Metabolic Synthesis Nanite Program works on hungrier people now.

[Uristthedorf]

About The Pull Request

Reduces the threshold for allowing metabolic synthesis program to work, and takes half the amount of hunger.

Why It's Good For The Game

It's the nanite programmer's job to make sure nanites don't starve the host, also allows a saboteur to starve everyone who has nanites. Apparently metabolic synthesis took quite a lot of nutrition earlier.

Changelog

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tweak: Metabolic synthesis nanite program now has a lower hunger threshold to work.
balance: Metabolic synthesis now takes half the hunger.
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[RikuTheKiller]

You may want to change the efficiency of Metabolic Synthesis as well, currently it takes about 450 nanite ticks for it to turn you from fat to starved in exchange for a measly 112.5 nanite volume. That's not a lot.

I don't think the replication rate bonus should be increased, just make it drain less nutrition.
So like, maybe lower it down to 1 nutrition per tick for a ratio of 2:1 nutrition to nanite volume.

[Uristthedorf]

You may want to change the efficiency of Metabolic Synthesis as well, currently it takes about 450 nanite ticks for it to turn you from fat to starved in exchange for a measly 112.5 nanite volume. That's not a lot.

I don't think the replication rate bonus should be increased, just make it drain less nutrition. So like, maybe lower it down to 1 nutrition per tick for a ratio of 2:1 nutrition to nanite volume.

Isn't it -0.5 nutrition each nanite tick? Do you want me to change it to -0.25 or something?

[RikuTheKiller]

You may want to change the efficiency of Metabolic Synthesis as well, currently it takes about 450 nanite ticks for it to turn you from fat to starved in exchange for a measly 112.5 nanite volume. That's not a lot.
I don't think the replication rate bonus should be increased, just make it drain less nutrition. So like, maybe lower it down to 1 nutrition per tick for a ratio of 2:1 nutrition to nanite volume.

Isn't it -0.5 nutrition each nanite tick? Do you want me to change it to -0.25 or something?

I seem to have fucking lied, I was probably high or something.
Either way, probably a good change since even 0.5 outpaces nutriment.

[RikuTheKiller]

Okay so I kind of see a balancing issue with this, actually...
You can combine it with the nutriment pump.
That gives you a free 0.5 replication rate, the equivalent of the free-range protocol.
EXCEPT it doesn't even reduce storage. So it's just better.
That's pretty bad.

We might be able to leave it in anyways, because it's only usable with a private copy of nanites.
And going through that effort might as well be rewarded, I suppose.