Who grows potatoes everytime they start a colony.

[Mutineer]

On start if I have rich soil near by it get rice, if not first crop will be potatoes.

[Alenerel]

Lets see, this is an absolute truth, no speculation:
Corn = best crop = most yield/day
Rice = fastest crop, 2nd best. Why use it if corn exists? Cause you cant use corn on hydroponics.
Potatoes = best crop on 70% fertility soil and below. Useless in 100%, 140% and hydroponics.

[skinicism]

  With every colony I've started I've
grown daisies, potatoes and corn.
I'm waiting for artichokes to be
introduced since my pets keep on
eating all my crops.

[SilentP]

I start 4 growing zones upon landing, no matter what scenario.  I always plant 10 x 10 fields of rice, corn and taters, plus  a smaller field of heal root.

Depending on the season, I'll also throw out a big 20 x 20 plot of cotton.  By the time my grower is done planting all of that, he can farm pretty much anything.

[GiantSpaceHamster]

Huh...I wrote off corn as useless a long time ago. I can't seem to get to a harvest. Maybe it's just bad luck on my part whenever I try, but corn takes so damn long to grow that something always destroys the crop before it's ready. Then when it is ready it doesn't seem to be nearly enough to make up for the time it took over potatoes or rice. Do other people really find corn useful?

[Hieronymous Alloy]

Huh...I wrote off corn as useless a long time ago. I can't seem to get to a harvest. Maybe it's just bad luck on my part whenever I try, but corn takes so damn long to grow that something always destroys the crop before it's ready. Then when it is ready it doesn't seem to be nearly enough to make up for the time it took over potatoes or rice. Do other people really find corn useful?

In arid scrubland animals may not have enough other vegetation to eat, so you need to have hay and/ or make sure your animals are zoned out of crop zones. For wild animals you'll need to fence in the crops with walls, or kill them.

In other climates you might be running into too short growing seasons that never give the corn time to mature.

[GiantSpaceHamster]

Huh...I wrote off corn as useless a long time ago. I can't seem to get to a harvest. Maybe it's just bad luck on my part whenever I try, but corn takes so damn long to grow that something always destroys the crop before it's ready. Then when it is ready it doesn't seem to be nearly enough to make up for the time it took over potatoes or rice. Do other people really find corn useful?

In arid scrubland animals may not have enough other vegetation to eat, so you need to have hay and/ or make sure your animals are zoned out of crop zones. For wild animals you'll need to fence in the crops with walls, or kill them.

In other climates you might be running into too short growing seasons that never give the corn time to mature.

Hmm, maybe it's wild animals and pets from traders that are doing it. I have noticed this happen, but usually they don't seem to eat very much (a row at most out of a field). Maybe I am just not paying enough attention and this really is the problem. Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out!

[Alenerel]

Huh...I wrote off corn as useless a long time ago. I can't seem to get to a harvest. Maybe it's just bad luck on my part whenever I try, but corn takes so damn long to grow that something always destroys the crop before it's ready. Then when it is ready it doesn't seem to be nearly enough to make up for the time it took over potatoes or rice. Do other people really find corn useful?

You have a point. Corn takes 13 days to grow so you have more chances of losing it without being able to harvest it. Still, if you usually go for over supply instead of just enough supply you shouldnt have any problems because of losing one harvest.

[ahowe42]

Potatoes, rice, corn, and healroot - always grow healroot.

[Catastrophy]

No taters! Rice! Because: "Es gibt Reis! - Lecker, lecker Reis."

I should go.