Modern campaign mission 1 ??

[Uri]

Hey guys,

I got a problem with the modern campaign, I'm at mission 1 where I must export 2000 Food.

But nothing happens, I have 6 Farms 2 Fish warfs and 4 ranches but after 20 with fast speed nothing get exported ??

[Kardwill]

OK, first the obvious questions : Did you disable export of food? Do you have an active dock with workers? Did cargo ships stop at your dock?

[Uri]

Originally posted by Kardwill:

OK, first the obvious questions : Did you disable export of food? Do you have an active dock with workers? Did cargo ships stop at your dock?

No
yes
yes


So after like 30-40 with fast speed it start to export food, but isn't that a bit long ??

[Namari Ki]

30-40 what? Months, I assume. But no, not really. Your farmers, ranchers, and fishermen are starting with no experience, so their production is low. Your population is coming by and taking what food is being produced because they're hungry. So until your workers get some experience and can start turning out larger volumes of food, you won't be able to export anything.

You can probably help yourself out there, if you take the humanitarian aid edict because that provides food (and medical care) for your populace that isn't coming out of your food production.

[aqvarivs]

Have you built any markets? What is your employment status at your farms and fisheries? What farms did you build? Corn is a poor export crop as by default. Much of that will go to market. Fish will go to market until you have reached ~400-600 total storage in marketplaces depending on population.

Corn grows the fastest but makes the least profit so building many corn farms is inefficient as export product/employment costs. Banana and papaya take one year to grow and make a decent profit. Pineapple is the best earner and can be canned to increase profits but takes almost two years to grow.

Expecting good profits or production rates with newly built farms is unrreasonable and you should anticipate at least four years for the job slots to fill and the experience to rise for a good steady income. From my own experience fast build is a waste of money unless you have lots of homeless or lots of unemployed on hand.

[Syrris]

Another possibility is that you don't have enough teamsters to handle the workload, especially if your farms are scattered away from the places that want it (markets and the port).