Taylor, I know you mention that you will be making the illness hit harder in the mini update. I already made some suggestions on improvements for the prescription system. Now I would like to suggest some way the players could ward off illnesses.
The key causes of illness of those who are gainer carcinogens, to much sugar or transfat (false fat).
The things that counter them are ones genes, microbiome, & clean eating.
So some potential ways to translate these key protections into the game.
1) clean eating can be covered by cooking home cooked meals to cut out most Carcinogens & Transfat. Would likely need to expands meal to be able to be cooked into feast to be a good alternative to ordering out.
2) Microbiome (gut bacteria) can be maintained or fixed with probiotic/per-biotic drinks or capsules that help block & clean out ones body of toxins to improve health.
3) Genes are a tough one to add as it just would be like have illness turned off but just for select people & on some diseases or even all of them.
The first two should be good enough to give a naturalistic way of deal with illness outside of the prescription system.
Let me what you think 🤔, thats all for now.