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Hi all, been out of the game for over a year and i had some questions about food. I wanna apologize first off if this isn't the appropriate place to be asking. I'm sure someone won't hesitate to let me know.

I've been in for 3 days and i'm having a very difficult time understanding how the food consumption works now.

1)I have a lot of old items (Thakitilla? Def vs knockdown, so my old stats still read...) and i've bought some more of the same (Thakitilla, Thakitillo : +40 Healing Efficiency?). My old Synthsteak says something like 48% damage reduction for first 28 hits, but now it seems it's something like 48% defense for 28 seconds (% is off, i know)?Do my older items just read the old stats but actually go by the new stats?

2) Can you stack food/drink? I'm guessing i can't, i dont see any threads on it.... yet i thought i heard somewhere that you can. Confuseled i am.

3) I'm noticing that my food/drink icons are disappearing/reappearing at random. Why is that? (28 minute things disappearing after 2 minutes, etc... :S )

i have more questions, but i guess answers to those above wouldnegate half of them lol.

Thank youin advance for any help...i did try to find the answers already but i'm obviously not looking in the right spots. Again sorry if this isn't right place to ask, i figured you would all know the most about it.

/bow

-Kilferf 'Uhn

1) The CU changed just about every food, so stuff had to get converted. Pre-CU items in crates may still display old stats. Once pulled from a crate, they should convert over to new stats when you examine the food. Not all foods have this problem. Foods that were outside of a crate should have gotten converted to the new stats automatically.

We're not quite sure whether synthsteak's "28 hits = 28 seconds" is a bug or not. On the one hand if you're the tank in the middle of a group of enemies, 28s is actually better if you're getting hit more than once per second. On the other, you can't eat the steak and "save up" the effect like you could pre-CU (which may also be an intentional change).

2) You can stack foods, but only ones that buff different stats. So you could eat a Blob Candy (+action regen) anda Spice tea (+mind regen), but not a Blob Candy and Vasarian Brandy (+health/action/mind regen). There's a bit of confusion about how conflicts are resolved (higher buff overwrites smaller, later food overwrites earlier, stat buff caps, etc), I'm not sure what the latest data is.

3) If you try to stack foods, you'll either get a "you cannot eat that" (if the food you're trying to eat would be "worse" than a buff you already have) or the new food will go into effect and the previous food will get canceled.

There are also a couple "triggered" foods that expire either after a given amount of time, or when the trigger occurs. So Bespin Port's experimentation bonus goes away after 5mor on your next experiment, whichever comes first. Ruby Bliel's stim time reduction expires after the next stim usage or 20-25m, whichever comes first.

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Kriles Ch'artoff , Chilastra server
Master Chef (retired)
Currently doing....stuff

Nice reply sciGuy, thank you much!