Hunger drain? How does it work?

[cobaltjones]

Does anyone have any specifics on how/why your hunger bar drains? I'm aware of the fact that a certain percentage of hunger is drained for every percentage of stamina you recover but...

Just now I was idling outside and noticed my hunger decreasing (or increasing if you want to be pedantic) at an alarming rate. I even started timing it, and it worked out to about 1% total hunger drained every 3 minutes. This seemed rather excessive to me, as I've idled before and never noticed it. I was just about to create a thread about a bug or possible change in the W4 system, when the drain just stopped completely. Confused, I went and ate some food and sat around waiting for my hunger to drop by idling again, and it wouldn't.

So the question is... does anyone know specifically how the system works? Can you slowly starve while idling, but at different rates per percentages? (100-80% takes 1 hour, 80-60% takes 3 hours, etc.) or is it completely random or am I just going crazy by sitting here with a stop watch looking at my hunger bar intently? The whole situation just got me curious really.

[Oddity]

Maybe you were recovering SHP.

[Wladex]

Hunger will drain while you are regaining SHP.

[Sei]

Hunger will drain while you are regaining SHP.

or regaining stamina.

[Oskatat]

you can slowly starve by idling, but you would probably have to idle for a whole week, 24/7, or more before you got anywhere.

most likely there was another drain on your hunger bar

[TeckXKnight]

For your hunger to drain at that rate it's likely you were regaining SHP and when you healed to full, the drain stopped. You can test this by getting injured slightly and watching the results. They Should come out to the same rate of hunger loss.

[Potjeh]

You can't starve by idling, hunger is drained by SHP and stamina recovery only.