21JUL11 - Mobiles, other

The sitting thing bugs me.  :(

Either I am missing something or else. It was stated negative crop production AND no food supply. You can run negative production on food as long as you don't run out of supply. I suspect the exploit might actually have been with what happened when you hit zero supply with negative production. If it was, then this fix is appropriate as it means something actually happens when you run out of food and don't have any production.

GM Gryphon, why is food gimped?  All of the other resources follows a standard curve, but food is on a lesser curve?  Why?

Thanks for posting GM Gryphon, however, for veteran players than have several old cities " a very significant one-off penalty to the city that moves "  is VERY much a concern.    For those that have been here from the start and hopefully helped the Devs to improve the game, a significant penalty does not solve the problem if it involves gold.      As I've stated several times, many of us have old cities that are 5 food squares, we don't have huge stores of  gold as we've had to make up the food shortage of not having a 7 food square by claiming sovereignty squares.      Whatever the penalty, it needs to be reasonable for the "exploit" you are fixing and the consequences that we as players will incur for this taking so long to identify.  

Hi all,

The GM Team had implemented production penalties for running negative food balances. We certainly never intended running a negative food balance to become a City advantage; Especially an advantage that increases with an increased negative food balance. This is clearly unintended behavior, and having recently been made aware of the potential advantages of extreme usage of it, we have deemed it an exploit.

We appreciate that the 1st of August may be too tight a deadline for people to re-balance their cities, and therefore are extending the deadline for this change to take effect to 12:00 server time, the 14th of August.

We do intend- Perhaps in light of this change, with increased priority- To allow players to move their cities to other squares of their choosing and take on the underlying terrain of their new square. This will, however, incur a very significant one-off penalty to the city that moves. We have, in the past, discussed terraforming magic, and do intend to release this in the more distant future.

GM Gryphon