I echo many of Night of Reod's comments. I love a good survival game, but PotM is not a survival game.
Pardon, but, if PoTM is not a survival game, then what in the nine hells is it? XD
PoTM is all about survival, the fear, the needing to live another day.
And about food in abundance; food should be more difficult to procure in that there should be a cooking skill to see if you can even cook what you DO find and not ruin it (unless you're buying food).
There should be a penalty for sleeping outdoors without a bedroll and tent imo too; which gets worse with weather conditions, because not only will it add onto the RP -- it'd stop people from randomly deciding to flop over wherever and ruin emergence.
To anyone who thinks that there would be no RP element to needing to eat and drink, you are sorely mistaken, because what more reason is there to RP than to stop and make camp on treks to make food, talk to the other players' characters and sit and huddle around a fire and fear for the night should it be falling before you reach your destination.
I think people take the server way too much by its mechanics rather than all the true-world RP elements that can and should be implemented into RP.
It's one of the points I've come to dislike from the server, this server is good, I am not saying it is not -- but, a lot of people never RP as much as they should and want everything to revolve around dungeoning and killing things (which again, is not bad, it's something people should be able to do if they want).
But, not having something that WOULD VERY, VERY MUCH enhance RP and the fear factor of the server and the importance of tactics, skill and speed to move with the fading light of day as well as ensure your character actually has real world characteristics to make things even stronger, more beautifully constructed in terms of realism for the RP'ers soul -- just because it'd mean you need to be realistic about what you carry around -- such as prepared rations, camping gear and the ability to make food -- when trekking around the vast, wide server -- because it'd mean you need to Gods forbid need to ACTUALLY slow down a little and enjoy the realistic RP air the server could offer ..
I think it's silly.