Woah, that's an impressive set of settlements there. Pretty much a state or kingdom. And yeah, I've had inconsistencies on turn length. An aborted attempt got to 700+ms turns with less than 200 inhabitants. I have no idea why. I'd be curious to see the food situation in your main world, my bigger city is at a perpetual 600+ deficit, and you seem to have much less bakeries. Do you somehow manage to get your dudes to work efficiently or do you just don't care about food (since there does not seem to be any kind of penalty at the moment)?
Thanks. I love the arc of this game, going from a village to a city-state to a kingdom, and then eventually to an empire. Epic. I can't wait until we see rivals.
I run large surpluses of wheat and my food need stays low. I tried running surpluses on food, but they just won't do it. Just up the surplus value relatively slowly, they will overproduce like hell if you aren't careful. My 1600 pop capital has a food need of 89 with a wheat surplus of 2000. I don't know how many bakeries you really need, but it seems to make a large difference how you place them relative to your farms and storehouses. I'm still playing with layouts though.