Additional note: it would sure be nice to have statistics on the raw food surpluses of the realms (production-consumption), instead of just the ratio. With the population statistics, it's all public info anyways, just tedious to crunch in for the players. I've always been of the opinion that if something is available to players, then it should be easily so, so that one must not waste large amounts of his life's time to remain competitive, this being a "light-weight" game after all.