Does the size affect a monster's lifespan? Does fat or thin affect lifespan? I had read that it only increase fatigue or stress.It is true?

-- shilong (shilong_gby@yahoo.com), January 21, 2000 Answers being too fat or thin can decrease your monsters stat gains during his life so try to keep him at normal

-- phantom (wisp@nether.realm), January 21, 2000.

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I have STRONG reasons to believe that any deviation from a "normal" form will result in a loss of overall lifespan. That in turn, will decrease overall stat gains of your monster, as phantom has put (though I don't think you meant it that way). If you want to know why I believe so, then read the threads, "thanks RNA [RNA: you're welcome]" and "new: TOO MUCH SLEEP MAKE YOUR MONSTER SLEEPS FOREVER" in the "raiding/training" category. These threads are by a guy named onomiba. He kinda "stumbled" on the evidence even though he wasn't actually looking for the answer. I just pointed it out for him.

This is not solid info because it has yet to be directly proven. It is also very new and nearly anybody knows about this. Nevertheless, I still hold strong beliefs that fatness/skinniness will decrease lifespan by a significant amount.

-- RNA (RNA@Ribosome.nuc), January 22, 2000.

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here's something weird. I've been using a Mocchi as a "dummy monster" and had it rest for most of its life. It was a real porker (Plump) for most of its life and lived to be 9 years old! How can this be explained?

-- Dark Phoenix (Arax7@aol.com), January 22, 2000.

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my guess is that it only affects your points gained in drills or such. Since I also raised 2 dummy monsters, naga/gali and evil hare, to A ranks and both over 5 yrs old. They were fat from eating potatoes their entire life. They also fought almost every battle they could with over 100 bouts each. They went on half dozen errantries each and made over 50k. Since they were my first 2 monsters played, using handful of mints, oils whatnot, and barely any restores... I wonder that many people are making this all harder than it really is. Oh they also fought every battle on autopilot with over 90% win rate. If I had access to monsters that start with over 200 in stats and rare races only seems to make the game a cakewalk. Hey I admit I suck at attention span type games like this but I dont see how anybody could lose.

-- VF (vandalfox@usa.net), January 23, 2000.

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A mocchi that lived 9 years with alot of sleep? Well, that must mean that a mocchi has a phenomonal lifespan! Well, that's not right. If you look at the thread, "new: TOO MUCH SLEEP MAKE YOUR MONSTER SLEEPS FOREVER" in the "raising/training" category, onomiba did some experiments and his "sleeping" pink gali died at 1yrs 8m old by just sleeping through its life.

You two have contradicting information. I believe you when you say that your mocchi lived 9 years with just sleeping, but I also believe onomiba's experiment and the comparison between my metal glory and his. Is there some other factor that I'm not seeing here?

-- RNA (RNA@Ribosome.nuc), January 23, 2000.

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Also remember that onomiba raised a PIXIE - GALI, two breeds that are notorious for short lifespans.

-- Dark Phoenix (Arax7@aol.com), January 23, 2000.

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whoops, i meant GALI - PIXIE.

-- Dark Phoenix (Arax7@aol.com), January 23, 2000.

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But his experiment resulted in better lifespans for his pink mask when it slept less.

-- RNA (RNA@Ribosome.nuc), January 24, 2000.

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The Mocchi was never fed, maybe that is involed somehow. I have no clue how, but hey, it could happen.

-- Zack (belgrath16@aol.com), January 25, 2000.

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I have just finished 3 tests in lifespan with a Zuum, Pixie, and Gaboo. Each monster was treated the same way, Rest, Rest, Rest, Mint Leave, Meat. Zuum: 6 years, 7 months at fat Pixie: 4 years, 3 months at normal and Gaboo:9 years, 11 months at plump. My idea is the fatter and more rested, the longer they live.

-- Wheel Gator (MyersDCM@email.msn.com), January 28, 2000.

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It sure seems like your monsters lived quite a long time when they were left really fat, wheel gator. Maybe skinny/fatness have different effects either way..... Well, the experiment is inconclusive. We'd need to raise three of the same monsters side-by-side. One that is skinny, one that is fat and one that is normal.

It's good to know that you've taken the time to experiment for us though.

-- RNA (RNA@Ribosome.nuc), January 29, 2000.

-- torey luvullo (dst10000@compuserve.com), April 13, 2000