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[Marko]

Regardless of Charisma, NPC doctors should talk with anyone/all characters since doctors have "seen it all". They've seen pretty people look ugly and they've seen ugly people look hideous and nothing makes tham sick anymore. So a Charisma 1 character? Who cares - it should not be a problem for a professional physician.

(Let our fighters get radiation treatment without shuffling around for beer or breath mints.)

[TKs-KaBoom]

NOOoooooooooooooooooo.......

If anything as in realife doctors would treat you like shit if you had 1 charisma and would probably give you a treatment for radiation poisoning that consisted of him pissing in a vial and injecting it in your ass.  He would of course explain that this is a sliding scale fee system after you tell him you don't have insurance and as it turns out would cost you 3 times what anyone on insurance would be charged.  Then some asshole would tell you that you wouldn't want socialized medicine or you'd end up like the Canadians (that btw have a longer lifespan than Americans, must be all the contaminated cheaper drugs that they get directly from American Pharmaceutical companies).  Turns out life is harsh indeed, charisma requirements should be raised to 5 and you must have at least 5k caps on you or 50k caps in the bank for them to even "schedule" an appointment to see you.  Then if you have cigarettes in your inventory they should also charge you a thousand caps to give you a "stop smoking" consultation, which consists of him looking down his nose at you and saying "you should really stop smoking".  If you have jet addiction and do not have the "porn star" perk like a move star they should immediately have the guards shoot you on sight as its a crime otherwise it's a treatable disease that they will automatically deduct 50k from your bank account.  You'll still be addicted to jet, but at least now you can tell everyone you have been to rehab for a terrible disease and aren't really a criminal.

[Roachor]

If people refused to talk to cha 1 characters irl half of america would die in the street.

[falloutdude]

a doctor swears to help thoses in need. even ugly deformed 1 int and 1 ch people. so yes this makes sense. if i was to go see a doctor and i was really ugly he would treat my wounds. thats why he became a doctor to help people.

[Jackiepaipai]

Also I d like to add that when you are heavily radiated you have one charisma, you can't be healed. There is a non-sens with being sick and not being able to be healed.

[Lizard]

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Oath of Hippocrates, do you know it?

[TKs-KaBoom]

ha ha ha, Doctors are there to help people!  Keep thinking that, lol lol lol.

[S.T.A.L.K.E.R]

Maybe your breath smells and they go, "Eww. get away from me".
Or they just hate you

[Roachor]

ha ha ha, Doctors are there to help people!  Keep thinking that, lol lol lol.

Only America has doctors that will let you die because you aren't rich outside of the third world.

[lucas.]

Eh... I guess you're right...


I know I would rather treat myself while drunk than going to a public hospital IRL though.

[Horatio]

Allow me to introduce Dr. Terry Dix.

A ghoulified doctor in Necropolis, hates smoothskins, talks a lot, insults you, uses questionable methods but will make an exception for such an ugly and stupid smoothskin like you for some caps and a reminder that he swore that oath.


                           BRING ME SOME WHISKEY, GIRLNAME!
                                                   

[Giftless]

Yeah, if you think about it, most wasteland doctors could only charge a few hundred caps for basic services and wouldn't be too picky about who they take. It isn't like the modern day USA where there's a large elderly population and insurance to support high prices, anything but. The majority of the wastelanders are going to be poor farmers and scavengers, with half of them getting gunned down by raiders before even making it to the sawbones. The Doc might not even have enough patients among the living to be a doctor all the time--they might have a sideline in agriculture, selling drugs, etc.

[Johnnybravo]

The whole charisma would better be perk or something.
It works for setting number of allowed followers, but other than that it's just annoyance. I think everyone remember the horrors with Jo - one had to bring character with some charisma, but he couldn't be slaver. Of course mentats worked, but at the same time you couldn't use cigarette which was pretty much must have.

Really cool feature, right?

[Horatio]

JohnyBravo, so you think of additional Charisma uses? More dialogue options and goodies for sale. One could barter to heal his ugly follower or arrange a payment with supplies instand of caps, like Chemical Components.

Come to that, doctors in Wasteland will be more inclined to receive raw materials than JMoney because buying them supplies will be quite bothersome for a busy healer.

[Johnnybravo]

No, I think charisma would better be "More followers" perk instead, with it's improved versions just like everything else.
If you add more options from it, it'll be just another "make new alt" thing. You must understand what was reason to have charisma in Fallout - choice of your style and option to finish the game in more "talking" way.
Now that's just fine there, it makes good sense, and it was one of the reasons why one could praise Fallout for being so great.
But here you have no objective nor you are really building any reputation, so quests are irrelevant outside of their XP/Money gain. If one wants to be a good guy in Fonline he has to work with people, where any game stat is irrelevant, it's all about player.

The only "solid" reason to ever keep this stat as it is, is purely cosmetic and nostalgic.