Ok, so here's my problem.

I start a village. I get 2 farmers going, they get tonns of food (well over 1000 units). I stick it on 1/2 speed to go out for an hour, I come back, start up the game -- there's no food left and all my villagers are starving and weakened!

What the heck is goin on? lol

perhaps your food source became unusable? there is a puzzle to fix that if that is the case. (i am trying not to ruin this thread with spoilers)

i know there are also some small problems in the program regarding farmers behaviors and there is a patch on the way (a few weeks it should be ready i think) that fix it.

same thing happend to me only i had 2000 and i did the thing to gain a permnit one

food sorce that is

lol the problem is I can't get that far (to the permanant food source) cuz my villagers starve to death before I get enough tech points to solve the puzzle. lol

Very annoying. And they're obsessed with the lousy coconuts.

If you're increasing your population too much, there won't be enough food to support them. Until you get sustainable fishing, you really can't support more than 15-20 villagers.

lol yes, but I only have the original 7 villagers you start off with...so...

I've been through 15 'start overs' cuz they all starve lol

Kaz.. try putting it on pause when you have to leave - until you can get fishing

lol yeah I think I'll have to since I can't trust the little brats to look after themselves for an hour :P

Same thing happend to me. I had 2778 of food, 7 villagers, and 190 coconuts left.. I left game running on normal speed and after 2 hours there's no food, no coconuts, and 1 of my villagers is dead

Something definitely seems amiss here. From what I have seen the villagers consume food at approximately 20 food units per villager per year. With that much food and only 7 villagers it should have lasted for quite a few village years (nearly 20) even if my calculations are a bit off. Worst case you were running at 2x speed. At that speed a village year is 60 minutes, so you should have been fine for almost a full day and night of people (computer) time.

Maybe I need to redo my tests on villager food consumption. Has anyone done that?

Jer

7 Days without pizza makes one weak...

i had 3 villagers and they only consumed 1 food for each one of them. at least that's what i counted.

In what time period? At what game speed?

Jer

The theory of predestination was doomed from the start.

I had a game that did the same exact thing. I left my people for about an hour. And when I came back they were all dead. They starved to death.
I had way too much food for 7 people, so they should have never died off.They may have been weakened but not dead.
I didn't have that with my first game(still running)But this second game is keeping me from getting further than 5000 points.
I do have a couple of other games going. But this one won't let my people live. They continue to starve. I have to pause the game anytime I need to leave the computer.

Has anyone been checking their game log to see what happened? Without the information in the log, these disasters will remain a mystery, since there is no way to know what might have gone wrong with the game.

Never thought to check them. Oh well, if it happens again, I will go check.