Parasites, then food poisoning - can't treat the FP?

[mark]

So, I got intestinal parasites for the first time, at a 1% chance (which is fine, because I must have done it 50+ times over various runs, had to happen eventually). Got 2 days of treatment remaining. Only had one set of antibiotics all game, so having to run around for reishi's but managing okay.

Then I eat a 7% condition tin of peaches (yeah, clever) and get food poisoning. I can use the reishi tea I had saved for tomorrow's parasite treatment... but it doesn't work. I don't get an option to choose which affliction to treat and (since no 'tick' mark is appearing against the medication for the FP) it seems parasites are taking priority, probably because contracted first. Doubly useless, because I've already had todays dose.

Any way out of this? I'm at 80% condition with the parasites reducing max health, so don't think I can survive the approximate 30+ hours that would be needed to clear the parasites before treating the FP (wiki says 85% reduction over 18 hours).

[jswilliams]

Okay, that's weird. I'm hoping you alted out of that madness so at least reset back to FP affliction. I'll post and start editing but go do that right now if in game (my advice, and no shame).

Okay, if you took today's treatment, the reishi shouldve gone to FP, period.

Over the evolving of the UI, some good, some bad. Many, many of us were irritated about the select treatment removal from the UI.

DUMB.

Don't know if they thought it would be more challenging, if they thought they were being clever, whatever. Forget the realism, I know irl if I have a raging headache and bad lower back pain, when I take a pain reliever I don't select what gets treated. The flip to that is, ya take pain meds, everything gets treated.

But this is a game. They really, really need to go back to selective treatment because what has happened is a code change has opened the door to this carpola.

You might be doomed. If the treatment simply will NOT work on FP after a few scum saves, your only hope is to sleep till just after midnight gauging the sundial and hope when you wake up on the new day FP will get the priority. If it won't work on a few scum reloads, then back to sleep and hope for the best. Use STIMS! Do whatever it takes to keep that condition up even if you burn down 3 stims for the 45%

[mark]

Originally posted by jswilliams:

Okay, that's weird. I'm hoping you alted out of that madness so at least reset back to FP affliction. I'll post and start editing but go do that right now if in game (my advice, and no shame).

Yeah, I quit and the last save is immediately on the affliction. Reloaded a couple of times and tried drinking straight from stove, from radial menu and from inventory, no difference. Obviously don't want to sleep if the reishi isn't treating the FP. I did wait a few minutes and health is ticking down so (along with no 'ticks' on the affliction screen) assume it's not treated.

[jswilliams]

There's always a chance it's just not ticked. Following advice above, and say the treatment worked with no check off, say you sleep 7ish hours till just after midnight. Just as an example. You wake up, if it says 3 of 10 hours left and your condition didn't drop while sleeping, then the treatment actually worked.

But no matter what use a stim to boost if nothin' else

[mark]

Ok, day/night symbols are almost level - what's that, 6pm? (Actually, a fraction before). Condition is 81%, max condition is only a tick or two higher, say 83%.

How does the stim work in terms of condition - sleep first, use stim? Or vice versa? (Think I've only twice used one, and that was for energy boost to run home low condition in a blizzard).

[jswilliams]

Yes level sundial/dusk is 6pm. Ideal for sleeping 7 hours now or very soon.

If you're going to need the stim, you need to take some condition hit. Right now you'll just bang into your 80ish max.

Stim heals 15% along with the stamina and then immediate Exhaustion. Who cares, but only take it if you wake up and condition is hit and no hours checked off.

Wait.

For now sleep 1 hour and see what happens. As it is you're locked into a sleep till midnight anyway, so could do a few hours at a time.

Your goal is to have the moon just past, well, midnight/12 if it were a clock.

I think the stim will give you the boost to get out of this jam. Use more if needed.

Say you have 3 stims and you need to ride out 18 hours of sleeping and condition loss. You'll need to be sleeping in short stints anyway and monitor when you'll get the full 15% back from stim use.

Excited hoping you make it! Hope you're actually being treated and it's just a checkmark glitch!

[jswilliams]

FWIW I survived an IP/FP bout a few months ago and same condition...FP was days later (mmmm 68% sardines) I seem to recall some hiccup in the process, but can't remember what it was. Anyway, tea, 10 hours did it. Think this was before VFupdate though. I love it when a Survivor overcomes glitch bullcarp.

By the way, are you SURE you took that day's IP treatment? I had to really discipline myself to drink upon waking and forget about minmaxing the little bit of healing I might get by having calories in the tank later in the day during a nap. Just drink it first thing and be done with it.

[mark]

Okay, got 3 stims I'll give it a go. Also max fatigued, so I'll make a few coffees before the first sleep.

[mark]

Originally posted by jswilliams:

By the way, are you SURE you took that day's IP treatment? I had to really discipline myself to drink upon waking and forget about minmaxing the little bit of healing I might get by having calories in the tank later in the day during a nap. Just drink it first thing and be done with it.

Yeah, I've been quite careful about that; also I checked on one of the re-loads my remaining doses before and after drinking the reishi - no movement.

[mark]

Treatment showed as ticked straight after one hour's sleep, sleep required showed as 9/10. Not even had to use a stim.

Thanks for your help :)

[jswilliams]

Coffee will just be calories. Soon as you sleep your stamina will regen in big leaps.

Woot!!! ok cool. Maybe that's what happened to me as far as remembering a glitch in my treatment also.