Chef Archive
Thread: Food bugging stats?
A lot of times when I eat something to get the buff the attributes that were buffed end up becoming bugged until I die. For example, if I eat some ryshcate (sp?) it will raise all the appropriate attribs. So, let's say I have 500 strength, and the food raises it to 800, a gain of 300 points. Super.
But when the buff wears off, my stats fall by twice the number of points gained and stay there. So after the quick boost, my strength would fall to, let's say 200/500. Is food supposed to have a downer?
Is this a known issue? Spice used to do this but they seem to have fixed it for the most part. I have a chef on Starsider that I'd like to buy a couple of crates of food from, but I don't want to until they fix this. Anyway, is there a workaround?
Thanks for the help.
Yep, it's a known issue. In fact, it was a known issue on Test Center before the 10/8 patch. No, I'm not joking.
If you eat OR drink only one serving at a time, then wait until the buff wears off to consume the next item, in MOST cases you'll be fine. I still have occasional problems even with this strategy, however, so no guarantees.
Oot-eenie wrote:
If you eat OR drink only one serving at a time, then wait until the buff wears off to consume the next item, in MOST cases you'll be fine. I still have occasional problems even with this strategy, however, so no guarantees.
This is actually true for all buffs. If you have a buff from a doctor or entertainer, you have to wait for that to wear off before you get any food buffs. If you have a food buff, you have to wait for that to wear off before you get a buff from entertainers.
that isnot completely accurate in my experiencesir vimes. When I have doctor buffs on and I get musician mind buffed, it works. The trick is to get the musician mind stat (willpower, focus)buffs first, then the entertainer mind buff next. In addition, if you get the musician buffs second, then the maximum values of your secondary mind stats go up but not the actual values. To fix this, get on a shuttle somewhere and they fix themselves. I have also gotten all the mind buffs, then used doctor buffs on myself and there is no problem. The only problem with no work around for me is mind stat (willpower, focus) enhancing food and spice. My stats never go up, cannot be 'jogged' into working by hopping a shuttle, and then when they wear off are locked permanently at a reduced level until I log off for a considerable period. I love using mind enhancing food/spice and it makes me sick that this is broken. I have posted here about it probably 10 times now and have bugged it just as many.
Floyd
Master Doc
Scylla
Back in beta (not that we're not still in beta, just we're paying for the privilege now) I used to be able to fix what we called 'perma-damage' by eating Air Cake, as that pops up every stat by +1. Does this still work? I keep meaning to try it, but I gave up not only my Chef skills ages ago (to go to Bio-Engineering...am I a glutton for punishment or what?) but I also had to ditch all my Dom Arts. 
So I can't make my own Air Cake anymore.
It'd be cheesy, same as it was in beta, but if it works....
The ability to buff every stat is insignificant next to the power of the bug....
I thought to try this, but the magic has been let out of the Air Cake. The stats increase (as long as you haven't eaten anything recently), but go back down to the incorrect values.
So here is an unofficial poll question for you all...
How long do you think it would take the developers to fix this food stat bug if instead of lowering your secondaries, it raised them unintentionally by about 200-500 points and they stayed that way?
Ten bucks says they would have it fixed in a New York minute!
But hey, it only makes an entire profession utterly worthless, so no rush...
Fafafett Quargmire
Master Smuggler / Wanderhome Server