Cataclysm-dda: Driving and focus

[1n17]

Describe the bug

Driving a vehicle drains focus pool unreasonably quickly.

Steps To Reproduce

hop into a car with 100 focus and start driving
put on some music for good measure
observe focus pool plummet within minutes

Expected behavior

Neurotypical human should find activity like driving quite relaxing, especially considering how devoid of traffic the roads became after the caataclysm.

Versions and configuration

any recent

Additional context

I'm guessing its the driving skill practice calls.

[8street]

You can turn off driving skill practice in skills menu. This will not waste your focus and your driving will be relaxing.

[1n17]

That's a nice workaround/crutch, but not a solution to the underlying issue.

[communistkiro]

The issue that driving is an almost useless skill in a game where you can get reasonably fast anywhere on foot, let alone bike. Why is it a skill too? Handling a tank at 200kmph on flat road is easy-ish, even at low skill, and to negate emergency brake not working and you going sideways (into something) one can just slow to down to negative -200 from +300 so few turns i'm scared of the survivors cranial solids becoming soup-like, acceleration-based effect a la DOWNED should be extended to stopping/crashing, i.e., rapid acceleration change. imo just.

[RobertoVGoulart]

Driving is currently a useless skill because of how little difference it currently makes.
Driving a tank shouldn't be easy, especially because it doesn't use wheels, it has much different controls and you have more stuff to control besides driving (turrets, cameras...).
The driving skill needs a rebalance, make it necessary for some actions and have actual influence on results of some of your actions, but i believe thats outside of the topic of how it currently drains your focus much faster than it should.

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[kld87]

+1 (since this is getting marked as stale)
I'm relatively new to the game and was really confused why my focus was always so low until I figured out it was due to driving, which wasn't at all intuitive to me. I'm using the "workaround" mentioned above of disabling it during the skills menu now, but I think it warrants investigation/rebalancing.

[FeepingCreature]

Seconding. It's extremely silly. Do we have some sort of driving-related phobia? 30 minutes of driving should not leave one exhausted for hours.