this game is not designed to...

[BAG]

this game is not designed to build the best and biggest floating town possible.

There are true food balancing issue.

Sure, you can do the very basic food. But once you reach 26 people, you must fish and more than anything, farm all and every single seaweed spot and even those, its never enough.

I have 3 seaweed farms
Farming also all seaweed spots possible
Have all food producing building in number for each and every cooking recipe possible.
Yet I hardly produce 26 food day
And if you have to eventualy craft some ropes, this goes even worst.

I am trying to get 36 people... im at 26
Not producing anything else now other than food.

Again: I mean, I dont want to feed my people with crap fish, but well cooked meal. I think I will give away

...my seagull eat better than my people, and they never miss food....

[Shamrock2211]

The decisions they made with food has really hurt this game. Really right now the entire game is built around grinding for food, and the tech upgrades for food, make nothing easier, but instead actually further complicate food and make it harder and more grindy.

What I would love to see happen is they scrap the whole food system, go back to just 1 fish type and seaweed. Then a chop house and fish cleaner that cleans the one type of fish, then research grill that then grills the one type of cleaned fish. So you can uncomplicate this mess and make it so people can actually automate some of the food stuff.

If they want to add complexity to the game for replayability and difficulty scaling, then make food/water a bit easier and start developing towards happiness of drifters, entertainment buildings, a pub, chapel, a bathhouse or maybe at least a toilet, make them have needs outside of food and water, and then if they are unhappy they can abandon your ship.

Right now the game really doesn't have any of that so they only thing they can go with to make the game have any difficulty is resource grinding and late game it basically turns into 95% food grind.