NPC Diseases & Reality Bubble

[Pandromidal]

Build 30580ff
SDL
Windows 8.1

NPC Diseases don’t go away outside of the reality bubble.

[KA101]

More an Enhancement since you’re asking for time-checking outside the bubble (not always simple and can slow up processing), but sure, this is an issue.

[Wally-kun]

Are they smart enough to know to take specific medicines for specific ailments? Last I checked, NPC’s that sent you to fetch antibiotics would just stand there forever and eventually die of infection with the unopened bottle of pills still in their hand.

[Pandromidal]

Sorry for being unclear. I mean diseases of the form “asked to ____.” If you are outside of the reality bubble (such as on another z level) when you come back several days later npcs will insist that you just asked them to train and tell you to give it a while. The result is I end up treating my sleeping location as a resource that I need to allocate near the npc I want to train from / be friends with etc.

[KA101]

Sorry for being unclear. I mean diseases of the form “asked to ____.” If you are outside of the reality bubble (such as on another z level) when you come back several days later npcs will insist that you just asked them to train and tell you to give it a while. The result is I end up treating my sleeping location as a resource that I need to allocate near the npc I want to train from / be friends with etc.

Yeah, I wondered about that for a second but realized that it wouldn’t make much difference whether it was a “real” disease or just a status-tracker one. Problem remains that the NPC needs updated for out-of-bubble time.

[Coolthulhu]

Are they smart enough to know to take specific medicines for specific ailments? Last I checked, NPC’s that sent you to fetch antibiotics would just stand there forever and eventually die of infection with the unopened bottle of pills still in their hand.

They have some hard-coded items they use. Not a lot and the list is outdated.