Boating license

mauer · 25-04-2009, 17:41

Robi D and I are currently playing a game and ran into a bump. Not a big one, but none the less. As you can see by the picture, Robi's capital is directly on a lake. He can build fishing boats, can build a lighthouse, but can not build galleys. Is there a certain requirement for the size of the body of water to be able to build galleys?

Rik Meleet · 25-04-2009, 21:40

I think you need to have seatiles (and not just coasttiles) in the water. Not sure though.

barbu1977 · 26-04-2009, 01:41

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Originally Posted by Rik Meleet

I think you need to have seatiles (and not just coasttiles) in the water. Not sure though.

It looks like there is a sea tile. Maybe it has to have access to one of the ice caps. I have no other idea.

Darkness · 26-04-2009, 09:56

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Originally Posted by Rik Meleet

I think you need to have seatiles (and not just coasttiles) in the water. Not sure though.

1 ffod, so it's a saltwater lake/sea. No idea about the no-galley problem though...

mauer · 26-04-2009, 20:32

I kind of wish he had been able to. It wouldn't have saved him a whole lot of travel time, and would have made him use production that is now going to ground units.

Robi D · 27-04-2009, 15:51

To clear it up the lake isn't fresh water, it has ocean tiles.

socralynnek · 27-04-2009, 15:57

Is it a World Builder modified map? If so, then maybe some falgs were kind of wrong (there shouldn't be ocean in such a small lake anyway, or should there?

mauer · 27-04-2009, 21:08

I believe it is not Worldbuilder.

Robi D · 28-04-2009, 01:58

Its no WB, just a randomly generated map.

Anyway i was finally bored enough to run WB and see about this. A body of water has to be a minimum of 20 tiles large before you can build ships.

Interestingly you can only build work boats if there is a resource in that body of water, regardless of how big or small it is

Shabbaman · 28-04-2009, 09:47

Interesting. It does make some sense.

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28-04-2009, 01:58	#9
Robi D King Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Adelaide, Australia. Posts: 2,060	Its no WB, just a randomly generated map. Anyway i was finally bored enough to run WB and see about this. A body of water has to be a minimum of 20 tiles large before you can build ships. Interestingly you can only build work boats if there is a resource in that body of water, regardless of how big or small it is __________________ "I'm altering the deal, prey I don't alter it further" Darth Vader "We shall defend what is ours. We shall never surrender" --Kosovo is Serbia!

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26-04-2009, 20:32	#5
mauer King Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,033	I kind of wish he had been able to. It wouldn't have saved him a whole lot of travel time, and would have made him use production that is now going to ground units.

27-04-2009, 21:08	#8
mauer King Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,033	I believe it is not Worldbuilder.