Thursday, 26th November 2015, 06:56 by Tressol
Hmm... Maybe I just play really slowly normally (in terms of turn count) but I don't think so. A 15 rune game seems to take at least a hundred thousand turns if you aren't seriously rushing. For a human just walking around or resting uses 3 nutrition a turn, so 3 a rations (at 5000 nutrition each) will last 5000 turns. That's 60 rations for 100,000 turns before factoring in any hunger costs at all from evocables, etc. Fighting adds 3 nutrition cost... Honestly, I thought it would be much worse - you probably can get away with only buying a few food shops. 3 or 4 could probably suffice even for extended. And... I think now Gozag even turns corpseless enemies into gold when you kill them, so that's a serious plus in extended as well. I still find the rising price of shops a bit silly, encouraging one to eventually abandon Gozag for some god with more reliable panic buttons than potion petition. It's not a good long-term plan for the god of money. But I will try to keep an open mind about the viability of 3-runing Gozag, at least. Just a bit sad for Gozag to be almost set up to be abandoned...
Warning: rampant naval gazing and change proposals ahead. You're in CYC, so, there you go...
I still find the hassle of the food shop to be a lot of runaround for the player and extra (but uninteresting and often frustrating) resource management. I would propose something along the lines of an ability to just buy, like, a coke or something direct from Gozag for ~50gp (very open to hearing what others think a good price point would be), and it would effectively just be a chunk (but, a chunk anyone could consume, like royal jelly) that you eat on the spot, preferably with an amusing consumerist message ("You take a long sip of the Goza-Cola and pose, smiling and showing off the label as if for some unseen audience." or "As you drink the Goza-Cola, you feel an urge to buy the world one, too."). In effect a simple "trade gold for food" ability. Then we could nix the calling of food merchants altogether. This would have the added affect of making Gozag a more interesting endgame choice, since corpses aren't often found in Pan or what-have-you. And yes, you could carry a giant stack of rations... Or you could eat those first and keep the inventory slot free for more goodies that you bought at your (actually interesting) shops that you called. Again, the biggest problem is that food shops are uninteresting and a significant investment to overcome what feels like a manufactured problem. I don't know, maybe it is supposed to feel manufactured; perhaps it's flavor and this is how Gozag continues to make record profits.
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