Too much food?

[Emerald]

What if after a day or two prey that you caught went bad? This would make the game a little more difficult because once you become a better hunter catching prey gets a lot easier and the game isn't as difficult. You could still eat it but it would take away some of your health and wouldn't fill up your hunger as much. 

[FaiMynth]

I think we need a difficulty level, basically like

Easy level
Prey stays good forever
Cats arent that hard to fight
and other stuff

Medium
Prey goes bad after a week
Cats are like they are now to fight
other stuff

Hard
Prey goes bad after 3 days
cats a very difficult to fight

[Logal Gold]

Yeah, its stop players from stacking food!

[Absol]

Personally, I like that we can keep our food, and it would be pretty upsetting to me if I had to switch to easy mode to keep my prey from spoiling, because I like when battling is challenging.

[FaiMynth]

Maybe we could have diffrent options at the beginning of the game to keep everyone happy, Beacause i like the difficult fighting to!

Like you can set how long tell prey expires it could range from 1 day to 1 season. Also with that you can set the difficulty in battling!

[shian]

I don't like decay. It's an archaic mechanic that just punishes players for playing the game, usually in a different way. There's rarely a game where I do like it.

Can't survive winter? work double hard in summer and survive. Oh, wait your hard work won't actually work.

Plus, I'm a player where collecting items and rare food -is- the game for me, so I'd be really upset and probably not find the game fun anymore if we couldn't prepare for bad hunting days or keep trophies.

[Logal Gold]

Oh yeah, good point, I didn't think about the collecting. Thats a huge factor for me too!

[Sass]

I definitely think something like that could work, but perhaps similar to UT you could bury your catches to make it last longer/indefinitely, or maybe simply putting it in your den would work the same. Branching off this, it would be interesting if say, you had a full inventory and forgot to bury your prey - it could then possibly attract threats such as rival cats to that tile the following day, and go bad if forgotten there.

[Logal Gold]

If you left herbs outside, perhaps they could slowly rot? But if you kept them inside, they'd stay good forever?

[Absol]

I honestly don't think that having a decay system in the game would be fun for anyone. Like shian said above, it just punishes the player for just playing the game. I think a decay mechanic's only purpose would be to make the game less fun- people can certainly set their own challenges for food, such as selling or getting rid of your food if you leave it out for too long, but including a mechanic that isn't really necessary would be more of an inconvenience than it would be fun. I feel like if it were included, there would immediately be backlash against it. I really don't see this as any more than a way of making the game less fun for people who want to play a different way.