Tiredness while Travelling

[warfreak]

Maybe people who have loads of 7500 grams plus should get tiredness depending on their weight. Maybe if you have like 12000 grams as a load, you will get like 20% tiredness on a two day trip. Then it would be more economical for things like inns and motels where travellers could rest. Maybe this is viable for the Cantr economy.

[Pie]

NO!!!!!! NO NO NO!! Unles the amount of time it takes to sleep is redused NO!!!!! But if the amount of time it takes to sleep is redused YES!!

[Sho]

I like this idea. Tiredness would go up every hour when characters moved. It would be proportional to speed as a percentage of maximum and proportional within a constant to weight carried. Speed would in turn be proportional to strength. There would be a travelling skill.

Possible extensions:
A special system for vehicles - a different multiplier for weight carried on floor of vehicle, zero or near-zero tiredness for vehicles with engines.
Multiplier based on road type - better roads cause less tiredness.


Pros: Incentive for specialized traders.
Incentive for currency.
Incentive for road improvement.

Cons: Yet another complication.
Yet another hardship for young characters.

[Nick]

If you're going to lower the walking speed based on certain factors, then you're going to have to increase the maximum walking speed. To maintain balance.

[Sho]

Right, of course. It would be very bad if, for example, most people couldn't reach the end of a road without stopping to rest in the middle.

[Nick]

See, it seems whenever PrD has implemented a variation, they seem to take the current value and make it the top limit, and any variation is just a certain degree lower than the old norm.

Stop doing that and you'll have less "balance" complainers.

[warfreak]

this will only work if the time to rest was reduced to what pie said. Maybe like 6% an hour? This will reduce the rate to sleep. Currently, all cantrians sound like people who don't need sleep or people high on caffeine that is found in the basic foods

[Lumin]

Carrying a load like that already slows you down, I don't see why it needs to make you tired, too.

[warfreak]

won't you get tired after walking for 2 days with a massive load where ever you keep you inventory?

[A Neo Irony]

Not when it's only 15 kilos.

[warfreak]

this idea, if implemented will give a whole new idea to inns and such. Its a great way for a small down to get a larger economy with inns and such if they have many connections and several travellers coming in a day.

[Lumin]

won't you get tired after walking for 2 days with a massive load where ever you keep you inventory?

Well, doesn't walking slower simulate tiredness? And walking from place to place is already time-consuming enough as it is, seems adding more penalties, even minor ones, would only discourage travelling (and thus trade).

[Sho]

Hence Nick's note that this would have to be balanced by an overall increase in walking speed.

[T-shirt]

I really like this idea. A change that needs to be conducted prior to this one though is to make travelling 7 times faster. A huge impact, but not much larger than having iron and steel made at 7 times the original speed.
It would make neighbouring settlements really neighbouring settlements instead of hundreds of miles apart.

[Racetyme]

I like t-shirts idea, except for the fact that vehicles would suddenly be nearly useless, at least all the ones designed for speed and not carrying many goods, like road motorcycles.