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Jamie17694 Nov 20, 2019 @ 4:22am
Survival Mode: Does running affect thirst, hunger, and needing to sleep?
I've decided to do a new run through and haven't really thought about how the running mechanics work. Does constantly running though affects your AP by reducing it.. Does it affect how fast your thirst, hunger and requiring to sleep takes effect?
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Originally posted by deidian:
No, not 100% sure since it's reading code(no testing at all) but from what I get: it's based on a timer, every time you awake a time interval is set, when that time interval expires the tired effect is applied or increased.

if you sleep < 2 hours you are just delaying need for sleep for the time you slept and saved the game. Sleeping > 2 hours grants 14 hours awake before getting tired.

If you suffer 'sleepiness' disease then it's just 7 hours awake,

Nuka-cola and cherry ones extend the timer to 16.33 hours
Quantum colas and rare caffeinated drinks extend it to 21 hours

Tiredness applied is recalculated both at the start of 'Caffeinated' and when the effect ends.

So for tiredness purposes sleeping > 2 hours should be enough. Another thing is for health/limb restoring purposes, adrenaline lost, well rested/lover's embrace. There's when sleeping up to 7 hours matters. More than 7 hours sleep doesn't give any benefit, it just skips time, which may be useful to play with solar powered/night person perks.

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deidian Nov 20, 2019 @ 4:51pm 
Originally posted by The Inept European:
It's worth seeing what you can buy from Connie or Trudy. Just one plant is enough to get you started.

Also Trashcan Carla will move between Sanctuary Hills and Drumlin Dinner and will sell things too, providing you don't try to rob her.
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The Inept European Nov 22, 2019 @ 5:58am 
As a test I spent all day sprinting round Sanctuary. I got Hungry faster than usual, but only about twice as fast as sitting there doing nothing. Because of the sprint AP recharge delay but probably more so due to a cool down timer on the hunger debuff for entering combat / using AP, I suspect.

Interestingly thirst lagged behind hunger (kind of the opposite of what you would expect for constant sprinting) so I suspect only hunger is affected, though I hadn't noticed that in the code. I will recheck some time.

I don't think tiredness was affected at all. Could be wrong, I wasn't really watching for that.

Extrapolating, killing yourself from hunger by sprinting would take a very long time, not significantly quicker than dying from starvation by sitting there doing nothing. Maybe half the time, very roughly.
Last edited by The Inept European; Nov 22, 2019 @ 6:00am
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nonce basher Nov 22, 2019 @ 9:10am 
ytuytu
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nonce basher Nov 22, 2019 @ 9:10am 
kjl
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The Inept European Nov 22, 2019 @ 9:15am 
The nonces are all safe today. :-)
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ZarahNeander Nov 22, 2019 @ 9:53am 
Originally posted by Zotliatlicor:
Have you ever done the Museum with either Piper or Danse ? Or anyone else ?
Yes, with my trusted friend Fat Man. That guy rocks, thou sadly abit short on dialouge
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The Inept European Nov 22, 2019 @ 10:26am 
I have only done the Museum with the dog or the robot. But usually on my own because it's SO much safer that way.
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