Food should indeed be restricted to out of combat healing. Right now it is serving as a bandaid to disguise several balance problems in the game.
Just put in an option for:
Normal food healing on/off
Normal food healing ooc
Normal food healing everywhere.
That should be the general way forward, put in options for alot of things so were not stuck with this singleminded "GM"
Adding in "MOAR OPSHUNS" into the game is not a substitute for proper game balance, nor does adding in options reduce the amount of balancing work which must be done. In fact, adding in options greatly increases the amount of balancing work which has to be done.
