Releasing of some player side info.
There is stuff we just should know.

This is all assuming anything changes with how we assess our damage.

Something that we should be able to easily see, though, is how much pain we're perceiving, possibly on a numeric scale of nothing to overload, maybe with numbers able to go above, for those times when we're getting kicked in the nuts while suffering appendicitis with a hot fire poker in our spleen. The key term here, is, of course, perceiving. Even if our arm has been lopped off, if we're on some stupidly strong pain killers, that should still be a 1 or a 2.

The how hurt descriptions are hardly random, and entirely proportionate to your health, and very descriptive. In addition to telling you how hurt you are, they also inform you of how much pain your in, what kind of damage you've taken and how much of it specifically, how thirsty you are, how tired you are, and how fast you're recovering from being tired. All of these messages scale from 'you're a little bit' to 'you're very' to 'oh shit, better do something'.

And here's that link clickable https://www.sindome.org/wiki/index.php/Drugs_in_Withmore

But no, the HT does not do a good job in my opinion of showing you how hurt you are, and the whole You feel this and that, is horrible.

It's worked fine for me, and for the past 15 years or however long it's been that way. I'm not seeing anything in your suggestions that would improve it.

I think the current descriptions should be for doctors and medically trained personnel to see.

I think it's too specific but not useful in it's current state, it's great for a medical professional diagnosis, but I as the person in reference should see a more simplified and easier to decipher general phrase.

Jago wrote:

We can't do basic first aid even to stop bleeding or the like. And a person with all the medical skill in the world is useless without some type of coded item.

You can stop bleeding. Examine the medkits. Like in RL, you don't have to be a paramedic to use a first aid kit to tamp down the bleeding wound you have. Although more serious wounds do need a doctor of sorts.

As for being useless without a coded item, I do kinda agree with this. Someone trained in medicine should be able to make a makeshift tourniquet to stop the bleeding long enough to get to a doctor without dying.

Idea: Instead of a permanent stopping to the bleeding you are experiencing, maybe a tourniquet can be a temporary stop?

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Jago wrote:

Well first of all, I would like to see the game update you when you're feeling better, both in fatigue and ht status. As it is now for fatigue, it will tell you every action you make that lowers your fatigue, but never tells you when you're rested, you have to just keep checking ht over and over to see when you're "full up"

I'm sorry but it does. It's not like a gas guage, true, but I like that it isn't. In real life you don't have a gas guage-like health meter. But, that said, there are indicators that show you when you are well rested and recovering however. Or that you are a little tired and recovering normally. Or little tired and recovering slowly.

If you experiment, then you can figure out what you do to become tired and what you can do (eat, rest, etc) to become less tired. Just like in Real Life, when you go to work out, what would you do? What would the difference be in working out on a full stomach opposed to an empty stomach? When you think about RL, then it seems to easily translate to the game.

Also, as Jinx wrote, you do see the injuries displayed. You do see how beat up or wounded you are. (I personally forget to look sometimes in the middle of whatever's happening. )

Also since your health is one of the most important factors to your character, at least if you don't want to die, why is there not a reference anywhere of common street drugs, what they do, how they work etc?

Why isn't there a gridpage with this info? That's ic, but available

There is. :) I see others have giving you one of the links.

There's general knowledge that is available to the public which is on the Sindome site's wiki. Anything there is data that's easy to find out or maybe something your character would already know.

Just do a search on the site for Drugs. :) (You can also do this for Weapons, Armor, Corporations, Councils, Withmore Laws, and many other things [no vehilcles yet]. This is data you can easily find on the Grid or asking Immy [the hologram] so to speak.)

Here's another link: http://www.sindome.org/about/drugs/

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Now,a general train of thought of something I noticed and I've been in the position where I had to learn about this so I just want to put this down since this thread is on Health:

If your character is injured, it's not something easily slept off if you are near death. Unless you have in game a special cybernetic treatment, you better get your ass to a doctor. I've been in this RP position before so I know what's happening but, to me, it's meta to "Sleep it Off" since you are Near Death. Your character's body is dying. Have some aid assisted to you at least. If you want to sleep it off without aid, just know what you're risking.

I would not mind seeing healing rates being scaled out to account for severity, so small wounds heal quickly, but getting the shit beat out of you considerably slowed your healing rate. That would certainly make getting near death a much more consequential and make seeing a doctor in such situations much more imperative, since right now you more or less CAN just 'sleep it off'.

My little bit was that some players who are dying and don't see a doctor & just seem to sleep it off instead of RPing that they are near dying and doing something about it. And maybe they think they won't die which may not be true. When I am seriously injured in RL, I go see a doctor. Near death? I hope someone takes me to a hospital. (Keep in mind, this was for those that don't have certain cybernetic treatments which you can find out about in game that help. This is mainly for those that may not have that nifty shit.) :)

But as for scale rate on how injured and / or fatigued you are, the scale rate is there as Linekin pointed out. Just not a gas gauge meter-like health bar. (I hope I understood you Mojo.) :)

But, we can't really go into possible mechanics and so I'll leave it at that. :)