POLL: Should Goodneighbor have (had) a doctor?

[The Inept European]

(just kidding, I don't think we can do polls)

It's very odd that Dr Amari doesn't provide medical services. All other major settlements and faction HQs have a doctor or at least a medical post (The Castle). Nobody else in Goodneighbor provides medical services either.

Does she provide medical services if you ally to Goodneighbor and/or the Railroad? I don't think so.

I get that she's a scientist and maybe not a medical doctor. But neither are most (any?) of the other so-called doctors in the Commonwealth. And apparently any settler can dispense healing, rad treatment, disease cures and addiction cures if you buy them a big wooden box with a sign. (And Dr Amari is a very hands-on scientist, actually working with patients herself on serious medical procedures.)

So, poll: was this an oversight? Is it a bug? Or was it a deliberate game design decision. Either way, should there be a medical services provider in Goodneighbor? Or not.

[Grendalcat]

Yes there should be. It's about on a par with Diamond City. Although I haven't thought about this before, as I don't spend much time in Goodneighbor, other than trading.

[The Inept European]

Yeah I hung out there for a while recently and used it as a base, for missions in that part of town and also for the Silver Shroud stuff, and I kind of RP bought into the "Diamond City people are all squares" thing. So that's when I noticed there are no medical facilities, I'd never noticed before either.

[WillieSea]

With all the stimpaks available, is there a need for doctor services in that location? Diamond city is not that far away. Or any settlement you setup that is near the city (or in it) you can build a clinic.

I like how suddenly assigning a person to the clinic, they become a doctor. It must be synth knowledge transfer and everybody in the game is a synth...

[The Inept European]

They were all expelled from Diamond City, originally, so they're not going to want to go there. With that many residents they would want their own doctor and not have to risk getting killed by raiders or super mutants just to see the doctor.

Stimpaks don't fix disease or rads or addiction. And they cost more than doctor services.

[WillieSea]

I am talking about the player character, because I have no shortage of stimpaks in my game.

But as I said, doctor services can be available from several nearby places. And Goodneighbor is the hood of the city, where the bums and drunks live.

[The Inept European]

Ah yes I'm not thinking of it from the point of PC needs. You're quite right from that perspective (although, Survival). I'm thinking from the point of view of game world integrity and consistency, plausibility.

If she's not able to provide medical services and there are none available there, since it's an exception (the only one I can think of), you would at least expect an explanation to be supplied in-game. Hancock hates doctors, or the last one was a synth spy, something like that. With any kind of in-game explanation, I'd be totally fine with it.

[=EGC= kansasterry]

well if we understand that goodneighbor was supposedly started as a ghoul settlement for the ghouls and others not accepted at DC or other settlements to live and according to lore most medical services do not work on ghouls they probably never thought to have a doctor in GoodNeighbor

[The Inept European]

That's a good point actually. They would need a Bethany. Dr Amari could only work on the non-ghouls.

Also the Slog doesn't have a doctor (though it's only about 4-5 people when you get there).

[Iron Knights]

But ghouls heal from Radiation, they just go take a swim and come back.

[Iron Knights]

"Ghoulneighbor" Might eat you someday, feeling lucky ?

[WillieSea]

Originally posted by Not Nice:

Originally posted by WillieSea:

With all the stimpaks available, is there a need for doctor services in that location?

Ya stimpacks have too many drawbacks. I don't use them and run to a doctor.

Are you shooting up stimpaks like your eating candy?
The first perk of Ghoulish solves most of your healing problems.
And as I said, there are several locations very close by that either have a doctor, or you can build a clinic for your doctor needs.

[Iron Knights]

I alternate, eat food after combat ends or if I got into a nice mess, stimpak to avoid dying. Got the perk where I only need 1 stimpak to fully heal.

[MartyrmanX]

Originally posted by Iron Knights:

I alternate, eat food after combat ends or if I got into a nice mess, stimpak to avoid dying. Got the perk where I only need 1 stimpak to fully heal.

Stimpak to avoid dying? Have we forgotten about Buffout. That stuff is a real lifesaver for me on the brink of death.

[Zotliatlicor]

Ghouls doesnt need doctoring as much as humans, and the Goodneighbor is a Ghoul free haven. There are multiple chems Vendors in the vicinity outside the borders, for when the humans of GN needs some AB or other Chems

[Iron Knights]

I have buffouts and psychojets, I just refuse to use plain drugs, unless it's the last thing in my inventory. I get addicted with addictol too and I've been to Vault 95, I mean they let Cait be immune but not me ??? Yeah, this is not the crappy Fallout 3 where you just gobble your entire inventory just to stay alive. Fallout 4 is better in many ways.