Should synthflesh slow/stop IB in place of styptic powder?

[Crazylemon]

So, right now, IB is hard to stop, without actual surgery - the one reagent that moderates its effect, styptic powder, depletes too quickly to be a reasonable answer or even form of triage. So, should I tweak things so that synthflesh does that instead? Synthflesh depletes at a rate of .4 per tick, in place of the 3 per tick of styptic, so that way there should be some way to administer primary care without being at the end of your rope.

[Keroman]

 

I would say yes but for a different reason than what you've listed.

 

I see Styptic Powder as being a low-tier medicine. Synthflesh takes a few additional steps to make and so should be more effective, including having the ability to slow or stop internal bleeding.

 

[Regen]

 

Slow? Maybe

 

Stop? No, i'd rather not have chemicals be the answer to everything, keep the game a bit of a challenge, make the difference of good and great doctors differ.

 

[pinatacolada]

 

I say no, IB should remain a serious condition, BUT!

 

Quick clot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FbMpMdEqRs

 

This should slow it, not stop it, and moving or being dragged around with it applied should null it's effect (something like a 30% chance of it falling out of place for each step maybe?)

 

It'd also need to be removed for surgery, I'm thinking hemostat to pull it out.

 

[Crazylemon]

So if I were, say, to remove the IB healing at 30+ units of styptic, and set the mitigation chem of IB to synthflesh, would that be satisfactory?

[pinatacolada]

As long as it doesn't stop it, or slow down too much. 33% slower bleeding maybe.

[Crazylemon]

Eh, one way or another, it's borrowed time. .4 units deplete every 2 seconds, 20 units (max from a 40u patch) will last you 1 minute, 40 seconds. A pill, of 50u, will give you 4 1/6 minutes of slowing, but at that point you're wasting resources.

[Shadeykins]

 

You can already counteract the effects of IB's by using a combination of two chems.

 

1 - Perfluo will generally buy you enough time to perform surgery by halting oxyloss.

 

2 - Iron will buy you time by replenishing blood as it's lost, and combined with an IV works quickly enough to fully counteract IB's (and buy you even more time).