Food

[izmircali]

Does anyone know if:
1) food will be open for trade
2) you can send a lot more food (instead of +3 via caravans) to a city.

Because I always ended up with a huge midwest population and a tiny New York. I would like to make a "bread basket" and have some cities (i.e. midwest or ukraine) send all of their extra food to some of my more important coastal cities.

[Gryphon]

the way i understood what i read is anything and everything wiil be available for trade. and with uniqe options too such as x food per turn.

[Crouchback]

It would be great to be able to send food to a high production/low food city as in Civ2. Better yet being able to pool food within an empire so as to allow for even growth. But I suspect it'd give us humans too great an advantage over the poor dumb AI.

David

[Lorizael]

I certainly hope so. The exchange of food is a big part of today's economy.

I wonder if you will be able to give food to a people even when the opposing government doesn't want you to. Like they say they will burn the food but you say you'll drop it from the skies in large crates...

[Gryphon]

settlers can also be used to move population from one city to another

[Deathwalker]

Yes but when they get to the new city, they need food, So that city must be able to feed them

[cyril25376]

Originally posted by Gryphon:
settlers can also be used to move population from one city to another

Don't forget the workers, they are cheaper

[Gryphon]

Don't forget the workers, they are cheaper

yes but settlers are worth 2 population.

Yes but when they get to the new city, they need food, So that city must be able to feed them

i never found it difficult to keep my populatio fed in civ 2 it just took a while to grow a city. and i think if your city was short food one of the two settlers would be able to produce enough food in one square for both of the population increases.