Started with X amount of food. We will say 100 mil for math purposes. I was losing X amount - I will say 50K per turn (only because I don't want to state the real amount).

Imagine you lose around 49K and the last turn 50K, and let us say you have 100 turns. Basic math would state that you would do 50K x 100 = around the amount of food you would lose, which would mean 5 mil.

Now that you thought of all of this, now imagine the amount being lost times 3. This is what happened to me today when I verified. wtf?

In the example this would amount to 15 mil. I will not state what amount I actually lost, but you get the picture. Again, wtf???

dude, there is decay per turn.

not a bug.

Read http://www.earthempires.com/...r-turn-29493?t=1390277432 for food decay formula, with turn by turn calculations.

he's a n00b, still after all these years.

@Xinhuan. That is decay? Shouldn't decay be packaged in with the loss per turn though?

Also, how can decay be twice the amount of food intake? In this case, we are talking about less than 2 bil food in stock.



fluff you Marshal.

more bushels you have in hand higher the decay and your military eat bushels too.

Maybe you should read the thread I linked.

Oh, I didn't see your link there Xinhuan. Gonna check it now... thanks for that. So it'll always be formula*.999, regardless of the turn you're at for the day?

Thanks @Marshal. The .999 includes the army guys eating bushels then?

The loss per turn that you see is consumption by civilians and military. The decay is based entirely on the amount of food on hand, and is not displayed when you play turns.

Thanks tellarion, much appreciated :)

Columns for food should be displayed like this in the advisor page:

Food 1,000,000
Production 5,000
Consumption 25,000
Decay 1,000
Net Change -21,000

Columns for food should be displayed like this when you run a turn:
Food Produced: 5,000 bushels
Food Consumed: 25,000 bushels
Food Decayed: 1,000 bushels
Net Change: -26,000 bushels


Since Corruption displays under Expenses, why shouldnt food decay be displayed?

I can dig it!

I agree. It should. No wonder a lot of people get confused :/ Most just don't even notice it though.

You should add this as [sug] @h2orich!