Insanity!

[NeiroShop]

Thinking over the insanity system alot, and roaming around it does seem rather balanced and adds a new dimension to the game.

When you are outside of your village / claim, just pick the inspritional flowers as you pass them to offset the insanity.

When you are inside your claim, cook foods over time for your glutton sessions, not all at once.

Whittling ? Make wooden handles for torchposts, 10 every few hours is not a big deal.

Considering i have now played for several hours now (well non stop since patch), and i still have (what looks like) 0 madness what im guessing almost 0 insanity and i have hunted animals, done mining, done smelting, cooked stuff etc, i am noticing almost no difference.

It just seems an extra measure of needing to be carefull.

EDIT: Except that crazy flame that started to burn my inventory, however with all do fairness i had just harvested 500+ coal in a row, that should make one go insane.

So youre saying as long as we do needless crap its all good. Yep i got you. Cpt. obvious.

On the topic though im interested in how insanity handles with criminals? If you get knocked out on someones claim. Is that a death sentence?

[pilgrim]

Right now the insanity system adds more annoyance than pleasure. Also it seems to add a lot of extra difficulty to newbies, while well equipped/skilled characters just need to play their instrument respectively grow some tobacco. Crafting unneeded stuff just to lower insanity is not fun. Also fishing in Salem is not interesting (neither is it relaxing). It definately adds some extra chores, contrary as mentioned. But i'm curious how it develops and so far Salem is a good game. I'm confident.

How can the idea of putting on poison ivy underwear and scratching your ass till you bleed out not be fun.

[HolyLight]

So youre saying as long as we do needless crap its all good. Yep i got you. Cpt. obvious.

On the topic though im interested in how insanity handles with criminals? If you get knocked out on someones claim. Is that a death sentence?

If you are trying to claim that making wooden handles, crafting bagjles, picking the inspritional flowers is "needless crap", then you are not playing the game correctly and deserve to die from this feature.

This patch has basically made me do tasks i NEED to do in smaller amounts, thus spreading a task out over a period of time, rather than pump it all out in one go over multipul hours.

No big deal really.

[ASTAROTH]

and what about swimming? It is quite relaxing is it ? With no sharks ofc...

[NeiroShop]

So youre saying as long as we do needless crap its all good. Yep i got you. Cpt. obvious.

On the topic though im interested in how insanity handles with criminals? If you get knocked out on someones claim. Is that a death sentence?

If you are trying to claim that making wooden handles, crafting bagjles, picking the inspritional flowers is "needless crap", then you are not playing the game correctly and deserve to die from this feature.

This patch has basically made me do tasks i NEED to do in smaller amounts, thus spreading a task out over a period of time, rather than pump it all out in one go over multipul hours.

No big deal really.

It is needless if you have someone else doing the things that are now calming. Making me do random things i dont really need to do then yes needless. I am not a cook nor a flower picking fairy thank you very much.

Me deserving to die? Probably. Wont be to a silly feature like this though.

[Lusewing]

Seems like someone needs to get in touch with his feminine side. You are very defencive about only doing 'manly' things do you need someone to talk to?

[JohnCarver]

It is needless if you have someone else doing the things that are now calming. Making me do random things i dont really need to do then yes needless. I am not a cook nor a flower picking fairy thank you very much.

Me deserving to die? Probably. Wont be to a silly feature like this though.

And what is the giant reason you refuse to just smoke tobacco and ignore all the actions of salem that calm you down?

[Procne]

Smoking causes lung cancer

[pilgrim]

It is needless if you have someone else doing the things that are now calming. Making me do random things i dont really need to do then yes needless. I am not a cook nor a flower picking fairy thank you very much.

Me deserving to die? Probably. Wont be to a silly feature like this though.

And what is the giant reason you refuse to just smoke tobacco and ignore all the actions of salem that calm you down?

^^
This is perfect. sit back with my whip and smoke a pipe

[Inotdead]

Making me do random things i dont really need to do then yes needless

Your logic is flawed. You spend time clicking food to restore your biles. This time, while minuscule, is still something that's not productive, but rather contributes to your productivity. The insanity system is the same. You are not supposed to get value out of it (but you could, potentially) as opposed to simply keeping your character in check to be productive.
There is practically no difference - get someone else to farm tobacco for you or to play music and you are all set.