No Sugar Planters?

[zooropa]

Hi all, im looking for some help advice. During my last two games ive come up against the strangest thing. There were no villages that had the expert sugar planter thus meaning i could not produce rum in any sufficent qty's. Is this a known bug? Im sure i searched every inch of the map and could not find a single village with a sugar planter. No villages had been raized and the settings for the game had not been changed?

Can anyone advise me?

 

[Molybdeus]

Marsh terrain is less common than the other varieties, and thus native villagers work that terrain less often. (The type of unit trained in a village depends on the terrain it is working.) I frequently play on small sized maps (my laptop is old) and no sugar planters is a frequent problem.

Converted natives are good in a pinch. You can also cheat with the world builder if you want, either by changing the type of unit trained in a village, or swapping one of your other types of colonists with a sugar planter, or simply by giving yourself a free sugar planter. But I prefer using converted natives.

 

[zooropa]

Hi, thanks for that. It seems a bit silly to not ensure at least one village is available for every resource expert. I had a really close battle in my last game and ran out of time with only 10 or so kings units left to defeat, the anount of money i lost because of low production definately cost me the game! Not sure how to work the builder and i hate "cheating" but in this incedence i can justify it!

Out of interest whats the best number of cities on a standard map? i tend to go for 5 ( 3 for trade and one each for horses/pop growth and guns. )

 

[zooropa]

Any one know how you specify the type of expert in a village? Ive been through the world builder and got the hang of it but cant find where you do that bit.

Any ideas?

 

[Molybdeus]

Delete the village and place a new village under the control of that tribe in the same spot. Repeat until you get the villager you want. Unfortunately cheating has a big drawback: once you win you don't feel like you really deserved the win.

If you want to get a better chance of finding a sugar planter, you could try playing on a larger map size if your computer can handle it.

 

[zooropa]

Thanks mate