Seasons - Temperature Studies - Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Over?
dizzy:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 March 11, 10:56:09
How Maxians can remain ignorant of the most important concept in currently accepted medical science is beyond me.
Laziness. Same reason they *still* mostly make Edith modifications to work around their bizarrely stupid reliance on Edith.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: gjam on 2007 March 11, 17:15:46
I suppose they were going for the traditional belief that being cold compromises the immune system, making one more likely to become ill, but overdid it as usual.
While this belief is true, this alone cannot actually give you the plague: You must also be EXPOSED to the plague, which simply doesn't happen standing around without anyone who has the plague around you. Plus it still doesn't match the given numbers, where being about to freeze from hypothermia REDUCES your chance of picking anything up. That behavior more closely models the effect of temperature on bacterial growth. In any case, the upcoming fix to be released Real Soon Now should correct both the silly belief in spontaneous generation and the blatantly incorrect modelling of cold on the immune system.
cwykes:
Exposure or frostbite aren't trivial, so the sim should need bed rest to recover. It's the contagious bit that doesn't make sense. Maybe they were just too lazy to write a new illness with 0 contagiousness. Could it be done that way?
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: cwykes on 2007 March 13, 08:19:35
Exposure or frostbite aren't trivial, so the sim should need bed rest to recover. It's the contagious bit that doesn't make sense. Maybe they were just too lazy to write a new illness with 0 contagiousness. Could it be done that way?
Well, thing is, sims don't get exposure or frostbite. No lost toes, nothing. Just the ordinary preexisting plague.
cwykes:
Yes - I think they should have written a new, specific plague type for exposure with 0 contagiousness and energy drain as the main sympton. Sunburn should be there at the other extreme as well. They took a shortcut and linked to the code for cold/flu/whatever instead. I just wondered if your fix could link it to a tailor-made plague with 0 CT.
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