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I would have a hard time without meat. There's so much food I don't like.
What do you eat besides meat? Since meat has the lowest energy density, you most likely get your energy from other sources anyway. Even if you eat 500g / 1lb per day for a 2000kcal target, you would still get 1500kcal from other food.
In World of Warcraft, there isn't any use for hides either. You can only cure them, but then there's nothing to do with the cured hides. The vendor price is static and set by Blizzard, though, so the prices don't change. I hope this comment has been useful to someone.
I would be sympathetic to the idea that in-game economies should try to be "real" except that Ultima Online tried that and it failed spectacularly (think: tragedy of the commons) and so they had to abandon it.
To me the most blatant examples are mounts; in the last expansion they added a mount that costed 2M gold[]--when I thought it was crazy and that they couldn't possibly outmatch it, they came up with a 5M gold mount[] that was released in the next (current) expansion.
[]https://www.wowhead.com/item=137570/bloodfang-cocoon
[]https://www.wowhead.com/item=163042/reins-of-the-mighty-cara...
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Huge swaths of America still see meat as an every meal thing ( myself included), and beef is a large part of that.
I would have a hard time without meat. There's so much food I don't like.
Eventually eating only exceptional quality meat 2/3 days a week is fine for me.
This makes me think of the wallmount synthetic-fiber-clothing-dispenser from "Idiocracy."
In World of Warcraft, there isn't any use for hides either. You can only cure them, but then there's nothing to do with the cured hides. The vendor price is static and set by Blizzard, though, so the prices don't change. I hope this comment has been useful to someone.
I would be sympathetic to the idea that in-game economies should try to be "real" except that Ultima Online tried that and it failed spectacularly (think: tragedy of the commons) and so they had to abandon it.
Massively increasing the supply by having it possible for players to trivialise the ransacking of dungeons without risk of losing their haul to PKers. Classic inflationary spiral.
“According to Hidenet, a leather markets research firm, a hide from a branded cow went for as little as $4 the week of July 15, down from as much as $81 just five years ago.” Wait, what? Consumer trends have shifted so radically in 5 years that even with a white hot economy leather prices have dropped by 20x?
“According to Hidenet, a leather markets research firm, a hide from a branded cow went for as little as $4 the week of July 15, down from as much as $81 just five years ago.” Wait, what? Consumer trends have shifted so radically in 5 years that even with a white hot economy leather prices have dropped by 20x?
Also I guess if a company can cut costs by using the improved poly leather and the consumer doesn’t notice or care then that’s the move.
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What do you eat besides meat? Since meat has the lowest energy density, you most likely get your energy from other sources anyway. Even if you eat 500g / 1lb per day for a 2000kcal target, you would still get 1500kcal from other food.
I think you have those reversed. Meat is incredibly packed with proteins and the calorie density is very high.
More fatty meat sits at around 230 kcal per 100 grams.
You'll find that carb sources are around 200-350 kcal per 100 gram and sweet process foods are around the top of this level.
So when the OP says that the calorie density in meat is low, they are correct in the case of lean meat.