Test Results..

[cowsmanaut]

took some time to complete a test of the food depletion in DM.

Test subjects
all 4 were given stats of 10 in every slot all skills were dropped to none and food and water was raised to full.

test 1
ch1 Health was dropped to 1 of 10
ch2 Stamina was dropped to 1 of 10
ch3 Mana was dropped to 1 of 10
ch4 was left at 10 of 10

Put characters to sleep
at 15sec ch2 was at full STM
at30sec ch1 was at full HP
at 1 min ch3 was at full Mp

Characters are woken at this point to find all of them at the same food and water levels

characters put back to sleep and left alone

after 7mins characters all had approx half Food and 3/4s Water.. test end.

Test 2

Characters were run for 14mins only stoping when stamina droped too low. Stamina dropped 1 point every 20steps.

After 14mins characters food at approx 1/2 and water at 3/4s
end test.

I'm not sure how usefull this is but further testing could be done.

2 possible other tests would be as follows

Same test subjects (ie. all stats set to 10)
1. battle a door for 14 mins
2. cast spells for 14 mins
recovery time is included in the 14mins.

Anybody want to do Those two?

Cheers