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#1
22 Aug 2010 21:23
 
 
Since we have these magnificent details in our game like cooking for example,
which is actually quite fun little stuff to do, would it be possible to maybe
rethink eating a bit. Lets make an example, undeads cannot eat, shadows cannot
eat, spawns cannot eat, now take a look at the playerbase and check how many
mages are vampires/shadows, how many tanks are undeads/liches, and how many
tarmas are vampires/shadows. The issue should be quite clear at this point one
might think? Im pretty confident that vampire can stuff meat in its mouth, and
shadow could devour stuff, and spawn can stuff corpses in it's mouth so why
not a god damn beef jerky. Would maybe make this skill more liked and used if
someone could do something with this small issue. Thank you for listening.

 
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Freld
2y, 168d, 18h, 21m, 15s old
Level:
100
 
 
#2
22 Aug 2010 23:13
 
 
Freld wrote:
Since we have these magnificent details in our game like cooking for example,
which is actually quite fun little stuff to do, would it be possible to maybe
rethink eating a bit. Lets make an example, undeads cannot eat, shadows cannot
eat, spawns cannot eat, now take a look at the playerbase and check how many
mages are vampires/shadows, how many tanks are undeads/liches, and how many
tarmas are vampires/shadows. The issue should be quite clear at this point one
might think? Im pretty confident that vampire can stuff meat in its mouth, and
shadow could devour stuff, and spawn can stuff corpses in it's mouth so why
not a god damn beef jerky. Would maybe make this skill more liked and used if
someone could do something with this small issue. Thank you for listening.
undeads can eat. I eat normal food all the time, with the occasional side dish
of brains.

 
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Ens
354d, 11h, 59m, 11s old
Level:
86
 
 
#3
23 Aug 2010 10:12
 
 
Replying to Frelds post about food, I just want to point out one thing.

Not being able (and thus having no need) to eat food used to be more a boon
than a penalty for that certain race - now it has turned the other way around.
Not being able to eat food is certainly a penalty and has to be thought as
such when considering about the race balance.

 
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Corto
1y, 289d, 3h, 40m, 11s old
Level:
54
 
 
#4
01 Sep 2010 16:47
 
 
Freld wrote:
Since we have these magnificent details in our game like cooking for example,
which is actually quite fun little stuff to do, would it be possible to maybe
rethink eating a bit. Lets make an example, undeads cannot eat, shadows cannot
eat, spawns cannot eat, now take a look at the playerbase and check how many
mages are vampires/shadows, how many tanks are undeads/liches, and how many
tarmas are vampires/shadows. The issue should be quite clear at this point one
might think? Im pretty confident that vampire can stuff meat in its mouth, and
shadow could devour stuff, and spawn can stuff corpses in it's mouth so why
not a god damn beef jerky. Would maybe make this skill more liked and used if
someone could do something with this small issue. Thank you for listening.
Maybe this should be thought of as an uptune to the "living" races which your
posts suggests are underplayed? I am hesitant to allow the non-eating races of
BatMUD access to food, which would make them, in fact, eating races. Kind of
defeats the purpose. Nor do I have any intention to make undead-only food like
"blood in blood sauce" or "orc tartare". I can't specifically address the
spawn issue, as it's not my code, but they are chaos spawn, so expecting them
to make logical sense runs against the grain.

If anything, I'd be more likely to make a spell that allows undead to drain
the nutrients out of food. Maybe give it to priests or something.

Shinarae Lluminus

 
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Shinarae
A r c h w i z a r d
2y, 141d, 18h, 46m, 52s old
Level:
200 [Wizard]