Food Counter Not Going Up For Cities

[Kaioshin Sama]

I just started playing ROM and everything seemed to be going fine for the first couple of turns before I noticed that my food counter wasn't going up even though I normally like to focus on growth during my early turns in BTS. No matter what I did I could not get the game to recognize that I should be collecting 6 food a turn. I made sure that the no growth option I noticed in the city menu was turned off, but still no food collection. Work and research are fine, but if the game won't let me collect food then I don't know how I'm supposed to play ROM. Has anyone else had this problem or know of a solution?

 

[NotSoGood]

I might be wrong, but didn't RoM change population to need more food than normally? (3 instead of 2 IIRC)

 

[NBAfan]

I might be wrong, but didn't RoM change population to need more food than normally? (3 instead of 2 IIRC)

You are right.

 

[zappara]

Check your civics.... military production with food...

 

[Kaioshin Sama]

It had me completely baffled for a while but it turned out that it was the worker I was building. I didn't know that RoM transferred all of the food a city collects into building certain types of units right off the bat. It seems like an interesting and potentially useful feature if I were to ever have a city with a lower work yield, but is there a way to control or turn it off?

 

[Stormwind]

AFAIK workers and settlers use food for production in Vanilla too, can't remember if there are civics in vanilla that do use food for military production. Geez, I can't even remember when I last played vanilla.

 

[NBAfan]

In Civ 4 when you build a Worker or a Settler, the city's excess food is used to build it.