Force Feeding 101..please post here.

[pepibom]

Hi I know Ive seen posts somewhere else about force feeding..(Using both stats foods and "lesser" quality foods to maximize efficiency of your stat foods. I've asked in guild about how to go about doing this...exactly...but I always get different answers.

Some things that confuse me:

1) Where the "Good" food should go..where the "Bad" food should go.

2) If this is your inventory layout

1 2

3 4

5 6

7 8

What bags do your good and bad food go in for force feeding to work.

Thanks for your help guys

[EnfinitiStarr8]

For me, in my top most bag on the left I have a 10 slot bag with a few Heros and some QTAs. That's my good food. I usally then have a full stack of Foraged Pods of Water and Rabbit Meat in another bag to force feed myself with. But I almost never use them, I just forage and eat that. Saves me a lot of space, I just keep the other food for when I'm not forageing, like raiding.

[Faymar]

Well, it's simply a question of which is highest, where food in bag 1 will be consumed before food in bag 2, etc. The slots per bag follow the same order.

So you can have your "good" and your "bad" food in bag 8, as long as the good food is "above it" it doesn't matter.

My food sometimes ends up scattered all over my inventory to be honest, as I swap around a fair bit. When I am organised, all food and drink is in a single bag, which is bag one. that way there is no question at all about what I have on me and whether it's in the right order. Anything I must not, ever under any circumstances eat or drink (i.e. saving it for a sub-combine, purified water comes to mind) goes into bag 8, and random "I just made these sonic wolf sandwiches and will force feed them if I remember but probably not" drop into the middle somewhere.

[Kentarre]

Ok, I have a question about this topic too... (Boy do I feel like a newbie )

So, once I've purchase some stat food as part of my tradeskilling suit and want to force feed myself pods of water and rabbit meat so I dont consume my stat food... How many pieces of food/drink should I feed myself at a time? and how often do I need to remember to feed myself? Is there any disadvantages to overeating (other than horrible digestion and the need for a nap )? Are any stats affected or do you run slowly or sink to the bottom of a shallow pool and cant get out?

[Velurian]

There's no reason not to eat until you can't eat any more. You will incur no disadvantages by doing so.

[Ndaara]

I got tired of making halas pies for guildies so i taught them the strategy i use.

I put "good stat food & drink" in the top two spots of top left bag. I put "bad nonstat food & drink" in the top two spots of top right bag. Any time i don't actually NEED stat food & drink (left the dungeon to sell, getting set up, etc) i have "bad bag" in top left spot. When it's time to hunt or tradeskill and i need the stat stuff, I force-feed til i'm stuff with the "bad food", then swap the bags. My 2 food bags look different so it's easy to tell which is which at a glance.

I used to keep all my meals in one bag and forcefeed and/or swap around foods there, but it was too labor intensive and i forgot all the time. This way, I still do consume the good stuff now and then, but since i spend a lot of time just hanging out chatting it makes it all last a LOT longer

[Wandor]

Force feeding is pretty simple. To get the stats from your food/drink the stats items have to be in your inventory ahead of the food you force feed.

As far as EQ is concerned, this is the order it looks at items in your inventory:

1 5
2 6
3 7
4 8

And in 10-slot bags:
1 6
2 7
3 8
4 9
5 10

The best way I have found to force feed is to eat and drink until you are full once every hour on the hour. If you are using banquet+ food and refreshing+ drink, you should never eat your stats food since they have a 1 hour duration when force fed. If you really want to be safe, force feed feast/enduring and you will have a 30min buffer in case you forget to feed every hour. Fish rolls and Fizzlecutter 5000 are great items to force feed.

Of course your best bet is to just get improved metabolism 3 so all your fool last twice as long. I never bother force feeding any more, I just consume the good stuff. A stack lasts for weeks anyway so it is not really a porblem.

[Nairn Niteraven]

AA's

I got Metabolism 3 for just this reason. Make a bunch of fishrolls and buy a stack of Fizzlecutters, force feed anytime you think about it and enjoy, it lasts me a *long* time. I've had the same single Justice Fruit Pie for weeks.

[splunge]

As a forager, I get lots of food.

I put my Stat food/drink in Bag1/Slot1+Slot6

When I forage food, if I dont want to save it, I attempt to eat/drink it. If I cant, I drop it onto my 'auto-equip' square and it drops into Bag1/Slot2-5+Slot7-10.
If I want to save it, I still just drop it onto the 'auto-equip' square, and when I get a moments break, or I'm auto-attacking, I re-arrange the stuff in my bags. That also gives me a chance to force-feed on foraged junk-food if I got busy and forgot or had a run of food and no water.

I also keep my primary swap weapon (Primal) in the Bag4 slot for easy swapping, and gives me a space to put a summoned bag/combiner or put a quest container if I get one. Swap/resist gear/potions are in Bag6+Bag7. Bag8 is Fleeting Quiver. Bags2, 3, 5 are for loot.

[Rillen]

If you are an impulsive forager that can't seem unlearn the habbit, I have a good system. Using the

1 5
2 6
3 7
4 8

configuration, 1 through 4 are general use bags. I keep slot 5 with my resist/click armor with my stat food on the bottom. Food on the left and drink on the right (this way if you want to switch your mtp for holy cake or qat for constitutonal, you just swap up). Then slot 6 with my foraged food/items bag. Then 7 and 8 are open inventory slots where I drop Habanero Peppers and Pods of Water to force feed. I force feed whenever I hit the forage button and drop the foraged item into auto equip where it falls into my stack of foraged goods. This keeps food from being mixed up with your regular inventory as well. I also try to eat those special forages that don't stack with my regular ones (such as brackish/slush water and the velious seafood now that the seaside salad is trivial) in order to save room.

This is a good method to use if you tradeskill with your forages. Veggies for ginesh (using them to trivial) and baking. Roots for Stormguard Root Beer -> Root Beer Floats (since you don't forage up water as much) and cleaning fish if you swing that way. Fruit and berries for various baking recipies. And the rabbit meat stack just replaces my pepper stack when it runs out... which is hardly ever since we all spend so much time in PoK tradeskilling anyway

[Monq]

type of food forcefed

When I forcefeed I use food that is a "meal", and whenever I remember to forcefeed I just go until I can't eat anymore, sometimes eating more than one at a time. I do it this way so that every time I remember to forcefeed it actually lets me eat. Sometimes with longer lasting food I wouldn't be able to eat yet, and then would get out of the habit of forcefeeding.

This is just a memory device for me and to reinforce the habit

[Clementine]

I use inventory slots 1, 2, 3, 4 (left side) for containers. Slot 1 is where I hold any stat food/drinks and slots 5 and 6 are where my force-feeding food/drink goes.

Inventory:
1 - container 5 - Summoned Food
2 - container 6 - Summoned Drink
3 - container 7 - open
4 - container 8 - open

[feressa]

Actually, while it goes
1 5
2 6
3 7
4 8
for top slot bags, I've found that inside the bag the order is
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 10

Logged just now to check it.
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