them again here, now! <g> - but those were just that. Nothing is yet set in stone for DR2, and, per Solomon's announcement at SimuCon, we're not supposed to start - at least, I am not! <g> - until September.

So, while I appreciate your enthusiasm, please try not to flood me with DR2 ideas for healing system changes right now. If you really want to discuss it, we can ask the BMs to create a topic for it over in the DR2 category, and I'll get to it when I finish off my current list of projects for this summer.

Please realize that I'm not trying to stifle anyone's creativity. I am interested, and I will be working on it, but I don't have time to read all the posts that should be discussing this topic. When we're ready to begin work on it, I'll definitely be posting more. For the moment, however, I want to make sure that this topic remains available for current issues, without overflowing to the point where I don't have time to keep up on it.

Thank you for your understanding.

GameMaster Towint B'niyvyl

I think I have the program saved. IM me at Fnordia if you see me online later, and I'll check.

I love the crutch so much. It makes me very sad that I can't use it on my macs.

<<macs... Apple's solution to make money by charging you for fixing stuff that was broken in the last version>>

Hey now.

- Ogoh

(Mac user and proud)

>>Yeah, and those Ipods never impressed me either

You ever use one Purehand or are you speaking from simply seeing them exist?

Unto that Britia, I would say...

I care...

Something can do a task well, but it doesn't mean that it has other undesirable effects. For the Record... I've seen and used Ipods... I'll take my MP3 player and my winamp playlist any day of the week


Souv

You sense (N, S) from your current position:
A relatively healthy presence nearby.
Roundtime: 6 seconds

>You ever use one Purehand or are you speaking from simply seeing them exist?

Used one. Gave it a chance. Gave it away.

>I'll take my MP3 player and my winamp playlist any day of the week

Yep.

~Purehand

PSP sales have been horrible because the screens keep getting ruined. I had a japanese one when they came out there and went through 4 each with a different screen defect before I gave up and got a refund.

Seems like the same thing is happening in North America and Europe now.

Plus the controls are just so sloppy!

I must say that the Nintendo DS is a much much better system.

So, my ranger gets killed, and there are 3 bodies waiting for a heal, and Rapid is the only empath who is around. Thanks again btw Rapidonia. You were being seriously overworked there. Appreciate the patience and the help.

Anyway, I noticed that all 3 of us corpses had Devastating, injuries in critical spots. IE Chest, Abdomen, Back...

Rapid healed everything else, then got the criticals last. And I was thinking, I tend to do it the other way around. And it got me wondering, how everyone else heals these injuries.

Myself, I get the critical spots first, taking em in halves, and healing myself in order to reduce them until they are survivable if I take the whole thing. Then once the critical spots are all survivable, I just take everything all at once. Then set about healing and tending myself before moving on to the next patient.

So how does everyone else go about it?

Mole
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When it crosses my mind to do something, I don't ask why, I ask why not. And usually theres no reason not to, so I just go ahead. Its given me the strangest collection of hats.

First, you are welcome.

Now, typically I would take the criticals first. In a situation where there were three deaders I had to think fast and change my tactics a bit. My intent was to get all the minors and heal them on myself. I knew they would add up on me (three of the same wound can equal one bad one) and I wanted get that out of the way first.

Anyway, to answer the question, Yes on a deader, taking the criticals slowly at first seems to work best. Just not three deaders. :)

Heh...

Transfer half (or part if I'm really wounded myself) of the critical wounds. Then start transferring all the little ones quickly. As those are transferring, heal down the big ones and the scars, then finish the rest of the big ones, which should be down enough to make them not a big deal.

Gets my skills moving better and it's pretty efficient.

But then I don't use this method on corpses obviously...mostly spar losers.

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Rev. Reene, player of a few

Niaura asks, "wat happen?"
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You say to Niaura, "Someone set you up the bomb."

i take wounds that wont' kill me first limbs eyes nerves, scars as well, heal off internals and what i can't tend, and then i work on the biggies with a 25 prep hw in storage and i cast it when i get a certain message (i have em all highlighted different)(i haven't died from overhealing in a long time so i must be doing something right)

and once i get in too bad of shape i work on healing myself until mostly healed (i might gweth for another puff) and then go back to work on the deaders


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>> I tend to follow a pattern similar to Reene.

Does that mean I win DragonRealms?

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Rev. Reene, player of a few

Niaura asks, "wat happen?"
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You say to Niaura, "Someone set you up the bomb."

>> I'm much more concious of my own injuries, and what I can and cannot take, then I was when I used the crutch. As a consequence, I'm much more careful and have yet to die from overhealing since making the switch.

This is part of the reason I encourage people to use scripts instead of the Crutch or utilities like it. I believe it contributes to making lazy, unskilled healers. There's more to being a good Empath than ranks.

By using scripts (a heal all script and a heal one part script are the ones in my arsenal) you still don't strain yourself by typing everything but you still get a good feel for what you're capable of as well as your limits. Critical injuries are so rare unless you work with bodies mostly that it's not going to kill you to type 'transfer person quick half part'...or if you work with bodies a lot, you can write a takehalf script or something for it. No big deal.

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Rev. Reene, player of a few

Niaura asks, "wat happen?"
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You say to Niaura, "Someone set you up the bomb."

I also use a homemade healing script. If I find someone with wounds that I feel would kill me then I will reduce them to something I can handle first, and then run two scripts. The first rips all wounds, I then assess myself, and then rip all scars. It works great, and teaches nicely on top of that (not to mention is easier on my hands).

I have 3 different scripts.

One is basically an autoempath script I got during my time in TF. I of course made it so only specific people get the messaging, not everyone. I generally run this if I'm chatting with friends or bored, and just don't want to have to type anything. It basically has a whole bunch of action setvariables in it, so when someone wants a healing, they trigger me into on-duty mode, and then when I touch them, the script sets all variables for whatever wounds need to be healed. Doesn't stop healing until the patient disappears, is fully healed, or the like, then begins the self-healing process, before going into off-duty mode. This script is completely amazing...and I will never say I wrote this myself.

My most frequently used script is my healall script, which basically heals everything as quickly as possible. I use this when I'm either wanting to see if I won't die, I'm healing in snoblins and know that most of the wounds are from the goblins ripping off limbs, or am doing minor healing work.

My third, and not so frequently used script, is when I have bleeders. I've removed the chest, abdomen, and back from this script, and don't heal them at all so as to make sure I don't make my chest/abdomen/back disappear.

I used to us the crutch, and did become very adept at healing with it, since it does have the color coding and what not. When I transferred over to Genie, like Mole, I had to leave it behind. Sad. But now I just heal less, perceive health more, and run around causing general mayhem.

Yup...that's my healing trick. Cause as much trouble as possible, and make sure Reexa doesn't steal your lantern while doing it.

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Renegade Empath Raudhan just arrived.

Souv says, "Annael should have been commended for her knifing empaths"

When birds fly in the right formation, they need only exert half the effort. Even in nature, teamwork results in collective laziness.

Die crutch!

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-Clemency
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"Put your head up to my heart, hear me live and follow suit, this will all be over soon, it's gonna hurt a little." -Emberghost