28 minutes ago, Slingblade2040 said:The whole don't like it don't use it is such a lazy excuse for bad game design especially in a survival game where it's supposed to be an apocalyptic setting where food and water are suppose to be scarce not overly abundant and easily obtained.
Except the game isn't a survival game. It is survival and RPG and tower defense and, and, and .... If you want it to be only survival, you'll be disappointed about many choices they make in designing the game.
The game is designed for many different kinds of players and not only survival players. As such, it will never fit perfectly into any specific genre and will never reach the same level as a game that is one genre. It is a jack of all trades game... And it works.
Now, I'd be fine with improved farming and loot tables could certainly use tweaking. But if food being easy to get at traders and vending machines is not answering you like, it isn't exactly difficult to ignore that. Many people do like that. Their opinions aren't any less valid than yours.
Besides, changing or removing vending machines and food from traders is kind of pointless. Food is extremely easy to get from farming or animals. Removing one source won't change the difficulty of getting food at all.