Colony goods?

[unmerged(18701)]

In the manual for IN it says that "trade goods in empty provinces everywhere in the world are unknown before they contain a colony of a certain size". Does anybody know what size that is?

Thanks.

 

[King]

You need at least 300 people

 

[unmerged(18701)]

I've got a colony in Iceland with about 1100 people and I still can't see what goods it will produce...

 

[King]

It's an event with an MTTH, so it might not fire immediately.

 

[spl]

Interesting...
Will they make sense to some extent?
It would be odd to see ivory all over North America!

 

[JT121]

its not completely random is it? Are there like 3 things that can happen for each province, depending on the location?

e.g: rice, grain, or sugar?

(do we even have rice?)

 

[King]

Interesting...
Will they make sense to some extent?
It would be odd to see ivory all over North America!

There are different events for different regions. So you are more likely to get furs in the far north of America, sugar in Brazil, slaves in Africa.

 

[Evie HJ]

In what colonizing I've done so far, events have been pretty proper - fish in Bermuda, Cape Verde, etc, and Cotton, Sugar and Coffee over the five Carribean islands I colonized.

 

[unmerged(18701)]

It's an event with an MTTH, so it might not fire immediately.

Ah, I see, that makes sense. Thanks.

 

[spl]

There are different events for different regions. So you are more likely to get furs in the far north of America, sugar in Brazil, slaves in Africa.

Ah, thank you King!

 

[Cenobite30]

You need at least 300 people

If the colony is destroyed, does the trade good "reset"?

 

[King]

If the colony is destroyed, does the trade good "reset"?

Don't know, in testing I never had a colony over 300 people destroyed.

 

[truth is life]

I don't think it does--Iceland, which is a Norwegian colony at the beginning of the game, tends to die out because Norway can't afford the upkeep. When it's fully depopulated, the provinces still say they will produce fish. Of course, this might be a special case.

 

[unmerged(18701)]

I don't think it does--Iceland, which is a Norwegian colony at the beginning of the game, tends to die out because Norway can't afford the upkeep. When it's fully depopulated, the provinces still say they will produce fish. Of course, this might be a special case.

So that's why Norway lost it. I was wondering why it suddenly wasn't Norwegian anymore. I guess they never made it over 300 or got that event, since neither of the Icelandic provinces produce anything but a question mark at the moment.

I don't suppose anyone knows what the mtth is?

 

[Disclaimer]

I don't suppose anyone knows what the mtth is?

I'd say it's mean time to happen.

 

[unmerged(18701)]

I'd say it's mean time to happen.

Yeah, I know. I meant to ask what the mtth for the event that shows the trading goods is. I've had Iceland over 1000 for a good 50 years now, and it still hasn't fired. Isn't it about time those settlers figure out how they're gonna make a living?

 

[gigau]

I like that feature... works more-the-less like the feature i had implemented in MEIOU:NA

 

[ForzaA]

Yeah, I know. I meant to ask what the mtth for the event that shows the trading goods is. I've had Iceland over 1000 for a good 50 years now, and it still hasn't fired. Isn't it about time those settlers figure out how they're gonna make a living?

Actually, that MIGHT well be a bug...

Goods events are region-based.. If Iceland wasn't assigned to one of the goods event regions (or rather, the region Iceland is in is not in any goods events) it will never get an event..

 

[unmerged(49996)]

Yeah, I know. I meant to ask what the mtth for the event that shows the trading goods is. I've had Iceland over 1000 for a good 50 years now, and it still hasn't fired. Isn't it about time those settlers figure out how they're gonna make a living?

It's between 5 and 12 months, so it shouldn't take that long.

 

[unmerged(25822)]

Shouldn't the colonies that exist from the start of the game already have a good assigned ?
If not i bet you can add it to the file before starting a game .