Poll

Your Opinion on Food and the Markets in Dwilight

My region produces a surplus but I don't bother to sell the food
0 (0%)
My region produces a surplus but I find it too inconvenient to sell the food
1 (4.2%)
My region produces a surplus and I sell all the food that I can but no one buys it
2 (8.3%)
My region produces a surplus and I sell all the food and it is usually bought
7 (29.2%)
My region is in a deficit but I don't bother to buy food
0 (0%)
My region is in a deficit but I find it too inconvenient to buy the food
0 (0%)
My region is in a deficit and I place buy orders that rarely get filled
6 (25%)
My region is in a deficit and I play buy orders that usually get filled
5 (20.8%)
I don't play on Dwilight but want to vote for something
3 (12.5%)

Total Members Voted: 23

Voting closed: March 04, 2013, 02:40:10 PM

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Vellos

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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.

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.

So you didn't use total Dwilight production, you used total CURRENT production? Stats page doesn't give you 100% production values?
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