People should be able to "crop lock" themselves

[Conviction]

It's not a good update.
I and many others dont wanna spend res on building up croptiles.
we can manage -500 in the first few days but now it wont let us

there is something terribly wrong in your strategy if your village population is >500 on the first few days. tell that to the 'many others' also so that you and 'many others' start to get idea of what this game is about.

if you now reply that you are not talking about village pop but about troops, we have nothing to talk as you obviously do not even want to have facts. stubbornness must also be your choice of strategy as no-one can seriously ignore all the posts without choosing to.

just in case this millionth time is the one you get it: troops do not croplock.

clear? no?

[teuton slayer]

How can you make Great Barracks on Capital?

very simple: remove it as capital

& now, about crop update, I'd first like you to login to your account.Now check your production, you'll see ssymbols of wood,clay,iron & crop. to its right,you'll see a symbol of crop but with a red cross on it.Thats the effective production of the village. & the number shows crop consumption/crop production
Now here, crop consumption is due to 2 things: troops & buildings.
Now, 1) crop consumption due to troops can be as much as you want, it'll never create any problem.
2) as per the new update,the crop consumption due to buildings should not exceed the crop production of the village.

If you can't understand any of this, I'd suggest you just go & play. I'm sure you won't encounter any problem due to the new crop update, & in case you have any problem, you'll completely understand the new crop update.

[gdazn]

Yes in 3x speed, crop production is 3x so having 19,000 crop production is possible for a noncap 15c. And for a noncap, you can build Great Barracks.

Free crop equals the production of crop fields including bonuses of grain mill and bakery reduced by the number of inhabitants of the village. So you just need to get positive free crop to upgrade buildings. Troops doesn't croplock you, agree. Just build up a few crop tiles to get positive free crop.

[Wild&Vicious]

yes you need to upgrade croptiles to upgrade buildings.

and sorry I never played 2x or 3x server before