Armilus

If there is a Food bar, it could deploy slowly, so it holds several real-time hours from full to empty, fill up with one quick meal that takes arround 2 seconds to do, does not deploy when offline, and Food is really easy to create and cheap to buy for that reason. Empty Food-Bar doesnt have to mean death from starvation. It could also mean a signifficant debuff, like blurry vision, inabillity to run, low walk speed and reduced stats, so every damage taken while starved is more severe, for exemple. Thats My oppinion. If implemented this way, there would be a survival element to the game, but it wouldnt take over. You would need food supply, but it would be about the easiest thing to build, no matter if thats by buying it from a trader or growing it in a Farm that could be automated later... Searching for Food would only stop you from dooing other Things, instead of delay or pause them for 2 seconds to 5 minutes, in extreme situations, when you are stranded alone on a remote planet with no fuel in your spaceship and your reserves are running short. That could actually be a really Fun to roleplay some Space-Robinson-Crusoe scenario. I havent decided yet if I will actually buy and play the game. It depends if it keeps what it promises, and on how the stuff it promises actually works in detail. I also never played MMO. I do play Minecraft and Sims, but thats not the same thing. But if I do decide to play DU, and it has Agriculture, I would like to run a company that cooperates with other organisations who build and inhabit cities by building and running sky scraper greenhouses, where all the Farming happens on several layers on top of each other indoors in the middle of the city. It would have the following adventages: Shorter food supply lines for the city, climate and weather are not an issue when it comes to seeding and harvesting, constant food supply even when the city is surrounded and some agressor tried to starve it out by isolateing it from supplies.

Why not both? One Planet has like the stone age Aliens that think we are gods. Another Planet has just animals. A group of Planets is colonized by an advanced alien race that is equal or above human... Some could be interacted with, tradeing, quests, even invite them into our society. Others would be hostile and attack on sight. That would be the perfect solution. Just lots and lots of diffrent things...