but in the SWR codebase (based on smaug) when you ingest quantities of drugs you see random messages across your screen similiar to SIC messages except they seem to just be random messages from your head...
DISCLAIMER: /Rambling
I.E.
"You are a golden god, Kill Your Desciples."
All I'm saying is why not give the people more reason to do drugs, let them see random amusing messages when they're messed up.
You could also do the same for when they're not...
I.E.
"Your skin crawls with sinister demons calling out your name, DAMN...What the hell do they put in your ciggarettes."
Albeit these ideas may limit the horizon of the players expectations of drugs use but they could also further them...I recall once playing a game then coming under the influence of a spell which randomized the color of every text character in the game. Providing me with quite the dazzling experience.
Perhaps it could be similiar to the option the luck attribute plays in the game, as whether you let drugs be present in your gameplay. Messages could be based on the effects of the drugs, for example if a drugs is a downer maybe you see a message consistent with a -120 drug rating...if its an upper you see the message consistent with a +120 rating and so on and so forth.
Its somewhat useless, but somewhat entertaining and in the end all that matter is whether its fun or not.
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