Revamp of food/drink system

[SpeechMan 7]

The current system isn't bad, but it is woefully simplified. There could be so much more survival aspect added to the game by revising the system, so here are my suggestions:

Let's start with drinks. 2 things about them:

1) Drinking something shouldn't quench your thirst completely.

2) Drinks should have different values of how much thirst they take away. I'm thinking something like water 50% and soda 20%.

With current 2 types of drinks (water and soda), that's still quite simple, but by adding few more drink types it would quickly become interesting.

Then the food, this is a bit more complicated but I'll try to explain it as well as I can.

First, same thing as with drinks, not all food would fill you up 100%.

Second, more food types. Here's what I had in my mind:

1) Ready to eat foods. Some canned foods like fruits etc. Would fill you up like 25%.

2) Unprepared food. Raw meat and rest of the canned foods. Would fill you up 20% but there would be a chance of getting infection, shock and/or pain.

3) Cooked food. Basically the foods mentioned in #2, but after they have been heated on a fire. would fill up 50%.

4) Trekking food. I'm not sure what the real english term is for these, I'm talking about the little bags that you can buy from outdoor stores to which you add hot water. These would be unedible before prepared and would need a fire and bottle of water to prepare. Would fill up 100%.

Third, new way to heat your food. We have fireplaces and I'm not sure but I think that you can use the burning barrels to cook meat. In addition to these add trekking stoves. These would give the possibility of heating food in the forest without the whole forest becoming illuminated or a huge tower of smoke showing your location to everyone. To make these even more special, they would need fuel, so you would need to find the stove and keep it stocked up with fuel.

Fourth, referring to food types above, all of them would need decay timers. If you heat food, it shouldn't stay heated longer that 30min or so.

1) Ready to eat foods. These would be practically forever.

2) Unprepared food. Canned ones should also be practically forever but raw meat should only last for a day or so.

3) Cooked food. I'd say around 30 mins.

4) Trekking food. Forever unless prepared, 1 hour after being prepared.

And finally (I know this has been mentioned several times before), you should not be able to eat unless you are hungry. Current system where you can eat a wagonload of steaks to get your blood level back to full is just stupid.

So there it is, I hope I got you confused.

[rolfwar 5]

Umh,i had opened a similar topic just a bunch of hours before you.

Although this is far more organisez,you could nevertheless check mine out,we could improve this one

http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=30012

[SpeechMan 7]

Love your idea of berries, why didn't I think of that!

[Aign0r 3]

I like the idea of steering the game on more of a survival track. And those are some nice ideas you suggested, but i also think food should be more scarce, now canned food drops like crazy, and there are too many animals, you just venture up from town to the field and if you have knife and matches you're good to go. I don't think knife and matches should be rarer, because that's just retarded since those are some pretty common items, rather have less animals, and less food.

As far as drinks are concerned maybe add a little more realism to it. What i mean:

You can relieve thirst by drinking a soda, but you can't relieve dehydration by drinking a soda, since it will heighten your blood glucose levels, so glucose would start to excrete through kidneys and "pulls" water with it. Especially coke and pepsi which additionally to sugar contain caffeine which broadens kidney blood vessels and stimulates heart to pump more blood, all of which results in higher blood perfusion in kidneys which directly results in creating more urine.

Anyway back to suggestion:

Let coke and pepsi relieve thirst for a while, but let water be only thing that actually helps you with dehydration. And also they could add mineral water to be found as an item like pepsi and coke so it could also help with dehydration.

On the other hand they could add fatigue to the game and have pepsi and coke help with that, since they contain high doses of sugar and caffeine and do in fact help with fatigue.

Sorry if some sentences don't make much sense in English, is not my primary language.

[rolfwar 5]

So,any other comment?