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[iceball3]

If you aimed for Toady-like realism, physical stats should affect hunger ticks. If you are really muscular, you need more calories than without any muscles at all. So I suppose a gigantic bodybuilder that just sits and reads would still eat more than 5ft tall reed stick.

Or a... 5ft tall read stick?

That said, if being stronger made you more hungry, I'd figure that the game should focus on more beneficial realism first, I.E. the body being able to sequester emergency calories in the form of fat.

[Egan_BW]

I'd rather not have the game start handing out penalties for having higher stats. You can think of strength as a purely mental measure of how good you are at using your strength, just please don't make it a disadvantage to be good at something?

[pisskop]

I like the idea of negatives for high levels.


High Str is increased caloric reqs.
High Dex is jitteryness or relative frailty.
High Int is the mental imbalances.
High Per is ticks and perhaps fixations.

[Aseaheru]

That would be awesome. Perhaps combined with traits lowering/raising thresholds for when affected. Mostly so that alphas arent totally screwed.

[Girlinhat]

Why aren't walker legs a part on vehicles yet?  Like 8-legged tanks, insect style.  Slow, but ignores terrain obstacles.  Potentially small foldable versions too, like spindly little legs.

[ollobrains]

Why aren't walker legs a part on vehicles yet?  Like 8-legged tanks, insect style.  Slow, but ignores terrain obstacles.  Potentially small foldable versions too, like spindly little legs.

great idea

[Culise]

Why aren't walker legs a part on vehicles yet?  Like 8-legged tanks, insect style.  Slow, but ignores terrain obstacles.  Potentially small foldable versions too, like spindly little legs.

Spoiler: I like this idea. I really do (click to show/hide)

[Random_Dragon]

I only just now realized those buggers have wheels on the ends of their limbs. That doesn't count. o3o

[Culise]

The wheels are so they get the best of both worlds; they use the legs like legs off-road, and roll on the wheels on-. Really, though, I suspect it's more the grappling hooks that would make them not count than anything.

[Strife26]

The dev community has very interesting ideas of what qualifies as realism for the setting.

And besides, legged based vehicles are utterly impractical so it'd have to be a completely survivor built project, which is beyond the game's single-survivor with limited tools level.

[TheBronzePickle]

Anything is 'realistic' given sufficient application of money, effort, and fringe physics. There are already several functional spider walker designs that people have built with consumer-grade tools and hard work. The main issue is that they're generally really slow and unless you know the math behind ground pressure, you probably won't be able to put much on the vehicle without some creative over-engineering.

[Random_Dragon]

The dev community has very interesting ideas of what qualifies as realism for the setting.

And besides, legged based vehicles are utterly impractical so it'd have to be a completely survivor built project, which is beyond the game's single-survivor with limited tools level.

Don't look at me, with my acid-spitting jade-decorated leather armor, flashbang warhammers, the fucking Sigil, etc. o3o

[Girlinhat]

Boston Dynamic has walkers practically already.  Slow, expensive, even not very fuel efficient, but able to traverse anything that isn't a solid wall.  It's not hard to imagine building one.  Even a common survivor with decent stats in mechanics could build an eight-legged hydraulic walker.  It's not actually that complicated, it's just that wheels are VASTLY superior in all efficient ways, so there's no reason to make a walker in the real world because it's just expensive and does less.  But in Cata, it doesn't matter.

[Strife26]

The dev community has very interesting ideas of what qualifies as realism for the setting.

And besides, legged based vehicles are utterly impractical so it'd have to be a completely survivor built project, which is beyond the game's single-survivor with limited tools level.

Don't look at me, with my acid-spitting jade-decorated leather armor, flashbang warhammers, the fucking Sigil, etc. o3o

It's tough to look at it now that it's more work to get running in the main game. :c

[TheBronzePickle]

Walkers would be useful on rocky, mountainous, or otherwise unstable terrain that wheeled or tracked vehicles would be hard-pressed to cross. It would actually be very useful in a survival setting, as roads are probably crumbling or just straight up not there anymore and there's not really much way to build new ones, but at the same time, Cataclysm is fairly flat and there's not really many places where that one advantage would actually come into play.