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Description Template (Game Messages) Related Tags 25% This document has been partially completed. Mechanics This document is about game mechanics. System messages Creature Pet Wound Healing Messages Creature Pet Vitality Healing Feeding Pets Fly Text Pet Wound Indicators Creature Pet Healing If you have at least the Novice Medic skill, you can heal your pet's damage with stimpacks, just as you would another player. Even if you have no medical skills, you can use Pet Stimpacks (which are made by Bio-Engineers) to keep your pet healthy in battle. They are a special kind of stim that can only be used on pets. They are different in that they require *no special skills* to use (and therefore give no xp either), and also work on a different timer than do normal medical stims, so a CH or Medic that has the medical skills to use normal stims can use both on his/her pet (or medical on themself and pet stims on their creature). The heal timer using pet stims is 15 seconds. Pets can be wounded like players, as well. If your pet takes a Health or Action wound, you can heal it by feeding the pet after battle. Your pet will think "(Fido) Hungry!" out loud every 1 minute and 30 seconds when it has such a wound (if its name is 'Fido'). Pets will eat anything players can eat (including spice), so travel biscuits are just as good as melons for this (beverages cannot be used... only food). If the item of food has multiple charges, the pet will only consume one charge per feeding. Food will not heal health and action damage. Pets can be fed by using the radial menu on the food and clicking Feed or by clicking on the pet and clicking on Feed within the radial menu there. Using the radial on the pet will cause a random valid food item in the inventory to be chosen to be fed to the pet. Optionally a player may drag and drop a food item onto the pet from the inventory. If your pet takes a Mind Wound or battle fatigue, you'll need to Play with your pet. Your pet will think "Fido Play!" out loud when it has a Mind wound (if it's name is 'Fido'). In order to play with your pet, you'll need to have taught it one of the two pet Tricks (which you get by advancing to Creature Empathy I and Creature Empathy II). Simply say the phrase that you bound to the trick, and the pet will do it (and heal his Mind wounds). The second trick heals more wounds per use than the first, but it may take several uses of either trick to fully heal your pet (depending on how many Mind wounds it has). Using Tricks will also heal the pet's mind pool as well and they cannot be performed during combat. TRICK1 and TRICK2 will not automatically heal all of a pets mind wounds and damage. Per use, TRICK1 will heal up to 20% of the creature's mind, focus and willpower wounds and damage while TRICK2 will heal up to 40% of the creatures mind, focus and willpower wounds and damage. Pets "Hungry!" and "Play!" spam will only be visible to the pet's master Buffing Pets Pets have their stats buffed like players either through consumption of foods or through doctor enhancements. Pets are given their own unique types of food in which only they can consume. In order to buff a pet through foods, the player must drag and drop a food item onto the pet from the inventory. Using the feed radial on these foods does not buff the pet but instead offers it as a means to heal their wounds like other foodstuffs do. If the item of food has multiple charges, the pet will only consume one charge per feeding. Creature Vitality Healing Just like players, pets are incapacitated when one of their Health, Action, or Mind bars reaches zero. At this point, an enemy can execute a "coup de grace" (a.k.a. "deathblow") to kill the pet. All pets have a statistic called "Vitality" that starts at 100/100 and decreases each time they receive a deathblow. When the vitality reaches 75, the pet will suffer a reduction of 25% of its max HAM, leaving it with 75% of its regular life. At 50, a 50% reduction is applied, and at 25, a 75% reduction is applied. A pet cannot be permanently slain and can survive with 0 vitality. While you can restore some of the lost vitality with a Bio-Engineer's Pet Vitality Medpack, doing so will decrease the maximum vitality. Thus, if a pet is killed enough it will eventually reach a point at which its stat loss cannot be recovered. There are two ways to do this: activating the "Use Vitality Pack" option by selecting your pet in the datapad, and by targeting your called pet and double-clicking the vitality pack in your inventory. Both methods work; however, if you have multiple vitality packs of varying strengths in your inventory, you should probably use the second method (or the game will choose for you). 1. What is "vitality"? All creature pets have a stat on them called "vitality." You can see this by examining their info in the datapad; a new pet will have 100/100. When a pet is incapacitated, it may receive a deathblow (depending on what you are fighting) - when it does, it will lose 2 points of vitality. So, for instance, the first death a pet suffers will change the vitality reading to 98/100, then 96/100, and so forth. Why is this important? When the vitality reaches 75, the pet will suffer a reduction of 25% of its max HAM, leaving it with 75% of its regular life. At 50, a 50% reduction is applied, and at 25, a 75% reduction is applied. A creature pet cannot be permanently slain and can survive with 0 vitality; however, a pet with 25% of its standard HAM is generally far from formidable (i.e. on a 10K creature, it would have 2.5K). 2. What is a vitality pack? Vitality packs are made by Bio-Engineers, in the tissues tree. There are three types of vitality packs - A, B, and C. The power ranges from low (A) to high (C), although there is some overlap. The power has a direct influence on their restorative powers. 3. How do I use a vitality pack? There are two ways to do this: activating the "Use Vitality Pack" option by selecting your pet in the datapad, and by targeting your called pet and double-clicking the vitality pack in your inventory. Both methods work; however, if you have multiple vitality packs of varying strengths in your inventory, you should probably use the second method (or the game will choose for you). 4. What do vitality packs do? The only purpose of a vitality pack is to restore lost vitality, though some vitality will be permanently lost as a result. Depending on how much vitality your pet has lost and the strength of the vitality pack you are using, you may see anywhere from 1 to 20 points of permanent vitality lost. For example, let’s say your pet is at 92/100 vitality - you purchase and apply a 13+ vitality pack A. Your pet should then have 99/99 vitality, a gain of 7 vitality - but also a permanent loss of 1 overall vitality. 5. How do vitality packs work? There are a number of common misconceptions about vitality packs, such as "you will only lose 1 point as long as the pack’s strength is the same or higher than the current vitality lost," "1 point of permanent loss per 10 points of current vitality loss," and "if you use a strong enough vitality pack you can avoid any permanent loss." I do not have an equation for you (although if anyone can work one out from my data, let me know and I will add it), but what I can provide for you is a guideline for minimizing permanent vitality loss for common ranges. 6. So what type of vitality pack should I use, and when? Overall, the most efficient means is to use vitality packs sparingly, and to use the most powerful range you can afford or find. You may or may not have an easy time acquiring the more advanced vitality packs - your best bet is to contact some of the more active bio-engineers on your server. Many do not stock the higher end vitality packs. The lower end of these ranges is fairly easily obtainable with mediocre components (~40-60% experimentation). Here are the optimal ranges I have found for A, B, and C packs; this information is not guaranteed to be accurate, although I have yet to produce a contradiction. If you find one, I would like to hear about it. 13-38pt Vitality Pack (A or a low quality B): Up to 8 lost vitality points restored with minimal loss* 50-70pt Vitality Pack (mid to high B or a low-mid quality C): Up to 18 lost vitality points restored with minimal loss* 75-100pt Vitality Pack (mid to high C): Up to 28 lost vitality points restored with minimal loss* The max ranges listed above are the most you can heal with that type of vitpack before you begin losing 2 or 3 vitality (or more). So, for instance, if you use a vitpack C at 72/100 vitality, your pet should have 99/99 afterward. However, at 70/100 (30 loss), the vitpack will only restore it to 98/98. It is also important to note that there is no noticeable difference in loss over these ranges - a 13pt A will be just as effective as a 38pt A in this range.** 7. General Q&A Q: Does the type of vitality pack matter? A: No, it does not - a 38 strength B will restore the same amount as a 38 strength A. However, each type of pack has a limit to how high (and low) it can go in strength. For instance, a top-notch vitality pack A maxes out at around 38 strength, while a mediocre B can be 45-50 or more. Q: Does the power really matter? A: Yes! You may not have an improvement if you are using them under certain circumstances, such as 8 or less missing vitality, but stronger vitality packs are generally better. See the section above or the raw data for more info. Q: Does it matter what type of pet I am using it on? A: No, I tested several points with full-grown CL30+ pets versus baby jax and anglers, and had identical results. Q: Will my pet lose more vitality if his max is lower (i.e. 82/90)? A: No, the only important factors are the current amount lost, and the strength of the pack you are intending to use. See the raw data for more info on this. Q: What happens when I use a vitality pack that is lower than my pet’s current lost vitality? A: Your pet will be fully restored to a new permanent vitality, but the penalty for this tends to be quite high (up to ~20 pts). See the raw data for some examples. Q: My pet lost 50 vitality. Can I use two vitality packs, one after the other, to heal him? A: No. The first pack you use will do the job, even if the pack is not strong enough, but you will suffer additional vitality loss. Q: Can I use a vitality pack on a droid? A: Apparently, you can do this, due to the fact that droids have a vitality stat now as well. I have not personally tried this, but I have been told that it works. Same rules should apply to droids as they do to creatures. Q: Can I use a vitality pack more than once? A: No, all vitality packs are one use only. Q: Can you use advanced liquid suspension (ALS) and biological effect controllers (ABEC)? Do they make my vitality packs stronger? A: ALS and ABEC will work, but they currently offer no advantage. This is because the LS and BEC components have no effect on the strength of vitality packs; they are only required as components. This provides you with the option of making vitality packs more cheaply by using regular components; however, it may be changed at a later point. Datasets: Vitality Pack Testing Results Source References Source Source in Context

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