I completely agree with you on this front. Now, I would be fine with food spoilage if it was, again like you said, an option, or if it had a very slow timer by default. You know, 10 hours or something. At that point I would neither support it nor be against it, I would just accept it as is, but that's just my opinion.
Kind of makes sense not being able to stack meals like B & E's, or Chili Dogs, kind of an eat now food and not meant to spoil in your BP. Never made sense to carry a stack of B & E's but I did it all the time like everyone else.
And it wasn't that much of a big deal later on anyway, since you had the armor and the weapons to deal with any attracted zombies. But it did add some thought-provoking strategy in the early to mid game for sure. It's unfortunate it never worked as intended.
Being able to exponentially stockpile food, which you can start doing in the first few days, and having to click on it every now and then, is not "managing" in the first place.
Of course it is. The food doesn't just magically appear in your damn chests. You have to go out and loot, hunt, cook, etc. If you don't do those things, food doesn't stockpile. If you want to spend all your time mining, you don't have time to gather and prepare food. If you want to spend all your time building a fort and the materials needed for the fort, you don't have time to gather and prepare food. You have to MANAGE.
Personally, I don't care if caves are added back in or not. The only way I might get excited about it is if it meant some new zombie came along with them. Otherwise, I just see them as a big hole where resources could have been instead.
Personally, and I'll keep this short as I don't want to get into any confrontations here, in my opinion, food collection should be one of your primary concerns for the first week, but after you've got a substantial farm set up (day 14+) then food should being to progressively become a less of a worry to the player. The main issue here is when it comes to animal spawning, it's really a mixed bag of results. Either RNG is going to be kind to you and supply you with a dozen or more animals on day one, or you'll struggle to have enough food to comfortably stay alive for multiple days, and everywhere in between. Therefore, messing with animal spawn rates might be a no-go, but if this was done, increasing the amount of food you find within Shamway food containers could be used to balance it out. Again though, this is all hypothetical, and this is all my opinion.
Hi MM. I made a suggestion a few days ago in relation to that discussion about Tier 4 & 5 building loot, but this can also be adapted to quests from the trader.
Saying that you have to manage food beyond the early game is laughable, when you can easily stockpile food for a month and forget about it during that time. This can hardly be called "resource management" - just a periodic grind, after which, food becomes irrelevant for a large amount of time.
Not trying to get into a debate there just isn't any reason to play it more than 2 hours to get the best gear and be set for life, unless you just like to play with tinker toys. Its a fun sandbox, but as a game its pretty lacking in goals, quests, reasons to survive, story, realism, immersion, etc. I enjoy it, and I don't know how many hours I had, but it doesn't have that Bethesda type appeal where you want to start a new character with a new story, new abilities, gear, npc friends etc which are the types of games I might get 1000's of hours in. I probably built my nice castle with rail mining system over the course of 100-200 hours max, but never felt compelled to play again after I'd done everything.
Performance, why is this simple scene laggy? (there is a complex sewer/cave network you can't even see rendering, adding to chunk building time, etc.)As far as I know the major issues with adding caves are SI and placement, feel free to correct me on that. Solve those two and you have an entirely unique biome to play with for relatively little extra work. This would also open the way for artificial underground systems such as sewers, something that has appeared in TWD as both a character crucible and a plot device. Even sketching out a working system will give the modders something to hook into and then the ever faithful cry of "just mod it" can be used.
Underground provides a different set of challenges when compared to an overground. Can't jump out of a window to save your arse in a mine.
Has any thought been given to providing the SI system with the concept of an arch? Not the shape, the engineering principle. You can redirect a lot of force around an object or space with the correct use of arches. I know it'll make SI calculations a little slower but with a bit of forethought you can avoid a lot of the calculations where they're unneeded.
Hey, that's a great idea.
Its a bunch of work just to go into the next POI and find a perfectly good working one. You can find functioning workstations if you look for them. However the quest reset can reset the POI into a broken version, so it already kind of does what you are suggesting, without a ton of new work.
