NPCs require food & water

[tahadar]

I was wondering, if someone would want to work on FVN overhaul  - to make NPCs require food and water to survive - how this issue should be approached?

 

Because tracking stats of every single NPC / creature off-screen is out of the question.

Starting a scanner only when PC enters a cell kind of defeats the purpose of the mod.

 

Any ideas? Thx