I'm dying of starvation and i'm wondering how long it takes for a crop to mature.
Cheers!

I think it depends upon difficulty level and game speed. I've seen it take several hours, and I've also seen the crops appear within an hour or two.

I learnt how to "turn" pages and read the previous post on this subject, thanks thou!

I am playing on hard (I like a challenge) and my first crops appeared after only a few minutes. That is the quickest ever for me, and hasn't happened like that since....in other words, I can't really help, sorry. I think it may just be luck of the draw.

All I can suggest, is put all the resources you can on getting the crops going

That would be my suggestion too - get as many villagers as you can working on planting, watering, harvesting, and your food should jump back up again. It'll just take longer the less people you have working it and research, for the most part, can wait

I'm just going to play around with that theory, as playing on hard is reallly hard, and I am left with only 2 female adults at the moment, and 5 kids. I am in a dilemma in that I need food to survive, but without those tech points and kids, I can't exist!!

Savi

That IS a dilemma!! I'm playing on low difficulty as I wanted to get an idea how to play and all the fun stuff available before I went and tried the harder levels. Still, if they don't have food to eat they'll die no matter what - without tech points you might be stuck until the kids are older but they PROBABLY won't DIE - I'd go with food as much as possible - good luck!!

I normally play on Medium, and after getting through the hump, the do I feed them, breed them or let them research... things usually start flowing quite nicely

I have learnt a lot from previous mistakes, so I recommend people don't get discouraged if things don't work the first time....and it's much more fun having to work things out yourself!!

Agreed!! That's why I'm working on low right now I figure I can work on low, get a hang of things, then bump it up - or better yet play a game at each difficulty level!! Yes, I am insane

Rebecca, I wouldn't call that insane at all....maybe I am insane for not trying low first.....it certainly has caused many restarts of my games