Cheaper Field Resuscitation

This pertains to the upcoming guided discussion about medical roleplay, which I didn't want to sidetrack with outsider suggestions. I will caveat that this is from the perspective of someone who hasn't done any medical roleplay, so I defer to players who do do that if they feel this is the wrong sort of direction.

But just from an external perspective, one of the things I've noticed about the limitations of roleplay for field medics stems from their gameplay. That being that one of the most common reasons to call for a medic is not to treat wounds but rather to treat death. For the vast majority of medical characters this means dragging a corpse to their clinic for resuscitation which produces the issue that they're often taking a non-audience (a corpse who cannot roleplay) away from the roleplay to somewhere where their is, again, no audience for roleplay because one of the participants is dead.

I think this comes back to combat medic kitbags being incredibly expensive which more or less guarantees that virtually all resuscitation will involve dragging someone off. I'd argue the actual value of resuscitation-in-place is overtuned, and that it's actually in the game's interest to enable unconscious/dead characters to re-engage in roleplay more rather than less.

So the idea suggestion would be either slash the price of combat medic kitbags dramatically (-90%), or alternatively create disposable resuscitation kits in the ~1000c range that medics could use to get characters re-engaged with roleplay in-situ, and have more of a chance of playing a role in what is going on, on location.

While the kitbag is prohibitively expensive for the locations it would work best in, there is also an alternative to the kitbags that is approximately 1/3 the total cost of the kitbag. Field resuscitation, as a medical player, should be expensive, because the player performing it should also be of sufficient actual skill level not to totally cook the person into a corpse by shocking them without proper investment to skills.

But yes, in short, there is another option that is drastically cheaper than a kitbag and its needed extras.

What I mean for expensive, is not price. I would love a cheap method like anyone, however what I mean is, it *is* expensive in terms of *skill investment*.

The problem is when in relation to kitbags designed for chars in a combat occupation, the skill investment it takes to be able to be a successful medic in resuscitation completely takes away from any time you can put toward learning to fight and defend that nearly 100k investment into actually resuscitating people with a kitbag. That is a key point.

I'm not saying lower skill ceiling, but when you compare the other options that are out there for field revives, there is a substantially more affordable option that is able to be earned with a few weeks of hustling, and isn't exactly something people will curbstomp you for

With the alternative cheaper equipment already available for the task, I don't think kitbags should be cheapened at this time

There was quite a lot of discussion about this on XOOC, other players with medic PCs suggested alternate solutions (such as a CPR mechanism) that didn't involve new devices or price changes, which I think is completely compatible with the central idea here.

The basic premise is: Would keeping medics on-site for post-combat (or mid-comat) scenes enable them to experience more roleplay than they do by needing to leave to a clinic with one of the scene participants. If the belief is yes, how can that be enabled?