Needful things part 2

Entity · 2018-10-29T00:24:02.165Z

Not sure if this how it works as of now, but hot food and drinks should slightly warm you up and cold drinks should slightly cool you down.

Theundyingcode · 2018-10-29T00:41:52.607Z

Entity:

Not sure if this how it works as of now, but hot food and drinks should slightly warm you up and cold drinks should slightly cool you down.

They don’t in real life though… the amount of heat in say a cup of coffee is negligible compared to your body.

Source: I have a Wilderness EMT cert.

darktoes · 2018-10-29T00:47:52.410Z

It would generally make you feel a bit warmer/cooler for a bit though, which might be worth an additional morale buff.
I.E:
“Drank cold drink while hot” +5
“Drank hot drink while cold” +5

(Dunno if those numbers are practical, I pulled them out of my ass.)

Entity · 2018-10-29T07:04:27.066Z

Guess I never really thought of it that way, from personal experience I’ve always felt like it made a difference. Sure, you won’t heat up your extremities from a hot cup of joe by itself, but it should theoretically help stabilize the core temperature of the body which in turn helps speed up the process of getting warm or cool once you’ve moved on to a more suitable climate. I would agree that being in freezing temperature and then consuming something hot while still being in freezing temperature would only serve as a boost to morale.

Entity · 2018-10-29T07:20:38.325Z

On the topic of temperature, I was thinking that sources of smoke like cigarettes and the exhaust from an engine should be modified. Right now the smoke is thick and visibly clouds up a wide area, this should be dependent on the current weather. If the weather is ice cold out, you would see a large cloud of smoke, when it’s hot you would see but one or two tiles of smoke. This change could give a different perspective of the ambient temperature without the use of a thermometer or weather reader CBM, or just simply to add a layer of immersion.

Theundyingcode · 2018-10-29T23:26:13.119Z

I laid out a more in depth analysis here:

github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

Issue: Hot/cold consumables should affect the body temperature of your mouth, head and torso

opened by RosaEscura on 2018-08-03

It'd be cool and more realistic if hot/cold drinks/food would affect not only morale but also body temperature, meaning mouth, head...

<Enhancement / Feature> <Suggestion / Discussion> Good First Issue Items / Item Actions / Item Qualities

TheZoneWizard · 2018-10-30T10:43:13.671Z

Wait. You have it able to be worn but NOT allow it to shoot when it is feasible? 0_o

Theundyingcode · 2018-10-30T18:00:34.251Z

Theundyingcode:

I have a half-done personal

Emphasis on the HALF-DONE part.

Kurchie · 2018-10-30T20:17:40.049Z

Need way to kill insect, acid ants are taking over, faster than corpses and fungus. All other things have weakness, bugs do not, but insecticide is overlooked? Perhaps large sacks of carbaryl in workshop stores, craftable insecticide from limestone, and insecticide gas for chemical thrower.

DeWolf · 2018-10-30T23:46:56.168Z

Aren’t insects vulnerable to toxic gas? But then again outdoors makeshift gas canisters are not great.

TheZoneWizard · 2018-10-31T05:16:42.387Z

Didn’t take that part as such. But I getcha now =D

TheZoneWizard · 2018-10-31T05:18:26.574Z

Would be great to concoct a 40mm to burst like bloated zombies. Then kill the fungus and insect mobs.

Kurchie · 2018-10-31T07:20:21.735Z

It is not as effective as fungicide gas is for fungus, requires multiple spray from sprayer or detonation of gas bomb to kill only one ant. When there 700 ants on screen, need something powerful, but not nuclear, nuclear is too rare and dangerous for use on small ants.

nameless_survivor · 2018-11-02T12:04:58.813Z

It would be cool if mutation dreams actually led you somewhere, or started a mission. Like you had a premonition or something. Each mutation type would have a different set of “dream missions”.

For example, that Fault dream for Primes might start a mission to find a dimensional rift and close it, marking the nearest existing one on your map. Accomplishing the mission would give a morale boost or something.

Entity · 2018-11-02T18:12:36.572Z

Or you mutate a positive or negative trait depending on your success in the dream.

nameless_survivor · 2018-11-02T18:14:29.621Z

No, not a mission occurring in a dream, I was thinking you dream that you need to go to a location and do something, then after you wake up, you go do it.

Entity · 2018-11-02T18:25:56.127Z

Oh, I see. Still, I think having some control over the outcome of your traits would be a great gameplay mechanic. When you dream the game essentially would teleport you to a structure/dungeon, you have to find something, kill something, craft and place something, whatever you think the ominous dream might want you to achieve. Failure to complete within the time limit, you wake you up without a new mutation. If you die or do something horribly wrong or against what the dream was really trying to get you to do, you gain a negative mutation. Should you kill the beast, solve to puzzle, convince the lost npc to follow you, whatever it might be, you get a positive mutation.

TheZoneWizard · 2018-11-03T12:07:48.745Z

I just cannot help myself when looking at Nameless’s icon of a cthulhu critter. To assume he meant a HP Lovecraft thing. I would be more than tickled to have dream stuff if we could all storm of how to do this with a reasonable why

I can imagine a scenario to dreams and delusions similar to:

en.wikipedia.org

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a survival horror video game developed by Headfirst Productions and published by Bethesda Softworks with 2K Games and Ubisoft for the Xbox and Microsoft Windows systems. The game was published for the Xbox in 2005 and Microsoft Windows in 2006. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth combines an action-adventure game with a relatively realistic first-person shooter and elements of a stealth game. The game is based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft...

Whereby the main character has his mind and thoughts being taken to a place in the past and the future and he goes insane because the mind of a human cannot handle the strain.

Perhaps also A Mind Forever Voyaging for some digital dreaming?

en.wikipedia.org

A Mind Forever Voyaging

A Mind Forever Voyaging (AMFV) is a 1985 interactive fiction game designed and implemented by Steve Meretzky and published by Infocom. The name is taken from book three of The Prelude by William Wordsworth: The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. AMFV is not a conventional Infocom adventure, having only a single puzzle near the end of the game. Unlike most other Infocom t...

Lab computers for some simulation world fun?

darktoes · 2018-11-03T14:17:17.981Z

Who says it needs to be a dream? We have portals cropping up all over the place, and they’re clearly full of eldritch horrors. I say the more weird shit we can work into the game the better.

Mantar · 2018-11-03T17:13:06.419Z

I’m pretty sure nameless’ icon is a warhammer 40k tech priest.
Also, AMFV is awesome!