I cant help the feeling you missunderstand me ... I believe it should be possible (dunno how hard or easy tho) for Larian to cut the map into segments ... and ONCE player enter the segment, food there starts rotting (after predephined amount of long rest ffs) ...
This way ... You start on beach ... and you decide to Long Rest for whatever reason ... any food you find on the beach afterwards will be spoiled. But food on Waukeen's Rest will still be fresh, when you reach there ... unless you decide to Long Rest before you explore kitchen of that inn.
No, thank you! I don't want to be worrying about food rotting because I happened to cross an area boundary. It sounds painfully like Kingdoms of Amalur setting zone level the first time you entered it--to train a skill or whatever. Exploration is one of my favorite activities in games and I'd hate to see Larian put up artificial boundaries to it.
