Food bar - can we get one

Zorain · Post by **Zorain** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 3:49 pm

is it possible too get a pink bar next too the health bar the pink bar stands for food and if its empty you die too not make it empty you have too eat

Sharag · Post by **Sharag** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 7:56 pm

I wouldn't want to die that fast. Do real beings die, if they get hungry?
I simply would suggest, that you don't regain any health or mana points, when your food bar is empty.

Dyluck · Post by **Dyluck** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 1:39 am

Quote: from Sharag on 10:56 am on Mar. 26, 2002
Do real beings die, if they get hungry?

Errr yes, I'm pretty sure there are lots of people dying of hunger everyday

It would be pretty realistic to die if you don't eat and drink for an extended period of time. Hunger also diminishes your strength so perhaps if your food bar drops below a certain level you can't fight until you've eaten some food to replentish your food bar. There could also be a seperate bar for thirst where you can't cast spells when your throat is dry and need to drink something to replentish your thirst bar.

Sharag · Post by **Sharag** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 11:23 am

@Dyluck: Yes, one might die after an extended period of time, but not instantly.
"Oh my god, I am starting to get hungry! ARgghhhhhhhhh!"
*you hear a loud groan and then nothing* :D

I think, there surely should be a large room to move, as Dyluck offered with some ideas of diminishing strength.

Altogether, I think, a food bar would be too much. You can't really measure one's hunger in percentages. What about a small field saying: "You are very hungry" or "You almost die of hunger".

Simply different degrees of hunger or repletion.

Bror · Post by **Bror** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 12:37 pm

We can add a message "You are hungry", "You are fed up" ...
A bar woudl cause too much server traffic, since it changes constantly.

Erdrick · Post by **Erdrick** » Thu Mar 28, 2002 1:38 am

If we expand on food, we would need bathrooms...
Unless, we are bottomless pits, and we absorb ALL the nutrients...
Hmm... #me taps his chin
I think it should be a little mini-meter...
I know a lot of knights that have spaghetti before a tournament.
Noone fights on an empty stomach!

Zorain · Post by **Zorain** » Thu Mar 28, 2002 10:41 am

well i mean that the food bar goes really slow like after 2 hours its empty or longer?

Eron · Post by **Eron** » Thu Mar 28, 2002 10:49 am

i think it would be good, when you go hungry much faster when you work. But perhaps the server taffic Would be to high

Zorain · Post by **Zorain** » Thu Mar 28, 2002 11:06 am

not if the bar move really slow

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Fri Mar 29, 2002 10:00 am

It has been implemented in other games before, and it is pretty realistic. Say if a character is hungry, their health SLOWLY drains away and their actions become slow and hesitant, so you could not fight when you are hungry. This would add a new realistic element to the game. Perhaps if you get too full, say eat too many fish, you also become slow and hesitant to do actions. So with this you could not eat 15 fish just to regain mana, or else you might puke them back up

(hey another idea!). Also potions would have some food value so they could not be used over and over to powergame in a short period of time.

Grennard · Post by **Grennard** » Wed Apr 03, 2002 3:56 am

In my opinion, the food bar or a mini food bar (moving down really slowly) is a great idea, but I dont like the idea of additional text like "you are hungry" because there are often situations when many people speak at one time /see blacksmith shop in peek hours

/ and its already hard to read so quick and answer, the texts moves up to fast... or maybe the texts like "you are hungry" and these "what would i smith?" etc could show up in another part of the screen not the chat part.

I also like all the realistic consequencess of this eating and not eating, its gonna be fun and real

What about changing healing by food into healing by some kind of NPC paramedic or shaman?

Shi Long · Post by **Shi Long** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 8:13 am

how about that...
the bar causes to much server traffic, so how about a system where you have to press a key and it will say what your state is... "you are filled up!" or "you are very hungry!" and so on...
in this way you can check it anytime you want and the textwindow keeps clear... *lol*

Zorain · Post by **Zorain** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 8:57 am

or you could press a key so the bar comes up for 30 sec