sickness indicator?
ZephyrZodiac:
I know, but it is documented history, so it did happen! Maybe they did think it was a curse, but they must have thought they could contain the curse in the village, but if someone left, they would take the curse with them
ElviraGoth:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 July 28, 07:12:48
I'm not sure what you mean by an "indicator". As far as I can tell, "sick" is a binary state. Either a sim is sick with something, or he is not. If he is sick with something, raising his motives will make him better, and lowering it may cause him to contract a new disease or die.
Ok, true/false bit flag on sickness. I was really kind of hoping it was more like a byte with a value range that could be plotted on screen, like the progress indicator bubbles above their heads when they're learning a skill.
I don't have any problem with making my sick sims better, rest or medicine both work. And I don't have a problem with them getting sick, by roaches or catching it from someone else - it just adds to the realism of the game simulating life. But if I wanted to have a sick sim die for some reason (without using a hack), I thought it might be nice to know how sick the sim was. And if I really DON'T want a sim to die, it would be nice to know he/she was getting better or almost well.
And I know that they are supposed to either lie down or sit, as long as they are not standing up, they get well. I had a sim that had caught a cold from another sim who had come home from work with one of the house members, and I needed the girl who had just caught the cold to work out for body skill points. I had forgotten she was sick, let alone whether she had gotten well, and the next day had her work out on the exercise machine. After she worked out for awhile I suddenly got the message "... is well again!"
So I just thought it would be nice if there was something like a little thermometer that showed up somewhere, either above or on the sim or on his/her portrait at the side of the screen, that indicated that the sim was sick. Since you couldn't show the degree of sickness, maybe just have it only show up when the sim is sick.
Like I said, probably stupid, but I would like something like that. I may have to get the code and take a look at it myself, I just would rather start from scratch than try and dig through someone else's mess.
ZephyrZodiac:
I suppose the ordinary exercise machines count as lying down! Only the treadmill would count as standing up!
ElviraGoth:
That's possible, zephyr! I figured that exercise would be a real no-no!
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, you would, wouldn't you! After all, if you're sick, you don't exactly feel up to running marathons! But the Maxis programmers have a wierd sense of humour!
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