I've been playing for 7 real-time hours so far, and there are a couple of things I'm wondering. 1. What is a good food supply so that I can put my people to work on other things? My Harvesting is level 2, everything else is level 1. I realize that researching is very important, so I have 2 people researching and the other 3 are farming, and no building or clearing is getting done. For some reason I can't get my food supply above 270-ish. 2. When is a good time to start having kids? 3. When you go back to the menu, is the game paused? And if your looking at the map and just turn your palm off, does the game still continue without you?

Thanks for any help!