From a game design POV why does messing up and eating too much warrant such a harsh punishment? Like, if you mess up while fighting an antag you die, but the payoff of winning is that you stop the antag. If you mess up when eating you get forced to a snail’s pace, which grinds the game to a halt and is a death sentence in almost any situation, but if you eat the right amount, you’re… just not hungry anymore.
Like why is eating too much so punishing?
It’s like with the emagged arcade machines where you get a hat if you win but you instagib if you lose, but for a regular game mechanic which makes no sense
literally you get to wait 5-10 minutes or you get to beg chem to make you lipolicide or sci to research the lipid extractor. Not sure why it’s so punishing for something new players and probably even not new players easily mess up on
yes you need to learn to constantly spam check your mood so you don’t overeat, but why, from a design pov is that so important that it’s punished this hard
I’m serious, just make it so it only works on the toilets, and if you shit too much in them before flushing they can break like microwaves or something so that jannie has a reason to check the stalls once in a while
hijacking literal shit posting thread for an actual suggestion
add a “yeah that was a good meal, i’m full” flavor line for when someone’s getting close to the fatass threshold so they hopefully don’t go over the line
people who are against poo are noobs who never played during the golden era of SS13
back when the janitor had a port-a-potty, a draggable toilet chamber that you could throw someone in, slowly making them shit themselves to death while spraying highly slippy poo all over the station (which you are immune too, with your galoshes)
aren’t there a good amount of potent foods/growns where if you reach “unwillingly eats” you’re already past the fatass threshold by the time the nutriment in your system finishes metabolizing
I don’t get how moving slightly slower for a short while is that bad of a downside. If you eat too much just make some lipolicide and you’ll be skinny again in no time at the low low cost of negligible toxin damage.