>>3472
DCSS devs only care about the core gameplay, and then only for players with thousands of hours.
the food clock was a busted system because different races interact with food differently, so there solution was to remove food to replace the food clock with something else.
what I don't understand is why they didn't just remove the clock from food, but leave food in in some other form. consider the Spell Hunger mechanic. casting one level 6 spell (which costs 6 mana) probably uses 100 times more food than casting a level 2 spell (which costs 2 mana) 3 times. there's depth in there that is interesting
and there's other problems hunger can solve. a common cheese tactic when low HP is to run away from an enemy around a pillar while your health regenerates. tying health regeneration or even the random energy system (enemies sometimes speed up or slow down for a single turn to make kiting harder) into hunger could make artificially drawing fights out have a consequence
as an aside, I play on akrasiac and they have every release version back to 0.10 available to play and it works fine.