jorb wrote:Some point here, but I'm not sure I agree that energy does nothing.
It forces the player to shove trash down their maw arbitrarily, disabling them from making good use of the satiation system AND the hunger system because miners are scrounging so hard for food they're eating stockpiles of bones.
It incentivizes combat alts (like every part of this game, rightly so) because why on earth do anything with your fighter if it's going to nuke FEP intake.
Some works are so energy consuming it's best to just put them onto a throwaway alt. Energy on its own, a-ok. Satiations on their own? Eh, needs a rework still. That hunger system on its own? That's okay, prevents superfeeding (not even, only at low levels).
All of these together turn into a very sticky mess of "screw it" and frustration.