Limited Prescription Pharmaceuticals

[cekivi]

First off, this is a suggestion mainly intended to increase difficulty levels. Basically, high strength painkillers and antibiotics are both prescribed medicines. Considering the painkillers are string enough for you to immediately run on a sprained ankle they're probably narcotics. Likely, you wouldn't find either of them in every first aid kit you came across. Some, sure, but they should be really rare.

Instead of prescription drugs, over the counter drugs would be a substitute to replace them. Aspirin for painkillers and cough medicine (or something similar) for antibiotics. Both will work but are far less effective (especially the antibiotics). Prescription drugs can then be made really valuable due to their scarcity and a looted pharmacy could be added to the Coastal Townsite to give players who want to run the gauntlet of wolves and bears around it an even bigger loot payoff. This would also make natural remedies even more important.

How I see it, Pilgrim would require no changes (except adding the pharmacy), Voyager would have a roughly 50% reduction in finding drugs and Stalker would have a 90% reduction.

[selfless]

Remember you are in Canada now.  Both are available over-the-counter.

[cekivi]

2 minutes ago, selfless said:

Remember you are in Canada now.  Both are available over-the-counter.

You still need a prescription for stronger antibiotics and narcotics. Sure, you can get antibiotic first aid treatments and T3s but a pharmacist won't give you penicillin or codeine without a doctor's prescription. Our hospitals and doctors may be free up here but it is not a free for all