BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

We get stuck unable to do anything if we ever run out of food, which makes the game un-fun.

Per Tiberias didn’t notice that when you posted on IRC

Approve of the sentiment but this is too un-fun. 

Hm, you‘re right. It would be funless if all our Energy is limited to 10 for one week. I may s/k this later.

Well, there is “Food” and the most common thing you do with food is eating it. Eating is necessary, if I remember correctly, you die after eating nothing for three weeks.

So a “If you can‘t eat enough, you have less Energy” mechanism is straight forward.

But as this could lead to a funless week, there may be other mechanisms: How do you think about a “A Colonist may, as a Daily Action, eat while removing three Food from the Colony Stockpile. If a Colonist has not perform the “eat” action that day, he is not allowed to perform any other action (except hunting) that day.”

So we could never get stuck for more than one day, but eating (and therefore food) becomes important. But I assume there would be problems with the “Daily Action”... Any ideas for a weekly based mechanism?

Well, another idea: Resting could base on Food, too. That sounds like a good way for me, but we could get stuck, if we don‘t have any Food and noone has Energy…

If the death proposal passes, I might do something like giving you energy for eating, and each colonist that doesn’t eat has a 25-30% chance of death each week.  We’d obviously need to rate-limit eating so that one person doesn’t eat all of the food and leave everyone else to die.

S/K for the queue…

That’s not a S/K….

I like death as a penalty for not eating, though.

Hix: Ah, damnit. Well, now it‘s timed out anyway…