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Extracting food from dead animals and hunger system

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avv:

--- Quote from: Alvarez on September 19, 2010, 10:27:04 am ---The main point is: not having food as absolute necessity to play.
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There has to be some necessity to keep players going and thinking with the wasteland. Every respected game has such feature. Most games have simple win or lose conditions which works fine, some mmo games have very high ceiling to become powerful which could also work in fonline but along with food system. The fact that we don't have the tiniest thing to reach for, players start doing whatever they want and then it's no longer fallout themed game but a sandbox with fallout graphics.

Food could be just one step in the stairway to power. It could be the first step to achieve for everyone, just like tent is now. Finding a constant supply of food would be required for everyone. How he gets his food makes his status. Npc factions could provide free food for anyone who does their dirty work so they would be easy solution. If you want to build your own gang with its own ideology, it would be much harder because all major food sources are occupied by powerful npc factions. This way player won't dedicate their life on ridiculous behaviour because their life is guided by the moral of their masters, the npc factions who give them food.

Eternauta:

--- Quote from: avv on September 19, 2010, 06:55:07 pm ---There has to be some necessity to keep players going and thinking with the wasteland. Every respected game has such feature. Most games have simple win or lose conditions which works fine, some mmo games have very high ceiling to become powerful which could also work in fonline but along with food system. The fact that we don't have the tiniest thing to reach for, players start doing whatever they want and then it's no longer fallout themed game but a sandbox with fallout graphics.

Food could be just one step in the stairway to power. It could be the first step to achieve for everyone, just like tent is now. Finding a constant supply of food would be required for everyone. How he gets his food makes his status. Npc factions could provide free food for anyone who does their dirty work so they would be easy solution. If you want to build your own gang with its own ideology, it would be much harder because all major food sources are occupied by powerful npc factions. This way player won't dedicate their life on ridiculous behaviour because their life is guided by the moral of their masters, the npc factions who give them food.

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Awesome comment. You expressed what I wanted to say, but waaaay better.

Ox-Skull:
I think its worth looking into.

But what would be the downside of not eating/drinking (it shouldnt be too harsh), and how long a period b4 char suffers from it.
Maybe Run is disabled and 1 ap loss after a month or 2 of in-game time of not eating, and a message should inform u of ur chars starvation.
1 food item should restore it.

I think the only players who wouldnt like this idea, are the pure PKers. who only worry about kill count.

Dont post response if ur going to mention Sims/Tamagochis. It not like u hav to wipe ur characters arse or something.

Ox

Pozzo:
Something more simple about food system :

If you lack of food you have a sentence in your chat box saying " you are hungry, you need to eat" (for example). The sentence comes every 5 minutes at the beginning and if you don't feed sentence will appear more often. If you don't feed for a long time you won't be able to see any combat informations in the chat box because of " you are hungry, you need to eat".

So you character can't die because of hunger but you will be a bit disapointed.

Andr3aZ:
as for the topic: if i would be an omnipotent devgod i would do the game unplayable if you starve too much (i dont know what kind of mali i would give maybe -50% maxHP) . so you always have to look out for food. also player trade would be enhanced and sure player relations would gain a new level , save someone from starvation and he will be gratefull for sure. Or kill you. Waestlund is hursh.

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