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Faster liquid consumption in the desert...?
While reading Stormlord's "Do you remember:" thread, am I remembering correctly or am I delusional, but I thought the early version of the game had the desert zones of North Ro, Oasis, and South Ro have the player consume liquids at a faster rate - perhaps twice as fast as they normally would? I remember when I first adventured out there (so far away from Freeport), that I stocked up on even amounts of drink and food. Eventually I would be thirsty while still retaining food and other players mentioned that was the effects of the zone on players. Thus why Desert Madmen and Madmen carried supplies of water - they were so delirious in thirst that they forget they had drink!
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That sounds cool, but I don't remember it at all and suspect it came later. Verant didn't even add support for food/drink having different durations based on type until the end of the classic era (AFAIK P99 still hasn't implemented them yet).
Therefore, I'm skeptical that they implemented zone-based duration differences any earlier ... but like I said that sounds cool (not just for deserts but also for places like Skyfire Mountains), so I hope that I'm wrong ... or if I'm not, I hope they one day implement it as a custom feature.
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Was prolly just a rumor started because that's how it works in D&D.
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This isn't still a thing?
I know it existed at launch, I KNOW that much. I was still under the impression it worked now, I spend a lot of time in Oasis and my water definitely goes faster than my food when I'm out there. | ||
Last edited by Squabbles123; 11-06-2017 at 03:07 PM..
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I also remember this from live and i remember it being close to or exactly 2x consumption of drink.
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Maybe its in my head now, but I know for a fact it existed on Live during launch (causes thats really the only time I played EQ on live). I think we should bring it back. | |||
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Could be some merit to this..
Thread titled 'Nerfing! Nerfing! Who's up for a good nerfing! You know you want it!' in the alt.games.everquest newsgroup. Should mention someone started saying this is an urban legend in the thread, and others came to disprove it. I'll post both people's opinions and you can decide. Thread is also November 2002 and no one mentions exact time frame this happened. Interestingly enough they mention higher consumption rates when encumbered. Here's the thread quotes: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...4Qps%5B1-25%5D Quote:
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A potential problem is, as is mentioned in the thread, if you right click then your food/water that is 'in your belly' lasts half as long as if you rationed it naturally (without right clicking). Could be people loaded up on water at the vendor and right clicked, and just noticed the higher consumption rate. Who knows for sure, will try and dig up more stuff.
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Found an in era post (Late June of 2000), should be noted he is comparing Muffins consumption alongside Water consumption, however I believe this is before Muffins had a different food consumption classification (i.e. a 'snack'). Even mentions Iron Rations are consumed same rate as Water.
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Grrrr keep finding more evidence. Last one it looks like. Thread titled 'What food to eat?'. Is from August of 1999.
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