So this may seem a little bit stupid at first but hear me out.
So i was thinking that there could be a couple of new events added that go like this.
*A rabid <animal> has wanderd on to the map. It will infect any mammal (or human) it bites.
*A group of rabid <animal> has wanderd on to the map. It will infect any mammal (or human) it bites.
Now in order to explain how raibies could work in game I will describe the infection and Symptom progression.
When a human is bitten the bitten area will show up on the health tab as so [<area> Bite (raibies stage 1). During this time a raibies vaccene (talk about this later) can be given to them to cure the rabies. This will work 100% of the time. If the bite is on a limb you can also amputate it.
After 2-3 days the raibies icon will dissapear and the colonist will act as normal for 15-30 days. (note that a vaccene cannot be given during this time). After 15-30 days the subject will have the health icon [whole body:rabies(stage 2)]. A raibies vaccene can be given during this phase aswell, however this time it only has a 33.3333....% chance of ciring the desease.
Around 5 days after the start of stage 2 the raibies will change to phase 3 with the health tab looking like [Brain: raibies (stage 3)] during this phase talking and eating are reduced by 40% , consiousness by 50% and social by 90%. They will also start regular fights but will not bite [yet].
After another 4 days of this the desease will progress to stage 4. The patient will attack and bite anything it sees ao it is recomended that he/she is kept in a locked room with a paste dispencer in the wall, this stage will last for 10 days with an 9% chance of death each day. If the colonist survives the 10 days then they have a 50% chance of death. After that they will return to normal.
Animal raibies could work the same way exept that they have shorter timescales for stage 2 and skip straght to stage 4 after stage 2. Animals that spawn during the rabid animal events could have stage 3 already (attack anything that moved)
Raibies vaccene : object purchacable from traders, very expensive.
Sounds great :)
I am all for transmittable deseases :)
Thanks for the compliment SpaceDorf. I would really like to see this in game as it would add to the old west gameplay style.
Why we couldn't give cure between stage 1 and 2?
Knowing how deadly rabies is IRL everyone would want cure ASAP when its confirmed that animal is sick or even just in case to prevent it.
Not to mention that at stage 2 colonist would be living corpse IRL. :P
inb4 we can just add "space-" to rabies and it will out of sudden make sense!
This is too harsh, I think. 3 days to research a cure or colonist is dead ?
Currently rabies cannot be cured and vaccine works almost every time when administered AFTER the bite. The trick is that rabies develops very, very slowly at first and your organism has lots of time to make vaccine work.
I know how raibies works irl (doing it in biology class). The things i sugested were to ballance it in the game and the stage 1-2 gap would be due to the fact that its symptomless until it reaches the brain. Also the 33% chance thing is because of the fact that the later the vaccene is given the lower the chance of sucsess.
Animal foam indicating rabies and thus making it 100% sure infection is pretty big symptom. When it reaches brain you are already walking corpse for a week at best.
You don't wait month after being bitten by rabid animal, lol. Especially if you got bitten close to head.
As ive said before i am doing it in biology and so ive tried to make my sugested desease as realistic as possible while also addapting it to the game.
You are right abput some bites taking a short time to reach the brain Grett however ive genaralised the time as it can also take.longer than 2 months.
Quote from wikipedia on raibies - The period between infection and the first symptoms (incubation period) is typically 1–3 months in humans.[8] Incubation periods as short as four days and longer than six years have been documented, depending on the location and severity of the contaminated wound