Dealing with Food Surplus as a Region Lord

[Kalanar]

I get the impression that the banker has some elaborate set up that deals with my and other region's food surplus. But having never been a banker I don't know if this is true.

Am I the only one who deals with my surplus, or is it possibly being carted out to feed the cities by the banker through some artificial function?

[Bedwyr]

I get the impression that the banker has some elaborate set up that deals with my and other region's food surplus. But having never been a banker I don't know if this is true.

Am I the only one who deals with my surplus, or is it possibly being carted out to feed the cities by the banker through some artificial function?

Very much depends on what system your realm uses.  Some realms do indeed have centralized control by the Banker, some have control at the duchy level, and some have control left to the regionlords.  Unless it's one of the half-dozen realms I know the food situation in, I can't tell you anything beyond that, but a quick letter to the Banker and/or your Duke and/or your realm should clear that up.

[De-Legro]

However bankers can no longer send your food out of your region. They can request that you set auto transport orders, but that is entirely under your control. If you have a surplus that no one is contacting you about, remember that unless you have the warehouse space it will decay quicker, and see what you can do to strike up some deals to sell the food yourself.

One more thing, winters will now be much harder on regions like rural, chances are you won't produce enough food each week to feed the region, or at least that is the experience in Arcaea.

[LilWolf]

One more thing, winters will now be much harder on regions like rural, chances are you won't produce enough food each week to feed the region, or at least that is the experience in Arcaea.

And to note also, not all islands have seasons(like Atamara, EC) so that's not necessarily an issue.

[fodder]

bankers have a lot more information about an individual region's food than the lord. like how much surplus it has, how much is consumed a day, etc.

[Anaris]

Only Dwilight and the Far East have seasons.

As has been stated, Bankers cannot control any food movements, they can only organize and direct the Lords in doing so.  This means that if you have set up no caravan offers, and no automatic transfers, and have not sent out any caravans yourself, your food is just sitting in your region rotting.

Bankers should not have any more information about an individual region's food status than the Lord has himself; however, they have broader information about the entire realm.  Similarly, Dukes have information about the food status of their Duchies.

[Kalanar]

Great, thanks for the information everybody.

[fodder]

eh... a banker certainly have a lot more info about a specific region than a lord, in bt at least.

it's not so much more data... just more detailed in how it breaks everything down

take the banker's food page.. it tells you how much food there is, how much will probably be consumed, how much needed before next harvest, projection into the next harvest, etc.

there's basically no equivalent for a lord. i'm not saying a lord should have details for any of the other regions... but just the same sort of info on his own region would be nice.

all a lord has is the age old produced/consumed/"surplus"/stored in warehouse.php

[Wentwood]

The only thing a banker has that a lord doesn't have is a numeric projection into the next harvest.

Everything else is obtainable (though by no means obvious or logical) to obtain through the available options to a Lord.

The Lord can guestimate the next harvest based on the weather forecast on the Command page and what the region's normal production is.