Be a bit more realistic with the passage of "time"

[scrom]

Implementing "real" time is hard but we can definitely have day/night and changing environment through day/night.

This will require "repeatable missions" or similar to be implemented (see exsting issue)

Basic setup: initially the servery should have porridge and cooked breakfast available. After about 100 moves the breakfast items should be cleared away. After another 300 moves the servery should have lunch laid out and after another 70 or so that should also be cleared up. after a total of 800 moves the day should end (night falls) and player should be teleported home to sleep. NPCs should also trickle away and then trickle back the following morning.

• after sleeping overnight, the player should be teleported back to the office and the servery cycle should restart. if player spends 5 full days in the office they should then be able to stay overnight. the concept of "time" should be measured as 1 hour = 100 ticks. clocks in the office should indicate time.

Could also factor in coming in early/late and forgetting keyfob etc.

[scrom]

this is a follow on from an old idea - issue #112

pasted here to keep info together but I'll close #112 in favour of this slighly more developed idea.

Rather than ticks, start the day at 8am for example and have a tick taking eg 5 minutes. Hunger etc would be more properly time-based (and start with breakfast) deadlines could be set and creatures would only be available in the working hours you'd expect.

Ticks = minutes would be sim-time mode An alternate and fun idea would be real time - e.g. the spy only exists outside actual working hours and the place is mostly deserted at weekends

[scrom]

more thought

• a player needs to rest roughly every hour. (100 moves +25 leaway)
• they need to eat roughly every 3 hours (and to eat initially within the first hour of playing) - 300 moves with ~50 leaway
• they need to drink roughly every 90 minutes with ~25 leaway.

Being tired, hungry and thirsty within just a day probably doesn't impact health so quickly but would impair cognitive function and movement. This requires a change to what happens when player is hungry/thirsty to be more like when tired. if we impair movement like this, health damage should start after player reaches 2* maxMoves+leaway instead of 1*

• hunt/follow, search, fighting, stealing, healing, breaking, reading, repairing and talking/asking should be blocked when tired
• fighting, healing, eating and talking/asking should be blocked if thirsty
• feeding others / giving food items to others, healing, breaking, reading, repairing should be blocked if hungry. Talking should be limited to asking for food items.

movement impairment should get progressively worse for all the above before health is impacted.

[scrom]

As part of this, a player should be able to ask any creature what time it is. Meeting rooms would also benefit from a clock on the wall.

[scrom]

I might want to adjust ticks for various things a bit more. Walking between locations probably takes half as much time as a single tick - so maybe keeping navigation to 1 tick and doubling everything else might make sense

[scrom]

the random wait times might want to be more realistic too

[scrom]

random wait times slightly updated. tick durations for various actions are now more closely related to time. a "standard" tick is now 2 rather than 1 but navigation and a few other quick actions still only take 1 tick

[scrom]

with a base tick of 2, the numbers described in the original issue above should all be doubled - e.g. an hour is now 200 ticks, not 100

[scrom]

this is basically done with the constraint that this game runs in a single day at the moment