Feeding

[Jackal]

How should I feed my crew? Only when starving?

You should feed in 5 days interval or less?

[obscureaxiom]

Common advice is only when they are starving, but I believe the different level of hunger states impacts the crew readiness state (i.e. make events more difficult to survivl). I also think soup cans also only fill their hunger meter so much. so will go back to starving sooner after the first meal. I currently aim for every 6 days, but you know the best laid plans.

[BOYCOTT]

hard to say, cause they get like half hunger full per food on average but there's also a well fed status you can get as well that i'm unsure if is worth while or not.

i discovered it by mistake while playing with emmet and he looks full kinda.

[RageDMonkeY69FPS]

Ok the less hungry you are the more likely it is to survive the death threating events.
Basicaly if you are starving and some event comes that could kill you being hungry instead of starving could make difference thats what i have noticed in my runs.

[Noko]

I feed my crew on their 2nd day hungry, just before they start to starve, because when they are starving they need 2 soups for being ok again. I'm not sure but it seems like the characters haven't the same needs in soup (like, I have the impression that Baby eats more than Emmet for example), so I don't feed all the crew in one day, I try to follow everyone's hunger for stopping them just before starving. I have the impression too that your crew's hunger depends of when you gave them soup, like, the rythme of feeding (all the 4 days, 5 days, 6 days, etc... I don't know if I'm understandable). If you feed them less, but don't let them starving, they're gonna be hungry less fast, and if you let them starving, they're gonna be starving again 2 days after. But that's just my observations, I'm maybe totally wrong

(Sorry for my english though)

[findriN]

Originally posted by Jackal:

How should I feed my crew? Only when starving?

You should feed in 5 days interval or less?

my way of doing this is wait three days after they start starving to feed them, however if they are also sick, I will feed them as soon as they start starving, as they starve quicker when sick.

[ghostrider]

i wait until the second starving day, unless they are hurt or weak. if i'm going to send somebody on a mission, i will make sure they haven't been starving for more than 1 day

[Mineko]

I like what noko said I don't think it's beneficial at all to let them starve
I also always feed a crewmate before they go on an expedition beause they can die there too and the cause might be starvation. (or partially starvation)

[Noko]

For my part I'm not feeding my crewmates before an expedition if they are globally good but just hungry. I don't send my crewmates in expedtion when they are starving (or I gave them a can of soup before), or when they are weak. For the rythme of expeditions I like to take a team of 3 : when 1 is coming back weak and hungry of an expedition, I send the other (who is normally ok) immediately. Like this, I'm rarely feeding 3 people in the same time.

[Papalotapuss]

Usually I wait until day 10 to feed them the first time, then every time they get starving. However I copied the following from the latest patch notes:

- rebalancing of soup value - rationing it neutralizes daily hunger drop
- rebalancing of soup value - rationing it provides a health bonus

Does this mean you get a bonus if you give all the crew food at the same time?

[Mineko]

I think it means you get a bonus for the duration of either not having them in the starving, or in the hunger state.
And to add their hunger definitely builds up differently. You notice it in the very first days when they enter the hunger state differently. However! Events do influence the hunger! And maybe there is rng to it as well that I don't know about.

[Papalotapuss]

Thanks Mineko and there is definitely some rng to it. I've had Emmet as captain twice - first time he started to starve on day 10, the second time on day 8.