Wetwiring

Wetwiring:

Many kill conditions rely on system damage or affliction counts. An
understanding of how wetwiring functions is necessary to plan both your
offensive and defensive strategies.

Note: Aspects of this text may be considered INSANE. If you would like to
avoid that, read no further.

Wetwiring Priorities
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The first time you take health or subsystem damage or receive an affliction,
your Wetwiring will start healing. From that time, every 5(~?) seconds your
Wetwiring will fire its passive operation until the next operation finds that
there is nothing left to heal, at which point the 5 second interval will
reset. Your chosen WETWIRING PRIORITIES determine what your Wetwiring
prioritizes in its passive operation. With priorities set to Afflictions,
Systems, and Health, at the 5 second interval your Wetwiring will search for
the first affliction you have and heal it. (TBD: How does wetwiring prioritize
Affliction healing, by subsystem? By number of affs on a subsystem?
Randomly?). If it finds no affliction to heal, it will search for a subsystem
below 100% and heal it 0.5%. If your subsystems have not taken damage for
awhile (I believe around 10 seconds, but I'm unsure exactly how long), the
amount of this heal is increased to 5%. If there are no subsystems to
repair, it finally looks to your HP and regenerates HP according to a value
which can be improved by your Regen stat. Setting your wetwiring priorities
correctly (hopefully) before a fight is of critical importance to your
success. At the time of practice it is not common to adjust priorities during
a fight, since this consumes 2s of balance. But as combat strategies develop
it may become a reasonable defensive choice.

Mending
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The first time you MEND, your system will repair 7.5% of that system. Each
time you mend the Efficacy of your mending operations is reduced by 15%,
until you reach 10% Efficacy after which it will be reduced to a minimum of
5%. See the table below. After 50 seconds of not mending that system, it will
regain 15% Efficacy. Mending is an important part of your strategy. Knowing
when to spend 2s to mend and when to press your offense is what separates an
efficient strategy from a lackluster one. In general, if your strategy
involves subsystem damage (most do), the early parts of a fight are dedicated
to burning through your opponent's efficacy. Mending only repairs system
damage and does not heal afflictions, excepting the subsystem damage
afflictions discussed below.

Efficacy    Amt healed
100%        7.5%
85%         6.375%
60%         4.5%
35%
2.625%
10%         0.75%
5%          0.375%

Feedback damage
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As you take system damage, you may notice that the damage spreads from one
system to the next. This is caused by a special type of multi-tiered system
damage affliction gained at various levels of subsystem damage: The
afflictions of levels 1 to 3 go by the names Catatonia (Mind), Sepsis
(Internal), Structural Collapse (Muscular), Delirium (Sensory), and Malfuction
(Wetwiring). The level 4 afflictions are: Hard Lock (Wetwiring), Sensory
Shutdown (Sensory), Sepsis Overload (Internal), Structural Failure (Muscular),
and Vegetative (Mind). These levels and the amount of feedback damage they do
are as follows:

Level   Threshold  Dmg  Interval
1       90%        1%   12s
2       60%        1%   3s
3       30%        2%   3s
4       ?          ?    ?

The diagram below shows the directions that this feedback damage travels.

Muscular < ----------- > Internal
    |    ^             ^    |
    |     \           /     |
    |       Wetwiring       |
    |     ^           ^     |
    v    /             \    v
  Mind   < ----------- > Sensory

The damages will occur at a particular interval from the first time you gained
a such an affliction, and this timer will apply to all feedback damage
afflictions. So if you start taking feedback damage at the 2.5s interval, this
interval applies even for your L1 afflictions. The only way to heal a system
damage affliction is to bring your system damage above the threshold. Example
1: You are are brought below 90% Muscular and receive the Structure Collapse
(L1) Affliction. 10 seconds later, the affliction deals 1% damage to your
Internal and Mind systems. Example 2: You have the Catatonia (L2) Mind
affliction and the Delirium (L1) Sensory affliction. Every 2.5s you will
receive 1% Sensory and Wetwiring damage from Catatonia and 1% Mind and
Wetwiring damage from Sensory, for a total of 1% Mind, 1% Sensory, and
2%? Wetwiring.

You will also receive system-level afflictions at 75%, 45%, and 15%.
These afflictions have an increasing level of hindrance. A summary of these
afflictions to follow soon!