ALPHA 49 1.5 Years later, and Food Death Spiral still an issue.

EggsAckly · Apr 7, 2016

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I was last here about a year and a half ago. Thought I'd check up on the game and see how it's progressing, but it seems one of the biggest problems back then is still a problem. What is the trick to getting your food into an oven before the colonists descend like locusts and eat it?

I've tried 3 different starts in 49B, the last one throwing everything I had at food production with 4 stone ovens and 6 active fields (2 wheat, 2 corn, 2 cabbage) and every available colonist manning either an oven or a farm very early on, and I *still* cannot even get the colonists to take the food out of the field to a storeroom before they eat it. A field is harvested and they eat it right there on the spot.

They're not even *starving*. There's plenty of forage. What the hell?

So of course this leads to the death spiral where theyre all eating crappy food, so they have to eat more of it, so there's less and less, and game over. Seriously, why do colonists even eat raw resources? What does this add to the game? You're telling me they can't wait 20 minutes to boil a cabbage? I had always assumed it was just alpha issues in need of tuning, but it's almost 2 years later. It's starting to seem deliberate. If it turns out this is some intentional nonsense to inflate the difficulty of the game, just tell me now so we don't waste any more of each others time.

[Edit] Sorry if my tone is too frustrated. I like a lot of the new features I see, but this issue has been a pain from the start for me, and I really thought it would be better by now.
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EggsAckly · Apr 7, 2016

I too have been having the same issue until lately . I pre-bought the game long before it was even beta . When your colonists get so unhappy they won't farm anymore and you can't cook anything before they eat it raw you're doomed , restart .

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