I feel like we are at a tipping point on CM, and there needs to be something changed gameplay wise one direction or the other to fix it.
we currently have either NO doctors at the FOB and barely anyone comes up, most people die in the field and the op is ended
or we have -all but 1- doc at the FOB and the Almayer -never- gets patients. MEDAPC also will steal 99% of patients too.
We are at a tipping point where shipside medical barely has a place anymore, where the rounds are too fast for marines to justify coming topside for 2 primary reasons
1, you gotta get all the way to the Alamo (or unreliably hope on medvac which nobody does) (if LZ1) then are at the mercy of the pilot or worse the un-upgraded autopilot ds THEN get surgery
2, then you gotta go down, again at the mercy of the LZ pilot, and you then have to run to the front. Alternatively rappel but not many Normandy POs take that.
Thus if we want to encourage shipside medical, we need to address these issues in some form or another. First of all we'd have to bar planetside surgery, otherwise any changes here literally wouldn't matter. 1. Isn't that bad, having medvac beds that charge over 30 seconds then the Almayer hooks the patient up into medbay could work there. But getting back down is something I haven't thought of a solution.
If we want to just convert to FOBmedical plenty of people have thought of the prefab medical tent idea, slap one down as a 2x3 and inside is a 5x6 surgical beds and maybe a small chem machine but it's permanent. If this was done you leave the Almayer's autodocs to become fully automatic I'd say.
Tell me, which do you prefer? Do you have solutions?