Hmm beg to differ DragonQ.
The xml gather rates are not the real in-game gather rates.
All food at the start is almost identical in gathering speed. Fishing, berry bush and hunting. But once you get techs the Hunting Dogs tech is OP compared to the others and creates the following order:
Hunt
Berry Bush
Fish
Farm
No if you get a dock that has 0 space between itself and the fish the fish actually will gather faster than Berries but less than Hunt with Hunting Dogs. The only problem though is that the dock will have only three boats slightly faster than berries and the rest need to travel further and hence slow down collection. This is why Atlanteans hardly ever go on water unless they just need a FH and benefit from a Dock boom. Most of the time they are better off without Water because their villagers have 0 travel distance to drop off resources.
Farming is only a good substitute to Hunting and Berries with the first farm upgrade. With the first upgrade you can sustain a reasonable economy early in the game. But Hunt is still better and fishing because of the boom factor is well worth the investment over farming.
Farming beats every other food source when FU. Because farms are usually very close to drop off sites and also their rate increases substantially in the late age, they also are constant and require no micro. FU farms are better than fishing boats or hunting or anything else for those reasons. The actual rate of gather of resources from FU farms is better than Fishing, Hunting and Herdables and Berries.
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