Whoopsie....Colonization mistakes

[Becka]

Like Civ1 and Civ2 and Civ3, everybody makes mistakes in games, especially when they first get them. I didn't see a thread like this in this forum, so I decided to start one. This a thread for.....mistakes.


When I first got the game (quite by accident, I assure you, bundled with Pirates! Gold, Transport Tycoon, and Railroad Tycoon) Colonization was the farthest thing from my mind. I didn't actually want it, but I had it, so I was bored one day and installed it on my good old 486. I didn't exactly have a manual or anything, just instructions on how to install it.


So I had to learn from trial and error. My ship arrives on the map. I let my pioneer and soldier guy out. Then there are people in Europe who want to come to the new world. I get my ship back there, while my pioneer and soldier look around.

As it happens, one of the people in Europe was the ore miner. And as it so happens, the first special resource I find in the new world is....ore. So I bring him to the new world, pop him out, and set him on top of the ore. After a while I think, "I wonder how much ore he's collected by now?" I didn't know how to establish a colony yet.

In subsequent games I learned how establish colonies, but I didn't find the game fun. Why was it that all the time I have to go to Europe to buy food. I'm going broke and I can't concentrate on anything else because my ship's always going to Europe for more food while the people are starving and I'm losing money. Then I realized that you need to make people grow food so the colony didn't starve and your population increased.

[SunTzu]

Yes i had to discover the game by trial and error due to the lack of a manual lol, i'm still discovering

[gr8ful wes]

I had a hard time getting the gold caravans onto the ships. And when I finally figured out how to do it, I waited and waited for that galleon to get to europe only to find that the cargo wasn't on board afterall.

Also it seemed like my guys were just wandering around willy nilly without any guidance at times, because I hadnt mastered the use of the mouse and go to commands.

I used to try and sell gold caravans to other european rival to save time. never worked.

I loved when I figured that you could put more than one person to work in a building at a time, and that 3 folks could teach at university.

I used to not improve any land either. I though the Pioneer was only for making roads. It was great when I learned to plow/clear a town site before building on it.

And I still havent figured out how to catch those fish way out in the middle of the ocean. LOL

By the way becka, your story was very funny

[Thrawn]

I managed to buy the game with manual and some info cards a few years ago. So I knew what to do.

[Dark Ascendant]

I had the manual, but it took a while to find it. I couldn't build a single dock.

[de Montcalm]

Originally posted by Thrawn
I managed to buy the game with manual and some info cards a few years ago. So I knew what to do.

Yes the documentation was very good. A nice book with photos and background information and some colourful cards. I even look at them today because they are such a good quality and after reading the historical information I went out and bought some books that are recommended in the manual about the colonial era because I wanted to go deeper into the matter. Ah life is nice when you know what to do

[Ludovit]

When I declared independence for the first time, I was surprised by mass destructive king's Man-O-Wars. I also wanted them, but shipyards couldn't build them. So I took a Galleon and loaded it with six artilleries. Nothing happened. I was studying the menu for hours, looking for some special order, tried the whole keyboard and possible necessary situations like ship must be in port, coast, open sea, win some battle... I tried it with Frigate as well...
Suddently, French arrived at my docks and gave it to me for free. Who would guess you need liberty bells to get a Man-O-War?

[Finvola]

I forgot that I had the game on my computer, and I don't have a manual either. I messed around with it here and there last year but got bored quickly..tonight I remembered that I had the game and fiddled around with it tonight, so I'm trying to figure out what the heck to do.....I can say that I'm getting atticted though!

[covok48]

At First...

I didn't know that any colonist could build a colony so when my first set of pioneers was killed, I was wondering why the game didn't end...

I also wondered how I could "open up" those little compartments that were "closed" on the ships. It was frusterating trying to cram more units into my POS caravel...

Later...

I didn't know what cash crops were. So I'd have all this food, timber, and ore with no money coming in. I'd wondered how I'd make money with all the Indians gone...

Now...

Ooooh, you're supposed to be nice to the Indians...

[Arne]

I tryed to blockade my enymies harbor. I toughed, if they can't sail in the harbor from Europe, they never get specialist like statemans. I did this, until I realised, how much the AI cheats...

[Eli the Lich]

Thank you your story are funny .
It is dificult to remember all the mistake I have done in firsts game . I did not have the manual but read a lot from the CoLoniPedia what I can ( Played civ 1 before ) The Indian was the worst Part . in the beginig they destroy one of my colony .
after when I realize that you have to defend the colony . they make raid and stole everthing Possible or damage my Ship .
Untill today I am always Pissed Off when I have too choose a Founding Father , never the one that I want and how I am suposed to Know what he is good for .Today I know I can switch with the Arow and press F1 for information and than select with the Mouse .
One of the first time I declare Indenpandance , I have colony all over the World (Random world )
and had a very long war conquering My first colony in the End .
I tryed to Build Ship and Artilery .
I was stocking Horse in Ship and Wagon Train because always losing horse in Battle .
I cried when my best Dragon who was a Petty Criminal got upgrade to Inderud Servant ,he was such a good Dragon who almost never lost his Horse . whatever I sold the price was going down . and the price was always up on product I could not sell .

I was buying coton to sell cloth tool to make musket , even when the price of tool was higher than musket because got boycot on musket and fur ....