Food Consumption is Strange

[Cypherdiaz 28]

So today me and two friends wanted to test something and the results just seem..unnatural.

Food consumption in a Dayz is a weird beast.

Here's the setup.

Me and 2 friends wanted to test rate of food consumption (time between eating).

First we all ate at the same time to make our food all green at the same time.

Then I sat in a vehicle (to ensure that temp had no effect) in our camp.

My first friend then got into one of our motorcycles and drove away from camp. The destination was not specific, just the direction being AWAY (no turns, nothing, just straight away from camp).

My second friend did the same but on foot running.

Our camp is up north, both went straight south regardless of terrain.

The results indicate that a few things happen here.

1)It took me, sitting still in a vehicle, a little over an hour to go from Green to Red (not flashy though).

2)It took my friend on the bike about 15 minutes to go 6KM south at which point he went red.

3)It took my other friend about 45 minutes ish to go about 6KM on foot at which point he went red.

So these results basically show that there is an overall base TIME between eating which is decreased by distance traveled. This makes sense when it comes to running as you are physically exerting yourself but the sense stops when it comes to my friend on the bike. He traveled the same distance, in much less time, with almost no exertion as he was on a bike yet he had the same 'food state' as the person on foot.

The concern here is when they put back in helicopters which can travel great distances. Will I get to a red food state when i travel that 6KM in a helo, which wont take that long at all? If so, that doesn't make sense at all.

Id love to look at the coding determining food consumption rates. In the meantime, they seem to be borked and needed an overhaul before faster modes of transport are put in like the helicopters.

[metalbacon 0]

I am the person who was on the motorcyle. I will validate what he is saying is true.

We realized this when i went out on a gas trip and was gone for a bit and I had to eat on my way back while my other friends did not as do to the fact they were not doing all that much other then organizing camp, etc etc.

So we then decided to wait for the server we play on (US server) to become fairly empty to test out our theory. We did so and we were confronted with the facts that Cypher gave.

In short the faster you travel the faster your hunger deteriorates when going the same distance as a person walking and way faster then a person pretty much sitting in one place.

[M O N S T E R 599]

Eating will only get you so far.

-MONSTER

[metalbacon 0]

We understand that. Just pointing it out for other people to take into consideration before they go on a jorney in a vehicle (or helicopter.)

[thecrackmuffin 22]

This is pretty fascinating, what would seem like an intuitive hunger system totally left out a giant variable! Right now my only gripe with the hunger system is whenever you eat the guy sounds like he's taking a dump/making out with a cow

[SoulShaper2 243]

explains my long travels to patients why i was always good for food but in a car it seemed i was always running low

[Cypherdiaz 28]

Gonna bump this a bit.

But yeh...if distance traveled is a variable (as it should be) but without a counter-variable of mode of said travel...then there's a big problem.