Morale Overhaul

[Tawarochir]

I’d suggest significantly lowering loss from rain. Right now, being caught outside in a heavy rain for a meaningful amount of time somehow causes your character to become a weeping wreck who can’t bring themselves to so much as tie a sheet into a bag.

On the topic of which, removing the “can’t craft” low-morale penalty entirely. It makes no frickin’ sense. “This rotten meat tastes so awful and this book is so depressing that I can’t even consider whether or not I can make a sword until after the taste leaves my mouth, but I feel fine for welding a motorcycle together from scrap!” It would make infinitely more sense to have crafting take longer or have a higher chance of failure as a result of sadness.

[Grandpuh_Ty]

It would make infinitely more sense to have crafting take longer or have a higher chance of failure as a result of sadness.

I’m totally in favour of that, I think it works quite well if morale is to become a long term factor.

[ZoneWizard]

I live in the states and around the area this game is set in. I can tell you it does NOT rain every god damn friggin moment! >_<

…my one true gripe with the morale system =/
(sorry)

PS- can this be changed? Modded to lower the level of rain time? I’d appreciate it. PK? Mod this for me mate! Please? lol

[pisskop]

We have a drought right now. I can say that its not impossible for it to rain (drizzle) for a whole week.

[ZoneWizard]

We have a drought right now. I can say that its not impossible for it to rain (drizzle) for a whole week.

Evil s.o.b. giving me hope you will change this lol XD

So…?

[pisskop]

Thats governed by the C++ code. idk if I can, and it would probably be coregame if I did.

Im interested enough in looking at the code, but promise nothing. I still have to figure how to make dirt mound decay into regular dirt over time.

[ZoneWizard]

Cool thanks.

So mounds…like hoed/vehicle scrub outs etc.?

Do they really change that much do you think in nature? I ask because I have a garden. While good dark soil can turn to sand. The shape that the soil when grass grows(then hoed) will kinda just keep shape. A good example of this is forensics finding tire tracks weeks after a crime.

Nature is so slow I think I just saved you a lot of time finding out how to do it. As for WHY you would want to now
(up to you naturally)

[Coolthulhu]

My ancient regional weather PR would allow setting amplitude of the humidity function.

[CR]Regional weather settings

[ZoneWizard]

I’m assuming you are referring to lowering the amount of rain via a mod?

(hoping this is done ^_^)

[pisskop]

Yea, that will allow us to change the weather patterns more via json.

which Id do, but meh.

[ZoneWizard]

Pretty please? This isn’t england -_-

[iceball3]

A rather significant suggestion I’d like to make: swap the stat loss and no-craft thresholds around, such that -100 morale denies crafting, -50 is where stats start falling down.

The main reason being that crafting while low on morale can be a catch 22 situation, where your character refuses to do anything with the oatmeal but eat it raw, or refuses to make a towel to dry themselves with because they’re soaking wet, etc…
That sort of mental logic would only really make sense at very low morales, where making sense sort of got stepped on by that deformed fetus you just ate.
On top of that, the stat loss at -100 is very close to meaningless, due to how small they are, and due to how the intelligence stat means nothing at this point.
Think about it this way: What are you using int for when your training is already nixed (low focus), reading is impossible, crafting is impossible, vehicle building, and construction, all impossible?

[Pantalion]

Pretty please? This isn’t england -_-

If it were England the zombies would be far angrier, nether monsters (at least those you could actually see) would be faceless gentlemen in formalwear seeking to drag you into constant, all consuming pale mists, and the cults would be burning giant wooden effigies and training bees to kill intruders. Pits would contain hidden alien artefacts mind controlling various people and giving them telekinetic doom powers, friendly NPCs would periodically transform into murderous psychopathic abominations at night to murder you in your sleep (they’d feel really bad about it in the morning), and all the wolves would be replaced by intelligent lycanthropic hybrids.

Not to mention that “morale” would cease to be a concern, as the “stiff upper lip” trait would restrict any morale changes to at most +/- 10, and the enjoyment level on all food would be so far in the negative that any foreigner without the trait would have Shift-Q’d long before the cataclysm broke out.

[quote=“iceball3, post:13, topic:12309”]A rather significant suggestion I’d like to make: swap the stat loss and no-craft thresholds around, such that -100 morale denies crafting, -50 is where stats start falling down…

Think about it this way: What are you using int for when your training is already nixed (low focus), reading is impossible, crafting is impossible, vehicle building, and construction, all impossible?[/quote]

1: Totally agree, and 2: “Ensuring that my kung fu remains the strongest kung fu.”

[iceball3]

Another significant morale suggestion: When checking to see whether a craft is impossible due to morale, have certain recipes tagged to ignore certain categories of morale penalties, based on needs.

Crafting towels, any clothing with waterproofing or water protection, or constructing a Lean-To, should ignore Wet morale penalties, crafting clothing with nonzero warmth should ignore cold penalties, crafting good food should ignore “ate something gross” penalties, but not “barfed” penalties, et cetera.
Feels kinda catch 22 when you’re too wet to craft a towel or a shelter.

[Litppunk]

The Crafting needs to not be a hardcap from moral, but instead be a granular decrease of levels of craftable thing and success rate. Something Like this:
-500 morale: Crying puddle of shame, waiting to be eaten, because the world is just to much
-400 morale: You spend as much as 30 minutes to do so much as make a pot of rommen or cooked oatmeal, you can’t bring yourself to make anything more complicated than Lvl 1 skill requirement projects, and have 1/4-1/2 chance of failing.

-350 morale: There is no way you can be bothered to do more than LVL 2 skill projects
-300 morale: < Level 3 skill is beyond you right now
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• 100 morale: first stat gets debuffed
• 50 morale: higher chance of failing, failing gives slightly larger morale penalty for longer.
  -0 moral: Failures give slight short-term penalty
  +50 morale: Failure doesn’t bother you as much
  +100 morale: First stat buff, failures give slight cumulative bonus for success chance and decrease craft time on same project attempts (for 1 hour/until next success of same project)
  +150 morale Failure is almost irrelivent,
  +200 morale: Fail bonus increased (for 1.5 hour, or next success, whichever comes first)
  etc.

[Xfin]

-Snip-

With them numbers, Morale effects for things that ain’t killing NPCs really need to last much longer

what the highest and lowest values you gotten without trying to max out either end?

I do agree on moving the first stat lose and boost to 50 rather then 100; might make it worth going for enjoyable food…and also make mood swings more of a noticeable thingy that isn’t … oh i just don’t want to craft anything for a bit

[Litppunk]

I’m all for the max/min being raised/ spread out to allow the little things to build up without becoming game breaking, but that was really more about the making loss of craftable things gradual rather than suddenly can’t boil water, low moral having success penalties, failure having morale penalties and making high morale have bonuses other than just faster learning

[Sheb]

Why not just nerf crafting skill, like -1 to each for every -20 of moral you get? When your moral get terrible, you cannot do anything except maybe stuff you’re so good at it’s automatic.

[pisskop]

Pretty please? This isn’t england -_-

It needs to be added before we do anything.

[Wally-kun]

I don’t understand why I suddenly become utterly and totally incapable of crafting anything because I ate something I’m allergic to and have a stomach ache. What does me having a gutache have anything to do with tying a string to a flashlight? Why is me being soaking wet keeping me from boiling water so I can have a bloody drink?

I hate with a burning passion 2 things in this game: skill rust, and arbitrary morale shut-out features. I can turn off skill rust.