Originally posted by Sturmgewehrz:

the only issue i see with the current system is how your health and stamina will decay over time and the fact that different foods can have different durations. these things add an annoying level of micromanaging that doesn't reward the player, but rather punishes players who choose to ignore that frustration entirely.

Yeah, I'd much rather see food not decay at all for the first 50%, then have the system they have now take place. So you'd have full effect for the first 50%, at 60% duration the boosts would decay to 90% effectiveness. At 70% of the duration the effectiveness would drop more substantially to like 60% and so on.

Having a full delay to the decay would be nice. The time it takes to let your health bar fill up after you pop your best stuff can be awhile and you're already looking at decay before you've even healed up. It wouldn't be so bad if there was a Tasty Mead but for health instead so it isn't as useful in combat for replacing the healing mead, but can be used for rapid healing after a meal, kinda like something to wash it down.