Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Food & Water

So in the last build the City Window has been entirely reworked.  It is now split between multiple windows, and makes a bit more sense.

Current development is on adding the food and water consumption feature.  Meals Ready to Eat and Water have been available items for a long time, are sold at every port, and you even start the game with some, but the crew currently don't use them.  In 0.8.12 the crew will need them though.

How this is expected to work, is while your ship is not in range of a port your crew will consume these food and water items at a rate of 1 ever 5 minutes for each 5 crew, rounded up.  So 5 crew will consume 1 food and 1 water, 6 crew will consume 2, 11 crew 3, etc.  When you are in range of a port this consumption is suspended (imagine the crew are going to shore and eating there, for example).

If you run out of either and the 5 minutes are up, a number of your crew will be injured.  As normal, your medical crew can treat them, but some of them may still die.  They are injured the same as injured crew from combat.

This will mean if you run out of supplies on a long voyage, you can run into some significant trouble.

When the Flotilla feature is eventually added, those ships will also consume the same supplies.