Difference between revisions of "Cochlear implant"

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Cochlear implants are an artificial body part that replaces a pawn's ear. replacement with 65% efficiency.

Acquisition

Cochlear implants can be crafted at a Machining table once the Prosthetics research project has been completed. They require 20 Steel, 4 Components, 15,000 ticks (4.17 mins) of work, and a Crafting skill of 5.

They can also be purchased from traders or occasionally found installed on raiders

Summary

Cochlear implants replace the user's organic ear. They are universal and can be installed on either the left or right side. The cochlear implant has a part efficiency of 65%. This partially replaces the functionality of a normal ear - as a 75% weighting is placed on the more capable part when calculating hearing, the effect depends on whether the implant is the more capable part. If it is the most capable part, it results in in restoring 48.75% hearing, or a loss of 26.25% when replacing a healthy ear. If it is not, it restores 16.25%, or a loss of 8.75% when replacing a healthy ear.

Hearing, in turn, affects the following stats: Conversion Power, Negotiation Ability, Social Impact, Tame Animal Chance, Trade Price Improvement, Train Animal Chance. For full details, see those pages.

Cochlear implants remove the "Disfigured" opinion penalty held by other pawns that a missing ear otherwise inflicts.

Each prosthetic ear results in -?% character quality and thus a ?% reduction in the affected individual's pawn value.^[Values]

As an artificial part, prosthetic ears will give a mood buff to anyone with the Body modder trait, and a mood penalty to anyone with the Body purist trait.

Installation

Installing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work, ?x medicine of ?? quality or better, and a Medical skill of 4.

Removing the part requires ? of work, ?x medicine of ?? quality or better, and a Medical skill of ?.

If the operation fails, the part has a chance^{[What Chance?]} to be destroyed.

Analysis

The hearing capacity only affects two different work types:

Social - Wardening and Trade; and
Animals - Taming and Training

Hearing also affects social ineraction between pawns, so an implant will slightly increase their chances to share a double bed. Pawns that don't perform either of these work types can largely ignore Hearing entirely. For the pawns that do perform those tasks, using a cochlear implant to replace a damaged, ill, missing ear is obviously if a bionic ear cannot be obtained. Furthermore, no Hearing dependent stat is affected by Hearing above 100%. As such, when replacing both ears, a single bionic ear and a single cochlear implant totally remedies all hearing based issues, at a lower cost than two bionic ears.

The cochlear implant also acts as a cosmetic replacement for a missing ear, so can be used to removed the "Disfigured" social penalty a missing ear inflicts.

There is also a niche use for Body modder pawns - as the penalties only affects two work types, the majority of pawns will have no significant penalty from having the implant installed, even if they were healthy to begin with. Thus installing two cochlear implants can be an easy, cheap, and effective way to get way to give a permanent +7 mood buff to transhumanist even in the early game, so long as they are never expected to do anything social or train animals.

Hearing	Right ear
Deaf	Cochlear implant	Organic ear	Bionic ear
Left ear	Deaf	0%	49%	75%	94%
Cochlear implant	49%	65%	91%	110%
Organic ear	75%	91%	100%	119%
Bionic ear	94%	110%	119%	125%

Artificial body parts

Arm/Hand: Archotech arm • Bionic arm • Power claw • Prosthetic arm • Wooden hand • Drill arm • Elbow blade • Field hand • Hand talon • Venom talon
Head: Archotech eye • Bionic eye • Bionic ear • Bionic tongue • Cochlear implant • Denture • Aesthetic nose
Head implants: Joywire • Painstopper • Circadian assistant • Circadian half-cycler • Gastro-analyzer • Learning assistant • Mindscrew • Neurocalculator • Psychic harmonizer • Psychic reader • Psychic sensitizer • Venom fangs • Control sublink (Standard, High) • Mechlink • Mech gestation processor • Remote repairer • Remote shielder • Repair probe
Spine: Bionic spine
Stomach: Bionic stomach • Nuclear stomach • Reprocessor stomach • Sterilizing stomach
Organs: Bionic heart • Heart • Kidney • Liver • Lung • Prosthetic heart • Detoxifier kidney • Detoxifier lung
Visceral implants: Death acidifier • Aesthetic shaper • Coagulator • Healing enhancer • Armorskin gland • Stoneskin gland • Toughskin gland • Immunoenhancer • Love enhancer
Leg/Foot: Archotech leg • Bionic leg • Prosthetic leg • Peg leg • Wooden foot • Knee spike
Related: Psylink neuroformer • Xenogerm
Deprecated: Scyther blade • Psychic silencer

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 {{stub}}{{infobox main|
 | name = Cochlear implant
-| image = Health item prosthetic.png|Cochlear implant
+| image = Health item prosthetic.png
 | type = Medical Items
 | type2 = Body Parts
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-The '''cochlear implant''' is an ear replacement with 65% efficiency. Since the game gives a greater weighting on the more capable part when calculating [[hearing]], with it contributing to 75% of a pawn's hearing capability, installing a single cochlear implant reduces hearing by 9%, and a second reduces it by 26% to 65%.
+'''Cochlear implants''' are an [[artificial body part]] that replaces a pawn's ear. replacement with 65% efficiency.
 == Acquisition ==
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 == Summary ==
-One implant is a modest improvement for colonists who perform Social or Animal Training tasks, and a perfect choice for [[Traits#Body modder|body modders]] who do ''not''.  Otherwise wait for a (single) [[bionic ear]], which maxes hearing. A second implant is only 1/3 the improvement of the first, so, again, wait for the improved version.
+Cochlear implants replace the user's [[Table of Human Body Parts|organic ear]]. They are universal and can be installed on either the left or right side. The cochlear implant has a part efficiency of 65%. This partially replaces the functionality of a normal ear -  as a 75% weighting is placed on the more capable part when calculating [[hearing]], the effect depends on whether the implant is the more capable part. If it is the most capable part, it results in in restoring 48.75% [[hearing]], or a loss of 26.25% when replacing a healthy ear. If it is not, it restores 16.25%, or a loss of 8.75% when replacing a healthy ear.
+Hearing, in turn, affects the following [[stats]]: {{#ask: [[Hearing Importance::+]]}}. For full details, see those pages.
+Cochlear implants remove the "''Disfigured''" [[social|opinion penalty]] held by other pawns that a missing ear otherwise inflicts.
+Each prosthetic ear results in -?% character quality and thus a ?% reduction in the affected individual's pawn value.{{Check Tag|Values}}
+As an artificial part, prosthetic ears will give a mood buff to anyone with the [[Traits#Body modder|Body modder]] trait, and a mood penalty to anyone with the [[Traits#Body purist|Body purist]] trait.
 === Installation ===
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 == Analysis ==
-The [[hearing]] stat only helps with two things: colonists performing [[Skills#Social|social tasks]] ([[Trade Price Improvement|trading]], prisoner recruitment), and colonists who are [[Skills#Animals|training animals]] ([[Tame Animal Chance]]).  Hearing also affects social ineraction between pawns, so an implant will ''slightly'' increase their chances to share a [[double bed]].
+The [[hearing]] capacity only affects two different work types:
+# [[Work#Incapable_of_work_types|Social]] - Wardening and Trade; and
-Another candidate is a body modder who does ''not'' perform those tasks, as bad hearing doesn't hurt anything else and makes the 'modder happy (see below). The cochlear implant also acts as a cosmetic replacement for a missing ear, so can be used to removed the "Disfigured" [[social]] penalty a missing ear inflicts.
+# [[Work#Incapable_of_work_types|Animals]] - Taming and Training
+Hearing also affects social ineraction between pawns, so an implant will ''slightly'' increase their chances to share a [[double bed]]. Pawns that don't perform either of these work types can largely ignore Hearing entirely. For the pawns that do perform those tasks, using a cochlear implant to replace a damaged, ill, missing ear is obviously if a [[bionic ear]] cannot be obtained. Furthermore, no Hearing dependent stat is affected by Hearing above 100%.{{#if:{{#ask: [[Hearing Limit::>1.0001]]}}|{{Check Tag|Update Needed|Something is higher than 1}}}} As such, when replacing both ears, a single bionic ear and a single cochlear implant totally remedies all hearing based issues, at a lower cost than two bionic ears.
-The hearing stat favors the better ear by 75%, so a stone deaf, "0% hearing" colonist, with 1 implant, gets 48% hearing improvement, and the full 65% with two implants. However, a colonist with standard [[hearing loss]] in both ears would only improve from 50% to 61% from 1 implant, a 22% ''relative'' improvement, but waiting for one [[bionic ear]] would improve hearing to 106%; and since the hearing stat maxes at 100%, that's all anyone needs.
-There is also a niche use for [[Traits#Body modder|Body modder]] pawns - as the penalties only affects two specialized work types, the majority of pawns will have no significant penalty from having the implant installed, even if they were healthy to begin with. Thus installing two cochlear implants can be an easy, cheap, and effective way to get way to give a permanent +7 [[mood]] buff to transhumanist even in the early game, so long as they are never expected to do anything social or train animals.
+The cochlear implant also acts as a cosmetic replacement for a missing ear, so can be used to removed the "Disfigured" [[social]] penalty a missing ear inflicts.
-Cochlear implant require a [[Skills#Medical|Medical]] skill of 4 to install.
+There is also a niche use for [[Traits#Body modder|Body modder]] pawns - as the penalties only affects two work types, the majority of pawns will have no significant penalty from having the implant installed, even if they were healthy to begin with. Thus installing two cochlear implants can be an easy, cheap, and effective way to get way to give a permanent +7 [[mood]] buff to transhumanist even in the early game, so long as they are never expected to do anything social or train animals.
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+! rowspan=2; colspan=2; | [[Hearing]] !! colspan=5; | Right ear
+|-
+! ''Deaf'' !! Cochlear implant !! ''Organic ear'' !! [[Bionic ear]]
+|-
+! rowspan=5; | Left ear
+! ''Deaf''
+| <span style="color:firebrick; font-weight:bold">  0%</span> || <span style="color:firebrick; font-weight:bold"> 49%</span> || <span style="color:firebrick; font-weight:bold"> 75%</span> || <span style="color:firebrick; font-weight:bold"> 94%</span>
+|-
+! Cochlear implant
+| <span style="color:firebrick; font-weight:bold"> 49%</span> || <span style="color:firebrick; font-weight:bold">65%</span> || <span style="color:firebrick; font-weight:bold"> 91%</span> || <span style="color:forestgreen; font-weight:bold">110%</span>
+|-
+! ''Organic ear''
+| <span style="color:firebrick; font-weight:bold"> 75%</span> || <span style="color:firebrick; font-weight:bold"> 91%</span> || <span style="color:black; font-weight:bold">100%</span> || <span style="color:forestgreen; font-weight:bold">119%</span>
+|-
+! [[Bionic ear]]
+| <span style="color:firebrick; font-weight:bold"> 94%</span> || <span style="color:forestgreen; font-weight:bold">110%</span> || <span style="color:forestgreen; font-weight:bold">119%</span> || <span style="color:forestgreen; font-weight:bold">125%</span>
+|}
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 [[Category:Medical Item]] [[Category:Body Part]] [[Category:Artificial Body Part]]

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