[Crawl-ref-discuss] Food program

[David P. <dp...@mi...>]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, Raphael Langella wrote:

> So again, let's revert, and apply small and simple changes that improve 
> that really improve the food system without any increase in tedium and
> annoyances. I'm listing my proposals again:
>
> 1. gourmand nerf (just +1 to satiation limit)
> 2. carni 1/2 nerf
> 3. increased herbi/carni nutrition modifiers
> 4. herbi 1 can't eat contaminated chunks, herbi 2 no chunks at all, but
>    can eat meat permafood (and gourmand can help here).
> 5. half the number of chunks
> 6. change the effect of brown chunks from sickness to nauseous so that
>    it prevents you from eating instead of regenerating
> 7. Reduce monster spawning: jellies never, others could use a cap
>    (either from native depth (like D:10) or from player total xp.

I support all of this. (Point 6. addresses the newbie I mentioned in my 
rant email.) The following are probably good but need testing and/or 
discussion:

> A. adjust the full and very full thresholds to make the gourmand
>    and carni nerf more sensible.
> B. reduce brown chunk nutrition (but you always get some, even if it
>    makes you nauseous).
> C. poisonous chunks are inedible without identified rP; same for
>    rot-inducing chunks

Anyone up to helping out?

David