Can't train explorers

[stfoskey12]

I have the requisite technology to train an explorer or an adventurer, but for some reason I am unable to train them. Any idea why?

 

[stfoskey12]

Does anyone else have this problem?

 

[Thunderbrd]

Can you see them in the build selection list in the city if you turn it on to show units you can't build? If you can do that and hover over the unit, which will usually show up in the list but dimmed out if you're tech qualified but cannot train it for another reason, it will often show you, in red text, what prerequisite you are still lacking. It SHOULD always work but there could be some prereqs that don't show up this way and sometimes the unit itself may not show up even though it should. But usually, this is the way to find out.

Another trick to know, if you have a problem like this, looking at the unit in the pedia while you are in-game, the pedia will usually sense what prereqs you're still yet to qualify for and show you what you could be missing in red.

Most of the time, a problem like what you're experiencing is not a bug but a missing resource or something to that extent.

 

[Taxman66]

Personally, I think after the wanderer they are all nearly worthless to me.
I've raised this point in the past, but once Barbs start camping on the goody huts you can't use their one unique ability (i.e. no bad results from goody huts) as they can't dislodge the barb.

 

[Thunderbrd]

Personally, I think after the wanderer they are all nearly worthless to me.
I've raised this point in the past, but once Barbs start camping on the goody huts you can't use their one unique ability (i.e. no bad results from goody huts) as they can't dislodge the barb.

You can if you group them with the attacker. I guess they probably wouldn't have that much value without Fight or Flight or Hide and Seek, where they do have some unique abilities to offer.

 

[stfoskey12]

Well it's not showing up even in grayed out form.

 

[Hydromancerx]

Do you have an "Adventurer" instead? Which comes after an Explorer. Or maybe a "Guide" that comes before an explorer?

And you have Road Building tech?

Also check if you have a "Native Guide" for some reason.

 

[Thunderbrd]

Well it's not showing up even in grayed out form.

Then, ingame, open up the pedia and look at the unit... the lines in red in its description probably tell you what you need that you don't have yet. It MIGHT even be another tech.

 

[stfoskey12]

Here's what it says for explorer

And adventurer

I do have horses btw. I'm on an archipelago-like map so explorers aren't super necessary, but I still find it odd I can't train them.

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

Now that is interesting, I thought I got rid of the Aztec Workers before v37.

 

[Thunderbrd]

Look at them in the units list, not the upgrade chart.

 

[Hydromancerx]

Now that is interesting, I thought I got rid of the Aztec Workers before v37.

Do you mean Inca? Aztec is Central America, while Inca are South American.

 

[stfoskey12]

Now that is interesting, I thought I got rid of the Aztec Workers before v37.

Apparently I'm still playing v36.

Look at them in the units list, not the upgrade chart.

I still see them.

 

[Thunderbrd]

So under special abilities, you can't find any red lines indicating why you can't currently train them?

 

[Hydromancerx]

Check on the unit page in the pedia if it says it has an "obsolete" tech.

 

[JosEPh_II]

My current SVN game has reached the stage for Explorers and I have no problem building or using them.