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Title: food needs to be rebalanced for caravans
Post by: darkrage000 on December 31, 2016, 07:42:53 PM
Tried to create a caravan for 6 people.
60 food gave them 4.3 days of food.
that means that each person is eating 10+ meals per day.
Title: Re: food needs to be rebalanced for caravans
Post by: NolanSyKinsley on December 31, 2016, 08:09:02 PM
60 what exactly? 60 meals? They will spoil, that may be why it is only saying 4.3 days. You need to send your caravan out with pemmican, long lasting food that will not spoil when unrefrigerated. Pemmican is not like prepared meals though, one pemmican does not equal one serving, they will eat ~15 per meal, so need quite a bit for long journeys.
Title: Re: food needs to be rebalanced for caravans
Post by: darkrage000 on December 31, 2016, 08:12:02 PM
cant be. if i give them 260 meals they have 20 days of food.
it would still only be 4 days if that was the case.
Title: Re: food needs to be rebalanced for caravans
Post by: tommiethegun on January 01, 2017, 07:20:10 AM
10 food per day would mean they ware all 60 in just 1 day, not 4.3...

60 food for 6 colonists is 10 per colonist. 10 food / 4.3 days is 2.3 meals per day per person. Seems reasonable.
Title: Re: food needs to be rebalanced for caravans
Post by: Hieronymous Alloy on January 01, 2017, 10:01:51 AM
Quote from: NolanSyKinsley on December 31, 2016, 08:09:02 PM
60 what exactly? 60 meals? They will spoil, that may be why it is only saying 4.3 days. You need to send your caravan out with pemmican, long lasting food that will not spoil when unrefrigerated. Pemmican is not like prepared meals though, one pemmican does not equal one serving, they will eat ~15 per meal, so need quite a bit for long journeys.

SPoilage doesn't seem to matter for travel rations. The food calculations are weird and broken right now. Add a thousand units of raw meat and you'll get many more days of travel.
Title: Re: food needs to be rebalanced for caravans
Post by: skullywag on January 01, 2017, 10:05:23 AM
Hay doesnt seem to do anything to the food value either even though id guess the muffalo would eat it???
Title: Re: food needs to be rebalanced for caravans
Post by: Hieronymous Alloy on January 01, 2017, 10:06:11 AM
Caravans also don't take into account that animals can graze.