Tobacco question

[James]

Is there some sort of method to smoking tobacco? I have never figured it out. I feel like you are supposed to stop holding the mouse at some point.

[James]

Also what does blue tobacco do? It isn't on the wiki.

[ling.speed]

For now blue is equivalent to green.
If you hold it long enough the inhalation stops (smoke slows down) and you need to release and press again to continue smoking.

edit: since you read the wiki, while not spoiling too much i'll add that there are visual effects if you reach high levels of intoxication. Plus every tobacco drains energy under influence but different one can drain or give it while smoking.

[danielprates]

To me, the tobacco experience should be tweaked somewhat. Constantly holding the action key + the pipe is not a pleasant experience, maybe it should be more like drinking water, i.e., one piece of tobacco has 10 'whifs' and you only have to click one for each. As it is now, you have to hold the button pressed, it is ungamely.

I have only experimented with white tobacco and it also seems the effects are too mild to be a worthwhile thing to do.

[James]

Edit: I'm going to do some testing with them and may put something here soon now that I know how to properly smoke. I always thought I was doing it wrong but it turns out smoking a lot back to back may give you some improved effects.

[Pietro Aretino]

I tested white tobacco, it very very slightly increases your fatigue gauge. You gotta hold the right mouse button down until the smoking sound effects cease, thats considered 1 hit.

Complaints:

1) No way to see what is happening to your fatigue levels while using the pipe. If I drink water, I see my water meter go up. If I use white tobacco on the pipe, it does not show my fatigue levels. I was only able to see it increase because my levels appeared automatically to show me that my water or food level was low (dont recall) and while that happened I was coincidentally smoking the pipe and noticed my fatigue gauge rise a small amount.

2) The cost is not worth the effects, especially early game. The cost of a pack of white tobacco which gives you 6 "tobacco" is like 76-80 gold. The pip is like 36-40 gold. Thats over 100 gold for a product that doesn't really help.

Suggestions:

1) When I saw that pipes were available my first thought to its purpose was to kill time. I imagined that it was a way to "fast travel" without going to sleep. I.e. I'm going to sit and smoke my pipe for 15-30 minutes or something like that and it would give you a more "accurate" way of fast travelling, when compared to sleep, which when not calculated meticulously can get you lost at sea or overshooting your course by over sleeping.

2) Make the fatigue bar visible when smoking a pipe to see your levels increase/decrease

3) Make the boons more meaningful, like decrease hunger rate but maybe increase thirst rate? Etc.

4) Maybe add a lighter of some sort? Even if you just need it in your inventory. At the moment the pipe just magically lights itself after you pack it.

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by Pietro Aretino:

2) Make the fatigue bar visible when smoking a pipe to see your levels increase/decrease

workaround, use the pipe while inventory is open.