Эта великая жизнь – Как работает система потребностей

A quick guide on the basic mechanics of the Needs system, which might not be immediately apparent to some as the game doesn’t go into much detail about it.

Начало, Middle and End

This might not be immediately apparent to some but I was having trouble figuring out why some values for actions were giving me unexpected results. Например: Why doesn’t Eat Chicken Wings fill my Hunger meter as much as Eat at Home, even though they both state that they give the same 6.00 Hunger increase?

The answer is quite simple but the game doesn’t actually specifically state it anywhere:

The number values are based on a PER HOUR basis. Также, the numbers represent percentages.

The Eat Chicken Wings action takes 5 hours to finish. 5 х 6.00(%) = 30(%) increase in Hunger stat.

The Eat at Home action takes 10 часы. So you get a 10 х 6.00(%) = 60(%) increase in Hunger stat.

The Needs stats also decays over time, однако, and that also gets taken into account.

The Hunger stat decreases by 1% every hour. The Health stat seems to decay at a rate of 1% каждый 10 часы. Hygiene and Alcohol seem to go down 1% каждый 5 часы (I think Smoking as well). The fun doesn’t seem to decay at all. Not sure about Happiness.

If you Eat Chicken Wings, что занимает 5 часы, then you’ll lose 5% Hunger *while eating*. Так что 30% increase becomes a net total of a 25% increase to your Hunger stat. For Eat at Home you would gain 50%.

Короче говоря: Multiply the numbers by the hours it takes to complete and then minus the periodic decay for the total percentage values gained/lost.

Bear in mind that this might not always apply in some select cases. When hiring services from home, например, if you click the ” ? ” button in the Personal Trainer option it’ll say something like (-5 часы, +10 Здоровье). Что +10 Health part is actually the TOTAL percentage gained FOR the five hours. Nothing needs to get multiplied. You’ll get a 10% increase in Health (minus the decay over the 5 hours taken).

Может, это ” + ” in front of the Health that denotes whether it’s a total gain or not? If you see it elsewhere then it might not be something you need to multiply by the hours taken.

The game stats makes a bit more sense to me now, в любом случае. Hope I wasn’t the only one having a problem understanding this.