Some of my villagers have 20-second attention span or so ... they'd do research for one "cycle" and then go off exploring, and I kept having to drag them back to the research table. (The farmer and builder can work at their jobs longer without taking a break.)

And my food supply went down to 200 and less .... and I observed that the researchers work like beavers at the research table. I took a break to do my laundry, come back and still find them good as gold working at the research table. Hmmm .... is this the trick to make them stick at their job?

I'm trying to accumulate points to purchase harvesting level 3 ... but now wondering whether to "rush it". I guess I'll have to go to level 3 if I want to increase my population. Currently 5 villagers researching, 1 farmer sustaining the the 1xx food level and 2 kids running around.

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