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Thread: Is Food / Drink on a 30 Min timer now?!
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Bashin
Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:35 pm
#1
Title says it all...
If food and Drink are on a 30 min timer I really need to change the way I experiment.... The 3 points I put into time can go into uses or other things.
How will you change your expermintation if it is 30 min now?
sciguyCO
Tue Apr 27, 2004 8:39 pm
#2
Well, I'm having problems duplicating fatgit's results on Live, but I wonder if the fact that he's on a European server has something to do with it. Maybe the Pub 8 update we got on the US servers was just a tad behind what they got.
I'm in the middle of testing on TC right now. My results with Blob candy weren't conclusive, although it didn't look promising. I'm hoping the difference between 3m and 4.5m was some kind of rounding problem. I'll check back in 20m or so with my findings from Brandy.
If *that* doesn't work, maybe I'll try a full scan or something, although it would surprise me if the filling is processed entirely on the client's side.
sciguyCO
Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:18 pm
#3
:breaks down and cries
Urgh, TC has the same 45m timer. Just to make sure that it wasn't that "trying to eat when too full screws up digestion rate" issue that Eaca posted a while back, I sat and just watched the bars decay. I filled my food bar with blob candy, and still had a few bars after 40m.
I don't suppose anyone here is on Chimera that can test it? I trust fatgit to know what he's doing, and I'm pretty sure I know what I'm doing, so I have no idea why we're seeing different stuff unless it's a server or client mismatch.
Hmm, or maybe some bofa treats might work...
{goes to make a novice artisan on Chimera}
**edit to change 30m to 45m. Guess I was too hopeful and subconsciously typo'ed**
Message Edited by sciguyCO on 04-27-2004 10:51 PM
Crossover
Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:37 pm
#4
FYI, i take two of 41min brandies, and when both run out i still have a few bars left 50 fill each
sciguyCO
Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:56 pm
#5
/jarjar My gives up.
Well, I tried a full scan, created a Novice Artisan on Chimera (in case it was a server thing), and I still get the 45m stomach. Nine 11 filling bofa treats caused my food bar to show some filling until just before 45m expired. I don't know if it's an activity thing (I was spending my time doing the newbie artisan missions, which are pretty cool BTW), maybe I should've tried zoning or something.
If anyone thinks that they're seeing a 30m digestion, could you try confirming using the "/addAlarmin 0 30 Message goes here" command? That adds an alarm to go off in 0 hours, 30m so the timing can be pinned down more precisely. You could also tack on an "/addAlarmin 0 43 Message" to act as a reminder to check just before the 45m is up.
fatgit
Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:11 am
#6
I'll be online again in a short while, and will test again.
If only a few of us on Chim experienced this, then it can only be some wierd and cruel glitch, but I sincerely hope not.
I made sure I wasn't the only one experiencing the timer at 30mins before posting, because there had been no mention of a fix in the patch notes or by TH or sciguyCO - the last thing I want to do is get peoples hopes up falsly.
Chimaera has had it's usual reboot I'd expect, so I'll see what happens when I get ingame and report back.
A few people reported some wierd issues lastnight when Farstar was bouncing up and down, including items disappearing & reappearing, slight rollbacks etc, so it could just be a cruel "bug" from that, or something else I can't work out, but I was definitely taking brandy every 30mins lasnight, and I'm going to cry if it was just some temporary bug.
Yes, I'm clutching at straws now, because I can't think why the 4 people I was talking with on ventrilo were finding stomaches empty after 30mins, when others aren't experiencing the same.
The things to check now are :
Is this "phenomenon" being experienced by anyone on another server
Was it a glitch/bug on Chimaera only and is it still there
Is it due to some wierd glitch on certain stacks of food & drink, which may be random
I'll report back asap
If only a few of us on Chim experienced this, then it can only be some wierd and cruel glitch, but I sincerely hope not.
I made sure I wasn't the only one experiencing the timer at 30mins before posting, because there had been no mention of a fix in the patch notes or by TH or sciguyCO - the last thing I want to do is get peoples hopes up falsly.
Chimaera has had it's usual reboot I'd expect, so I'll see what happens when I get ingame and report back.
A few people reported some wierd issues lastnight when Farstar was bouncing up and down, including items disappearing & reappearing, slight rollbacks etc, so it could just be a cruel "bug" from that, or something else I can't work out, but I was definitely taking brandy every 30mins lasnight, and I'm going to cry if it was just some temporary bug.
Yes, I'm clutching at straws now, because I can't think why the 4 people I was talking with on ventrilo were finding stomaches empty after 30mins, when others aren't experiencing the same.
The things to check now are :
Is this "phenomenon" being experienced by anyone on another server
Was it a glitch/bug on Chimaera only and is it still there
Is it due to some wierd glitch on certain stacks of food & drink, which may be random
I'll report back asap
fatgit
Wed Apr 28, 2004 1:17 am
#7
One more thing, I'll be extremely p'd off if this was just "one of those glitches", as the first thing I did after confirming it with PA members was to put a run of 300 brandy with 35min duration (no experimentation), 431 buff, and 28 uses - I stand to lose a fair bit of cash if this was a one off error :/
Emalie
Wed Apr 28, 2004 7:39 am
#8
I noticed last night that some foods are digesting within the 30 min timer and others are not. On my chef, Bespin and Cake digested within the 30 minutes. On my TKA, it appeared to be 45 minutes with Brandy and Canape.
If this is the case, Sci you should request immediate fix of this. This is just plain pissy if we have to wait for another patch.
And I work during the day but it would be a good idea to test to see what is digesting within 30 and what is not.
fatgit
Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:31 am
#9
OK, after testing today, a new stack of brandy, 47min dur, it is not clearing after 30mins.
I'll try and find some more of the same batch I was using lastnight to test.
This has got me pretty wound up - made all those low dur brandies after seeing a 30min digestion lastnight :/
Hope this can be looked at soon
I'll try and find some more of the same batch I was using lastnight to test.
This has got me pretty wound up - made all those low dur brandies after seeing a 30min digestion lastnight :/
Hope this can be looked at soon
Emalie
Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:56 am
#10
I am sick and tired of waiting patch after patch for them to fix this and then when they finally go to fix it, SOE doesn't.
I don't care if we need to spam these guys in their PM's or by calling and harrassing them but we need to demand this be fixed immediately. A Hot Fix. I refuse to wait around. It's BS.
sciguyCO
Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:04 am
#11
Emalie wrote:
I noticed last night that some foods are digesting within the 30 min timer and others are not. On my chef, Bespin and Cake digested within the 30 minutes. On my TKA, it appeared to be 45 minutes with Brandy and Canape.
If this is the case, Sci you should request immediate fix of this. This is just plain pissy if we have to wait for another patch.
And I work during the day but it would be a good idea to test to see what is digesting within 30 and what is not.
You know, I wonder how the digestion is actually handled. I didn't pay too much attention to pre-revamp food digestion, but if the filling durationon those were set up to last just as long as the buff duration, that would imply that each food item has a "digestion time" associated with it rather than a global decay rate. If same design was kept after the revamp (just standardizing the digestion time to be 30 (or 45) times Filling/100) that might explain if some things have a 30m rate and others don't.
I'll work on getting a response from the devs on this. Will report back later today...
Emalie
Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:44 am
#12
So you mean as in food that has a 44 minute duration empties in 44 minutes and a food that has a 20 minute duration will empty in 20 minutes? I wouldn't be surprised seeing that those short duration foods and drink I used on my Chef were gone within 30 minutes. Could have been even less time.
CJadefire
Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:51 am
#13
No luck reproducing this on Kettemoor with pre-patch accarragm. :/
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