Food

EMDA

I'm not especially fond of the game's dynamic build setup and think it could use some tweaks. My character, far as I can tell, is eating enough to depopulate whole species of prey from the ecosystem while still wasting away enough to make me think my clones come with a serving of complementary tapeworms. I like the idea of the system in that it encourages actually getting food/drink more often than you might otherwise (and thereby interact with the players who've picked up cusine), but the numbers and the infrequency with which your build updates has a detrimental effect IMO. I'm not inclined to pick up player-made food from the trade network, getting the IDs individually and taking them out of separate boxes, when I'm going to be eating 5-10 items on a daily basis.

I think the system could be improved in a couple ways:

1) Move build into a customize option, either just flat-out or setting a 'target' build you'll weight to more heavily.

2) Offer some information in terms of how calorie-dense individual food items are, your average usage on a month-to-month basis according to your activity, and possibly lower the baseline metabolism a teeny bit.

3) Have build processing occur a little more frequently than once a week.

All of this is just my own experience, though, so I'm interested in seeing how other people have found the system. Is it fine? Is it a nuisance? Have you noticed it at all?

Matlkael

Yes! Please! I would like to be extremely hefty, but the current setup of the mechanics makes it seem not worth the trouble. Right now my build is Gaunt

Kirin

Asian metabolism should be a thing.

oh wait, we are in space. Never mind 

RebekahWSD

I'll always agree with things that makes food worthwhile! I'd really like the third option, knowing how many calories are in certain items so I can design a spread of both calorie dense and light food. If I'm wishing, I'd love for that to be a variable I can set as a designer, within reason of course. Like hypersquares can be between x and y calories, meals are between c and b variables, etc etc.

Tiase

All of my characters calories these days comes from booze these days. He's still set at 'average'. Please fix!

Slander

I dunno if there's a caloric difference in game between liquor and beer but Slander went something like 7 years only drinking liquor and ate maybe three food items total in that time and made it to 'thin.' I dunno how other people have achieved 'gaunt.'

Ikchor

I've been at 'average' this whole time. Balanced meals* and balanced bash efforts, yo.





*noodles 4 life

Matlkael

Slander said:

I dunno if there's a caloric difference in game between liquor and beer but Slander went something like 7 years only drinking liquor and ate maybe three food items total in that time and made it to 'thin.' I dunno how other people have achieved 'gaunt.'

Lots of bashing (ie, balance-taking actions).