SuggestedAbility to split medical items

about 2 months ago

MARLIS

147 Total Respect

MARLIS

147 Respect

about 2 months ago

I think I saw Vaelin mention this idea somewhere, but I can't find a suggestion about it. So here it is.

Currently, the prices of low-tier medical items on  the market are far too high because of rep traders who want to keep their cooldown low. Bandages are now around 80k and Small Med Kits around 120k, and the prices are only rising. That's as or even more expensive than the higher-tier medical items.

New players, for who those items are intended, have to fully rely on the NPC market or their cartel armory if they want to use medical items. Most of the time, the low-tier medical items are even completely sold out.

However, there is also an upside to this situation. Doctor offices, which were previously more or less a money sink, can now compete with other productions in terms of output per narco. As an early-game production facility, this can help new players make a decent amount of cash. But it also incentives rep farming and -trading even more, causing the prices of medical items to continue to rise.

As a solution, I propose the ability to split high-tier medical items into lower-tier items. (E.g. one Large Medical Kit can be turned into 4 Small Medical Kits, exact values and balancing tbd.)

That way, rep traders can rely more on the more expensive items and don't need to buy out all the lower-tier medical items from the market.

Responses

about 2 months ago

SHREDDERCHU

209 Total Respect

SHREDDERCHU

209 Respect

about 2 months ago

To add onto this, with the current prices of medical items, getting the premium prestige on doctors offices is a downgrade, that makes you less money, making it possible to split med items possibly through an education (new or existing) or something else would level out the prices to make higher tier medical items more expensive than the lower tier again.

For the rates, I think it should be splitting 1 into 2 at max, at least for the first 3 tiers (1 large med kit -> 2 small med kits -> 4 Bandages) since going a tier up doubles the price in the pharmacy if you're buying them.

about 1 month ago

TATER_GUZMAN

55 Total Respect

TATER_GUZMAN

55 Respect

about 1 month ago

i approve of this, i think it would be a good thing for everyone

8 days ago

BARUNAVA

19 Total Respect

BARUNAVA

19 Respect

8 days ago

Agreed. Higher tier meds are almost useless until user gets overdose or hospitalised. 

Also I think the splitting should be based on their ratio of cooldown time.

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8 days ago

KWYY

521 Total Respect

KWYY

521 Respect

8 days ago

I'm against being able to split up the medical items just because the only ones worth using/selling are small med kits - that just feels like a lazy fix. However, I do agree that being punished for prestiging the Doctors offices is rubbish gameplay so a slider is good. 

Or vaelinn has a look at the CD for certain items to align them better because essentially all other med kits are useless.

Last Edited 11/09/2026, 09:27:06