Did muscle-powered vehicles get missed with recent weariness changes?

[natsirt721]

Before weariness, fatigue was used to provide penalization when the player undertook strenuous activity. From what I can tell, there has been an effort to, across the codebase, replace the fatigue penalty with weariness. Currently, using a muscle-powered vehicle has a flat activity level of Active, but still causes thirst and fatigue penalties; these penalties are proportional to the load, but retaining them seems to go against the the current trend. Examining the git-blame for the responsible code indicates that the fatigue penalty has not been changed since weariness was implemented, however this pull request removed the fatigue penalty for many other high-activity-level activities.

Questions:

1. Is it still appropriate for operating a muscle-powered vehicle to directly affect fatigue?
2. What about thirst?
3. If yes to either of the above, is a discussion about reducing the penalty worthwhile?

Bonus Question: Should the activity level be related to the load? It probably would have little effect currently given the five-minute-chunk assessment of activity level but it looks like there is a push to make that more granular.

[actual-nh]

1. Fatigue? No.
2. Probably, at least until a real perspiration system is put in.
3. If it's enough to be noticeable, yes.
   Bonus question: It's more granular already, at least in the experimental version.

[natsirt721]

Ok, I'm going to try removing the fatigue and thirst penalties and playtest a bit. I would leave thirst in, but it was removed from the other activities so I think consistency beats verisimilitude this time.

[actual-nh]

Sounds good; you can mark the above as the answer you've chosen, then?