Negative Crop Production

Help!!! Trusted friend is in negative crop production. Now I thought I read somewhere on here that that's bad. Not just because of normal scenario - can't feed troops and they start dying; but because if you get attacked while in negative production, your balance goes to 0 & ur troops automatically start dying off.

Is that true, or am I way off the mark? My friend is under the impression that she can simply keep 200k in warehouse at all times and be okay in the same situation. Is she right?

I can't remember where I read that or if I'm just trippin' & I don't have the stamina to weed through all of the posts to find out if I'm right or wrong. So once again, all you Vets out there, please HELP!!!!

Okay so I checked out the posts and I think I got somewhat of an answer.

It's not that if attacked your balance goes to zero, so much as if your negative crop production and supporting massive army with oasis's and keeping crops (buying them) in warehouse, your vulnerable to being 'cropped'. Someone takes your oasis's and sit back and watch your balance go to zero. At that point troops return to city they came from and 30% starve, with 30% more dying each hour until your out of deficit.

Speed at which crop reaches 0 relative to size of original deficit and size of army.

Is that right?

She'll be okay until the crop runs out. So if she has 200k crop in her warehouse and she has -50k crop burn, she has 4 hrs until her troops starve. If she has lvl 20 cranny and is attacked, she'll lose all her resources except for the resources her cranny can hold which at lvl 20 is 100k of each, that's if the attacker has enough troops to take the resources. But if the attacker has lvl 10 cranny break then he'll take all the resources except 50k leaving her only 1 hr until her troops starve.

Unless she goes away for awhile, no need to worry. If they get low she will most likely handle it.

Usually people will not crop you for fear of provoking war.
And as mentioned above, -50k crop production and 200k crops will give you 4 hours until your troops start to starve.
Although this is a problem, most vets have negative crop productions anyways since food is usually 4 times cheaper than lumber for example. So they sell the lumber and buy 4x the amount they sold in food. ^.^
Hope this helped