Can't Produce Wood

[76mm]

Just took a quick 50 years or so; everything went great other than that my empire could not/would not produce wood, so pretty soon I couldn't building anything.

Two of my cities were next to multiple wood tiles, but they did not produce any wood. I tried to have a settler collect wood or chop down a forest, but could not see any way to do so.

In-game help was not illuminating on this point.

What am I doing wrong?

[pavelk]

Maybe you got to high the birth rate support? If you want to know what is your exact production/consumption and all the aspects impacting this, just click on the "wood" icon in resource panel. The "resource usage" windows pops up and on the right side is the detailed list of your production and consumption

[76mm]

But how do I actually produce more wood? My town near the forest tiles were not actually producing any wood as far as I could tell. And yes, I had "generous" birth rate support.

[pavelk]

Cities harvest wood out of the tiles which are in their ranges. The bigger the city is, the bigger its range is.
If you dont have any forest, plains, jungles or hills nearby you have to trade the wood with another players (or conquer them:))

Birth rate increases the usage of stones, wood and gold, so if you lower the birth rate, you will decrease its consumption. To maintain pretty high birth rate, you should also build temples to boost the natality.

[76mm]

Cities harvest wood out of the tiles which are in their ranges. The bigger the city is, the bigger its range is.
If you dont have any forest, plains, jungles or hills nearby you have to trade the wood with another players (or conquer them:))

But some of my cities were in tiles adjacent to up to 3 forest tiles, but they did not produce any wood... Why not?

[pavelk]

hmm that is weird. Would you mind to send me your save file to info@kubat-software.com or ZIP it and attach it here? I would investigate that

[76mm]

I don't have a save file, I stopped this game when I uninstalled/reinstalled the game trying to get Steam to work.

In a second game I was also chronically short of wood, despite the fact that my territory had lots of forest tiles. Honestly seems a bit odd--I would think that other than in desert areas, wood would be one thing in plentiful supply.

[pavelk]

I can check on that to see if there is anything wrong with the game or tell you why do you experience it.

[76mm]

Let me start a third game and see if the problem persists. In my second game it was even very difficult to trade for wood, as if everyone was short of it.

[Blathergut]

Make sure what you think are forest tiles ARE forest tiles. Lots of tiles have trees but that doesn't mean forest. Check the tile for terrain. You need forest or hills or plains or jungles, though they don't produce much necessarily.

[dejvid2]

Birth rate increases the usage of stones, wood and gold, so if you lower the birth rate, you will decrease its consumption. To maintain pretty high birth rate, you should also build temples to boost the natality.

It should be clear what the cost of increasing the Birth rate support is. I had a hunch that there must be some cost but couldn't find any indication as to what that would be.

[pavelk]

Hi dejvid2,
this is by design and there is a reason behind this. If you want to know why it is like that, please watch this dev stream. It is already pointing to the part of the stream talking about birth rate support.

[76mm]

It should be clear what the cost of increasing the Birth rate support is. I had a hunch that there must be some cost but couldn't find any indication as to what that would be.

Also, if you click on a resource, you can see how much of that resource is being spent on birth support--that's how I found out how much gold I was spending on it...

[dejvid2]

Hi dejvid2,
this is by design and there is a reason behind this. If you want to know why it is like that, please watch this dev stream. It is already pointing to the part of the stream talking about birth rate support.

You misunderstood my point. I like the way the rule works including the resources. The problem is that it is hard to find out what is being spent on birth support. There is no indication that there is any cost at all. That information should be on the screen where you set the birthrate.

True, there is a lot happening on that screen but, if you made it cover the whole screen, there would be space.

[pavelk]

You misunderstood my point. I like the way the rule works including the resources. The problem is that it is hard to find out what is being spent on birth support. There is no indication that there is any cost at all. That information should be on the screen where you set the birthrate.

I see, I got your point now. We try to stick to one rule in game - all the UI controls should have hint (in the upper right corner) describing what particular UI control (button, panel, icon, ...) does and in some cases also points to more info in Aggressors library. We created this hint even for birth rate slider and the whole Birth rate window.
You think it should be even somewhere else, like directly in the window? The problem is that we dont really want to overwhelm players as well. That is why all this was moved to hint.

[dejvid2]

I think you have overdone the wanting to avoid overwhelming the player. Working out where information is has been hard for me because it often requires you to go through several sub-windows to get to it. This is compounded by reliance on icons or clickable items that don't to me look like they have any relation to what I want to know or even that they are clickable.

The tool tips are well done. The problem is that you rely on the tool tips and if the clickable item doesn't look it is related to what I'm looking for I won't place the mouse over that item so I won't see the tool tip.

I'm still playing Spartan and it is that game I'm comparing Aggressors to.
Spartan place much more info on each screen and the clickable items were usually text which though brief gave you a better hint as to what it was related to.

[Morbio]

I had a similar issue yesterday in going from lots of stones to none in a few turns. I had no idea that boosting birth rate used stones, I thought it was just gold. I think I found the answer from Google! Although later I noticed it in the tooltip. It would be helpful if below the birth rate slider there were 3 icons (Gold, Stone, Wood) and the amount that would be consumed with the slider setting. Then the user can make an informed decision regarding the best rate to set.

[pavelk]

Hi Morbio,
the birth rate cannot be precisely predicted like I answered here. We can add it to tooltip maybe, but it is already in the hint when you hover over the slider. Or would you suggest to move that text hint to the tooltip?

[Morbio]

Hi Morbio,
the birth rate cannot be precisely predicted like I answered here. We can add it to tooltip maybe, but it is already in the hint when you hover over the slider. Or would you suggest to move that text hint to the tooltip?

I think the tooltip is the best place for the slider on the main state window, but maybe a comment on the Birth rate Window (accessed from the state window) that varying the birth rate will vary the consumption of gold, stones and wood?