Consciousness

Consciousness 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/lethality thresholds. Any change in consciousness affects movement, production and social interaction.

Consciousness is called Data Processing on mechanoids.

At the time of writing, the maximum possible Consciousness capacity is 150% with a healthy pawn high on go-juice, luciferium and wake-up, and having used a neural supercharger.

Affected stats

Changes in consciousness influence these critical values...

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.
Reading Speed	Stat	1		A multiplier on how fast this person can read.

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}[%]

In English, what this says is that 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 its value (1/2.25).

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: x90%
- Drunk: x65%
- Hammered: x10%
Psychite hangover (Flake/Yayo/Psychite tea): x80%
Cryptosleep sickness: x80%
Food poisoning
- Recovering and Inital: x60%
- Major: x50%
Heart attack painful: x50%

Offsets

The following offsets are applied after the Post factors.

Beer (hangover)
- Slight: −3%
- Strong: −8%
- Pounding: −18%
Beer 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%
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%
Resurrection psychosis
- Early: −10%
- Advanced: −20%
- Severe: −30%
- Total: −40%
Circadian half-cycler : −15%
Neural supercharger : +10%

Limits

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

Beer (high) blackout: 10% max
Luciferium withdrawal: 80% max
Blood loss extreme: 10% max
Anesthetic
- Wearing off: 90% max
- Woozy: 70% max
- Sedated: 10% max
Catatonic break: 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

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