I have two questions (or comments) about the accumulation or consumption of the food points.

First, I would like to know why the food often decreases while the game is in a 'pause' mode. Last night, for instance, before retiring, I paused my games. This morning, I find that two of them had less than 50 food points, which was not the case when I paused them. I was under the impression that pausing a game stops everything dead in its tracks until we are ready to 'unpause' and proceed.

Secondly, I am curious to know why, when I set my villagers to fishing, some fish deposited into the bin would count as 11 points, others as much as 14 or 15 points. I watched this closely and saw the points increase in exact amounts as described.

Anyone have ideas about this, or has anyone else noticed these things happening?

Do you have Nature Faction in the tribe that's producing extra food points? That's one of the benefits of the Nature Faction. The Magic Faction produces extra tech points from research.

There have been a couple of other reports of problems with paused games, but we have never been able to recreate the issue. We have rigorously tested pausing and have never had it fail on any of our systems. Please have a look at this thread. Perhaps you can provide some additional details that would help us?