Hunger System.

Need make a counter wich is count-- every second you are online and make you lose Hunger points, each Food add to counter positive number and it work until you reach maximum, after maximum you can get debuff (fatness - N spd) (RIP is too bad), loosing all Hunger points give you bleed status like Bleeding or Trench lack of oxygen with speed like -1 hp each 15-20 seconds and vit dont regen you at all. So this my opinion how it should work. You should balance everything to make it usefull, not useless.

That's actually exactly how I coded it to work.

When what you want from Ideas? If you already done it.
Im too poor to code it by myself xD, i just reversed your idea and give steps how to do it.
Soon maybe i get permission to release Private server random item generator, its partiraly done.

Not played DayZ before

I would like to know how the hunger system will be implemented?

The flash client could be modified to add a new stat called hunger, depends on the method you are using to notify the user of the hunger level, maybe a simple text packet containing the message “food level at 100 percent” sent every minute to each player.

I’ll assume the food items will be consumable, therefore the client will send a UseItem packet
Containing the food item id, this is where the food level can be increased by a set amount dependent on the type of food item consumed.

the server needs to decrees the food level, a simple way to do this would be to have a 1 minute timer, decreasing each players food level by 1, and maybe decrees the food level by how many tiles the player as seen since the last update, tiles seen is divide by some fixed constant like 1000, so every 1000 tiles seen decreases the food level by 1, then checking the food level to determine what stats are effected like the speed, attack, def stats, updating these stats is defined by the current food level.

You just need to add a extra integer called “food level” or “hunger level” to the mysql database
Also storing the changes to the stats like speed in the mysql database would corrupt the original stat values but depends on your implementation, you can just change the player stats in load char functionality, by using the current food level.

Will there be a counter or bar somewhere to show your hunger or will the only indication to your hunger level be the chat?

I won't be able to post pictures soon, I'm in Boston now, so when I get back I'll be able to post progress.

Couldn't you just implement a max hp bleed over time that restores when one eats? Would probably be easier that way. Of course I'm not sure how one would implement overeating this way...