Hunger & Food
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2014 11:06 pm
I've heard that hunger was changed to be linked to energy drain and that it is subject to tweaking. Some feedback on that:
Previously I was able to ride a short distance to a hunting ground, fight until I finished my lessons (usually less than an hour including breaks), and ride home hungry to eat some hearty stew (six bites and it requires broth, meat, three veggies, and seasoning) and fill back up to fully fed. I'd carry two to four meat pies on me in case of emergencies. One of the reasons I ride everywhere is to save on food.
Now I am doing the same thing: Riding out a short distance to a hunting ground and fighting for less than an hour, but I have to eat two meat pies to not starve. A pie is six bites and requires pie crust, broth, meat, two veggies, and seasoning. That seems like a lot of food, involving a lot of materials and effort/time to prepare, consumed in a short amount of time. I actually feel a bit bad eating them because the person who makes them for me works hard at it, and I'm just wolfing them down.
Maybe the rate of food consumption was too low before (though, even then, I was still eating a full meal once every hour or two, but I understand we get some weird timing with things since we can do a lot of things abnormally quick), but it seems way too high now. My first instinct is that we're getting too hungry too quickly, but maybe food should be adjusted? It could be made more filling (though a stew can bring me from hungry to fully fed while that same feat takes two or three pies, so some food is plenty filling already while others lag behind) or, as Rias once mentioned wanting high-quality food to grant benefits, maybe high-quality food grants something like a "satiated" effect that keeps your hunger from diminishing for a time.
Previously I was able to ride a short distance to a hunting ground, fight until I finished my lessons (usually less than an hour including breaks), and ride home hungry to eat some hearty stew (six bites and it requires broth, meat, three veggies, and seasoning) and fill back up to fully fed. I'd carry two to four meat pies on me in case of emergencies. One of the reasons I ride everywhere is to save on food.
Now I am doing the same thing: Riding out a short distance to a hunting ground and fighting for less than an hour, but I have to eat two meat pies to not starve. A pie is six bites and requires pie crust, broth, meat, two veggies, and seasoning. That seems like a lot of food, involving a lot of materials and effort/time to prepare, consumed in a short amount of time. I actually feel a bit bad eating them because the person who makes them for me works hard at it, and I'm just wolfing them down.
Maybe the rate of food consumption was too low before (though, even then, I was still eating a full meal once every hour or two, but I understand we get some weird timing with things since we can do a lot of things abnormally quick), but it seems way too high now. My first instinct is that we're getting too hungry too quickly, but maybe food should be adjusted? It could be made more filling (though a stew can bring me from hungry to fully fed while that same feat takes two or three pies, so some food is plenty filling already while others lag behind) or, as Rias once mentioned wanting high-quality food to grant benefits, maybe high-quality food grants something like a "satiated" effect that keeps your hunger from diminishing for a time.