Colonization

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
No, they'll take your tobacco for insane prices. Until you can plant it yourself, just buy it in Europe.

As you trade with them, the amount of money they offer will gradually diminish. By that time, though, cigars and rum won't sell for good prices in Europe, so you can still trade with them at a slight advantage. If you find that manually loading your boats and wagon carts is too tedious, just take Cortes in your congress and raze their cities.

That must be a bug in the original then. The natives are surely supposed to desire finished products, not raw materials. I play FreeCol, and the natives are the expert tobacco growers and the only source of tobacco-growing expertise, which is unavailable in Europe. They don't like rolling the baccy into cigars though, and pay good coin for them.

[DrSpike]

It's been a few years but I seem to remember the original was like that too.