The ‰ notation is dumb

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The ‰ notation is dumb

Postby razfen » Tue Aug 16, 2022 11:43 am

Put it back to percents. Nothin bad with showing 0.3% instead of 3‰.

Our tiny human brains are accustomed to percents, I doubt that significant portion of the playerbase are chemists/biologists.
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Re: The ‰ notation is dumb

Postby jorb » Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:02 pm

0.3 implies printing three characters, rather than one.
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Re: The ‰ notation is dumb

Postby razfen » Tue Aug 16, 2022 1:15 pm

jorb wrote:0.3 implies printing three characters, rather than one.


That's kind-of irrelevant. You can print three characters, or ten, or a hundred, or whatever.
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Re: The ‰ notation is dumb

Postby loftar » Tue Aug 16, 2022 1:54 pm

It's just a unit. Would you feel better if we called it "hunger points" instead of permille?
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Re: The ‰ notation is dumb

Postby Sevenless » Tue Aug 16, 2022 3:20 pm

loftar wrote:It's just a unit. Would you feel better if we called it "hunger points" instead of permille?


Yeah, I think players are expecting a point value instead of a % value. Getting 1 point out of 1000 feels more natural than getting 0.1% of 100%. Mostly because that's how most games do it.
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Re: The ‰ notation is dumb

Postby VDZ » Tue Aug 16, 2022 3:25 pm

razfen wrote:Nothin bad with showing 0.3% instead of 3‰.


Other than the fact that you need to look closer to differentiate between 0.1% and 0.01%. I don't care what symbol comes after the number but don't divide all the numbers by ten.
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Re: The ‰ notation is dumb

Postby terechgracz » Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:48 pm

Also the dumb thing is that with time hunger lowers, it should be other way around. You start with 1000/1000 hunger and after eating something it is lowered. 100% means you're very hungry. 50% not so much.
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Re: The ‰ notation is dumb

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Re: The ‰ notation is dumb

Postby Nightdawg » Tue Aug 16, 2022 6:32 pm

Calling it "Fullness: 0/1000" and "Food bonus: 300%" would've made it too self explainatory, and we don't do that here.
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Re: The ‰ notation is dumb

Postby HasseKebab » Tue Aug 16, 2022 7:37 pm

loftar wrote:It's just a unit. Would you feel better if we called it "hunger points" instead of permille?


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