Pietje

19 minutes ago, Grendalsh said:

Before the recent Gold/activity changes, I finally nailed down food consumption at roughly 1/20 minutes, 3/hr. This would be 1 veggie per 1.67 hours, equivalent to an idle NPC at 1Gold per 1.7 hours. Since cannoneer NPCs want 1g/1.2 hours, it appears food consumption is not tied to duty. With the new gold wage changes, I'll be doing some more testing to see if food consumption has changed as well, as Idle NPCs now want 1G/2.7hr.

In regards to just dropping stacks of berries into the larder, consider the following. A stack of berries will decay in about 2 days. At 100 berries, 1.5 food each, that's 150 food value. At 3food/hr, an NPC will eat a stack of berries in about 50 hours, which is about the decay timer for any other stacks of berries in the larder. Result - only 1 stack/NPC will be eaten , the rest will decay before being eaten, and no matter how many stacks of berries you put in the larder you'll have to refill it every 2 days.

A stack of Veggies will take 960 hours (40 days) to decay. At 5 food each (excluding Wheat and Maize at 1.5 food each), and 3food/hr, a stack of veggies will feed one NPC for just under 6 days, and a second stack will still have ~80 veggies left. While it took some time get running, I have a farm with about 200 plots. It takes about 20minutes to harvest, and an hour each week to grind fertilizer. Each harvest yields enough veggies to top up about a dozen NPC larders. After getting 1 stack/NPC in each larder, it's only necessary to top up the larders every 3 days, and if I pre-stock 2 stacks/npc, they can safely go a week.

SO I would have 1 crew member,  So i can safely drop 2 stacks of potatoes in food larder + enough gold in chest. And be gone for more than a week?

Now try with eggs   That would probably go really long.

Also other slightly unrelated, crew do contest/refresh the claim timer right? 

2 hours ago, Alevia said:

The same happened to me. What I did to fix it was, I overlapped my claims, and that helped put the claim at 1. in your claim area, find a spot you can place your own flag. This will fix it. in your case, you'd need 9-10 new flag claims. Sea claims don't count. Redoing your flags will either keep the count as it was or increase the negative number. I don't recommend redoing any of the flags. 

There is no space left to do those claims :(. Somehow the timer needs to be reset

So i got like 2 land claims and 2 sea claim, all flags say 4 day timer? I thought we should have like 20 days?

My neighbours have way more sea and land claims and are at 20+ day claims timers.

This flag is an old flag, does that matter? But i cant remove it since other enemy claims are overlapping.  Well i can remove it, but than i can't replace it. 

I could replace some other flags, but these still said 4 day too.