I have four vilages running at the same time right now, and I have found that the one helpful thing is to not buy level two of farming tech unless you absolutely have to. On my newest vilage, I was able to get the population up to about 20 with no deaths and I was just farming. I was able to survive untill i could get level two and three of farming tech at the same time. It really helped to keep the farmers focused on the farmland. One question, how do you get the dam built before the alge comes? I have never succesfully been able to get enough pionts to even start building the dam before the ocean is overfished.