Do you have anything else in your warehouse? Possibly the warehouse delivery man is busy delivering goods to other industries, click on the warehouse to find out what it is doing. Another possibility is that you have weapons set to stockpile which means they won't be delivered.

Also what kind of fort is it? Does it have any weapons already? Forts only hold up to 4 weapons at a time while they are training troops. If it is a Crossbow, Chariot or Catapult fort it will also need wood before it can train troops.

Just on the question of weapons/forts - does it help to keep non-trading partners from invading by giving them gifts? or are invasions inevitable?

G'day Rameses,

Check to make sure you are not stockpiling weapons.
Select commerce and check the side bar to make sure not RED.

Giving gifts to potential adversaries will kept you in good 'favour' and hoepfully curb any attacks.

Wendoolicus: Sometimes invasions are inevitable, but you can usually lessen the likelihood by giving gifts. If the other city is a clear threat, you can also train a spy to sabotage their military to slow them down. In almost every mission, one of the first things I do is send a spy to the nomads camp to sabotage military. (Usually you can tell if the invasion is inevitable, if the city starts demanding outrageous things. It stands to reason that the designer is pushing you toward conflict.)

ramases_88: I agree with Mere and SRC, the first thing I'd check is stockpiling.

Are your forts fully manned? Chariot forts only hold four chariots and the same goes for Catapult forts.. At four they are full.

Only TWO Catapults per fort.

I distinctly remember four catapults in the beta. Did they change that?

You are correct Jag, there are still 4 catapults per fort

Doh! *slaps forehead* It was stockpilled! I thought I had checked that too..... Thanks for the help.

Don't worry! It happens to the best of us.

When I'm in open play, I can only place a weaponsmith for a different age than the one I'm playing.

Bronze age = iron weaponsmith
Iron age = bronze weaponsmith
Steel age = bronze weaponsmith

Any help for this bug?

First off - have you installed the game patch? Let's make sure that is done before we discuss anything further.

Happened after the patch. I tried a few more maps, and I get a random smelter paired with a random weaponsmith. Even when I get the apropriate age = smelter = weaponsmith by chance, they will not operate even though they say "working" on thier status screen. They don't draw from the labor pool. This only happens during open play, and allways happens in open play.

I'm using windows 7. Any ideas?

I figured it out. Had to set compatability mode for Win 98.


It works fine now.

I gave the game a rest for a few years, and just had to pull it back out of retirement last month for another go.
I love this game!
Wish someone could make an update for 2D citybuilder. Wish I had the skills to do it myself.

Thank you for all your hard work Gweilo. I've learned how much I didn't know about this game the first time around.

[This message has been edited by RedVentrue (edited 04-17-2012 @ 11:20 PM).]

Using Windows 7 will not affect this.

Are you sure the map you are using in open play has the correct resource to produce weapons for the age you are using? Examples: if playing in the Steel age, the map you should use needs to have iron deposits on it. If playing in the bronze age, your map needs copper deposits.

Bit of necromancy, as I don't really want to spam forums I do play on open map on 1.0.1.0 on polish version of game. Bug is similar as the one RedVentrue has. In few first minutes it allows me to make bronze weapon smith, but later they switch to iron(despite it is a loooong way until iron age). Not only that, other cities does not sell any weapons to me(I've selected to buy but I never received even one weapon).

Since my question fit in this thread I'll ask it here instead of making a new one. According to this Availability Timeline it said that in 770 BC Crossbow Fort is available, but I'm not allowed to build one. I'm playing in Open Play and set the age to Bronze Age and the game took me to 600 BC. I'm playing with the patch version 1.0.1.0. Is there something wrong?

You might have to create several open play sessions with different random seeds before crossbow forts spawn for you to build. You also might need to adjust the age to iron or steel. Also selecting a map other than arid might help.

@Gweilo,

I been meaning to ask what is "Random Seeds" mean? I noticed that in Open Play but I have no idea what it is. Yeah, I noticed that if I put the age to Iron or Steel Age, I get Crossbow and Cavalry Forts. The map I'm currently using is the Qin capital Xian Yang.

Read the explanation in the Game FAQ

http://emperor.heavengames.com/faq/general#random

Gweilo,

So it pretty much saying if I type in (i.e. 123) I will get the same stuff if I play on the same/different map, right?

That's correct as long as you don't change any of the other parameters when generating the open play session.