I dunno, I think consecutive uses should give similar gains, but worse penalties- like drug use in real life. You get a decent high at first, with the low not being so bad. Then as you get more hooked, you need more of the drug to get that high, and the comedown gets progressively worse due to using more of it. If the penalty is intel, it should be a set amount each time, IMO- possibly taking off your levels worth of intel.
This is getting a bit complicated I think, but it'd be a cool idea... say you need 24 hours to flush 1 dose out of your system. You get the bonus and penalty as normal, and provided you don't touch steroids for the next 24 hours, you suffer no further penalty. During those 24 hours, HP regeneration is halved. If you do take more during this time, the HP regeneration returns to normal , and the penalty remains the same, but you need 48 hours to fully recover, and go back to square one.
Along those lines anyway, would help massively limit abuse of steroids unless people truly don't give a damn about intel.
Also, if you get brought to 0 intel (which should be possible) you get a lengthy hospital sentence (few hours maybe), when you get out you have very minimal intel (like 0.1) and you still have the steroid comedown. If you take more whilst your intel is dangerously low, you go straight back to hospital.
*edit* ok, this is getting TOTALLY messed up. It makes sense the way I have it here, but the BBcode is screwing it up. And I can't turn it off. The sentences are getting jumbled. |
