Hunger - Poll and My Thoughts

This thread is to discuss hunger.

Something Tiy said in the 10th of May update:

From this quote it looks like we can conclude that hunger is going to be a part of Starbound, but whether this is a good or a bad thing I have still not decided.

On the one hand, hunger makes food important. People actually need to go and farm some vegetables, or perhaps kill some edible monsters, adding some more flavor (haha) and longevity to the game.

On the other hand, it forces you to do this things, regardless of what you really want to do. Some people don't want to bother farming, and completely hate the thought of a slowly lowering hunger meter. It means you need to use a whole new game mechanic to survive, something completely the opposite to fighting, you are instead creating life.

These two sides can be seen as equally important, and quite honestly I am completely in the middle on this subject.
I like going all out fighting in a game, but at the same time the longevity it creates and even the strange feeling farming gives you, makes it almost worth it.
Of course I get mad when I run out of bread or watermelons, but at the same time you get more out of the game because you are forced to grow wheat and fruit and vegetables, perhaps even terraforming planets in order to do so!

So I have created this thread to figure out what you guys think. It is important to discuss subjects like this, because of the majority of people dislike hunger, why should Starbound include it?

 

From what I've heard, hunger is going to be optional.

 

It is a possibility, but at the same time that doesn't make much sense.
It would be a slightly unfair advantage on multiplayer servers to those who don't use it, unless you mean optional server-side.

And then it begs the question: Why make a hunger and food system if it is only an optional part of the game?
It seems illogical to develope tons of farming and food and hunger systems just to give people the option of having it.

 

Because some people like the challenge?

I just hope we can toggle it on and off. I want to experiment to see if I like it.

 

Hunger will be if you choose you character to play on HARD and the server you are on will Probably choose that Option for you that would make the most sense

i will play on the harder difficult right away so i have a hunger bar becuse its adds abit of a challange to set up a renewable food source and really building a base ^^

 

How A Nova Kid Eats In A Nutshell...

 

I think it is an important part of the survival aspects of the game. We will already be dealing with other hazards (temperature, atmosphere, possibly radiation, acid, lava, etc.) why not hunger and thirst as well?

 

oh and im pretty sure that you cant freeze to death ect if your not playing on hard either ^^

 

I enjoy survival games. In the survival tradition, the player has to gather food and build a shelter.

 

What about people who want hunger without being hardmode? Doesn't hardmode include losing all your items upon death?

And also, I don't know if I agree on having a really big part of the game only being used by a small portion, because I'm sure the developement team are going to make farming go really in-depth.

 

This is nothing new.
Seriously. We knew this last year.

 

that im not sure of xD but if anything i would think its more of you drop your items then they just get deleted

 

I want hunger, But i don't think you should die if you get too hungry. I think that your speed,attack,strength should decrease.

 

This.

Also, has it been specifically stated by any dev that hunger will only be for hard mode? If it has, then I missed it.

 

We've known for months that hunger will be an optional aspect in the game.

Except we don't really know anything about the possible difficulties, or if hunger and temperature is limited to those and not just a bunch of options you can pick and choose. It's possible that the game will just give us various options we can decide on as well as a difficulty.

 

...didn't we already know that hunger was going to be in the game? In any case, food is an important element in survival games. The fact that Terraria fell flat on that and that Starbound is defining this system a bit better is a good thing (along with Don't Starve). I'd be more impressed if they include a code that does diminishing returns for eating the same thing over and over.

If players don't want it then yes, that should also be a toggle able option in SSP, and chosen by the server in SMP.

 

That hunger is ingame is old news. Like... REALLY old news
But it has already been confirmed it is optional.
So it doesn't really matter what you want, you can choose both

Grzzz

vlamer12

 

I don't think players should be able to toggle hunger on and off. I think there should be hunger always on.

 

Weird, I have sigs disabled, but yours is still showing up... must be an annoying bug.

 

Hunger is definately optional, as i have read several times, but i do not know about freezing. I think you can freeze to death no matter what because its a level barrier for lower levels. You have to work up.