Another Ship Question

[johnwilliam]

Work boats are required to build whalers, but my work boats don't give me that option. I have all kinds of whales bouncing around out there and I want to harvest them, but I can't build the whaling boat with my work boats.
Am I missing something?

 

[Yonez]

You need to research something. Optics, I think. One of the nautical ones at the bottom of the tech tree, at least.

 

[LegionSteve]

Yes it is indeed Optics that you need for whaling boats.

If you mouse over any resource it should tell you, in red, any tech requirements that you haven't met.

 

[Willem]

I've seen you ask a couple of questions now that could have been easily answered if you had looked them up up in the Civilopedia. Just press F12 to call it up and most of the basic information about the game is provided there. You'd get your answers alot faster than waiting around here hoping someone will reply to your questions.

 

[Bushface]

Whales are on Ocean tiles: you need Astronomy for Workboats to enter such tiles. And are the creatures within your cultural borders - if indeed this affects matters?
Willem - perhaps one could say RTFC ??

 

[6K Man]

Whales are on Ocean tiles: you need Astronomy for Workboats to enter such tiles. And are the creatures within your cultural borders - if indeed this affects matters?
Willem - perhaps one could say RTFC ??

Workboats can reach Ocean if it's in your cultural borders. And if the Whales are outside your cultural borders, you can't build whaling boats on top of them, anyway. So it's irrelevant if the Whale is on Ocean, for purposes of improving it.

I am not sure if that's in the Civilopedia.

 

[mica8911]

You need optics and the whales within your cultural borders to harvest their juicy fat as well as the money you generate for the whale watching tours.

 

[hexem3117]

Off topic, but i think that only about one out of ten games do I get whales within my initial area of REX/conquest. The whale resource annoys me

 

[6K Man]

Off topic, but i think that only about one out of ten games do I get whales within my initial area of REX/conquest. The whale resource annoys me

Yeah... it's almost as if these are the 1970s-era whales, and not the 1800s whales when they were practically an economy unto themselves. I usually have to settle some crappy ice city to grab them.

And I miss the Civ2 whales.