Remove Hygiene Motive from RP

[Lord_earthfire]

Sure, you encounter "shenanigans," but you'll be shamed by your peers if you interact with them because you're stinky. Hunger and food are motives where restoring them, on the other hand, encourages roleplay. Hygiene actively interrupts it.

People say it "interrupts RP", but in my experience it really doesn't. People beginning to smell mid-RP are mostly ignored until the conversation ends, at which point they then go to the showers.

And the "making fun of" part has so far, also from my experience, created RP rather than disrupted it. The one person that is too involved in their project being called out very often can be pulled in a conversation that way. Being called stinky does get people, and its a very easy way to hook them onto a conversation (after they took a shower).

The difference is that hygiene is a motive other people can see on you and react to. And this forces people to move out instead of ignoring it.

I'd also argue against your claim that thirst is ignored-- the stamina regen penalty is devastating.

Yeah, and on RP most people normally don't care for stamina if they are neither an antag nor security.