Work boats cant reach whales

[zsc]

Has anyone successfully created whaling boats using work boats? In my games, the whales are found in ocean tiles. Now, work boats CAN'T go into ocean tiles.

 

[onedreamer]

do you have the proper technology for sailing on ocean squares ? I think Astronomy that is.

 

[Stilgar08]

And the whales have to be within your cultural borders... And you seem to have to build your workboats in the area which is "coastly-connected" to the whale...

I had a continent and built 2 island cities far out. I wanted to send a workboat from my continent to those isles and it didn't work... I already have astronomy...

Actually this gives me an idea: IMHO, workboats should be able to enter explored tiles regardless if they're oceans or not... That way you could gift them to other continents if you like AND build them in well-developed cities for cities you just did set up! Makes sense to me!!!

The reason for the workboats being unable to sail over undiscovered tiles is just that you hereby cannot use them for exploration...

 

[zsc]

Yea, the whales arent in my cultural borders. But I do have astronomy. Nonetheless, the work boats cannot enter the square. Still, can anyone confirm that they have gotten work boats to create whaling boats?

 

[Melendwyr]

Work boats can only enter squares that are part of the coast, or part of your cultural borders.

Once your borders expand enough to include ocean, the boats will be able to move there. If the whales had somehow been in a coast tile that wasn't within your borders, the boats could move out to them, but couldn't harvest them.

 

[mrgenie]

yep, i so far could establish whaling boats on every square with the whales, but they MUST be in your cultural influence, and you MUST have the required technology

 

[zsc]

cool, thanks guys.

 

[Harkonnen]

Whale boats are provided by some mid-game tech. Anyway, ocean whales can't be harvested 'cause they can't be reaches. You must have something like Navigation or Astronomy to have whale boats, and you must have whales within cultular borders and ON THE COAST. This happened in my 1st game.

Probably you think it's a bug with improvements interface because you suppose to see whales only on ocean squares. That's not true, whales sometimes appear within coast squares.

What is a bug, is that there is a resource which you can't reach by any means. Water oil is another kind of this bug. I doubt water oil will oftenly be spotted in coastal squares (and it rarely does in the real world).