Renaming hunger to indicate it's a bad thing

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Renaming hunger to indicate it's a bad thing

Postby Sevenless » Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:07 pm

Hunger as a word has a negative connotation. Having a low % fill in a bar title "hunger level" intuitively makes you think "Low is bad". It would make more sense to the layman to title the concept "overstuffed level", or perhaps "gluttony level". Both of those concepts are negative when you have the max of it, so it's intuitive that having a high amount of it is bad.

Ok... so I kinda butchered that description and I'm bulleting it XD

Filling hunger bar sounds like a good thing. Filling an overstuffed bar or a gluttony bar doesn't really.
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Re: Renaming hunger to indicate it's a bad thing

Postby Flameturtle » Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:09 pm

+1

Mostly because everyone so far has had trouble with their reading comprehension. There was so many people claiming V-Idols were 150kLP altogether.
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Re: Renaming hunger to indicate it's a bad thing

Postby jorb » Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:11 pm

Maybe. Doesn't seem critical. I mean... if you realize that being able to eat more is a good thing, then you should also realize that hunger is, right?
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Re: Renaming hunger to indicate it's a bad thing

Postby Sevenless » Fri Sep 04, 2015 2:20 pm

jorb wrote:Maybe. Doesn't seem critical. I mean... if you realize that being able to eat more is a good thing, then you should also realize that hunger is, right?


While I agree with you, intelligent people can figure it out, this game throws a lot of curveballs compared to standard MMOs. Easing people into all the newness makes for a nicer game experience.

But you're right, not critical for sure. Honestly at this point I kind of expect all the critical issues to already have been brought up.
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