Konrad Knox

There is a correlation and a cause-effect between being wet, hot, cold, and sick. The key terms here are temperature differential, temperature drop, and temperature shock. The way it was explained to me by one of the very few doctors I consider competent: Our body is constantly running our immune system, like a factory, using calories as power source, and stomach as a furnace. Immune system constantly wards off various bacteria and virus strains. Most of the time, day to day, we do not notice this, because our body runs the defenses just fine. Normally our body can deal with things like wind, extreme heat, and rain, for some periods of time. There isn't a strict science or formula to establish exact connection, because every person has different immunity capacity and different stomach. But the way it works is: being exposed to wind while wet, increases our temperature drop, and makes our body work harder, straining the immune system. Thus, rain can cause sickness. Being exposed to sudden temperature differentials and fluctuations can do the same thing. Every time I fly from Alaska to Seattle, in the summer, I get sick, because my body is used to the adjustment mode it has in Alaska weather. When in a hot climate, my body now has to work extra to cool itself, and the immune system suffers the same. Voila, I catch a cold in 95 degrees F. I catch a hot really, not a cold. LOL. The third is temperature shock: diving into an ice filled bath tub, then blowing yourself over with a hot fan, then eating an ice cream, and drinking hot tea, and then laying down with air conditioner on - produces a lot of tension in the body, as it has to constantly adjust. BAM, you get sick next morning. TL;DR: Wet, Cold, and Hot all do the same thing, they force your body to redirect its calorie energy to maintaining proper temperature, instead of running the immune system, which ends up getting you sick.

Hi. My name is Konrad and I'm new to the forums. (And no, my last name was Knox before it was cool, I didn't just steal Knox Country's name. The name is actually what got me pumped up to try it, because of the coincidence ) My friend got me into PZ three days ago, and we've been having a blast! Pretty much right away we jumped into multiplayer and started running our own dedicated server where we play with a group of friends around the clock. I'm not sure if this suggestion should go in this forum or under multiplayer, but I'm giving it a shot here. I apologize if this was already brought up, I didn't find any topics using Search that relate to "sleep" So, sleep doesn't work in multiplayer for obvious reasons. You can't skip time. One way it could potentially be done is for players to initiate a time skip vote if they want to sleep. Example: Joe, Mike, and Anne are on the server. Joe is sleepy. Joe presses a button that lets him nominate how many hours he would like to skip and sleep for. Mike and Anne get a notification: Joe requests to skip 6 hours. Mike responds with his own nomination of 4 hours, because he needs to sleep less. Anne sees Joe: 6 hours, Mike: 4 hours. Let's say Anne's cycle is all messed up and she isn't even tired. But she agrees to find a safe place and skip time to let others sleep. She agrees on 2 hours. The final vote: Anne 2, Mike 4, Joe 6. The lowest common time agreed upon is enacted, and the server skips 2 hours. ---- This approach has several problems, however, which I have not thought of solutions to yet. Problem 1. What if there are many people? So many that at any point in time there exists someone who cannot afford to skip time at the moment? Problem 2. How do you take watch? Security Guard class's entire perk is centered around light sleeper function, which makes the Security Guard the obvious choice for watchman. He takes watch at night when his friends sleep. How could the sleepers skip time without forcing it onto the watchman? ---- And this also kind of flows into a neighbor topic of making Security Guard viable in multiplayer. Maybe he needs a different special? Like a better vision and hearing radius or more peripheral vision? Thoughts?