Eating (and Drinking?)

Silas

Allow us to override the eating messages through the new emote system for all player-created food. I understand that people put quite a lot of thought into how they want it to appear when people eat their stuff, but I also put quite a lot of thought into how I want my character to behave, and the two rarely mesh. Drinks are less obnoxious, since they can't be created by players yet, and people generally know which drinks to avoid if they wish. Plus, most of the more elaborate drinking messages are pretty fun.

Kresslack

I think food wise, it should just paint your palette a picture of potential flavour and experience, not force you to react a certain way to it. You can decide how you wish to react to it after trying it.

Kyrra

When I make food, which is seldom, I try to cover things like textures and temperature to give an idea of how sonething should taste without forcing reactions.

Never been a fan of recipes where eating something makes me expel food by dribbles and drool etc. I'm actually a slow and precise eater, but I won't assume people are the same. Also any recipes with foodgasms should be instantly denied because wtf.

Eilona

I think the problem lies with what's being approved and instead the crafting council should be rejecting designs that tell you whether you like the food or how you react when eating it. Forcing behaviour on people like drooling isn't cool.

Blujixapug

It would be nice if the approval standards were more mercilessly, ruthlessly strict regarding reactions in eat messages, to stamp out stuff like 'You literally jizz as you bite into a mandarin-glazed boysenberry cronut, periodically exclaiming "Oh, my, GOD!" as you theatrically lick your face and fingers clean.' Words like 'moan' need to be filtered for automatic disqualification upon submission.

But yeah some kind of EATPLAIN command would be nice.

Saeva

eat plain command =

Jonathin

I don't eat player-created foods specifically to avoid forced reactions like plate licking. Seriously, who's the shroom addict that approves those ones?

Sylvance

Jonathin said:

I don't eat player-created foods specifically to avoid forced reactions like plate licking. Seriously, who's the shroom addict that approves those ones?

I still think the worst one was the Y600 brandy. I rarely actually wtf out loud, but... yeah. Oh, and the ejaculation (cake?).

Sothantos

Even if food eating was plain by standard, I'd still like to be able to customize my eat messages. The benefits of being able to write your own messages for eating aren't just to counter terrible food messages. Sometimes you want to convey something with how you eat.

Halos

So basically just add EAT to the list of configurable actions in HELP EMOTING.

Silas

You already can 'eat blah: eats @thing', but the player created eat msgs override your emote. Standard food like mutton you can eat however you want.

Halos

Ah, gotcha. Then yes, please.