Message #97298

[Chenier]

Because correct me if I am wrong, and your statement that Dwilight produces 13% more food than it requires does factor in rot. 'cause as I said, otherwise, once rot is factored in, it produces at most a 1,84% surplus.

Huge stockpiles don't change anything to this, because Dwilight's consumption is also huge. At about 2,200,000 population, Dwilight consumes 4400 bushels a day. So if I use this number in my previous calculations, to give a number that sounds closer to the real thing, I get the following data for Dwilight:

Yearly food production: 417,648 bushels
Yearly food consumption: 369,600 bushels
Yearly food rot: 34,513 bushels
Yearly food surplus: 13,535 bushels

And this is assuming the best. Thus, without factoring rot, 100,000 bushels of stocked up food means enough food to cover in the consumption through 1,08 seasons, in other words, barely enough to go through winter. Without factoring in population growth, bad harvests, and everything else I've mentioned earlier, because population is in steady growth and a lot of cities are still nowhere near their max population.