I think my avatar is getting fat

[ebrim 998]

So I'm out wandering the road earlier all pretty green energized, hydrated and healthy and I notice a movement to my right. I step off the road and watch and sure enough, I see a rabbit! My first rabbit in DayZ, I watch it for a bit then line it up in my sporter sights and soon I'm sitting next to a campfire roasting four rabbit legs. Here's the thing though, I ate them, I ate them all. Then maybe 2 or 3 hundred meters down the road I eat a whole can of tactical bacon, a potato and drink 2 Rasputin Kvass. I was energized and hydrated to begin with before I ate an entire rabbit not to mention all the other stuff. After all this I still never got the status effect "full" or "stuffed". This leads me to think that my stomach was probably pretty empty and I had just saved up an absurd amount of calories... Hence, I think he's getting fat. It's probably overly optimistic but it would be fun if this sort of thing could be represented by a changing character model.

(there's also some commentary here possible about the abundance of food available)

[Death By Crowbar 1213]

Or maybe you're related to Kobayashi...

[darth_vaizard 42]

I'd say they should allow the character model to change a bit but then we would see morbidly obese militards...  That or people who starve their characters in an attempt to make themselves a slightly smaller target.

[ebrim 998]

I'd say they should allow the character model to change a bit but then we would see morbidly obese militards...  That or people who starve their characters in an attempt to make themselves a slightly smaller target.

Ha, you're right. Never underestimate the capacity for min/max behavior.

[sachad 1016]

But Imagine the sight of a bunch of fatties chasing each other with shovels and pitchforks!

[alferret 45]

That's all those Beanz you keep eating B-) (ref to topic title)

I have noticed that there are no rotten fruit, potatoes, zucchini, peppers and such anywhere.

Edited August 19, 2014 by alferret

[ebrim 998]

That's all those Beanz you keep eating B-) (ref to topic title)

I have noticed that there are no rotten fruit, potatoes, zucchini, peppers and such anywhere.

Yeah, as far as fruit and veg go we've gone from famine to feast. One day we'll find a happy medium, I'm sure. Or rather, I suspect that when fruit/veg spawn they'll slowly degrade to its rotten variety before simply despawning.

[Euryon 16]

I've considered discussing caloric intake as a mechanic in the game. I figured it was overly complicated, but here goes:

So, the average person (ie, your standard DayZ avatar) requires about 2000 calories a day.

 

I'm not sure if that equals what it takes to 'energize' yourself, but I'm sure it's fairly close.

 

However, considering your character will no doubt *sprint* for about 50% of his daily play - anywhere from 30 minutes to 5 or 6 hours for some - that's a shit tonne of exercise and calories burning.

 

I know stamina is going to be introduced, so I don't want to get into caloric replacement so much...

 

But, yes, if your character is just eating TacBac and beef steaks, and generally sits on sniper-hill for 100% of his in-game day, I think it would be neat to see his/her ability to run decrease, perhaps have him/her grow some belly fat. A bizzare advantage might be an ability to withstand the cold a little better?

 

Similarly, starving oneself might be an option to reduce ones visibility, but suffer lower lengths of energized status.

 

However, eating a balanced diet, with exercise, would maximize stamina, raw power (for melee), etc.

 

I dunno, just a thought :)

[ebrim 998]

I actually almost never sprint. I suspect always sprinting is a bad habit that's making a lot of characters starve to death on thoroughly looted experimental servers. Not to mention, as you say, when stamina is introduced it'll be terrible form to burn your stamina that way in anything but a critical situation.