Introduce sleeping & solar power recharge using lifepod?
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Rather than having magical self-sustaining power cells, (although, maybe they're charged with some variant of that diamond Carbon-14 nuclear battery, lol) how about making them actually charge in the sun? And then letting you sleep for half a night at a time in your seat? Just an idea, probably too late to do this before v1.0 anyways.
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Putting solar on the lifepod makes perfect sense. Being able to sleep in the pod to skip the night would be nice as well. I would also like to see some sort of sleep mechanic added to the other survival needs, although that would likely require a lot of other changes and some new items like a cot or other compact bed that could be built in just a corridor.
After welding panel:
What build?
Swap out "self-sustaining power cells" to supercapacitors and that much is fixed. The pod has a low-output power source (diamond cell batteries work fine there) that recharge the caps. Run too many fab jobs and the caps deplete, so you have to wait for them to trickle-charge back up. One text line changed and problem solved.
As for sleeping in the pod's seat...
...please, for the love of everything holy, allow this to be done. I can't tell you how many times I've spent a game night sitting on top of LP5, watching the Aurora burn, because I wasn't about to spend batteries on a flashlight and/or couldn't get done what I wanted to do in the dark. Once you have a base with a bed, you're fine, but until then, I end up sitting on top of the stupid pod like some wetsuited vulture waiting for the sun to rise.
And it wouldn't take a tremendous amount of effort; make the seat an activation object like the bed. I'd even be happy without animations - just fade to black and fade back in again.
I'd be thrilled. I'd sacrifice a cutefish to the developers in thanks. Or a peeper. Or a six-pack, which I think might go over better.
I have experienced a midnight swim. That's why I spend the night clinging to the roof of my lifepod, white-knuckling it until daybreak.
That would be difficult, if not outright impossible without substantial time investment. The lifepod model is pretty much a solid piece; only the locker lid and seat crash bar are unique to the model yet separate pieces. (The fabricator, medkit fabber, and comm relay are also separate-but-included objects, but these exist as separate entities in the game.) In order to remove one or both seats, it'd be necessary to re-mesh the model.
Besides, from an in-game standpoint, if you were marooned on a watery alien world, how willing would you be to taking a saw to your lifeboat? Heck, in a lifeboat on Earth you'd be pretty unlikely to start major modifications. It's easier to sleep in an uncomfortable chair. (Trust me on that.)
I'm not taking a saw to Lifepod 5. I'd take Lifepod 4 back to 5. Use those floaters to flip it upright, dive reel to tie it to a Seamoth. Or make like 10 seaglides. Than convert that to my bedroom. If we where in real life. I'd have the will to sleep whatever way I'd want. The game doesn't let me do that. I can't click the floor and hit sleep. I'm also not talking about them adding this stuff into the game now. These ideas are for potential DLC or Post 1.0 content.
If you're going to put that much effort into it, you'd just do better to build a microbase and be done with it. Having to salvage another lifepod, drag it across the ocean, and repair it really rather defeats the purpose of "I need an early-game, easy way to sleep through the night."
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Perfect solution.
Guess I'll have to wait for a mod...
Well, we already have a sleep mechanic.
That said, I'm sure at least one modder has this on his/her radar.
I was talking about real life. i was giving examples. The easiest would be to just ripoff the foam from the seats and sleep on the floor.
But what about staying awake for 200+ days with no long-term psychological issues? We need oxygen to live, and if we dehydrate or starve we'll eventually die. I find it fascinating that Survival mode encompasses Oxygen, Food and Water management, but apparently we're insane zombie insomniacs...
I know it's been requested before, but I have to emphasize the importance of rest and fatigue in Survival mode. If the game emulates the basic biological requirements necessary for real life, then we absolutely need to sleep as well; otherwise then the Food/Water requirements might as well be removed.
Games like Stardew Valley, Harvest Moon and The Sims implement needing to sleep in addition to the other requirements needed to maintain a healthy, daily regimen. In Subnautica, this could be employed by another meter in the clover display. When standing around, the meter would deplete slowly, but swimming or other actions would deplete it faster. As it nears running out, your character is hit with fatigue - the screen turns blurry and movement speed is reduced. When it's empty, the player is exhausted and they run the risk of falling asleep (the screen dimming similar to blacking out from lack of oxygen) but this would happen anywhere. When asleep time would accelerate (even moreso than it does now, ha!) until 8 game-hours have passed, then time returns to normal and you'll wake up refreshed and ready to go.
If you're in your base or on land and pass out, you'll sleep right there - but if you're underwater then you'll drown before you wake up. This would also give another use for the Air Bladder: if you're about to pass out and are too far from home, just turn it on and sleep like a baby (floating in water)
TL;DR: Staying awake forever is silly when we die from lack of nourishment, implement sleeping as a necessary gameplay mechanic.
Thoughts?
Don't forget Don't Starve, where the longer you go without sleep, the lower your sanity drops until your mild hallucinations get severe enough to attack you.