Consciousness

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Consciousness, called Data Processing on mechanoids, is a pawn capacity: The state or quality of awareness. A pawn loses consciousness when this falls below 30%, and dies when this reaches 0%. Humans, animals and mechanoids all share the same unconscious and lethality thresholds.

At the time of writing, the maximum possible Consciousness capacity is 170% with a healthy pawn high on go-juice, luciferium and wake-up, having used a neural supercharger, with any level of pollution stimulus and a psychic bond with a pawn on the same map.

Affected stats

Consciousness itself doesn't have any direct effect on a pawn's stats, however it does directly affect several other capacities which in turn affect most stats a pawn has. Thus, when considering the effect of a consciousness change, the affected stats of those other capacities must be considered.

Name	Type	Weight	Max	Description
Eating	Capacity	1	-	A character's ability to eat.
Manipulation	Capacity	1	-	How well a character can physically interact with objects. Directly affected by consciousness and arms/hands/fingers effectiveness.
Moving	Capacity	1	1	How well a character can move around. Directly affected by consciousness.
Talking	Capacity	1	-	A character's capacity of speech. Directly affected by consciousness.

Factors

Base Factors

Consciousness is mainly affected by the following factors:

Blood Pumping: 20% importance, no allowed defect. 100% Max.
Breathing: 20% importance, no allowed defect. 100% Max.
Blood filtration: 10% importance, no allowed defect. 100% Max.
Pain: The pain offset can be calculated as follows:

IF Pain[%] <= 10% THEN -0% ELSE -{(Pain-0.1)/2.25}[%]

Thus, minor levels of pain (10% or less) have no effect on Consciousness, while anything more than that starts to reduce consciousness at a little less than half (4/9) its value.

More specifically, the pawn's consciousness is reduced at a rate of -1% for every 2.25% Pain above 10%, with a maximum penalty at 100% Pain of -40% Consciousness.

Brain part efficiency: 100% importance, no allowed defect. No Max (effectively 100%).
- Joywire: part efficiency offset −20%

Post Factors

The following factors are applied after the Base factors.

Beer (high)
- Tipsy: ×90%
- Drunk: ×65%
- Hammered: ×50%
Cryptosleep sickness: ×80%
Food poisoning
- Recovering: ×60%
- Initial: ×60%
- Major: ×50%
Heart attack painful: ×50%
Biosculpting sickness: ×80%
Interupted deathrest: ×80%
Scanning sickness: ×75%
Morning sickness: ×80%

Offsets

The following offsets are applied after the Post factors.

Beer (hangover)
- Slight: −3%
- Strong: −8%
- Pounding: −18%
Alcohol withdrawal: −20%
Go-juice:
- High: +20%
- Withdrawal: −20%
Luciferium high: +10%
Psychite withdrawal (Flake/Yayo/Psychite tea): −20%
Smokeleaf joint
- High: −30%
- Withdrawal: −20%
Wake-up:
- High: +10%
- Withdrawal: −30%
Blood loss
- Minor: −10%
- Moderate: −20%
- Severe: −40%
- Extreme: −40%
Toxic buildup
- Initial: −5%
- Minor: −10%
- Moderate: −15%
- Serious: −25%
Malnutrition
- Trivial: −5%
- Minor: −10%
- Moderate: −20%
- Severe: −30%
Heatstroke
- Initial: −5%
- Minor: −10%
- Serious: −20%
Hypothermia
- Shivering: −5%
- Minor: −10%
- Serious: −20%
Hypothermic slowdown
- Minor: −5%
- Moderate: −20%
- Serious: −40%
Infection extreme (initial): −5%
Flu
- Minor: −5%
- Major: −10%
- Extreme: −15%
Plague
- Minor: −5%
- Major: −20%
- Extreme: −30%
Malaria
- Minor: −5%
- Major: −12%
Sleeping sickness
- Minor (initial): −2%
- Minor (advanced): −4%
- Major: −15%
- Extreme (initial): −20%
Lung rot extreme: −10%
Resurrection psychosis
- Moderate: −10%
- Advanced: −20%
- Severe: −30%
- Total: −40%
Psychic breakdown:
- Minor: −25%
- Major: −50%
Circadian half-cycler: −15%
Neural supercharger: +10%
Psychic bond:
- Psychic bond: +15%
- Psychic bond distance: −25%
Pollution stimulus: +5%
Infant illness extreme: −5%
Gene loss shock: −0.05
Bio-starvation: −25%

Limits

If any of these conditions apply, the Consciousness can not be higher than the given value. Note that it can still be lower.

Beer (high) blackout: 10% max
Luciferium need unmet: 80% max
Blood loss extreme: 10% max
Anesthetic
- Wearing off: 90% max
- Woozy: 70% max
- Sedated: 1% max
Catatonic breakdown: 10% max
Psychic shock: 10% max
Psychic coma: 10% max
Brain shock: 10% max
Toxic buildup extreme: 10% max
Heart attack debilitating: 10% max
Drug overdose
- Minor: 50% max
- Major: 10% max
Malnutrition extreme: 10% max
Heatstroke extreme: 10% max
Hypothermia extreme: 10% max
Hypothermic slowdown extreme: 10% max
Infection extreme (advanced): 10% max
Malaria extreme: 10% max
Sleeping sickness extreme (advanced): 10% max
Resurrection psychosis catatonic: 10% max
Psychic breakdown total: 10% max
Infant illness extreme: 10% max
Hemogen craving:
- Minor: 90% max
- Major: 80% max
- Extreme: 50% max
Deathresting: 10% max
Deathrest exhaustion: 50% max
Regeneration coma: 10% max
Xenogermination coma: 10% max
Chemical dependency:
- Deficiency: 70% max
- Deficiency coma: 10% max

Formula

The formula is as follows:

Consciousness = IF (Base factors × Post factors + Offsets) < Limit THEN (Base factors × Post factors + Offsets) ELSE Limit

The Base factors can be calculated with the following formulas:

Blood Pumping = 1 + ({IF Blood Pumping < 1 THEN Blood Pumping ELSE 1} - 1) × 0.2
Breathing = 1 + ({IF Breathing < 1 THEN Breathing ELSE 1} - 1) × 0.2
Blood Filtration = 1 + ({IF Blood Filtration < 1 THEN Blood Filtration ELSE 1} - 1) × 0.1
Pain = IF (-0.45 × Pain + 1.05) < 1 THEN (-0.45 × Pain + 1.05) ELSE 1