# Mass Eating For a More Player Friendly Experience

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [May 21, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203 "2014-05-21T01:27:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 14\
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**Author:** ![Creamy\_Goodness](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/creamy_goodness/32/292_2.png) [@Creamy\_Goodness](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Creamy_Goodness)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203/1 "2014-05-21T01:27:24Z")

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Hello i have a simple but very useful idea to make the game a bit more player friendly, When you drop something, you can the choose the number of items in a stack, i propose this should be implemented into the E menu so as to alleviate spamming buttons over and over again to eat a box of cereal for instance

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**Author:** ![Senrain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/senrain/32/11388_2.png) [@Senrain](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Senrain)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203/2 "2014-05-21T03:21:40Z")

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How about a prompt that pops up if there’s more than one portion of food/drink asking you how many you’d like to consume?

If you want to eat an entire box of cereal you could type in 12, and your character will chow down until they finish the food or they’re full.

Of course, if you order your character to eat say… 20 portions of cooked meat and they can only finish 7 before they’re full a prompt should pop up telling you you’re full and asking if you’d like to keep eating anyways.

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**Author:** ![Rivet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/rivet/32/11_2.png) [@Rivet](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rivet)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203/3 "2014-05-21T03:42:00Z")

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I like this idea.

Sometimes you gotta eat, like, a thousand tacos at 3AM.

![](http://carpedurham.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/various-023.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Creamy\_Goodness](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/creamy_goodness/32/292_2.png) [@Creamy\_Goodness](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Creamy_Goodness)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 4:17am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203/4 "2014-05-21T04:17:34Z")

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> [@Senrain](#):
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> How about a prompt that pops up if there’s more than one portion of food/drink asking you how many you’d like to consume?

Thats also possible the only reason i was suggesting the system in the way i did is for the sake of simplicity

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**Author:** ![Gatleos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/gatleos/32/1008_2.png) [@Gatleos](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Gatleos)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203/5 "2014-05-21T21:28:26Z")

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Months back I dropped a PR for an autoeat command that just made the PC eat until full, so you didn’t have to press the eat button over and over to eat a single item at a time.

Nobody seemed interested.

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**Author:** ![creepysalad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/creepysalad/32/302_2.png) [@creepysalad](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/creepysalad)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 10:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203/6 "2014-05-21T22:51:48Z")

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i’m tired of my hands hurting to eat a box of toast-ems

i really like the idea

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**Author:** ![Markutsk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/markutsk/32/229_2.png) [@Markutsk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Markutsk)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203/7 "2014-05-30T19:11:31Z")

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[quote=“Rivet, post:3, topic:6203”]I like this idea.

Sometimes you gotta eat, like, a thousand tacos at 3AM.

![](http://carpedurham.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/various-023.jpg)[/quote]

Damn munchies, man…

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**Author:** ![Leper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecd19e/32.png) [@Leper](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Leper)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203/8 "2014-05-30T20:17:13Z")

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[quote=“Rivet, post:3, topic:6203”]I like this idea.

Sometimes you gotta eat, like, a thousand tacos at 3AM.[/quote]  
 ![](http://evergreenterrace.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/100tacos.jpg)  
“Boy, I sure could go for 100 tacos right about now.”

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**Author:** ![Zireael](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zireael/32/956_2.png) [@Zireael](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zireael)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2014, 7:37am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203/9 "2014-05-31T07:37:46Z")

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[quote=“Gatleos, post:5, topic:6203”]Months back I dropped a PR for an autoeat command that just made the PC eat until full, so you didn’t have to press the eat button over and over to eat a single item at a time.

Nobody seemed interested.[/quote]

Never saw this - remember the PR #?

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**Author:** ![Inquisitor\_Dust](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/inquisitor_dust/32/119_2.png) [@Inquisitor\_Dust](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Inquisitor_Dust)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203/10 "2014-05-31T13:54:49Z")

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[quote=“Gatleos, post:5, topic:6203”]Months back I dropped a PR for an autoeat command that just made the PC eat until full, so you didn’t have to press the eat button over and over to eat a single item at a time.

Nobody seemed interested.[/quote]  
Damn shame D:  
Do you still have the code? You think you could try PRing it again?

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**Author:** ![chevil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/chevil/32/282_2.png) [@chevil](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/chevil)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 9:02am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203/11 "2014-06-01T09:02:26Z")

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Maybe eating could work like doping does. If you want to eat 5 cookies you press E, then 5 and select cookies.

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**Author:** ![Bonevomit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Bonevomit](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Bonevomit)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203/12 "2014-06-01T18:36:34Z")

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> [@chevil](#):
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> Maybe eating could work like doping does. If you want to eat 5 cookies you press E, then 5 and select cookies.

I like this idea. Though it would probably be better if you pressed E, then cookies, then 5.

And you could select more foods if you wanted, like 5 cookies, 1 cracker, and 2 cornbreads or something.

Because doing 5 first means you have to remember what you wanted to eat 5 of.

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**Author:** ![chevil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/chevil/32/282_2.png) [@chevil](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/chevil)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203/13 "2014-06-01T19:12:17Z")

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> [@Bonevomit](#):
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> [quote=“chevil, post:11, topic:6203”]Maybe eating could work like doping does. If you want to eat 5 cookies you press E, then 5 and select cookies.

I like this idea. Though it would probably be better if you pressed E, then cookies, then 5.

And you could select more foods if you wanted, like 5 cookies, 1 cracker, and 2 cornbreads or something.

Because doing 5 first means you have to remember what you wanted to eat 5 of.[/quote]  
Most of the time you will only eat one thing so any “are you finished selecting what you will eat?” queries will become really annoying.

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**Author:** ![Creamy\_Goodness](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/creamy_goodness/32/292_2.png) [@Creamy\_Goodness](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Creamy_Goodness)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/mass-eating-for-a-more-player-friendly-experience/6203/14 "2014-06-01T21:41:23Z")

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> [@chevil](#):
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> Maybe eating could work like doping does. If you want to eat 5 cookies you press E, then 5 and select cookies.

you repeated my post exactly