Message #98203

[Chenier]

Looked over your spreadsheets.

Not sure what to make of'em.

What value are you using to get total food production and population, if I may ask?

Statistics page. As for base food production, I used the fact that I was told by devs that Dwilight has a 125% supply ratio, so I considered how much the total population of the continent consumes (total pop / 500), and multipled by 1,25 to know how much food they produced daily. Population growth was also based off the statistics, by subtracting the oldest value to the newest value and dividing by the number of days elapsed (82 by my count). By calculating a growth in peaks that seemed normal (i.e. not the lowest value to highest value), I looked at the food production stats and estimated a 5,95 bushel per day growth to food production.

I used stacked histograms all the time when using the stats page, to work with total values.

Obviously not two, so its one. Also, pretty sure you have a massive overestimate on the amount of food needed, but I will check later to be sure.

Just off the top of my head, I think we have about 52 days left to summer? 107866 population. So, if we ignore population growth (which I had factored in) and rot (which I had not), we get a formula of (107,866 / 500) * 52 = food required = 11,218.

I think it was you that massively underestimated the amount of food needed. I'm sure you bought a tonload of food, but I'm just skeptical that you could get your hands on this much.