Kreador Freeaxe wrote:Also, though, in most cases of "long term" fasting (more than a day), the person is not engaging in strenuous activity like running for his life or beating up the monsters that are attacking her. Anyway, that could be the range of the hunger bar, anyway. It should go down more slowly than the thirst bar (people need to drink more regularly to maintain conditioning).
Also true. And yeah, I've mentioned the same thing, about the thirst bar, myself, that it needs to drop notably more quickly than the hunger bar (since I
think it drops more quickly already, but won't put money on it since I don't pay all that much attention to the bars... which I think is a bad thing)... in general, though, they should both descend more quickly.
I know there's a difference to be considered between hunger and critical hunger, and between thirst and critical thirst. I think BW seems to be concerned with critical hunger/thirst which is why they descend so slowly... .
If we're not exerting ourselves we get hungry long before we get thirsty, but our hero(ine) is very active, so he/she sweats a lot, depleting the body really quickly of much needed water. Dehydration or overheating makes you weak and then makes you faint. That happens pretty damn quickly. Hunger reaches the critical point much more slowly and also has a much slower action from that critical point.
Also, you might say that hunger has two critical points: the point where it begins eating fat, and then the point where the physical processes begin to be noticeably affected.
This isn't even getting into where the character is: Hellice Lake or the Grazelands... . All this info can get really complicated to program, so I don't blame BW for simplifying things by just calling up the HP Reduction Program and forgetting about locale. (Someone correct me if locale matters because, again, I don't pay a lot of attention to the bars.)
Here's what I say: somebody come up with a really awesome way to deal with all of these things in a way that's really simple to program. Email it to BW to make him happy, and post it here to make all of us happy.