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I think there are food-rich realms, and food-poor realms. It would be nice if the island stats listed the food stores of each realm. We list the military strength, why not the amount of food each realm has stored?
We list food production in the statistics, twice even, total and supply.
Production, yes; storage, not at all. A realm could have massive production, yet constantly sell the food; another realm could have a very small surplus, but horde it forever and buy food from their neighbors and have a massive stockpile. Aurvandil, Morek, and Iashalur all have stockpiles, but there's no way for my character can find that out.
Yes, and I believe this is more or less intentional.
Oh hey ruler person, lets publish our stored food information so all those starving realms can EASILY see which realm to go to war with to alleviate their problems. There are PLENTY of ways for our characters to find out this info, but it takes time. When Arcaea was arguing that the Dark Isle had broken their treaty obligation to sell surplus food, the damn northern barbarians claimed they had none, so you know what we sent infiltrators and traders to go peak into their warehouses to find out the truth.
And one of my traders swears up and down that he can't find the screen that shows how much food the region he is in has. Where is that?
That's a good idea. Care to write it up as a full feature request? Something like "trader chat should reveal surplus/deficit of region" ?