Goonhub
03-01-2022, 09:12 AM
I like the core of this idea Frank. Calories is interesting, building eating food as an actual mechanic for genetics sounds great. But my head is spinning with all the ways balance could be impossible to wrangle with this.
Based on how food works right now. We'd need to add calories to every single main food/reagent type at the very least and then we'd also have to consider all the ways you could possibly make or get food.
To propose an alternative. Before I read the body of the thread I thought you were going to propose that the resource should be "dna stability" where we'd change the current gene stability system from being just a flat number and prob rolls based on it to having your total gene stability fall down as you use active powers and passive powers would lower your max stability.
It would be less interesting that a food calorie based system, but also easier to add because of the lower complexity in terms of integrating with food and reagents.
Based on how food works right now. We'd need to add calories to every single main food/reagent type at the very least and then we'd also have to consider all the ways you could possibly make or get food.
To propose an alternative. Before I read the body of the thread I thought you were going to propose that the resource should be "dna stability" where we'd change the current gene stability system from being just a flat number and prob rolls based on it to having your total gene stability fall down as you use active powers and passive powers would lower your max stability.
It would be less interesting that a food calorie based system, but also easier to add because of the lower complexity in terms of integrating with food and reagents.