Regenerating energy in bed in singleplayer

[Magus Coldfire]

Hello there,

There is one feature I especially like in Multiplayer: One can rest in the bed to slowly regenerating some energy. I wonder why it doesn't work in singleplayer?

[Snowy Sprout]

I think it's because the spa is used for that. Managing limited energy is a feature of the game. The only reason bed-napping was put into multiplayer was because of the much more limited time available in unpauseable gameplay.
At least, that's my theory.

[Maya-Neko]

I think it's more because all players need to sleep to end the day. It can get quite boring, if you've already used your energy at 10 am, while others still do things, so there's the option to refill energy to still get something done.

And the amount of collectables around the cities are limited. It's well balanced around singleplayer, so that you can eat enough to get more things done, but with more players arounds it's not enough anymore at some point.

[Nakos]

That's what food is for.

If you're out of energy and the day is young, go foraging.

[Magus Coldfire]

Well, in Multiplayer you can go to the spa too, so that can't be the reason. It doesn't make much sense to have it in multiplayer, where you have more people for the same tasks (and therefore double energy) but not in singleplayer, where you have to do everything by yourself. And especially at the first 1,5 month you don't have the spa and can't afford to eat the stuff you should sell.
And bed regeneration is usually much slower then just going to the spa. I just wish it's also in singleplayer, if I want to do 1-2 things (like watering some plants that are left over).

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by Magus Coldfire:

Well, in Multiplayer you can go to the spa too, so that can't be the reason. It doesn't make much sense to have it in multiplayer, where you have more people for the same tasks (and therefore double energy) but not in singleplayer, where you have to do everything by yourself. And especially at the first 1,5 month you don't have the spa and can't afford to eat the stuff you should sell.
And bed regeneration is usually much slower then just going to the spa. I just wish it's also in singleplayer, if I want to do 1-2 things (like watering some plants that are left over).

It makes perfect sense. In single-player the spa's availability doesn't matter, no one uses it and, early on, you can just go to sleep to recover energy and no one is stuck waiting.

Imagine in multiplayer if anyone who's out of energy, without the spa available, was forced to wait until everyone else ran out. It would be horrible. That's why you have the option of laying in bed to recover some energy and then spending that energy. It gives you something to do while other people are doing their things.

There should never be "plants that are left over" unwatered. Watering crops should be a priority and you shoudn't plant more than you have energy to water. There's usually the option of going to collect forage for extra energy, and if you planned everything poorly you can always go buy a bit of food and do the watering, so the punishment isn't that bad.

I realize this additional option would be beneficial, just saying it was added to multiplayer out of necessity in that particular environment, not for game balance.

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by Magus Coldfire:

can't afford to eat the stuff you should sell

There is enough stuff you can't really afford to sell if you want to min-max. Salmonberry for example sell for a horrible price compared to how much energy they give.

You would need to sell 4 of them to get one parsnip seed at a win of ~15G.
But if you would eat those 4, you would've enough energy to use your fishing rod more than 10 times, which will already overtake the 15G with the first fish you catch.
Same with gathering and selling Copper or iron ore, if you need fast money, but hate the fish mini game.

And it's similar with the spring onions, which you can find in big number early on.