So Medicine quality basically makes no difference??

[dearmad]

According to RimWorld science... doctor quality and room cleanliness is about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amOjGNyCTuY

This is disappointing. But it'll save me spending any cash on Glitterworld fraudulent goods!

[Canute]

It made a difference at operation, but not with diseased.
But Glitterworld med. is overrated anyway, no need to use them except you use mods and be forced to use them for some operations.

[O Negative]

Sounds like a bug to me. If it's as designed, then it sounds like a cheap way to escape actually balancing the effectiveness of each medicine type for diseases.

[Calahan]

It made a difference at operation,

I'm not sure that's true at the moment due to the following potential bug (I don't know if Tynan has 100% confirmed this as a bug anywhere, but his posts in the thread seem to suggest it's a bug (that's probably been around a while)).
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=32763.msg334638#msg334638

[XeoNovaDan]

In terms of surgery: it did make a difference in previous alphas, but there was something done this alpha which jacked that up; it doesn't matter if you use Herbal Medicine or Glitterworld Medicine to excise a carcinoma for example, you're getting roughly the doctor's chance * 70% of successfully excising it.

In terms of tending: medical potency of medicine still plays out to its full effect here.

So really, the answer is dependent on purpose; 'no' for surgery, but 'yes' for tending.

[dearmad]

It seems really buggy in actual play now. I see it matter in tending though. But the hospital bedand devices ALSO don't seem to matter. Just have a clean bedroomand work there.

[cultist]

According to RimWorld science...

I'm not saying it's wrong but I've seen some of those videos. He doesn't really look at the game code or refer any sources, he basically just draws conclusions from assumptions about how the game mechanics work + trial and error. As I said, not necessarily wrong, but it's a bit dodgy to use as argument.

[Jibbles]

I'm so scarred from A16 when it comes to surgery. I'm still going to use glitter regardless of this bug.  Does this mean that surgery success chance increased for all medicines in A17? I've only used glitter for surgery and haven't experienced any failed operations so far.

[dearmad]

I did a bunch of 8 skill transplants with herbal meds. Clean room, bedroom. No special bed or instruments. Everybody lived.

Yawn.