Insomnia Game Mechanics

[Schwifty K]

The recommendation I should take a nap to get rid of my insomnia has made me suspicious today. I can't stop thinking about it. That's like being advised to smoke more to get rid of my cough.

When Insomnia was introduced into the game, I had to shake my head slightly to accept the game mechanics. You are not sleeping so you are insomniac. Must be.

Wikipedia somehow sees it differently.

Insomnia, also known as sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder in which people have trouble sleeping. They may have difficulty falling asleep, or staying asleep as long as desired.

Maybe you should just call the current Insomnia mechanics exhaustion or something. The icon and game mechanics would fit to exhaustion.

For Insomnia an open eye would fit much better. And if you have stress, pain, injuries and therefore can't sleep, you get Insomnia.

I don't want to take over the complete clinical picture like in a hospital simulator. But bananas are bananas and not sleeping is a symptom and not the cause of insomnia.


To help those with lvl 6 Insomnia after 0.5.2:

You won't starve and it will cure you in less than one in game day.

Get to sleep and hit the wake up button as soon as it appears. You recover a lot form Insomia while the screen loads. Much more effective, than to sleep 5 days in a row and starve while sleeping.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1703133211

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1703133172

quicknap yourself healthy!

--> Get to sleep and hit the wake up button as soon as it appears. Don't sleep for 72 hours!

[Jaunitta 🌸]

I just ignored it went to sleep at the regular time at night and after 2 hours or so sleep the zz went away.

[Schwifty K]

Juanitta, get yourself a decent translator. The one on deepl.com is not bad at all. Maybe your answers will match the posts / last answers more often ;-)

I'm not complaining about the bug here, but because it just doesn't fit, it's like you're getting cold from fire. Maybe it's also a translation error in the source. But tiredness / exhaustion and insomnia are 2 fundamentally different things.

+ There's another workaround for the error in my thread.

I'm rid of the insomnia in the game (method described above).

But the game will be released soon and it's just stupid if you confuse insomnia and fatigue.

The mammals could also wear a plumage, it's their game, it just doesn't fit to the reality.

[Data-7]

Well is not wrong, maybe we could have insomnia when try to sleep but we have some disease, like fever or poisoning. In TLD for example you can’t sleep if you are thirsty or hungry, personally I would want to see also a body temperature system

[Sathra]

Nah, OP is right. The Dev's used the wrong word for the mechanic. It really should be Exhaustion or something.
It'd be Insomnia if something prevented the character from going to sleep. Like blue mushrooms giving Insomnia to represent their amphetamine-like effects (high energy gain).
Leaving you unable to go to sleep when you wanted and either having to wait till it went away or you passed out.

[EZTarget]

Originally posted by Schwifty K:

The recommendation I should take a nap to get rid of my insomnia has made me suspicious today. I can't stop thinking about it. That's like being advised to smoke more to get rid of my cough.

When Insomnia was introduced into the game, I had to shake my head slightly to accept the game mechanics. You are not sleeping so you are insomniac. Must be.

Wikipedia somehow sees it differently.

Insomnia, also known as sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder in which people have trouble sleeping. They may have difficulty falling asleep, or staying asleep as long as desired.

Maybe you should just call the current Insomnia mechanics exhaustion or something. The icon and game mechanics would fit to exhaustion.

For Insomnia an open eye would fit much better. And if you have stress, pain, injuries and therefore can't sleep, you get Insomnia.

I don't want to take over the complete clinical picture like in a hospital simulator. But bananas are bananas and not sleeping is a symptom and not the cause of insomnia.


To help those with lvl 6 Insomnia after 0.5.2:

You won't starve and it will cure you in less than one in game day.

Get to sleep and hit the wake up button as soon as it appears. You recover a lot form Insomia while the screen loads. Much more effective, than to sleep 5 days in a row and starve while sleeping.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1703133211

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1703133172

quicknap yourself healthy!

--> Get to sleep and hit the wake up button as soon as it appears. Don't sleep for 72 hours!

Thanks for the tip, it seemed stupid that sleeping for a long period of time may have brought insomnia down a little but also radicly made your sanity go down. Your tip saved me :)