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Currently the only audio feedback that you get about wrong temp is starving sounds playing very shortly after hungry ones. But that's too late - you have like 2-3 seconds left to eat before you die. The only visual feedback is temp meter.
It's mostly an issue in towns. While you play in early camp or working in wilderness, you can estimate how fast you get hungry from tile types you are on. But in the middle of the town all visual hints are gone. There are floors covering ground, so you may stand in the arctic and three tiles later in the middle of the desert. No way to know before you go there and look at temp meter.
If you use pies, you also cannot eat frequently, because you'll waste most of the food. So what frequently happens is that you wait till hungry chirps start playing. That's a signal "I need to eat soon". You usuall have over a minute till you need to eat , so you spend few seconds finishing what you doing, or typing some text, or whatever. But then, after few seconds, you hear starving chirps playing. Now you search in panic for empty tile (which is a problem in towns) and die within 2-3 seconds with a pie as first item in backpack. You were just standing in full gear on desert tile...
There are few ways to alleviate the problem:
- Interval between hungry and starving chirps should depend on the rate of how fast you get hungry (e.g. every half pip for hungry, every quarter of pip for starving),
- Visual hints on floors (icing, burnt),
- There may be also very quiet aural hints about temperature in general. Cracking of ice, quietly playing in the background when you are too cold or the sound of fire or a dry desert wind when you are too hot. Not music, not a sound effect, just some kind of audio reminder to emphasize the importance of that meter as well. [Thx Morti for idea.]
Last edited by sc0rp (2018-06-16 13:11:39)
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