1602 AD/Anno 1602 Conversions

[PolarisGL]

I have yet to convert the roads and the terrain, which will probably be after my HoMM3 Deluxe Conversions.

[PolarisGL]

Oh, and all I ask is that no one use these until the scenario in which I use them is released. Thank you!

[Shadowstrike]

Looks great. Let's hope someone will eventually build a great Colonization scenario using these units (is that the type of scenario you are building?

Note to Self: *Must wonder aimlessly about why people always do conversions of games I already own*

[PolarisGL]

Kind of like a colonization scenario. It is not the secret project, but once again a project I started a while ago.

The Secret Project goes slowly, although I am almost 1/3 done, I am glad to report.

Thanks for the comments.

[Maud'Dib]

I'm glad someone is trying to turn this game into a scenario.

I have a question for those who play this game.

I just bought this game a week ago and I'm having a problem.

I can't generate any income. I'm always working in the red and going broke---and this is at the easy level.
How do I generate money to field an army/navy or continue to build the neccessary buildings that my people keep demanding. I always reach a point where I just quit because I end up running out of money. And once again, this is the easy level. What am I doing wrong.

Please repond here and e-mail me at Mauddib@intergrafix.net


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"And his word shall carry
death eternal to those who
stand against righteousness."

[PolarisGL]

First off, you never want to field an army or a large navy at the beginning, or even a bit after the beginning. You do what your people tell you to do. Click a house and raise the taxes if your income is going down or just not going up. Build slowly in that game; do not try to build every thing at once.

[Maud'Dib]

I wish I could build an army/navy.

The point I'm trying to make is this. At the easy level (and this royally ticks me off), I reach a dead end while the computer players expand to other islands and build shipyards and more ships, I can never get to that point in my growth.

I want to know why or how the computer players at the supposedly easy level can build the things that I can't because I run out of money.
Oh, and as far as the tax rates, I can only get them to 34% and no higher or my people get angry and my population starts to leave.

I do build what my people want that seems to be the crux of my problem and when I try to copy the computer players in what they build, it still doesn't help.

How many marketplaces, chaples, HOUSES, etc should I have.

Here is what I usually have when I run out of money:

2-3 marketplaces
2 foresters huts, chaples, fisher huts, sheep farms & cattle farms
1 tavern, weaver, butcher, stone quarry, stonemason, school, doctor, fire brigade, mine, smelter, & tool maker (if I don't build the last 3, I run out of tools and don't have the money to buy them when the free traders show up.)
10-15 houses
And a Level 2 warehouse.

This is when I start to lose money, my people are at about 250-325 in pop. and they want alcohol, tobacco, and spices and I don't or can't generate the monet neccessary to continue, BUT THE DAMN COMPUTER PLAYERS march on so I just quit.

[This message has been edited by Maud'Dib (edited July 17, 2000).]

[PolarisGL]

Have you tried trading?

[Maud'Dib]

Yeah, but the computer players don't need what I have or get their goods from the Free Traders which forces me to sail my lone ship back to my warehouse.

[Shadowstrike]

You know, you can kind of sell goods to the free traders too. Even then, I still run out of money constantly. Maybe I should build a large number of sheep farms and weavers and sell allot of cloth right from the beginning. Has anyone tried this yet? Does it work?

[Leonidas]

PolarisGL:

Those graphics look great. I'm looking forward to a good colonization scenario

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Go tell the Spartans, passerby:
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

[Maud'Dib]

Shadowstrike, I see you are experiencing the same problem.
As for selling to free traders, my excesses in cloth, wood & bricks and sometimes food never get bought by the free traders.


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"And his word shall carry
death eternal to those who
stand against righteousness."

[St Leo]

*Must wonder aimlessly about why people always do conversions of games I already own*

Perhaps your taste in games is not all that bad.

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St. Leo
http://ziggurat.sidgames.com/
http://www.sidgames.com/forums/

[Shadowstrike]

Try lowering your prices. Of course, this may explain why I'm running out of money in the first place!