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[Baffler]

Proper eating

Wait, does this game model proper nutrition? Because my diet consists mostly almost exclusively of water, cooked meat, and johnnycakes. A balanced diet it is not.

[Sheb]

Not really. Character have a hidden 'health stat'. If it is low, you have a higher chance of getting a cold or the flu. I think it also influence your chances of recovering from infection. Junk food and drugs bring that stat down, while fruits, herbal tea and vitamins bring it up.

As far as I know, cooked meat and jhonnycake both are neutral, so you won't have issue there.

[Blaze]

Every comestible (That is, food and drugs) is given a "Healthiness" rating, eating them affects your health, positive or negative.
Health will naturalize to a value of 0.

It is definitely not realistic. Eating cracklings is as unhealthy as snorting crack.

[IcyTea31]

Proper eating

Wait, does this game model proper nutrition? Because my diet consists mostly almost exclusively of water, cooked meat, and johnnycakes. A balanced diet it is not.

(wiki) Many comestibles modify your health value, which affects your chance of catching ambient diseases, among other effects.

Fake edit: Ninja'd.

[Baffler]

I guess I'm safe then, but I didn't realize the value of vitamins. I'd mostly been ignoring them before, but I'll definitely start picking them up and downing one every morning now.

[Graknorke]

Eating cracklings is as unhealthy as snorting crack.

This made me wonder, is there any sort of real life measure of how dangerous something is for you to do? So you could actually compare these two things.

[scrdest]

Eating cracklings is as unhealthy as snorting crack.

This made me wonder, is there any sort of real life measure of how dangerous something is for you to do? So you could actually compare these two things.

Not really. There's too much variables and unknowns to even make such a thing.

[Sheb]

Well, the fact is that in this case, 'health' only refer to its impact on your immune system. Artery-cloggers should be no issue as long as your white cells can still get to the infection point.

[Vattic]

Eating cracklings is as unhealthy as snorting crack.

This made me wonder, is there any sort of real life measure of how dangerous something is for you to do? So you could actually compare these two things.

Micromorts are a rough attempt at this. You also have the Microlife statistic.

[Akura]

Eating cracklings is as unhealthy as snorting crack.

This made me wonder, is there any sort of real life measure of how dangerous something is for you to do? So you could actually compare these two things.

Micromorts are a rough attempt at this. You also have the Microlife statistic.

I read both of those. 2-3 cups of coffee increases your life expectancy by one microlife(half an hour). How many cups of coffee until I attain immortality? What's the micromort chance of that?

[scrdest]

I read both of those. 2-3 cups of coffee increases your life expectancy by one microlife(half an hour). How many cups of coffee until I attain immortality?

Infinity, duh.

[Damiac]

As a person who drinks half of infinity cups of coffee everyday, I can assure you, I'm moving further away from immortality...

[azmodean]

Probably estimated reduction of lifespan when (substance) is consumed (times) per (timespan). Not that that'd be easy to conjure up values for, of course.

Anywho, now that I've figured out how servers and routers work, I'm thinking of opening up Cataclysm for public play. Is there a way to keep users from creating/deleting worlds, or characters? Compilation options? Roguebasin suggests a pretty simple setup on the outside, but the more intimate parts of Cataclysm are a bit foreign to me.

There's a forum thread outlining it on the dda forums, but I can't find it right now (on a phone), in the meantime I believe ./cataclysm -h or ./cataclysm --help will give inteligible output now, and most of the options to make it shared-server-friendly are command-line options.

[beorn080]

I read both of those. 2-3 cups of coffee increases your life expectancy by one microlife(half an hour). How many cups of coffee until I attain immortality?

Infinity, duh.

Expressed that way, yes, infinity, however, it would be a mere 48-72 cups a day to maintain.

[TempAcc]

The "healthyness" of foods IRL is mostly measured considering short and long term effects, and how much do you need to consume of a certain thing in order for it to be harmful. Eating a bucket of fried chicken today is fine, eating a bucket of fried chicken everyday is totally not fine.

This somehow reminds me that black licorice is actualy pretty unhealthy if you eat too much of it. And too much black licorice isn't really THAT much even. Overdosing on it can even cause heart attacks, and it also carries a surprise for male enthusiasts: It supposedly stimulates the production of estrogen in your body, which doenst mean you'll become a girl by eating black licorice regulary, but it can cause a number of serious health issues with just a few weeks of constant consumption.
EDIT: I misremembered. It can actualy mess a number of thyroid hormones and worsen their effect, specialy if you're undertaking hormone therapy.