Medical bay

[vaulkon]

It has been interesting reading posts and views from other ship and crew fights, when post-combat, there is a desperate scramble to reach a planet with a doctor before crew leave from heavy wounds or low morale as a result. So just a couple of thoughts..

Are there plans for enhance medical bays which after combat give a 'x' turn failsafe to crew leaving with a cooldown afterwards?

Or suggestion
Crew can go on station, patrol or medical bay. While in medical bay their crew attribute/skill/talents are void but their morale/health held in stasis until taken out of medical bay. A medical bay based on level can hold a certain number of crew numbers.

The idea behind this is- example; after a big fight and having 10 critically ill high level crew of choosing which 3 crew to send to medical bay of that current capacity.

[fallen]

vaulkon - thanks, I think this post has some really good suggestions. We've been working on how to make Medical Bays more impactful, and perhaps a passive healing effect after certain events is worthwhile.

We've also been looking at passive healing as an event that might come up in travel (Pass your Doctor Save, 3 crew members get Healing).

I don't think we will dabble with a status that is about being in the medical bay. That would be a lot of micromanagement that I think we'd like to avoid.

But we def agree that Medical Bays need to have better effects.

Also, I suggest you take interest in any Talent that gives you things after a ship combat -- there is already a Doctor Talent that can heal a large number of crew after combat. There is the Loyalty Rousing talent that can bump Morale on a large number of crew after combat. Maybe these are too high level atm.

[grävling]

My explorer team would really like it if the Doctor could heal them up when they return to the ship.

[vaulkon]

I knew it was a bit of wishful thinking to have medical bay as status change.

There is potential for various upgrade medical bays for passive buffs on certain situations.

I think my suggestion came out of nostalgia. The original Star Trek... They were either on station, patrol or in medical bay.

I am now contemplating when recruiting crew firing anyone with a red shirt.

[fallen]

vaulkon - interesting idea, didn't know about the original Star Trek. We'll keep looking at this. I could see how badly damaged folks might be automatically taken out of Station/Patrol and put into the medical bay, but we are being really careful to try to reduce complexity here