Insanity!

[Gotrek86]

I agree with Otis as a returning player using a new character I find this mechanic a PITA and having an eternal timer running to tell me to pick flowers or fish or eat useless inspirations is beyond stupid.

[TotalyMeow]

I agree with Otis as a returning player using a new character I find this mechanic a PITA and having an eternal timer running to tell me to pick flowers or fish or eat useless inspirations is beyond stupid.

Why do you need an external timer? Do you honestly sit in a chair at your computer for hours and hours on end with no break at all? Every hour or so, when you take a break to stretch, study a few inspirationals to get a proficiency point when you come back. It's in your best interests to keep slowly learning each day anyway to keep your inspiration from topping off and being wasted.

If you're not doing anything to actively increase your insanity, you can go something like 4 hours with no insanity reducing actions. That's a very long time. And if you're actively increasing your insanity, then it's going to be on your mind to decrease it again. No silly timers needed.

Personally, I like that I can lick the mold off moldy boards and then learn a proficiency, and then restore a few more boards. I never needed so many wood chips that moldy boards were good to keep around, and it always seemed such a waste.

[HolyLight]

Has anyone really considered how this is all going to work on a new server? I have no idea how I got madness 2, but lets just assume it happened before I got a bed. Logging off in the wild with no bed is going to be the norm in a new server. That aside, for those of us people that cant make tobacco (and I have yet to see any in stalls) this is a huge silver drain. Yes I know the older players can spend 250 a pop till the cows come home, but for a new player that is 9 charms.

So some random thoughts.
How about a gatherable weed in the wild that also reduces a very small amount of madness - wild tobacco.
How about some indication that you have been doing something too long? Yawning, stretching, etc. Since this patch is intended to force a behavior don't make me run some external timer to remind me to use some useless inspiration or pick a flower.
How about allowing you to sleep in your leanto - maybe no bonus to inspiration regen, but helps with insanity? A bed L0 where leafy is L1, simple L2?

I honestly have not read the dozens of posts on this thread, so sorry if these have already been posted. I am still somewhat confused as to the purpose of this new mechanic, but despite what the vets are saying, it is in fact a PITA to new players

9 charms is less than an hour foraging.

This is insane.

[pilgrim]

Do you honestly sit in a chair at your computer for hours and hours on end with no break at all?

Ummm......

[TotalyMeow]

Do you honestly sit in a chair at your computer for hours and hours on end with no break at all?

Ummm......

Come on now, most people at least have to pee every 4 hours or so.

[Synnestry]

Do you honestly sit in a chair at your computer for hours and hours on end with no break at all?

Ummm......

Yup.

[HolyLight]

Do you honestly sit in a chair at your computer for hours and hours on end with no break at all?

Ummm......

Come on now, most people at least have to pee every 4 hours or so.

These people drink too much.

[pilgrim]

hours and hours I compute to 4-6. I can go 6 hours without pee'n however what is even more insane is getting up pissing in between porting to town.

[Synnestry]

hours and hours I compute to 4-6. I can go 6 hours without pee'n however what is even more insane is getting up pissing in between porting to town.

Thought I was the only one!

[Dallane]

I got a old coffee can next to me.