This thread is to talk about the nourishment and cooking system shortcomings and how those issues should be addressed.
- Player Hunger Value Is Not Intuitive
- Player hunger is a number that normally reads from 0 to 1800, but each .01 kg unit of food eaten reduces hunger by 5.
- I would suggest that the hunger value range should be reduced to 0 to 360, with each .01 kg unit of food reducing hunger by 1. This suggestion would functionally change nothing, but would make the hunger system a lot more intuitive for newer players.
- Stamina Reserves Drain Too Quickly
- Every point of health/stamina/mana that is deducted from your current values is also deducted from your reserves in a 1:1 ratio. While this might be fine for health and mana, stamina is used by almost everyone and players can easily drain thousands of stamina points in less than ten IRL minutes. Since players only have around 20000-25000 total stamina reserves, it becomes very tedious to constantly eat high stamina nourishment food to avoid grey bar.
- I suggest to increase the reserve drain ratios so that several points need to be spent to reduce the reserves by 1. The ratio can be tweaked later on to get the right amount of time between meals. This is a quality of life improvement to allow players more time to enjoy the game instead of micromanaging their rapidly depleting stamina reserves.
- Cooking System Favors Single Ingredient Meals
- The best nourishing meals are made with a single ingredient. The cooking system does not have nourishment multipliers, and since some ingredients have both high nourishment value and high quality, the result is more advanced recipes are completely ignored because they aren't as good as just using a single ingredient.
- My suggestion is to alter the system to make the very high nourishing ingredients have poor quality so you have to use other ingredients to boost the meal quality and maximize the nourishment. The very high nourishing ingredients should have their nourishment values greatly increased to compensate for using more ingredients.