Title: Food rationing.
Summary: Give the option to Region Lords to (attempt to) change the rate of food consumption in the region, not unlike the
Lords of the Realm series.
Details: The implementation may vary in the rationing options (in the cited game them being Quarter, Half, Normal, Double and Triple rations) and in their effects (possibilities are affecting of the variation in Morale, Loyalty, Control, Production and Migration). Needless to say that lower-than-normal rations would not be viable to maintain for too long but could be employed to temporarily decrease food consumption at the cost of region stats and income (lower tax tolerance).
Benefits: Makes the Region Maintenance and Food games more interesting and dynamic, increasing strategy. Makes starvation less absurdly quickly devastating, allowing a competent manager to have a slight advantage. Makes excess of food more useful, and if the regions' rate of consumption is not completely secret it creates possible attrition between realms (Realm A lacks food but ignores if realm B has extra available or not. Right now there is very little that can be done to figure that out, and uncertainty is not the best war-motivator. If realm B does have it in this proposal it can either abstain from its potential benefits hiding it from their neighbors or consume in excess not caring about making its "treasure" known.). A sense of control in negative situations such as lack of food is, even if relative, is known to increase satisfaction.
Possible Exploits: The more complex a feature is, the more likely the appearing and exploiting of bugs is, and this (the Food game) is no exception.
