Heart Racer

The Heart Racer is a diagnosis machine, used only in Cardiology by a nurse to diagnose patients. It is granted to the player at Star Level 1in Lower Bullocks.

Appearance
The Heart Racer takes the form of a traditional treadmill. A black conveyer built is part of a light grey horizontal frame, with a bluish-grey section at the top end. In the same colour, a bar extends from each side of this to meet in the middle at waist height, where two black handles can be found either side of a control panel, which features two green arrows and a red button. Yellow markings can be seen at the ends of the horizontal frame, and at the end of the treadmill, so the patient knows where not to tread.

The Heart Racer II adds a trapezoidal section from the base to the control panel, in the same colour scheme.

The Heart Racer III further adds stabilisation sections either side of the grey frame, running almost the entire length of the machine. There are two yellow markings on protuberances on either side.

Function
The patient steps onto the machine, whose conveyer will begin to move. As the patient runs, the Nurse will supply them with encouragement, and monitor their readings in order to increase their diagnosis.

Maintenance
The Heart Racer loses 5-10% of its maintenance gauge with each use. Once the gauge falls below 50%, a Janitor will automatically be called to repair it. A janitor can be summoned manually by the player by pressing the appropriate button.

Should the maintenance gauge fall below 15%, the machine will catch fire. A janitor will need to use an Extinguisher to put this out before the gauge reaches zero; if it is allowed to do so, the machine will explode, leaving wreckage which must be sold and replaced with a new machine before the room can resume functioning.

Upgrades
Upgrades are performed by a Janitor with the Mechanics Qualification. The machine will not be accessible while this work is being done, although it can be interrupted and resumed without losing progress.

Staff
The following Staff is required before Cardiology, and by extension the Heart Racer, will function correctly:

Additionally, the following staff is required to both maintain and upgrade the machine: Janitor (with Mechanics Qualification for upgrades)

Trivia

 * Price during development was $2,000