Crack Jaw

[grävling]

It is nice to have the status screen tell you how tired you are getting, so you can figure out whether or not to take on that extra job. But the usefullness of this feature is limited by the fact that if you take drugs to boost your mental state you will get the annotation 'crack-jaw' which won't tell you when you are likely to become exhausted.

Judging by my poor performance in my last fight with the Mars boys, it seems that you can become exhausted in the middle of a fight. And when thaty happens your MP stays at '11' -- at least that is where it was for me -- you just can no longer hit the targets you aim at.

I think that if the drugs wear off you should lose that mental acuity, and instead have a maximum which is fewer than your normal rate of 8, even if you take more drugs. Only sleep will fix this. And I think that if you go to a hotel or a safehouse, and rest to heal, (and go up levels) you should loose any drug assisted boosts to your mental abilities. Of course, this would mean that healthy people who are sitting in their safehouses waiting for the heat to blow over might want a 'wait without resting' option, depeding on exactly how long these drugs last for. 'Forever, until you sustain damage' seems the wrong duration to me.

Grävling

[fallen]

grävling - crack-jaw or stimmed up indicates how many drugs you have been taking. Perhaps it would be better to say "Crack-jawed AND rested" ?

[grävling]

I'd like that. Of course, what I really want is a way to tell if I have become exhausted in the middle of a battle (or didn't notice I was when I started). It is also not clear to me whether adding more drugs to an exhausted person makes them fight better, or if you need to take your drugs before you get beyond 'dog-tired'.

[gravismetallum]

There should be a penalty to takeing drugs(other than it just costs money),like not knowing how tired you are. People on heroin,meth,crack,or crank usually just pass out and never say things like "I'm tired". Otherwise why not just be stimmed up until the day your cells stop dividing. There needs to be a crash at some point or it should just say "your on candy!" Imho.

[Slide87]

Ehm really heroin or crack or any drugs in real world initially don't cause tireness,but when some time goes forward the toxics reverse effects^^ ie if i assume coca i feel hiper-active,but after 1 day(~) i'd prefer to sleep 1 week ^^

[gravismetallum]

True,but needing more sleep isn't much of a penalty when you don't have a day job.

[Slide87]

Beh drugs addiction can be a good thing when you work many hours(day or night or both xD),even if at the end the tireness wins,any drug you assume^^ but if u have a night job u should sleep in day,but usually the tireness ever comes when it's night time^^ surely it's Murphy Law conseguence XD