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I noticed that a private dome farm in a conquered city is not producing any Public Food.
The Log indicates "No item production for Private Assets due to Occupation Mode active".

There is no information in the manual or the game:
- what Occupation Mode is
- how or why it is enabled
- how or when it is turned off

"Occupation mode" is the same as "unincorporated zone". I assume it's old terminology that got left in the game text, and as such the bug report is warranted.

Conquered zones always start as unincorporated. You can turn it off by calling the zone governor and modifying zone orders, but it's usually better to leave them with unincorporated status until the zone has stabilised after conquest, since being unincorporated gives the zone a huge boost to happiness gain until 70 or so.

Though you pretty much always want to turn the zone's Emergency Food on, so you should check zone orders in any case.

In the manual they're covered on pages 179-180 (5.3.11.4. Regular And Unincorporated Zones).

Updated the terminology for next patch. Thanks!