Not clear on food sharing...

[MythTrip]

I have a fully grown 5/5 sector colony, with 2 food exploitation sectors cranking out a lot of space burgers, thought I could just transfer em to a new colony. But apparently they go into a pool, and a growing colony only gets em if starving. So all you can do is get a new colony to bare subsistence growth, you cant really crank extra food into it.

Is there any way to keep the 5/5 colony at subsistence, and crank all extra into the new one?

[CrUsHeR]

You need to set the other colonies to "take" - where it says "prevent deficit"

It only takes something if the potential growth would cut it down by at least 1 turn, or something like that. You may see new colonies with ~38 food production who take nothing until they have grown larger, while an already large colony might take everything.

In turn, food is only shared to the pool if there are takers, and then only the required amount.

[Sinsling]

A little bit of clarification-

Using sell excess causes all food output over the cities' upkeep to be given to the global pool and sold if there are no takers.

Share half will only give out food if there is a taker, and if there is a taker, half of the food will be shared and lost even if taking cities take 0.

A city set to take will not take more food than is needed to push it down to 1 turn for next pop. Cities are capable of taking an infinite amount of food to get to that point.


As crusher said though, make sure to set cities that you want to have "take" food to take, otherwise they'll just sit at prevent deficit and take nothing unless their food income becomes negative.