And the weekly reports I send out on the status of our food don't make you feel any better? You've got a trust problem.
The less informational is probably intentional. You should get a daily report if the region are out of food, otherwise you don't need to bother with it.
No, it doesn't. On another continent, sure, but not on one with seasons. A surplus one season is easy to turn into a horrible deficit the next. Without knowledge of what each region produces and consumes individually, per day and per season, I'm not comfortable.
What I need is to update my excel spreadsheet. I want to have access to this information, and this at any time of any day, without having to go write to someone and wait for a reply.
It's not that I don't trust you specifically, it's that I've seen many people do a bad job or cause harm either because they couldn't be bothered, because they forgot, because they didn't know how, because something serious happened to their character, because they got angry/rebellious, because they outright became inactive and left the game, or simply because they got replaced by someone else who ends up fitting one of these via elections.
I don't really care about food with any of my other characters. But I always care about vital information/activities, and make sure to at least stay in the loop. In D'Hara, since all of those food/trade/pop changes, I don't feel like I'm in the loop, because all I have is superficial data that allow no serious planning or analysis. A mere "there is enough food for X days" is not satisfactory to me.
I trust you personally to do something if it our food situation deteriorates, but that's not the point. The point is that I want to be able to plan ahead and make decisions based on our long-term food situation. The ignore it would be the same as a ruler of a militaristic realm never paying attention to the realm's infrastructure or total CS. Sure, there's a general who can do that, but how's the ruler gonna make his long-term decisions (alliances, wars, defense pacts) if he doesn't have an idea of what the situation of his realm's military capacity will be in a month or two? In five?
Since food is intimately tied to D'Hara's diplomacy, it should come as no surprise that the one in charge of diplomacy would like to know more than simply how long the current reserves will last.
