[Popomundo] Mood and Health (Updated Feb 9 2007)

[archibalduk]

New/Updated Info first:

We've found out that if you have the money (and with our salaries most of us do) the best combination is to set yourself to focus on your skills and either Go Shopping or Go To Gym if you need mood or health respectively. This will cost you in the the beginning somewhere around 20-60 dollars an update.

Keep in mind that setting yourself to "Busking" can make you some cash but it pounds on BOTH your mood AND health so it's really only a new players option that shouldn't be done much past your first few weeks in the game.

Make sure you "make your rounds" and interact with people in the game as often as possible (you often get your options over again several times a day) as having friends helps stabilize your mood. Another stabilizing force is having a pet.

Foods can help you up your mood but those are only temporary, to help you in a recording or show for example and chocolates and alcohol then have a backlash effect on your health. For mood boost without loss of health use 'fancy meals' that give you 3-7% extra mood for each you eat.

There ARE now random drops in mood and health so sometimes the answer really is "just because";.

Your health especially can suffer from doing things during a show, like stagediving when don't have the skill. Don't even think of trying to breathe fire without being at least 3-star rated in Breathing Fire!

If you get sick (Affected By: Cold, Flu etc) DON'T INTERACT WITH OTHER CHARACTERS!!! In New York send a message to Christine Prather who works at the Research Facility in NYC and tell her you are in need of a cure and tell here what hospital you will go and wait for her at. Thank her kindly for assisting you and while you are at the hospital if you have the means you should buy your doctor a 'medicine base' to compensate for their expenses in making you your medecine.

If you are elsewhere go to the Popo Forums and look for the 'Calling All Doctors' thread that lists everyone who has doctor skills and look for a character that is in the right city and message them for help.

This is what is listed in the help files, but they tend to be a little out of date expecially with recent changes. When posted we tried to add to it to make it more complete and accurate but anything that is said above is more accurate than in this list:

Mood = Increased by :

-Selecting the priority 'Go Shopping' this works only if you have cash on you. Shopping without cash decreases mood. Money is withdrawn automatically from your cash.
-Setting priority to 'Party All Night' this can be done even without money, but it could decrease your health
-Setting priority to 'Compose Music'
-Have good relationships (interact and 'Fraternize' a lot !)
-Certain foods and beverages like chocolate, whipped cream and fancy meals. These can decrease your health and you may need more to gain effect when you use them often.
-Alcohol boosts mood but effects both mood and health badly afterwards.
-Special events like wearing a monstermask on Halloween and setting off fireworks on New Years Eve Smile

Decreased by :
- Fatique from gigging too much
- Jail
- Long Distance travelling (2nd class normal speed is very bad, flying 1st class and supersonic is worth the extra cash !)
- Shopping without money
- Hangovers
- Fighting
- not enough friendship/love
- Being unemployed/homeless
- Improving Skill
- Talk to Media too long
- Having a pet die
- Having relations die so try to encourage your relations to take better care of themselves DON'T INTERACT WITH CLONES (clones can be recognised by a few clues, a clever person should be able to at least figure out some of them. I won't explain them here because knowing the loopholes in detection could help cloners to improve on their cheating skills)

Health = Increased by :

-Setting priority to rest (get the best result by moving your character home)
-Eating certain foods. These are very individual so experiment, I personally have no idea which but salads, steaks and mineral water never harmed anyone in this game.
-Exercise at the Gym, (make sure you have cash, money is withdrawn from your cash automatically)

Flying 1st class and supersonic is highly reccommended to avoid the effects of long distance travelling.
Get appartments in cities you visit often to have a proper resting place.

Decreased by :

-as said : Long Distance Travelling,
-overexcessive touring in general (playing too many gigs wears you out)
-Exercizing while your health is really bad,
-Drinking alcohol
-Partying
-Certain foods like chocolates, oysters, greasy lunches.
-Being unemployed and homeless
-Being eaten by alligators
-Taking drugs (there are some in the game, but they are very rare and using them can even get you arrested)
-smoking
-getting shot (like drugs there are guns in the game, but again they are very rare, if you come across them please report it to the sherriffs or Don Broos. Possessing and using firearms can get you arrested as well))

If you keep all of this in mind you'll usually be fine ...

HOWEVER KEEP IN MIND THAT SOME CHARACTERS ARE MORE FRAGILE THAN OTHERS !!!

Just like RL some people are weaker, or more easyly depressed. You just gotta live with that.