Calorie intake on food is very weird.

[Hathur]

Odd that the game has realistic (for the most part) calorie requirements to maintain healthy weight.. but the foods in game don't even come close to reflecting their actual real-life calories. Boiled egg is a good example... in game to get 2,000 calories a day just from eggs, you have to eat about 34 boiled eggs a day since each gives 60 calories (insane).. in real life you only need to eat 13 boiled eggs per day to get 2,000 calories (155 calories for an average boiled egg in real life).

Some foods are reasonably close to RL at least (steak in game is about 230, which is close to a typical steak in real life). But potatoes in game are very low as well compared to calories gained in reality. You'd need also about 33 potatoes a day to get 2,000 calories in game, or about 22 in real life.

Just find it jarring that I have to eat 3 cartons of eggs a DAY just to get enough calories to avoid weight loss when in reality a single carton of eggs would be sufficient.

[He]

I doubt you only have eggs on your playthrough, shouldn’t be too hard to find a box of cereal or a can of oats, each personally have over 1000 calories.

But yes I agree but I suppose it’s not the end of the world.

[Unknown Zom]

I'd always think the potatoes are just on the small side.

But on the note of the last comment, I suggest saving cereal for rabbit bait in traps, a lot more value.

[Jonnson]

Yes, I agree. It is off, and in a bad way.

[Shurenai]

Calorie content in eggs is based on size. An average small egg will be around 55~ calories, a medium around 65~, large up to 70-75~, Extra large a bit more, and so on.

I'm curious what the heck eggs you're buying to get 155 calories from your eggs. But the eggs in game are roughly calorie accurate to an average medium-small egg.

[Quineloe]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

Calorie content in eggs is based on size. An average small egg will be around 55~ calories, a medium around 65~, large up to 70-75~, Extra large a bit more, and so on.

What eggs are you talking about, because a chicken egg is way over 100 kcal.

Also bacon has less calories than many other meats, which is just absurd. I know we don't have precise weight amounts, but we can tell by what food we're eating to satiation that the numbers on many foods are just way off. You can easily live off a diet of bacon cheeseburgers in this game and actually lose weight. IRL you'd balloon up like crazy if you acutally did that.

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by Quineloe:

Originally posted by Shurenai:

Calorie content in eggs is based on size. An average small egg will be around 55~ calories, a medium around 65~, large up to 70-75~, Extra large a bit more, and so on.

What eggs are you talking about, because a chicken egg is way over 100 kcal.

Also bacon has less calories than many other meats, which is just absurd. I know we don't have precise weight amounts, but we can tell by what food we're eating to satiation that the numbers on many foods are just way off. You can easily live off a diet of bacon cheeseburgers in this game and actually lose weight. IRL you'd balloon up like crazy if you acutally did that.

The extra large eggs (70cal ea) and jumbo eggs (90cal ea) in my fridge at this moment. I'll take some picture in a few minutes once my phone charges a bit.

So.. Again,I ask, The heck eggs are y'all buying that are 100-155 calories a piece? Is this a country-by-country thing? Or maybe a white vs brown egg type of thing? I'm eastern US, and both cartons of eggs I have on hand are white egg(For which white eggs are in line with what is available in-game.).

[Quineloe]

I guess we're comparing kcal per 100g and an actual egg.

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by Quineloe:

I guess we're comparing kcal per 100g and an actual egg.

Ah.. That could be. Per 100g my extra large eggs would be like 125~ calories. But that's almost twice as much egg as my egg actually is. (56g, 70cal ea)

What you eat in game is An Egg though; Not 100g of egg mixture. Which'd make them a medium-small egg at 60 calories/each and an accurate representation of an egg from IRL in calorie count. (And in the 90's, small and medium eggs were more common iirc? But that's loose speculation of what i remember seeing on shelves decades ago.)

[Quineloe]

I'm not talking about tiny McD burgers, I'm talking about behemoths that go Bread - Patty - Patty - Bacon - Bacon - refined chees - refined cheese + mayo + ketchup
With a high level cooking skill I always ate one precisely when it would take me back to 99.99% hunger and my character was actually losing weight despite being 100% idle as a FF'd in a zombie free test world. Largely responsible for that imo is the fact that bacon is rated way too low on calories. It has fewer calories than rabbit per hunger, whereas irl it is very much the opposite.

but honestly it doesn't matter. If you live exclusively of McD burgers, you're gonna grow one direction only. Already because those things don't keep you satiated for long, because even though their calories are not that bad (because they're tiny) they're also of poor nutritional value. (exactly because they're tiny) I have found the "sweet spot" for idle characters however to be around 20kcal / hunger to maintain weight and the spiffos burger (which btw has no carbs, very suspicious and puts spiffos imo back on the board for who caused the virus) has less than that.

here's the creepy 0 carb burger
https://i.imgur.com/3rVBaLd.png

[Holothurin]

Originally posted by Hathur:

Just find it jarring that I have to eat 3 cartons of eggs a DAY just to get enough calories to avoid weight loss when in reality a single carton of eggs would be sufficient.

You are actually underestimating the game. An egg MIGHT have a certain amount of calories but the game is sophisticated enough to take into account how much calories you need to digest a certain type of food (yes, that doesnt work by itself).

And eggs especially are one of those rare kind of nutrition sources that have (sometimes, depending on size) a negative value. Meaning you actually LOSE calories if you only eat them.

[Quineloe]

Originally posted by Holothurin:

Originally posted by Hathur:

Just find it jarring that I have to eat 3 cartons of eggs a DAY just to get enough calories to avoid weight loss when in reality a single carton of eggs would be sufficient.

You are actually underestimating the game. An egg MIGHT have a certain amount of calories but the game is sophisticated enough to take into account how much calories you need to digest a certain type of food (yes, that doesnt work by itself).

And eggs especially are one of those rare kind of nutrition sources that have (sometimes, depending on size) a negative value. Meaning you actually LOSE calories if you only eat them.

You're making that up. Get a calorie counter for the game and you'll notice the only thing that affects calorie reduction is your physical activity.

[Holothurin]

Originally posted by Quineloe:

You're making that up. Get a calorie counter for the game and you'll notice the only thing that affects calorie reduction is your physical activity.

I'm sorry, yes, I did. Of course the game is not that realistic. It would be cool if it was though.