Okay this is the same village I have posted about a couple times. My hard village where we ran out of food and I had to make babies for the sole purpose of mushroom hunting just to try and keep everyone alive. For a time this village was so obsessed with food I had to mark everyone down for duties other than farming. Still they farmed they just would not stop. The food bin had well over 10,000 and then we started making babies. I allowed my villagers to choose their careers and sometimes had to prod them along. I always made sure to have 1-2 master farmers the food level went down but not to anything I would have considered startling or even anything I would consider being noticeably low. We got to 30 villagers and had to wait for the completion of a new hut before creating the Golden Child, who was villager #31. Everything was wonderful, I left the game running at half speed for a day (maybe 2) which normally I do not leave unattended more than 10-12 hours but they had the GC what could possibly go wrong??? \:\?

This morning ALL the adults were DEAD. \:\( I assume they starved to death because food was at ZERO. I had 11 children some of them quite weak and I began hunting mushrooms to revive them. This was a very devastating blow. The GC kept restoring the crops and making berries but it was like pulling teeth to get him to make food. I had to find a mushroom, get a child over to it and THEN find the GC and pick him up in order to keep him from throwing yet another party (the children WILL DROP their mushroom to go to the party). It was insane. Finally he popped over to the food bin a few times and made food and we got the food above 400. Then I made yet another critical error. I assumed, okay maybe the GC needed to LEARN how to create food, now he knows how to do it, I can leave for a couple hours and leave the children to age so we can hopefully get them harvesting and making babies ASAP. I left the game at half speed. I have done this TONS of times for LONGER than I was away and with about 400 food and we have always been fine, but not today.

I just got home and the food was at 0 AGAIN and ALL my babies are dead \:\( I am so upset and a little angry at the GC and a lot angry at me , we came so far and now EVERYONE IS DEAD, well except you know who. I immediately found a mushroom and had the GC pick it. And then came here to ask, Can the Golden Child Starve to Death??? Because I was hoping that we might get a crate of babies and be able to continue this legacy. But now I am not sure I want to. The GC can not make any babies so the only legacy will be the new crate babies who will grow up to live in a village that has already been completed. They will be able to bury my dead villagers I guess. But everything else has been completed. I can not believe I was worried about this little turkey, since I have started typing this he has created 1208 food. So I guess HE will not starve to death and I was worried for NOTHING. Funny how he will create food for himself but not his Grandparents, Parents, Aunts, Uncles, Brothers, Sisters, Nieces, Nephews and so forth. I worked so hard to keep this little village alive and now I feel like I failed everyone. I could just cry. I don’t know what I will do. I guess time will tell. I can’t believe after all we have been through, they are gone. All gone. It’s over and I am so sad. I think I am going to cry.



Edited by LadyCFII (05/20/07 12:56 AM)