Food

Well I have to say that after todays update I am totally disgusted. I realize we will get to do more research later that will allow us to upgrade to fams but for now I already could not feed my army in any one place and that includes a 9 food spot. I have had to have hoes on my towns already for the last couple of weeks and now even that bonus has been negated. I do not understand this change at all. You took the people out of towers giving the farmers an advantage. Now because I have army I am penalized to the point I can no longer build up food enough to feed them and have anything left to send them to attack, or anything left over to build with. Please will you explain to me why you decided to do this?

I read the update log but this does not make sense to me at all. I came home today to find that even where I had my army spread between many towns I was at minus food in some of them and others oh boy had +7.

Food has been a serious issue all along and now it is impossible. I have all my culture and resources maxed out as well as army buildings. I am now contemplating destroying the army buildings and becoming a farmer. I guess I will just go play a facebook game :(

I also do not see how you think catacombs are going to help.

During the week I only have a limited amount of time to play. I already have to come home gather army send them off to war timing where I send them to make sure they make it home so I can divide them up again.

 Today I came home to find they were not spread enough and that no town can support enough of them to send them to war without worry. Do I need to time sending them out from each of my towns to go to war, that is hard enough to do from two towns let alone 7 or eight. I am just very disapointed by todays change and the penalty being given to players who choose to have an army and culture. Have you even looked at my towns? Did you check out any of the stats in our towns before doing this? I know you can. I also know that right now my emotions are getting the better of me as they always do, but when I find that in one town where I have only 6 warriors 5 rafts and 1 legionary and there is only +45 food I just do not understand. 

What good is having +480 food, stone and iron if you can't build up any food?

true you will make changes I don't like but it is not all about defense either. That is why I say it is about farmers.

I have already lost one army this week to starvation due to a power outage at my house this week. Now I almost lost another due to changes. Still I only wanted to understand the why, As I can't build up enough food at Tuey to even build anything. 

I have a question.  Was support personnel population supposed to double in Fellings?  They seem to be the same in all other production facilities.

Correction:  I have no population at my crop fields, at least at Drusilla, so that has changed as well. 

Correction:  I have no population at my crop fields, at least at Drusilla, so that has changed as well. 

Crop fields have had no people for along time. 

Correction:  I have no population at my crop fields, at least at Drusilla, so that has changed as well. 

Crop fields have had no people for along time. 

lol  How did I not notice this?  But quarries and iron mines do while fellings have doubled. 

Thanks.  My question remains the same then.  Was the population at fellings supposed to be doubled now?

Thank you for explaining. I still think it is to many people that you have added to warrior buildings. That is your choice though, if you are trying to discourage warriors this is a good way to do it. Tuey II was trying to build a hugh army to take over the continent but I guess she will now be satisfied with what she has :) (Maybe)

PS. I also think you wanted me to spend more money as now without putting up hoes there, there is no extra food :) So until the end of this stage the plows will be as important for me as blueprints, and they are just as expensive.

I also think you need to spend more time on making some of the other perks and achievements work. right now only warrior ones really work. If some of the other perks and achievements for being a farmer were working I could be doing things to get them instead of always going for working war achievements.

Yes, there is a discripency between felling and quarry. I think I will reduce the felling population for a bit.

Thanks, Bers.  :-)

the bigger your army is, the more challenging it is to manage.

That goes for defenders too. I want to be a farmer, but I have a big army so I can defend myself. I am trying to distribute my army so I have plus food in each town, but more than +30 or +40 is impossible. So I agree with Tuey, something needs to change, either less population or more food or less corruption. for those still researching, it will be even more difficult.

Catacombs will give more food? That is the only thing that will solve the problem. Smittke said her army is already distributed between towns just like the rest of us. So unless catacombs give food they will not solve the problem

I need to speak on this thread as well.  As you may know I do not want to follow the war pathway.  However, I need a certain amount of army to defeat worms now.  This is causing my food supply as well to be depleted.  So this is not just a issue.  Also, as a comment on your thought to buy food in the market - have you checked the market?  No one is selling food (with a couple of exceptions, I for one do put food up when I have a time that I can to help others) so it is not a solution for the many with the problem of not enough food to sustain the troops.

Would it help anyone if I were to offer food at the market? As I'm just getting started, I'm producing more food than I can store. It's worth a try to see if it works. :-) I've just upgraded all my gardens, and I'm currently researching to unlock the storage upgrade. Will check the forum in a bit.