Recalling the days when inheritance was introduced - the intent was to lower the impact of being KO'd in PVP activity. Those days leading faction would become critically leading so much that there was no competition whatsoever it was nonsense.
In the same time hunger was introduced to help players who play more rarely than others to catch up.
Following the intents and as Nightdawg was suggesting to inherit the hunger level..
Would be viable to save "hunger" level on death, same way as stats and when inheriting - give hunger bonus in the same manner is giving stat boosts - only until ancestor's stats are reached.
Unsolved\questionable aspects issues:
- hunger bonus affects all stats --> if we calculate the sum of stats as max level - its a possibility to "respec"
- must work in the same principle as Lament the Departed and have same pool of max stats to avoid getting more than ancestor
- throw in yours.