A little anecdoe as to why manditory food sucks- I was playing a mud a few years bacjk wher you had to eat in ordor to rest. And you had to rest in order to get back movement points. So I started a new charactor, wander around for a while, never bother to look for food as it was always a side element in most games... until my charactor refuse to budge when her food ran out!!! I had to create anouther charactor to hunt for food and drop it where the first charactor could pick it up before I could play again, I don\'t want to know what would had happened if I had been in a duengen of fight....
My preference would be to have charactors self sufficent, recovering mana, hp, and stamina at a very slow rate. Resting, or even just sitting would maybe double that rate, and sleep recovers to full, but cannot be interupted- and you can only chat until your charactor wakes up. But, if you have food in your system, all recover happens twice as fast until the food points run out, so a little snack now will let you run a little more later, but a feast will let you heal from a grevious wound.
Hey drilixer, you might want to start collecting crystals for food atleast!
