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Also, are Solaria and Kabrinskia struggling to feed their cities, or to keep their granaries full? There is a huge difference; you lose 7% of your granary every week now. When your granaries are empty, you won't be losing those anymore.
I am curious to see what other realms on Dwilight need for food. Kabrinskia used to have a slight surplus of food production. We now have a deficit of 144 bushels per day. I saw a post about Solaria going from having a huge surplus to needing 18 bushels of food per day. That is a medium sized city and lots of rural regions.
Even Barca, a realm with much rural lands and only 2 small cities has a deficit. Where we used to have a nice surplus, we currently have a deficit of 11 bushels a day.
So by a rough calculation based on the average food stores on Dwilight, you are in a terrible, terrible position, as your stores will last you less than three real-life years. :-)
It's not supposed to. I believe the intent with food has always been for it to be a source of conflict, a resource over which wars would be fought. If there's enough to go around that kind of defeats the point.
That's not necessarily the case.To give a simplistic example, if the western half of Dwilight had 50% of the food needed to feed itself, while the eastern half had 200%, there would be more than enough to go around, but it would still cause conflict.