I like the idea of having to eat and rest for multiple reasons. However after I've read the entire thread I started to think that cRPG's like DD are supposed to be a heroic saga and the ideas here are close to making it something more like Sims, which most people probably wouldn't be happy about. So my idea is - implementing food/starvation factor but making eating automatic. I've seen it once and it worked perfectly fine - the player brought rations and once in a few hours their number decreased until there were none in the inventory. Thanks to that you felt that there is a food/starvation factor in the game, but you weren't forced to drag and drop the food into your character's mouth three times a day. Also different sorts of rations could be available - basic rations would only keep you up and running while luxury food (for example different sorts of fruit) would be more stuffing or would temporarily increase a certain attribute, etc.
Now I'm going to be a bit <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/offtopic.gif" alt="" /> here, but I haven't found any thread about that and it has something to do with food (frankly, not much). In almost all cRPG games I am sooner or later irritated by the amount of money my "yet no so powerful" character carries in the inventory. Right now in DD I'm still no big hero and I have about 40 000 pieces of gold on me. Putting aside the fact that carrying that amount of gold should make one's back ache, it is kind of funny. Money was usually made of material that had some value (now we have money made of paper but that is a different story) and wasn't as easily obtainable as sand whilst whenever I think of the amount of money I'm carrying I start to ask myself whether rivers of gold flow through Rivelion. I understand that the value of money in the game is based on food (one piece of food costs one coin) so my proposal is - making rations come in packs of for instance fifteen. That could make the prices of all items decrease a bit: basic food for five days = one coin, good knife = five coins, and so on.
Well, enough of day dreaming for now. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
PS. I apologize for all the spelling mistakes that I've made (there are probably at least a few of them).
